How to Alternate Saxophone Scales

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Summary: Melodic minor, blues and whole tone can be alternated when playing a saxophone; learn how with tips from our expert sax player in this free sax video music lesson.

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Mitch Kaplan Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and on... read more

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How to Alternate Saxophone Scales

For expertvillage.com this is Mitch Kaplan. In this segment we are going to talk about scales and why they are important. Then we have the melodic minor and the melodic minor is basically raise sixth and seventh going up and natural going down. It sounds like this and there are two other ones that are very interesting as far as scales go. If you are a jazz person you might want to incorporate the blue scale. That is simply by lowering the third step a half step, and also using the fourth and then the sharp seventh, so a natural seventh too. Alright and then it is a cool one, I like that. Then we have the whole tone scale, which is a very dreamy type of sound and that is used for like movies. That is really a cool sound and there you have it; those are the scales of the day.