Jazz Articulation (Scales part 2)

Saxophone Academy
23 Nov 202107:40

Summary

TLDRIn part two of his jazz scales masterclass, saxophone teacher Dr. Wally Wallace focuses on articulation patterns to make scales swing. He has students practice slurred, then with light articulation, then finally adding air accents on offbeats. He warns against clipping downbeats or slurring eighth notes, which kills forward momentum. The lesson includes double time exercises and ends by reminding students to listen to the jazz masters, as the answers lie in their recordings.

Takeaways

  • 🎷 La construcción de un solo melódico en el saxofón requiere de acentos, inflexiones y estilo, no solo de las notas.
  • 🎶 Dr. Wally Wallace presenta una serie de seis partes sobre escalas de jazz, enfocándose en la articulación y el swing.
  • 📚 Se insiste en practicar escalas en todo el rango del saxofón para mejorar la técnica y cubrir todo el espectro del instrumento.
  • 🎵 La articulación correcta en el jazz no se logra tocando todas las notas con la lengua, sino acentuando los contratiempos y ligando los tiempos fuertes.
  • ❌ El estilo 'Mickey Mouse' de swing, basado en ritmos de triplete, no es auténtico para el jazz moderno.
  • 💡 Para un estilo auténtico de bebop y swing, se debe acentuar con el aire, no con la lengua, y practicar patrones de escala con una articulación ligera marcada en la partitura.
  • 🔑 Los ejercicios de articulación deben terminar con dos corcheas, una larga y una acentuada, un patrón común en el jazz.
  • ⚠️ Es importante evitar acortar el tiempo fuerte, lo cual rompe el impulso hacia adelante de la frase y hace que suene entrecortada.
  • 🤔 Practicar la articulación correcta, especialmente evitando unir dos corcheas que deberían ser articuladas claramente como 'do dat', no 'do it'.
  • 🏃‍♂️ Para los patrones de doble tiempo, se sugiere acentuar los tiempos fuertes para mantener el impulso rítmico, evitando una sopa amorfa de notas.
  • 🎉 Dr. Wallace desea un feliz Día de Acción de Gracias a los estudiantes estadounidenses y agradece a los estudiantes internacionales por ser parte de la academia.

Q & A

  • ¿Quién es el presentador del Saxophone Academy?

    -El presentador es el Dr. Wally Wallace.

  • ¿Cuál es el tema principal del video?

    -El tema principal es la articulación de patrones en escalas de jazz para saxofón.

  • ¿Qué se discutió en la parte uno de la serie?

    -En la parte uno se habló sobre practicar escalas en todo el rango y alternar la dirección del movimiento, sin comenzar siempre en la tónica de la escala.

  • ¿Por qué el Dr. Wallace recomienda no articular cada nota en la escala?

    -Porque en el estilo swing es importante aprender a tocar los contratiempos con la lengua y ligar los tiempos fuertes, lo que no se logra articulando cada nota.

  • ¿Cuál es la manera incorrecta de interpretar el estilo swing según se enseñaba anteriormente?

    -La manera incorrecta es interpretarlo como un ritmo de tresillos, denominado estilo 'Mickey Mouse', que no es auténtico.

  • ¿Cómo sugiere el Dr. Wallace practicar los patrones de escala para desarrollar un estilo de swing y bebop?

    -Primero practicar los patrones de escala ligados para asegurar una técnica limpia, luego agregar una articulación ligera como se indica en la partitura, y finalmente añadir un poco de acento en los contratiempos usando el aire.

  • ¿Por qué es importante no enfatizar demasiado los turnarounds en los extremos superiores del saxofón?

    -Porque puede poner el énfasis en las notas equivocadas, haciendo que el ritmo suene extraño y desequilibrado.

  • ¿Qué errores comunes se deben evitar al practicar la articulación swing?

    -Se deben evitar cortar los tiempos fuertes, lo que mata el impulso hacia adelante de la línea y suena muy picado, y no ligar dos corcheas que deberían ser articuladas, lo cual no suena acentuado.

  • ¿Cómo se debe practicar para mejorar la articulación durante los pasajes de doble tiempo?

    -Una manera es tocando los tiempos fuertes importantes con la lengua, para mantener el impulso rítmico sin tener que articular todos los contratiempos.

  • ¿Qué se planea para la próxima lección en la serie?

    -Se trabajará en patrones de escala de jazz más complejos y habrá algunas sorpresas.

