Hi, Welcome back to week seven of auto sex lessons as part of the music coach program. This week, you're going to start working on doing different things while the form of the song is going on. Now, like I've said in previous videos, your role inside of the band is really important. And you can have different roles depending on what's happening in the music. So traditionally, a saxophone is a melody instrument, so it would play the written melody, and take solos and that would be it. But I really think that we can all expand what we do on whatever instrument we're on to be an accompanist or a soloist or play the melody and that's why you've learned the bass notes in both sections of the song now.

Now in this week's practice video, you're going to be playing the B section melody. And the B section chords and going back and forth between them. And getting comfortable with this is really important so that you can think about how the arrangement of the whole song is going to go. And this program, the arrangement is fixed because everything had to be recorded. But when you get to play with other real people, you can make different choices and say, in the first a section, I'm going to play the melody and then in the second a section, you're going to play the melody and I'm going to play chords underneath you. So this gets you thinking about how to make those arrangements happen.

And the last thing that we're going to be doing in this week's practice video, is playing the B section melody on your own without the saxophone on the recording. This is also really great practice to get you confident with entering the melody completely on your own because at some point, you're going to be playing the song, either in the jam room or with your friends and you're going to be playing in There's going to be nobody in your ear playing at the same time. And it's a little bit of a weird feeling to get used to entering constantly on your own. So keep up the great work and I'll see in the practice video