Week 4: Practice Video

Tenor Saxophone Lessons for Beginners Week 4: Learn how to play the A major scale ascending and descending (up and down)
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Transcript

You're now going to play the entire major scale using half notes, and then quarter notes with the click track. We're going to start by going acid ending which is up starting on the low A to the high a. Playing half notes. One, two, ready, begin. a, tu, tu, tu tu tu F sharp. Let's try that again.

One, two, ready begin. A tu tu tu tu tu Great Now let's try using quarter notes. One, two. Ready, go. A, C sharp, F sharp, G sharp. Let's try it again.

One, two, ready, go. A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp. Now we're going to play the a major scale descending, starting on the high a, going to the low A using half notes. One, two, ready, go. A to G sharp to F sharp. Let's try it again.

One, two. Ready, go to G sharp, F sharp, sharp. Now let's try it using quarter notes. One, two. Ready, go. A, G sharp, F sharp, C sharp.

Try it again. One, two. Ready, go. Sharp, F sharp, C sharp. Now we're going to try playing the scale, acid ending and descending first with half notes and then with quarter notes, First half notes. One, two, ready, go.

A to C sharp, F sharp. Now descending k. Now we're going to do ascending and descending with quarter notes. One, two, ready, go. A, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, G sharp, F sharp, C sharp. Try that one more time. One, two, ready, go.

A, C sharp, D, F sharp, G sharp, G sharp, F sharp, C sharp. You're now going to play the notes that make up the bass part of the A section of our song. The notes you're going to play our F sharp, A, D, and he they're going to be played as whole notes so each will get four beats. One, two, ready, go. F sharp 234 a 1234 d 1234 e 234 Let's try that again. One, two, ready, go.

234 A 1234 d 1234 e 1234. Let's try it one more time. One, two. Ready, Go F sharp 1234 a 1234 d 1234 e 1234. Now you're gonna take your first steps towards improvising by playing the notes in the a major scale out of order along with the track. Simply put, just move on.

In a non sequential order, meaning for example, you could start on a, but instead of playing B, see if you can move to a different note, like E or F sharp or C sharp. One, two. Ready, go. Now let's play the melody along with the track. One, two Ready, go. Now let's play the bass notes along with the track.

One, two. Ready? Go. F sharp Sure

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