1/23/2024 0 Comments Easy jazz saxophone transcriptionsI can also play the smooth jazz lick in this way over a major chord. That’s also part of that blues scale we talked about. Now the note that was the flat 3rd on the major chord is now the flat 5th on the minor chord. So instead of 3-2-1 being our unembellished melody, we have 5-4-3 or sol fa me in a minor key. Notice I played the same exact notes, but the chord is in the relative minor now. Over a Minor Chord – The Smooth Jazz Lick This is essentially a common application of the idea we talked about in that lesson. That pattern is adding that same flat 3rd to the major pentatonic scale and using it to lead into the major third which is a very strong chord tone. If you watched my video about the Blues Scale trick as played by David Sanborn you will recognize a familiar pattern here. Without embellishments, the melody ends up being just mi re do right? or 3 2 1 in scale degrees. So I am thinking of this as major pentatonic scale based with that flat 3rd note being used to embellish both of my melody notes. I could even keep going down the major pentatonic scale if I wanted to extend it. Then, I continue down to the root of the chord. Followed by the 2nd scale degree which is preceded or embellished by an upper neighbor a half step above. I’m playing the major 3rd preceded by or embellished by a lower neighbor a half step below. In this example, the underlying harmony is a major 7 chord. Over a Major Chord – The Smooth Jazz Lick I’m going to demonstrate it in 2 very commonly occurring circumstances. The smooth jazz lick is not so much a lick, as it is an embellishment. I use it all the time and so do some of my favorite non-smooth jazz saxophonists.Īs always there is a free pdf download of this lesson available to you in the Better Sax shed. If you are not, you should know that this lick can also be found in all different styles of improvised music. If you’re a fan of that style of playing, you’re going to love this. ![]() ![]() Now, please don’t make any judgements based on the words smooth jazz. In this video I’m going to teach it to you. I don’t listen to a lot of smooth jazz, but when I do, I always hear this recurring thing that I am calling the smooth jazz lick.
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