I welcome back this week to have alto sax lessons as part of the music coach program. I hope you had a great first week, we're going to get into learning the rest of the notes in the E major scale this week. Now this scale is going to be used throughout the entire program. So the more solid you are with knowing it, the easier it's going to be to keep learning the next steps. Just as a quick review your first three notes from last week were he just three fingers in the top two fingers in the bottom, F sharp which has three fingers in the top and middle finger in the bottom and G sharp, which is three fingers in the top plus the pinky side key. Now our next note is going to be a which is two fingers in the top hand only.

Remember to skip over that first key and skip over the second one. So you're playing two for your next node is going to be B. To do that, you just lift up your middle finger in your left hand. And your next node is going to be C sharp, which is everything open. Now, quick note, when I'm lifting up, sometimes I'm going to move my fingers out of the way to make it easier for you to see. But in terms of the technique of playing the saxophone, you want to just lift your fingers up as far as the key let's go not any further, because when you're moving really fast later on, you don't want to have to be reaching up and then finding your way back down onto the keys.

Your next note is going to use something we haven't done yet, which is the octave key. Now the octave key is on the back right above the thumb rests and you play it with your thumb on your left hand. Now on the saxophone, this is a really great invention, you when when you go to the next note, which is D sharp. We're going to close a lot of keys but we're going To go higher in pitch, this is very different from older wind instruments where the way the sound gets made higher is by opening the tube more. To play D sharp, you're going to close the three fingers in the top, and all three keys in the bottom. And you're going to play this Pinkie psyche, which is the D sharp key.

And here's what it sounds like. With the octave key as well, your last note of the scale is going to be high E, which is three fingers on the top and two fingers in the bottom with the octave key. So it's the same fingering as the low E just with the octave. So here's what all of our new notes sound like. Now, a couple things about when you're moving higher on any saxophone you You want to be closing your throat a little bit very much like singing higher. So if you sing a higher note, you can feel your throat does a little bit of closing and when it goes lower, it opens a bit.

So you want to practice doing the same thing when you're playing higher notes on a saxophone. Alright, great work and I'll see in the practice video