Lesson from a Sax Pro | Ep. 1: Baptiste Herbin

Baptiste Herbin is a MONSTER at sax. If you want your own lesson from Baptiste, contact him here: @ or Table of Contents 0:00 - Intro 0:57 - Fanboying 1:43 - Working on unfamiliar keys 3:09 - Mastering a key 5:16 - Thinking in tonalities 6:28 - How to discover more vocabulary 8:01 - Application 10:08 - Getting new material in your playing 12:39 - What to do after transcribing a solo 14:15 - Tritone substitutions 15:46 - Connecting chords with longer phrases 18:09 - Importance of minor 6 19:20 - Is minor 6 the same as altered? 20:11 - Minor 6 substitutions in action 21:36 - Baptiste's substitutions in action 24:14 - Fluency in any key 28:40 - Distributing practice time in all keys 29:12 - How to get hard runs up to Baptiste speed 33:25 - “How many hours a day do you practice?“ 34:49 - Listening VS Transcribing 36:16 - An ironic disadvantage of this gene