Saxophone Scales | What and how to practice

“Correct is way better than fast” Love this Message!!! 🙏

Over 45 yrs

maybe.

Hi Dr Wallas, I have a problem when i change from a high note to a low note, I feel that it sounds weird and not natural 😊

i love u man <3

I never attended music school and its hard to find answer online (its always how to train scales) - why scales are important thing to practice? i do not understand.

Wally baby, you are great.. The best teacher around... (mike in NZ)

Hi! What metronome is that?

A comment on metronomes. I've had a lot of metronomes from an electronic kit I built myself to my current Dr Beat. Over the years I've found they keep improving metronomes. Each time I get a new one it plays with me more closely than the previous one.

Guy, has anyone told you you sound like Tucker Carlson . Check it out. Maybe you probably know this.

This was a great video. Thanks. I'm getting back into my Alto Sax at the age of 37. Last time I played it was 12 years ago

Hey! Great video! One question: What kind of mic do you use?
Thanks 😃

Man, I wish I had found this channel in high school rather than as a freshman in college studying saxophone.

So..g major scale up to high e and then f#?? Then down the scale and then low Bb after Low B
Beginner here sorry

A wise man once said, "If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly" 😉

Your channel is excellent!!! Just discovered it and it’s the perfect blend of educational and pretty darn funny. Thanks for the great content

Great Video!

Glad I found this channel. GREAT lesson.

Do you have beginner video tutorials?

I hope the money YT is giving is enough for our payment. Thank you for this.

Subtítulos en español Dr. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Straight or slurred ????

Thank you doctor. Enjoyed the lesson. I appreciate it.

I highly recommend Jackie Mclean's "Daily Warmup Exercises for Saxophone". It shows the best way to practice scales and arpeggios - Major, harmonic minor, augmented, and diminished. But the augmented exercises are only arpeggios. And the only spot diminished scales are shown is in the "Grand Exercise" at the end of the book.

Keys like F#, C#, have there level of difficulty most especially at the A# and between C# and D# mostly in the low Octave how do u go about that

Unfamiliar... Funny how just a word is enough to change your perspective about things. Suddenly I feel like I wanna practice high notes lol your videos are greats! Such an educated source of sax wisdom!

Dr. Wally, your dry sense of humor is absolutely hilarious. Your teaching is excellent! I'm so glad I found you. I'm an accomplished pianist, and have played tenor for a hobby through the years. Now at an advances stage of youth, I am getting serious about it. Thanks!

thanks

Muito bom, professor! Obrigado pelas suas dicas. Be happy!

Hi Dr. Wally.
My middle school granddaughter was showing me her saxophone on Christmas day and she played a scale. She said it was a G scale and the fingering she used for a G matched the pattern shown in her book. But the sounds that came out were a B flat scale. What's going on? Do they have her using a book for a different sax? She's been using this book in band class.

Wally, reading the Pentatonic scales (and other scales) I notice accidents like F sharp on the G scale are often skipped while flats appear within the bars. How can one memorize these array of issues? There must be a practical answer. Thank you.

As a complete beginner, I've decided to focus on major scales first, the 12 of them. But my question would be : in what order should I learn them, in terms of keys ? Chromatically ? Around the cycle of fifths ? And at what pace ? One a day, along with a few arpeggios, to build up some speed ? 2 or 3 a day, to get them all quickly ?
Thanks for the great vid anyway, full of good advices !
Cheers from France ;)

Best line: mail me your lunch money, cuz you're a huge nerd. Subscribed, beginner, hope to become better.

I am very curious about 1 thing regarding scales practice.

When practicing scales, do you focus on intonation? Do you practice with a tuner as well as the metronome on and try and make sure that you are in tune?

If not, then what is the main focus when practicing?

What would be a great speed to start with the metronome?

hi~~ thank you for your lesson !!

thank you for these

Thats a sharp man right there. Subbed

Love your reiterating of playing scales full range. Music doesn't exist in a two octave box so your scales and patterns shouldn't either. Trent Kynasstons daily study for saxophone has alot of great stuff for expanding range and such.

Great teaching sir 👍

“Everyone, should have a... low B key... on their saxophone”

roast trumpet players from 6th grade

Dottor Wally le faccio i miei complimenti per la facilità di insegnamento e spiegazioni. Esiste qualche libro di queste scale con relative basi di accompagnamento, grazie.

Damn, the French overture burn cut me deep haha 😂

very good video and so I have studied all my life thank you and health

Finger chart for all those keys

A wise man once said... "if you can play something slowly, you can play it quickly"

I'm just following your top to bottom advice and I'm finding that I can't (could never I guess) slur from bottom C# to B because my left pinkie finger is below the B roller when playing C# and it can't slide. I have to lift up the C# key. Is this fixable? My sax is maintained by someone with a great reputation, so I doubt it's a maintenance issue.