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hey there today in this short video I
want to quickly show you how to play a
really cool pentatonic scale lick that's
easy to learn easy to play and can be
used in all different kind of situations
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one of my favorite saxophone players is
a guy called Eric Alexander if you don't
know about him I recommend going
checking out some of his music is really
great anyway I've been transcribing some
of Eric's solos lately and I've come
across this lick that he plays often
it's based on the pentatonic scale it's
really simple to learn and to play and
you can use it in all different styles
in different situations so I'm going to
quickly show you how to play this and
I'm going to demonstrate in a solo how
you can use it in some different ways
over a backing track I think the best
way to explain this is first just to
play it for you and let you hear it for
those of you taking my pentatonic
foundation course you can use what
you've learned there to pick this lick
up just using your ear not really any
need for the sheet music however at the
end of the video I'll give you a link
where you can go and download a PDF with
the lick written out and explained as
well as the backing track I'm gonna play
over now okay so this is the lick it's
four notes any four notes in the
pentatonic scale all next to each other
and you play it up and down and it
sounds like this it just goes in a loop
like that you could play it anywhere
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right now I'm playing my concert b-flat
pentatonic scale major pentatonic scale
so for the tenor saxophone that's your C
major pentatonic scale and I started the
first time on G and then I started it on
a now like you started on C you could
start it on any of the five notes now
I'm going to play the this lake and over
a backing tracks you can hear what it
sounds like I'm gonna improvise a little
bit and then use the lick and then go
back to improvising and then back to the
lick back and forth so you can hear what
it would sound like in a real situation
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okay so I hope that gives you an idea of
how you can play that lick in a solo now
here's a quick variation right there I
was playing that group of four notes in
eighth notes but you could also make it
triplets and that would sound like this
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that's quarter notes eighth notes now
here's triplets
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and I could switch back and forth
between the two
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okay so that's two ways you can use a
very basic and simple easy to play
pentatonic scale lick and improvised
solos if you want to learn more about
how to play this scale pattern and other
pentatonic scale patterns for
improvising solos click the link on the
screen or the link in the description
below to visit better sax comm and I
will send you a PDF with some sample
patterns a whole explanation on how this
stuff works
as well as the same backing track you
heard me practicing and playing over
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