Hi, welcome back to the music coach, tenor saxophone lesson for week nine. This week, you're going to get into learning your first scale pattern. Scale patterns are a great way to work on your technique, and build your vocabulary in the language of music. When you first start learning scales sequentially, which means in order, like A, B, C sharp D, the way we were learning it before, it's a great way to understand the basic landscape and shape of the lines that you're playing. Learning a scale pattern allows you to play the notes in different orders, and have that technique be inside your body and in your fingers so that you can express it when you want to. And it's a great way when you're improvising to move from one place to another without having to just go in order of the scale.

Now, the first scale pattern you're gonna learn is the a major scale in thirds. What this means is we're going to start on a, but instead of playing B, we're going to skip it and go to C sharp. Then we're going to go backwards one to B, then we're going to go up again to D, skipping over the C sharp, but I'm going to save them as we go and finger them at the same time. So we have a, C sharp, B, D, C sharp, E, D, F sharp, E, G sharp, F sharp, A, G sharp, G sharp, a, and here's what it sounds like. Now when we're descending or coming down, the pattern is the same but in reverse. So we'll start on a and skip over G sharp and go to F sharp.

And then we go back up to G sharp, and down to E, and up one to F sharp, down to to D, up one to E, down to the C sharp, up one, two, D, down to two, B, up one, two, C sharp, down to two, a, and up one to B. Then we'll play B again. And then we'll play a and here's what it sounds like decently Alright, and we'll see in the practice video