Okay, and welcome back. Let's keep going with how to play the sax. Now continuing on. The good thing about music is that it always builds it gets you do this. And then next time you do this, the next time you do this the next time you do that, and then and it's slowly, slowly slowly builds. And that's a good thing.

But you have to start somewhere and that's why I'm enjoying doing these beginner saxophone lessons with you, specifically you and just you. Well, don't you. So, continuing on from where we were before. We've been playing with three notes be a n G, G, A, B, B, A G. Now we did the Hot cross buns and if you haven't done Hot cross buns, I need you to go back and do Hot Cross Buns first. Okay, is hot cross buns the best song ever written. No, it's not.

Alright, one more thing is hot cross buns going to serve you well in life. Well, maybe it's an oldie but a goodie, you have to sing it to your little kids if you've got little kids, but Hot Cross Buns is an old favorite, and it's easy to get. It's good. It's a good song to get your fingers working. Speaking of good songs to get your fingers working, there's another oldie but a goodie. Which, again, arguably, perhaps isn't the most coolest song in the world in space, and it's called White fart.

Mary had a little lamb. Sometimes it is also called Merrily We Roll Along. But here I know it is Mary had a little lamb. I'm sure you know it is either that or Merrily We Roll Along. But coincidently, who would have thought it has the same notes as Hot Cross Buns or beer? Yeah, maybe in a Slightly different order.

So what we've got is we've still got B's and A's and G's, just as a quick fingering showing. And again, I should point out and remind. There will be the notes written down here. You can download them. They'll be on your screen, but B's and A's and G's Mary had a little lamb. So we got Matt re head lit tall, lamb lit tall, lamb lit tall lamb may re Had a Little Lamb.

Its fleece was white as snow. Have you got that? Of course you haven't. That's okay. But, again, you can read the music we were talking about before and another lesson. With the saxophone with music in general.

There is music Music. Yes, you need your fingers. Okay, that's the way it is. But there's two kinds of ways that you can play music. One is with your eyes, and coordinating your eyes into your brain, which goes down to your fingers and your mouth, obviously, from a saxophone point of view. But also, the other way to play music is with your ears.

So the sound goes into your ears, your brain thinks about it, and translates it into your fingers. So again, two methods, eyes, end up with your fingers, or is end up with your fingers, your brain processes all that. So what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to get both your ears and your eyes working. So again, the notes will be written down somewhere for you, either on this page around here somewhere, maybe it's up here, maybe it's down there. You can also download these notes to make Get a little bit easier, you can print it out or put it on a different screen or something. The good thing about the video is you can stop and start.

So if you need me to just though he's making too much noise, press stop, have a play, come back and press play on the on the screen on the on the video again. So similarly, what we're going to do, there is also who would have thought, a backing track that I've done for Mary had a little lamb, and we will also play that for you. So let's how, let's see how we go first with Mary had a little lamb. We'll play it by ourselves. It's nice and slow. See if you can follow me.

Let's Let's go. Okay, so we got started on a B, and we're going down and up again and down. I have a listen. Have a play along with me. Ready 1234 How'd you go? Was that okay?

Too fast, too slow. Let's do it one more time. Here we go. Ready 123 Excellent, well done. Now let's see what we can do with this backing track. So again, the backing track will be around here somewhere, you can download it.

You can put it on your phone, you can put it on your computer, you can put it on your new music listening device of choice, iPods and all that kind of stuff. Have a listen. We'll see how we go. Let's give it a go. Ready? Keep playing is my hint.

Actually, before we do my hint, first hint, keep playing the music will keep going. So you need to, if you can keep up or if you you know, there's no such thing as wrong notes. I've said that For, there's no such thing as wrong notes. But if the note that you happen to play at that moment in time is perhaps a little bit different to the note that I'm playing either play it with confidence Did I hear it is I'm playing my notes, and it's this. Whoops. As long as you're confident and there'll be squeaks.

There'll be blips, it may or may not your fingers might slip off. Maybe your pants fall down. Maybe you slip over, whatever. Keep going. Play it with confidence. This is me.

I'm playing Mary had a little lamb. Ha. And if you do it that way, and as with any song, if you do it that way, then people will go Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Whoo. Rock Star. But if you kind of go are here, these are Mary head.

Whoops, I'm sorry. I gotta go up. So here we go. strike it. Mary had little pigs. Oh, I did the wrong thing.

No, we don't want that. We don't want that. We want confidence. Let's play. So that's the first hint. The second hint is, again, I've talked about breathing.

I've talked about timing. It's all one breath, your tongue is controlling whether that breath gets through the saxophone or not. So instead of going, it's not that it is. And I'm spitting everywhere. Sorry about that. Try again.

And so you're taking another breath and keep going. The only thing stopping that breath is my tongue. So with that in mind, let's see how we go. Okay, what we'll do is we'll play along with the backing track. Now what I've done here is like saying before, Mary had a little lamb He's kind of fairly boring, really in the global scheme of things, however, into how to play the sax. Let's have a little bit of fun.