Outlines

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🎷Introducción a las escalas de jazz y articulación

El Dr. Wally Wallace da la bienvenida a los espectadores a la Academia de Saxofón, enfocándose en clases magistrales y reseñas de productos relacionados con el saxofón. Este episodio, siendo la segunda parte de una serie de seis sobre escalas de jazz, se centra en cómo tocar escalas de manera que suenen con swing, agregando articulación e inflexión que distinguen al jazz del clásico. Wallace enfatiza la importancia de practicar escalas en todo el rango del instrumento y de no iniciar siempre en la tónica. Introduce el concepto de no articular cada nota y la importancia de la articulación ligera y el acento en los contratiempos, utilizando el aire más que la lengua para crear acentos. Se recomienda descargar los ejercicios gratuitos para practicar estas técnicas.

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🎵Evitando errores comunes y preparación para el futuro

En esta sección, Wallace aborda problemas comunes que encuentran los estudiantes al intentar la articulación de swing, como cortar el tiempo fuerte, lo cual interrumpe el flujo melódico. También critica el error de unir dos notas octavas que deberían articularse separadamente, lo cual afecta negativamente el estilo jazzístico. Además, introduce ejercicios de articulación en doble tiempo para mantener la coherencia rítmica incluso en pasajes rápidos. Finalmente, anticipa el contenido de las próximas lecciones, que incluirán patrones de escala jazzísticos avanzados y se despide agradeciendo a los estudiantes por su participación, deseando un feliz Día de Acción de Gracias a los estadounidenses y agradeciendo a los estudiantes internacionales.

Mindmap

Keywords

💡fraseo

El fraseo se refiere a cómo se articula y se da forma a una frase musical. En el jazz es especialmente importante para darle swing y sentir al solo. El video habla de trabajar patrones de articulación para mejorar el fraseo en lugar de sólo tocar las notas.

💡articulación

La articulación se refiere a cómo se enlazan o separan las notas con la lengua al tocar. El video enseña patrones específicos de articulación para el jazz como accentuar los tiempos débiles y ligar a los tiempos fuertes.

💡swing

El swing es el ritmo característico del jazz que se genera accentuando los tiempos débiles. El video explica cómo se crea authenticamente el swing en el saxofón.

💡bebop

El bebop es un estilo de jazz rápido y complejo que surgió en los años 40. El video enseña patrones de articulación para desarrollar un estilo bebop auténtico.

💡tempo

El tempo o velocidad de la música afecta cómo se articulan los ritmos como el swing. El video menciona adaptar la articulación al tempo.

💡acento

El acento se refiere al énfasis que se da a ciertas notas. En el jazz se acentúan los tiempos débiles para generar swing. El video explica usar el aire y no la lengua para crear acentos.

💡ritmo

Aunque no se menciona explícitamente, mantener el ritmo es fundamental para frasear bien en jazz. Los patrones de articulación que enseña apuntan a mejorar el ritmo.

💡improvisación

La improvisación es crear música en el momento. El video busca desarrollar habilidades de fraseo e improvisación en el saxofón de jazz.

💡escalas

Las escalas son sucesiones de notas. El video usa escalas de jazz como base para los ejercicios de articulación para el fraseo jazzístico.

💡técnica

La técnica se refiere a la habilidad física para tocar el instrumento. El video enfatiza desarrollar la técnica en todo el rango del saxofón para mejorar la improvisación.

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to build a melodic solo we don't just

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need the notes we need the accent the

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inflection the style a certain what the

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french would call

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it all yeah

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hi and welcome to the saxophone academy

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i'm dr wally wallace and if you're

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interested in saxophone master classes

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and product reviews please do subscribe

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and be sure to hit the like button to

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make your skills swing harder than a

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troubled marriage in the 1970s now today

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is part two in a six part series on jazz

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scales now last week to refresh your

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memory we talked about doing skills in

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full range and also alternating the

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motion and not always starting on the

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tonic of the scale tonic meaning the

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first scale degree now this week we're

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going to dive into articulation patterns

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because it don't mean a thing if it hath

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not got that swing so we're going to

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start to make your scale swing a little

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bit and start to add the inflection and

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articulation that makes it sound much

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more jazz like than your typical

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classical scales now if you haven't seen

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part one please do watch it where we

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insist that you practice your scales

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full range to make sure we're covering

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the entire range of the saxophone

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there's nothing more frustrating than

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hearing something in your head a melodic

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idea or a motive and your fingers you

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don't have the technique to go up there

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the brain the mind is willing but the

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flesh is weak

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and untrained

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what were we talking about

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so in addition to doing full range

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skills we also need to practice with

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articulation patterns but i actually

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don't like doing articulation patterns

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in the full range as you get to the

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turnarounds in the upper extremes of the

