This example, we're going to add a Little bit of rhythm To the structure. So I take the role of the accompanist and I'm going to play two bars on the first chord which on the tenor is going to be a and then two bars on the D, which is going to be a four chord. Okay? 123 We honestly didn't rehearse any of that before. But Todd and I have played for a few years and the longer you play with someone, you start to get an instinct for each other how you move and how you breathe and what your long you get to know actually, I realized I must know what your lung capacity is, and you mind because you just get you get a feel for what the other person is going to play. So sometimes you match up how you're playing and you play in tandem, just like a tandem bike, or tandem train would go in all the cars together.

And then sometimes in this kind of do I do at improv with to Melanie instruments, it's really like you have your own. No bumper cars maybe and you can go You're all on the same playing field but you get to wander on your own on your own on your own path, right or something like that. go karts. Maybe around the track some you can go faster. I could have played You know, he's playing a steady pattern and I'm playing a pattern, the rhythm pattern is different. So it provides a contrast to what he's doing.

Yeah. In terms of being like the same type of instrument, it's a, it's a good opportunity to think about having different roles. And you know, normally when you play the saxophone, you're only going to be playing the melody or improvising and it's a great skill to be able to become confident in being able to accompany other people and it allows you play duels with notch so the saxophone players but maybe, you know, a flute or clarinet or guitar player and just be able to be comfortable in those contexts.