I Welcome back to week three of also sax lesson. This week, you're going to learn the melody that's going to make up the A section of our song. You're also going to learn the beginning of articulation, which is how we separate the notes and we tongue the instrument. So we're going to start there first tonguing or articulating on any saxophone is a, the analogy I like to use is it's like turning on the water in your sink. The water is like the air that you're breathing. And you can run your hand underneath it's to interrupt the flow, or you can turn the tap all the way on and off and create a little bit of space between things.

Now, in long tonguing it's like running your hand underneath, and it sounds like this. All I'm doing As flicking the tip of the read very gently, but the air is continuing to push through the instrument. When you do harder tonguing you're hitting the Read Harder with your tongue to stop the flow there and then let it start again. In this program, you're going to be working on using both kinds of tonguing. For now with this first melody, just use the try and use the long time to separate the notes in between. Now the melody itself starts on G sharp, and then we're going to play G sharp, A, B, E, with the octave key D sharp with the octave D, C sharp with no key, C sharp again, e with the octave key, D sharp with the octave key, D sharp again, you with the octave key, D sharp with the octave key C sharp, with no Aki and then B.

And this is what the melody sounds like. Because the melody runs in a circle. The last note in the first note will feel like they're the same, but just work on playing it in a circle as part of the song, something's going to happen a lot in music. Now, the last thing we're talking about is where to breathe and rhythm. So when you're first learning it with the practice video, don't worry too much about the rhythm. Try and get the order of the notes confident under your fingers.

And then as you listen to it more try and match exactly what the saxophone and the backing track is playing. And for now, breathe wherever you need to but try and speak in sentences. In a sense, so you want to play as long of a phrase as you can and then breeze in a place before the next idea happens like this. Breathe at the end of the laundry. All right, great work, and I'll see you in the practice video.