I welcome back to Week Five of all the saxophone lessons. This week, you're going to be working on learning the new bass note pattern for the B section of our song. Now, a lot of popular music has different sections that are known as verses and choruses. And much like the whole notes and half notes part from last week, if you're unfamiliar with what those terms mean, there's some videos at the beginning of the course that you can, you can look at that will help explain that in more detail. But for now, we're going to talk about the eighth section and the B section. And now we're going to do the B section of the bass notes.

So the notes are E, which I would recommend playing a low E, then B, then C sharp, and then a and in this week's practice video, you're going gonna work on playing them as whole notes first, and then as half notes and sometimes as quarter notes and changing up the order. So sometimes one note is going to be a whole note and then the next note will be two half notes. The reason that this is important is the time that each note takes up has to always stay the same, which is four beats. So if we want to play it as half notes, we'd have to play two half notes to fill up the same space. So the same is true if you're playing quarter notes. If you want to play the C sharp as quarter notes, you have to play four of them.

So that takes up the right amount of space. And as an accompanying this, this is a really important thing to keep in mind. And it's a nice way to build the energy of your supporting parts or to bring it down. So playing whole notes gives a lot of tones takes up a lot of tonal space, but it leaves a lot of rhythmical space for a soloist or a melody. And if you're hitting all the quarter notes, bop, bop, bop bop, you're building more energy, but you're not totally taking up all the space. So getting comfortable with this is a really great thing to be a good accompanist.

And as a saxophone player, you often aren't put in that role. But I really believe it's very important to be able to do all of the roles in any band. And anytime you can make music with anybody, you don't have to have the traditional instruments that go with saxophone, to make music with your friends. Alright, keep up the great work and I'll see in the practice video