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saxophone it puts the beat the emphasis

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on the wrongs the label it gets very

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wonky and strange kind of like twin

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peaks where it's kind of cool but kind

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of wonky but you don't want to tell your

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friends that you don't think it's cool

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because you're really more confused

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it's exactly like that and as always all

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the exercises that we're working on

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today and all of the exercises in the

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six part skill series you can download

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for free in the pdf the link is below

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now concept one we need to make sure

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you're not tonguing every note

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so obviously that doesn't work a big

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part of the swing style is learning to

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tongue the offbeats and slurring to the

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downbeats so it sounds more like this

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and that's actually the basis of how we

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create the swing and bebop style now you

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may have been taught like i was a

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million years ago that swing style was a

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triplet rhythm something like this

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but of course

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y m o m-i-c-k-e-y-m-o-u

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s e that's the mickey mouse style of

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swing it's not really authentic and it's

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not how you the masters and your heroes

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play so here's how i want you to start

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practicing these scale patterns first do

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them slurred to make sure all the

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technique is clean and even

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then add a light articulation were

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marked on the sheet

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and once the scale feels clean and

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somewhat effortless as effortless as you

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can make it sound then add a little bit

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of accent on the offbeats but remember

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accent is created by the air not the

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tongue we're not hitting the tongue with

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the reed remember the tongue releases

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the reed allowing to vibrate our air

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creates the accent so we're going to add

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air accents on the offbeat for a little

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bit of inflection

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and this will lay the groundwork for a

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good post-1940s bebop and swing style

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you notice we don't have a lot of lilt

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or triplet feel to the rhythm after the

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1940s now there are some instances

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depending on the style the genre the

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player and the tempo especially where we

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will have a little bit of lilt or

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triplet feel to the sound how much you

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ask

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i can't answer that and trying to answer

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that is almost pointless because all the

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answers are in the records none of these

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exercises make any difference if you're

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not listening to the masters all the

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answers are there on the records i'm

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just here to help guide you and build

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some technique to do what you're hearing

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you'll also notice that all these

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exercises end in two eighth notes one

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long one accented a do that now you'll

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notice that's an incredibly common

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articulation in jazz find in the middle

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of souls the ends of solos the beginning

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of solos it's a ubiquitous sound to jazz

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and especially bebop

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do that bebop

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get the picture

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now the reason i'm having you end all

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these patterns within a good doodad

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articulation is to get you in the habit

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of practicing ending your phrases i find

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that newer improvisers tend to have some

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good ideas to start some interesting

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melodic development and then this phrase

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just kind of ends

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poorly in a disappointing fashion like

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the final season of game of thrones

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where it's not just brand that was

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broken

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what were we talking about

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now let's talk pitfalls a couple of

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things i want you to avoid one of the

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most common problems i hear when

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students start to do the swing

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articulation is clipping the downbeat

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that kills the forward momentum of the

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line makes it sound very choppy and it

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doesn't sound like good phrasing at all

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and it's certainly not the jazz style we

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want to make sure our airstream pushes

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constantly through the phrase we're

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simply accenting the offbeats not

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clipping the downbeat to create an

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accent now the next biggest problem i

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hear is whenever there are two eights

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that should be articulated do that

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students often slur them together and

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play do it trying to create the accent

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by clipping it short now no matter how

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short you clip it it's not going to be

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accented and it's not going to sound

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cool

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jared so we want to make sure we're

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actually doing a do dat not a do it

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so the do it that i hear all too common

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sounds like this

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make sure instead we're playing do dat

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we've also got a couple of patterns to

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start working on double time

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articulation we don't want our double

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time to be a long flurry of a rhythmic

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nonsense soupy notes we want to make

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sure it still has rhythmic drive even in

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the double time so there's a lot of ways

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to do that but a common way that's a

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good place to get you started is simply

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tonguing the large downbeats at certain

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tempos we simply can't tongue all the

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off beats it's you know you hurt

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yourself so we want to make sure we're

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at least hanging the downbeats to give

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it some forward rhythmic drive again

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there's a lot of variations and

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different players play double time

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tongued different ways depending on the

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line and the direction but this is a

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good starting place to at least make

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sure you don't have a big amorphous soup

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of notes

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so make sure you download the sheet and

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start working on it this should keep you

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busy until our lesson next week when we

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start to work on some more cool jazz

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scale patterns and have some surprises

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along the way i think you're gonna like

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now this is thanksgiving week in america

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so to all my american students most

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happy of thanksgivings to you to the

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international students i'm thankful for

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you joining us i'm thankful that you're

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part of the academy and i really feel

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that go practice

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