"Knock On Wood" Backing Track For Everyone

[Michael]

http://saxsolos.com/shop/king-curtis-knock-on-wood/

Hi guys,
Here’s your backing track of the week I had made “Knock On Wood” as inspired by King Curtis. I also posted the link to King Curtis playing this song, compare my track with the original release and let me know what you all think. I want to apologize if anyone gets tired of hearing the melodic/rhythmic Motown type of thing in the tracks that I had made and making available to you guys, but this is the music I hear in my head and, especially in a time where so many Sax players are focused on modern hip-hop and funk (nothing wrong with that, at all–we’re all different) you’ll find in many cases folks are really drawn to this style of Sax playing…..at least here in the south where I live they are anyway. The awesome thing about Johnny’s site is that he makes available so many great Sax Covers that folks love to hear everywhere and no one else is doing online. I posted the link above where you can get the transposed sheet music for this song for Tenor Sax, that’s what King Curtis played it on. Contact Curtis and he’ll transpose it for you to the Alto Sax.

[Anonymous]

Hi Michael

After hearing you guys comments, I bought this on CD. It is really-really good and a very welcome addition to my CD collection.

https://www.discogs.com/King-Curtis-Plays-The-Great-Memphis-Hits/release/1627802

Cheers

[Michael]

@ Jeff–Oh yeah…good stuff 🙂 Johnny has available a killing song by King Curtis here of “I Was Made To Love Her”. Don’t let all the high notes scare you away from a great song like this, if you get that classic Motown sound in your head, then even on the Alto you can get a big, huge tone to come out. The great thing about the Alto is that for Tenor players who aren’t playing in the Altissimo range freely yet–Altissimo G, G#, A and B on the Tenor equates to high D, Eb, E and F on the Alto…very playable! 🙂 Work on your long tones like crazy, push lots of air from your diaphragm with a nice open throat and Oral Cavity, and you can project a big tone on the Alto that you need for songs like this. Keep you body nice and relaxed…body posture also has an effect on our overall sound. With your long tones, work on them as long/loud as you possibly can, but also work on them as subtones (very hard to do but is really, really great for us).

I Was Made To Love Her Saxophone Music and Backing Tracks

[William Cingolani]

Yea Michael
Motown is the best. I can’t down load these backing tracks to an MP3. I tried once and I had to call apple care to get rid of all the trash and virus like stuff that came with the down load.

[Michael]

Hi William,
I think it just depends who/what you use to convert videos to mp3s. Here’s the link below to the folks that I use, I’ve used them for over a year and have never had any issues with them. My computer uses Norton software to keep my cpu safe at all times. I don’t have a Mac or Apple cpu like you do, so not sure if it would be different in terms of effects it may/may not have. I know there’s software you can buy to install on your computer that will also convert videos into mp3 files for you. Someone taught me on the youtube video to put a little ‘ss’ before the “y” on the word ‘youtube’ when you download a video from youtube, but I don’t use that method because it has been prone to viruses being downloaded to your cpu.
http://convert2mp3.net/en/

[Ridge]

Michael, like the upload it sounds very good. can you tell us the concert key for this song? I’ve been wanting to learn this one and also C C Rider by King Curtis and a few others (slow drag ect.)

[Mel]

Gotta Love King Curtis!

[Michael]

@ Ridge: The song it’s is in E Major, for Tenor Sax that means F# Major and Alto C# Major a very common thing Sax players have to deal with–so if you’re not comfortable with those 2 scales on the Sax, do yourself a favor and get comfortable with them LOL Loads and loads of guitar players love the key of E (as well as A) and they’re not going to budge much in this regard. I think Curtis with Sax Solos only has the sheet music for Tenor, check the link out and see. If you contact him he can transpose it all to the Alto for you for a small fee. I’ve been really busy right now with work and pressed for time to transpose it to Alto Sax for someone who wants it on the Alto, I would have already done it for them if I time permitted.

[Ridge]

Thanks Michael.

[William Cingolani]

A good way to become more familiar with a scale like F# is to play songs by ear in F#. I know the song “Kansas City” in D major, G major, E major. C major. Today I am playing Kansas City by ear in F# major. Sometimes I have to hunt for that right note and I do find it. Rock on

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