Bobby Keys "Can You Hear me Knocking" with Rolling Stones

[Michael Bishop]

Bobby Key’s Sax solo of “Brown Sugar” was probably his most famous Sax solo with the Rolling Stones..it’s been awesome learning it in different keys in Johnny’s Killer Blues too. I think there’s loads and loads of great solos that he played with the Rolling Stones. I like the Sax lines in this song of the Rolling Stones. I’ve been taking the time to go through a lot of their music and would just listen to his solos. While all of his solos were played over different scales, chord progressions, etc., the one thing I noticed they all have in common was how simple/uncluttered his solos were. He wasn’t playing at 100 mph either…can’t help but notice his Rockin’ Sax sound in there either 🙂 I set the timer right before the sax lines started.

[Anonymous]

i experienced cluttered up playing when i recently played in a Jazz band – and this is in my case only!

we were given some sheet music to play by some composer, which was reasonably fast. There was certain sections/phrases/bunch of bars, when i played them, they sounded cluttered up, so i didn’t play those bars, listened to the sax’s around me, and they all played them smoothly – the reason why i sounded cluttered up, was because of my poor technique – it would take me litteraly hours & hours of practice to get to that standard.

If i play mid b,c,d,e – and go up and down on those notes – i can easily sound cluttered up.

But like say before – for me thats the main reason i can sound cluttered up, and great players will say something along the lines when it comes to the performance – always play within the range of your abilities, dont try and sound like someone else, just be you, and dont play something out of your range, just be you

[Ridge]

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[William Cingolani]

Rocking good Michael Rocking good. You got some great rocking sound. I love that rocking guitarist Kieth Richards.

[john]

If you’re workin on that tune it’s in D minor and so use the D minor scale: D E F G A B C
but mostly Bobby just sticks to the pentatonic: D F G A C
If you listen to the guitar right after that it sounds a little jazzeir and that’s because he’s utilizing the E and the G which are the 2nd and 4rth so NOT part of the pentatonic.

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