Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to me. I've got a birthday badge. Today is my birthday. Every day is my birthday and because we are sex office, every day is your birthday. So today we're going to learn how to play. Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to me. Let's learn how to play Happy Birthday now, I was just having a little play just before but let's do a nice, neat simple version of happy birthday. It sounds a little bit like this. I think you can do that. And because I've got the birthday boy badge, you can play it too. I'm sure we can.
Okay, how do we start? Happy birthday. We all know the song we were talking about in a previous lesson, keeping the song in your head, singing it to yourself in the in your head, letting the song echo around inside your brain, listen to yourself singing it. If you can hear it in your head, it will be much easier to translate into your fingers and into your saxophone. So how does it start? It starts on a C, we all know C and it goes a little bit like this.
So middle finger c Happy Birth the day to You so we'll do that again. C, C, D, C, F, A. And once more C, C, D, C, F. A. So let's try that. Let's just do the first little bit ccdc Happy Birthday ccdc. Ready?
Let's try it slowly. See CD. See 1234 her. Bye. Let's try it again. C C, D, C 123.
Ha. All right, and now we'll add in at the end of that and F A. So happy birthday. Day Two you see C D, C, F, E. Let's try that. 1234 Hmm. Let's try it again.
C c, d c, f a 1234. Excellent. There's the first line Happy birthday to you. second line of Happy birthday to you goes like this Happy birthday to you. sounds the same at the start. So happy birthday.
Same again. See CD with the register key at the back. See CD, CJ, three fingers One finger. For that second line. Happy Birthday tow you see cd CGF. Let's try that slowly.
Happy birthday to you. One, two on the sea. Now. Let's do that again. Happy birthday to you with a C, C, C, D, C, D f 1234. Cool.
Let's do those first two lines. Let's go Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. So we've got c c d c, F. a CCD. CG F. So let's do that. 1234 Let's do that once more time because I'm enjoying my birthday.
And I hope you're enjoying your birthday too. And you got a birthday boy badge. Have you got a birthday girl badge. You should get one. Anyway, Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you. First two lines.
One, two on the see. Go. Let's do it once more just and then we'll keep going. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. You're on the see 123 Go.
Good. Let's continue. So now we're up to Happy Birthday to everyone. All right, so we got that in our head. We're still singing in our heads. Okay, so that's the third line.
Third line. Happy birthday, dear everyone. We'll just do that one line. Happy birthday dear everyone, or insert your name here. cc starts on a C happy and then we do a big jump with just the register key. So still a c cc and then add the register key, still a C, cc register key, i f a day.
So I'll say that again. CC register key A f a d sounds like this. Once more Have a listen. Ah once again see see at the register key for another see. So here we go see, see see AFA D let's try it with me now. see see see a F, A d try with me 1234 go And once again, let's do that once again.
See, see see a f a d 1234 go again 1234 go. Good. Now the last line, Happy birthday to you. Alright, so we've got some B flats they're happy is a B flat so we learnt B flat and we did the Batman song I think a little while ago. B flat is the two fingers on the left hand, and then this little guy on the side with your side knuckle, side on the side. So that's a B flat We've still got the register key happening as well.
So we're talking about a high B flat, like this. So those notes again, B flat, B flat, take the B flat key off a f GF. So do that again. B flat, B flat, A, F, G, F. So Happy birthday to you. B flat, B flat, A, F, G, F. One, two, B flat, go. Again, one, two, B flat go once more, because it's Good to be flat go.
Okay, so let's do the last two lines that we've just learned. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Starting on our C, C, C, high C A, F, E, D, B flat, B flat, A, F, G, F. Let's do it starting on a C C. Add 123. Go Hmm Let's do that again. One, two on the sea.
Go Have you got your birthday boy or birthday bill? Good girl badge. It's hard to say but they go badge. Get a badge. Hopefully it says Happy birthday. Let's play the whole song.
We'll do it slowly. Ready, or whole song all the way through one, two starting on a C 123 now Once more with feeling we love birthdays 123 now go Let's do it one more time for giggles one whole song now go Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to everyone and I will see you in the next lesson. Thanks.
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