Hi, welcome back. This is Week Six of tenor saxophone lessons for the music coach. Today we're going to be learning the melody that makes up the B section of our song. Last week we worked on the chords first. This time we're going to work on the melody. Here's what the melody sounds like.

Now, the notes for this melody all come from the a major scale. It starts on F sharp with the octave key, then G sharp with the octave key and then eight When play a again, a again, G sharp with the octave key, a with the octave key, G sharp with the octave key, F sharp with the octave key e with the octave. E with the octave key again, you with the octave key again. Sounds like one more time. The most challenging part about this part of the melody is getting it started in the right place in the bar. The first melody for the A section began on the first beat of the first bar, so it's easy to count into we count the 41234 and the melody begins in this melody we're going to be starting as a pickup to the next bar.

So the counting on the practice video is going to be four counts plus three, and then the melody begins so it'll go 1234123 bada. And then in the backing track, we're going to get rid of the first bar and just have a three beat pickup. So you'll hear 123, Bob Bada, this is a really good way to get used to how music can start and stop in different places in the bar. If everything in life was completely square and had neat, clean edges, nothing would be interesting. So weird things start in a bar is a really interesting way of changing the feeling of what's about to happen. It's also a little bit like trying new foods or eating new spices or something different for your ears, starting the rhythm in a different place in the bar.

All right, excellent work, and I'll see you in the practice video.