The bird said "yeah learn your scales then FORGET ABOUT THEM AND JUST PLAY"
The bird being Charlie Parker one of the greatest alto sax players to live on this earth.
FORGET ABOUT THEM AND JUST PLAY???? Oh I get it ..Once you get the scales under your fingers then you have them. So you don't need them anymore on that level. Now you need to just listen to the music and let your fingers do what they have been trained to do. They will respond to your ears and character if you let them. The scales if you practiced them enuff ways :up down: and patterns that is :135 246 357 468... then make up your own patterns; repeat patterns up the scale...Skip fourths skip fifths etc...there are a multitude of patterns to make. Here is an idea Play the major scale up note by note two octaves then start on the second note and repeat the exercise going up to the second note an octave higher. Then third, then fourth, etc... These ARE THE MODES more later
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