How Are These Jazz Phrases So Melodic!?

Video Produced and Edited by Austin Kruczek

Chad LB is an international recording artist who has toured globally as a bandleader, and with superstars ranging from Chris Botti to Taylor Swift. He has been a featured soloist with premiere ensembles like the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the multi GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Despite his demanding tour schedule, Chad is on faculty as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their new Roots, Jazz and American Music degree program.

#Jazz #Improvisation #Saxophone

[mackmuhlbeier]

Oh my god this video just gave me a breakthrough on my improv, thank you so much

[saxiroth]

You really outdid yourself on this one Chad, I owe you for all of the times I upgraded my solos by simply watching your videos and practicing what you taught. Thank you!!!

[cjgreen]

17:43 Ah, that explains a lot.
Practicing the modal expansion method in soloing, and taking a look at Miles Davis solos is very, very valuable advice that may go over people's heads. If I didn't know how, or have difficulty entering jazz, I might start there.

[stewartl]

Thanks Chad. I would love it if you could do a lesson on how to play the melody of a tune the way the greats like Coleman Hawkins or Bird do. I always admire how they embellish the melody but are always able to return to it, and how their embellishments always sound organic like they belong to the orginal melody.

[SkyEater]

Holy moly just got the 7 pdf technique package, so much awesome practice material... thank you!

[KadrianThomas]

So much of this is so over my head. Heck!!!! With time, practice, patience and a great teacher such as Chad this stuff will eventually begin to stick. Great

[SFbased]

Brilliant video. So well constructed and delivered

[trevorjones]

Love working on this PDF package, its working wonders already, I'm on piano and guitar, just the listening alone does amazing things with familiarising the vocabulary but although its challenging I love getting theses phrases down piece by piece. Isolating the phrases by chord parts is even fun!

[ckdub]

Thanks for these lessons bro! I’m been grasping the concepts pretty well so I just purchased the melodic pdf! Fffff

[DapsyDave]

Hey Chadwick, your content blesses me so much, I'm a huge fan!!! I am a bassist from Nigeria...
One of the things that puzzles me alot about Jazz music is knowing where to start and how to progress, what next to do, in other words a progressive and concise way of learning jazz music. I would love it if you could do a video on this subject one of these days... like how to go about jazz, from beginner to advanced level, what to study what to practice and how to progress... thank you so much man.

Dave from nigeria.

[eduardopizarro]

Thanks for the inspiration Chad... to push ourselves out of the comfort zone... much appreciated !

[chrisfalcone]

I don't play sax... or jazz.. in fact I'm a metal drummer... but this is sexy🙏🙌🏼🤘🏻 helped me alot.

[AlanDerrick]

Such clarity of explanation. Awesome as always.

[alexisr]

I literally never subscribe to anything on YouTube, but I've just subscribed to you. Awesome stuff.

[nikolaantanaskovic]

Chad thank you for this AMAZING material.. Love this Pdf and the lines ❤️

[robstevens]

Lots of good material (for my future application :) I keep putting off transcribing Bird to "some day." Your Modal Expansion Exercise in Bb is such a nice example!

[Saxtoo]

Chad - can you get into doing Sonny Rollins' Alfie theme. And I think you should quickly meet up with the guy too. He's in his 90s now and last of the few. 🎷👍

[kbt]

This is excellent, man. Thank you! Could you do something on the improvisations of trumpeter Clifford Brown? Quincy Jones said that Brownie used math in his approach.

[grishagek]

Chad, you are a wonderful virtuoso saxophonist ! I want to hear you at the Emmet Cohen jazz house.

[JohnJackson-xtpu]

Chad - always inspirational - Thank you.
Are you playing a phrase from the pdf in the opening of this video?