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May 16, 2015 at 12:50 pm #20022
Hi Johnny,
Now in the month of June I’m looking at starting to break down your 7 licks at the end of the book and in breaking down the Brown Sugar Sax solo (like I was for my practice today); you mean that we can actually take this solo and recycle it?!? That’s a real eye opener for me because talk about thinking “out of the box!”. If we can do that with a solo with Brown Sugar, then we can do the same thing with other solos too, right? Or, at the very least, there are licks and riffs we can use out of different Saxophone solos and use them when playing with a band; given the key the band is playing in? Is this what you were trying to get across when you talk about recycling our music? That’s really powerful stuff you’re talking about because virtually everyone recognizes solos like Brown Sugar and they love to hear it. The thought of being able to pull it out and use solos like that in different situations REALLY appeals to me. I hope someday to be good enough to play with a band…what band would not want to have a Saxophone player who has the ability to play solos like that; given the key the band is playing in? WOW 🙂May 17, 2015 at 9:31 am #20034Yes, the Brown Sugar chord progression is not the typical blues 1, 4, 5 but like I demonstrated in the “Recycling” video I played the 1, 4, 5 progression along with it and it works perfectly. Therefore, once you learn that solo or even parts of it you’ll be able to pull out those licks over any rock or blues song. This is because the solo is only made up of 5 notes (pentatonic scale).
May 17, 2015 at 10:12 am #20035That’s the thing in particular that caught my attention was the chord progression, but it still worked? That lesson alone can have far, far reaching effects in how to approach a situation where, even though the chord progression isn’t the same, it will still work because of the 5 notes were using..WOW. Sorry if this seems to be something I’m excited about–I realize to a pro player like yourself you don’t think about it at all because you’ve been doing it for so many years. But to a student player like me, it’s a totally new concept that opened my eyes. This is one of the reasons why I said that while I most certainly will be getting into your new Improvisation course sometime this year; but I personally want to digest all of what I’m working on right now before going on to something else.
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