The Ultimate Guide to Pentatonics in Jazz Improvisation

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Equipment:
Nexus Select Saxophone
Nexus Edge Mouthpiece
Nexus Oracle Ligature
Nexus Elite Reeds

If you’ve ever watched jazz online, then you know Chad LB. Hailed as a "Sax Phenom" by the
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venue from Carnegie Hall to the Super Bowl. As a bandleader, he’s headlined jazz venues and
festivals around the world, and as a soloist he’s joined acts like Chris Botti, Arturo Sandoval, and
Christian McBride. No stranger to the big screen, Chad’s been featured on TV with pop icons
like Taylor Swift, rock legends like Don Henley, as well as the Hollywood film, “Here Today” with
Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish.

[asawang]

Thanks for sharing, Chad; it is very beneficial.

[marktyler]

Lot of info there Chad! Come back in 20 years when youve mastered it Padawan

[keir.]

This video was really helpful until I picked up my sax and tried to play along with you and realized everything is in C concert, so everything you say I have to transpose, have you thought of making a video that’s in tenor sax key? Thanks

[deebee]

My plan is to study at the Manhattan school of Music when I'm out of HS😼 (this is so irrelevant I know)

[BryantJackson-jt]

Question …. Just because one note of the pentatonic scale (in your shifting section) how do we determine each note is relative ? It’s a bit confusing because like is this just to sound a certain way, like the chords that every different pentatonic makes over the chord should be communicated.

[ComputerCentralInc]

So if I understand, while the rhythm section is vamping Cm7, you would play these pentatonics cells to get outside the key changes in various ways to put it in simpler terms?

[mr.billohno]

what is the exact text when you sing the notes?

[ComputerCentralInc]

For the etude section or pentatonics lick have to be memorized and all 12 keys be considered learned?

[marcellofederici]

How about major pentatonic? would I find something about it buying the course?

[jeromeking]

Why didn't you transpose it?? So we could play along