A diatonic pattern is a pattern of notes that stays within a specific key or scale.\u00a0 If you know a key well, then playing the diatonic pattern is just a matter of repeating the pattern as you travel through the scale.\u00a0 Diatonic patterns are a must for any serious student of jazz.\u00a0 They are valuable because they give you tons of melodic material you can use while improvising.\u00a0 Practicing and mastering your diatonic patterns equip you with a thorough knowledge of the major scale and by working on them you improve your technique.\u00a0 Also, by working on these larger intervals, you are opening up your jazz lines to more options including a more modern intervallic sound.<\/p>\n
In this lesson I show you four common patterns using diatonic fifths.\u00a0 A diatonic fifth is just an interval that spans or jumps to the fifth note away from it while staying in the same key.\u00a0 An example would be if you started on C and wanted to go up a fifth you would jump to G.\u00a0 If you count all the notes in the C major scale between C and G and include C and G you will see that there are 5. CDEFG. This is a diatonic fifth.\u00a0 Another in the key of C would be D to A.\u00a0 DEFGA.\u00a0 D to A is a diatonic fifth.<\/p>\n
In “Diatonic Fifth Patterns Lesson”,\u00a0 I give you tips on how to best practice diatonic fifths and demonstrate them for you on the soprano sax with some background music. \u00a0 Practicing with a play along is so much more fun and turns a boring scale exercise into a lesson in ear training.\u00a0 This lesson also includes a 12 page pdf of the patterns in every key. \u00a0 It is important that you master these in all 12 keys so that you have agility in any and every key you play in.\u00a0 This a vital and fundamental lesson to master so you have a firm foundation on which to\u00a0 build later.\u00a0 Enjoy!\u00a0 (25 Minute Video Lesson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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