I welcome back to Week Five of tenor saxophone lessons. This week, you're going to be working on playing the bass notes that make up the B section of our song. The notes you're going to be playing our A, E. And like last time, if you want to play the low E without the octave key you can try it sounds like this. And the F sharp, which again, you can play with the octave key or without you can try both out. O and d is our last note which again, you can use the with the octave key or without. Here's what they sound like together without the octave key.

Here's what they sound like with the octave key except Ronnie. Really try and play the low ones if you can. The tenor saxophone has such a low register that it's great to add that especially if you're playing with another instrument that's higher pitched like a clarinet or a flute, it's nice to be able to provide the low bass tones underneath. The other thing we're going to be working on the practice video this week is playing the bass notes using different rhythms. So just as a review, all whole notes get four beats, which is four clicks on the click track, half notes, get two clicks each and quarter notes, get one click each. Now because time is always going by consistently.

If we're going to play half notes on one of the bass notes. We're gonna have to play two of them to fill up the four total beats. So for example, if we play a as a whole note, we're going to play for beats 1234. And if we play half notes on the next note, which is e, we have to do it twice, we have to play E for two beats, and then we play e again for two more beats so that we have a total of four. And the same is true if we play the next note as quarter notes, which is F sharp, we play F sharp four times. And D is four times if we play it is quarter notes as well.

So it's good thing to always keep in mind that rhythm is always taking up the same amount of space. No matter what type of note we're playing in terms of rhythm. Alright, great work, and I'll see you in the practice video.