yes you’re starting to understand it. the more you experiment the more you’ll see/hear these things. they’re not new, it’s just the way it is and it’s up to us to use them to help in being good improvisors. you’re at the stage where you should experiment and even over-think for a while as it sinks in.
later it will become almost 2nd nature and you won’t be thinking about it as much, it will just come out of your horn….or should I say “you”
well done Michael, most songs when you listen to them are drawn to one note, soon you will be able to listen to a song and name the key it is in.
Sometimes you can take any part of a tune, hum the note in that part of the tune, and then start huming all the notes below it, at some point you will stop, and quite often that names the 1st note on the scale
That’s a great point Johnny that you say about later it will just come out of “you” because we use the Saxophone and those Blues Scales to express ourselves. We can think of all kinds of things, licks/riffs, playing a certain way, and so on but without a rock-solid understanding of just how these Blues scales REALLY work, I think that it’s virtually impossible to truely express ourselves and “bring it to life” I guess you can say. I think if anyone whose in Killer Blues like I am right now, it’s just not enough for us to “memorize” a few exercises and think that we know this stuff….no way and that’s what I was saying the other day. That’s why I say I’m going to end up being in your Killer Blues for a little while longer than even what I, myself, initially had thought—the more I broke it down and learned about it, the more I realized that I had to go beyond merely memorizing a few things if i really wanted to get the full benefit out of your book. My goal is just to be able to pull it out and use it “at will” or like 2nd nature like you say. It’s getting there…very slowly anyway LOL
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