What I've done is I've made it Mary had a funky lamb, merrily, we funk along. So I'll just play the first little bit so you can have a listen. And again download it have a listen first. Have a listen just before we start playing two bars introduction 1234 he told me lamb lamb man had told lamb its place Was whites. Isn't that nice? Okay, so Mary had a funky lamb.

It's a little bit different version than perhaps you've heard before in the nursery rhymes, but it's the same song. So again, we're concentrating on our ears here this point in time, we still got the melody. Have a listen. And you can hear the melody hopefully in the backing track as well. And we will play the melody. So have a listen and concentrate on listening and hearing it in your head.

Mary had a little lamb We'll play it again. two bars, Introduction to Bob's intro, and then we start so I'll play along. You play along with me. Are you ready? I didn't hear I already. Sorry.

Really bad. Bad dad humor. I should point out I'm a dad. I'm an embarrassing dad. I apologize. Actually, no, I don't I enjoy being an embarrassing dad.

So here we go, man. Had a Little Lamb, funk two bars introduction 123223. Now one more time All right, how'd you go? It sounds a lot faster than it actually is. Arguably, in my opinion, it sounds a little bit more impressive than it actually is. But really, we're still playing it slowly.

So and that's, that happens with a lot of music, a lot of music, a lot of songs. Actually, there's this band or an orchestra or a group, or maybe if it's just the one person playing along with the backing track. The music around you sounds are Wow, fantastic. I could never play that. Well, actually, you can, because like what we've just done here, the backing array surrounds the backing music, the other instruments, the other people in the group. They're all doing their thing.

But meanwhile, you do your thing. You concentrate on what you are doing. And it fits in with what everyone else is doing. And that's really cool. So it sounds more impressive than it actually is. So well done.

Let's see if we can do it again. Again, remember, competence. Here we go. We're playing. It doesn't matter if the notes that you play, perhaps not quite as the same as the notes that I'm playing. Or the notes the backing track is playing.

That's okay. Play it with confidence. There's no being timid there's no being wussy. We're not here to be embarrassed. I'm so sorry. No, we are haha we are playing Mary head up funky Lamb that's what I want you to do.

Maybe you could try playing it loudly. Push hard with your voice with with your voice. Push hard with the breath. Maybe you can play it a little bit. Medium, but whatever you do, don't play it softly. Softly is good.

We will play softly. But right now the second let's play it loudly. Are you ready? Okay, back to the start to bars introduction ready 1234223 All right, firstly, apologies I did that on purpose because I wanted to use To keep playing the Mary had a little lamb. So how did you go? Feel free to rewind here and press play and start again and keep going Mary had a little lamb.

Secondly, is what I wanted to show. And we'll work towards that. And hopefully in a few lessons, in a few lessons time, I will remember to reference this one with what I've just done there. These backing tracks, yeah, you can play the melody as it's nice and neat and supposed to, but then again, why not play something else? like I just did them? You know, I've still got in this example still got Mary had a little lamb running through my head, but I'm playing some other notes because I can and I want you to do the same.

Yes, once you've worked out how to play, Mary had a little lamb merrily, we roll along. Mary had a funky lamb. Sure, that's great. But why don't you then move on and add some different notes you can like instead of Mary had a little lamb so instead of playing it nice and neatly like it's supposed to go, why don't you try this ready? Still the same notes it's still all bs Eyes and G's, but it's just a little bit different. What can you do?

Can you do a different version of Mary had a little lamb? Again, let's leave on the edge. If you feel like it, why don't you record yourself playing your own version of Mary had a funky lamb, either with the backing track that you can download here, or here or here or wherever it is, or player up play by yourself doesn't matter. Can you record yourself? Can you email me a copy uploaded to YouTube? Make your own sort of YouTube channel?

You're learning the saxophone. Just a thought. Feel free to do so. Anyway, I've talked enough. That's Mary had a little funky lamb. Mary had a little funky lamb.

That's Mary had a funky lamb Mary had a little lamb. Merrily, we roll along merrily, we funk along, who knows? Doesn't matter. That's what we've done. Well done. Excellent.

Three notes. Still, we're still doing three notes pretty soon. We might do a couple of new notes. But let's rock and roll. You are awesome. Well done, I would recommend that you keep practicing.

The good thing. The important thing about learning a musical instrument such as a saxophone, you need to keep playing. It's no good to just pick it up once a week, and play once a week. It is better to do five minutes every day than it is to do 30 minutes once a week. So five minutes is all you need to do. Pick your saxophone up, play it five minutes.

Doesn't matter what you play. Go back and do the previous lessons. Do a little bit Play, play along with the radio play along with your favorite album, download some stuff from Spotify and play along. Maybe you've got some CDs or some some old records, play along, just play. Anyway, like I've said before, my name is Matthew. Thank you for joining me for this lesson.

And We will talk again in another lesson coming very soon. Thanks heaps well done. Keep playing excellent