NO. 13

[sxpoet]

Hi Jeff,
i’ve composed another tune

music

sheet

the sax plays the piano part, not shown in sheet

[Jeff]

Hi James

Sounds like you have some counterpoint working there.
I think it needs a last line to finish it off.

Rose are red, violets are blue, don’t fire at Putin or he’ll fire at you. 😉

[Jeff]

What do you think of this solo?

Here’s an interesting solo

[sxpoet]

Hi jeff,
correct, it needs an end part – which i can’t come up with melody wise at this point in time. So rather than tear hairs out, what i do is shelve it and come back to it later.

i used two piano parts, rather than combine both bass clefs into one bass clef, as each bass cleff is played at a different sound volume. Very difficult to strike two piano keys with the left hand where one key is played louder than the other key – easier to have two piano players.

The bag pipes sound great!

[sxpoet]

is you practicing coming along? – i can’t play at the moment, had a sore throat all week, and still waiting for it to clear out.

[Jeff]

I heard this tip from a microbiologist.
When you feel your throat becoming itchy, sore or scratchy.

Take a glass, put in a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice, add the same volume of water.
Take a swig and gargle for 15 secs, spit it out and repeat, until the liquid is finished.
The pH of the solution is low enough to wipe out the bugs.
When you do this early enough the next day you will be fine.

I have had some success with this remedy myself. Cheers

[Jeff]

Regarding my practices I have a hard time playing the keys with flats.
I think it’s because I been raising all the hymns by 9 notes and I often play with 6#’s.

I’m trying to work out this tune to try and play when my sax has a sore throat – LOL.

Extra Cheeky

Johnny, if you’re watching, hint, hint. 😉

[sxpoet]

TIP – i find if i set aside time to quickly run through all 12 major scales played from the sheet and not from memory every day, then i have no problems playing in any scale on a music sheet.

Waste of time playing scales from memory if you always play from music sheets, you need to develop eye-reading/finger-locating memory.

i didn’t get chance to try the lemon remedy, i only had a lime, so i tried the lime instead, didn’t help. next time we shop i’ll buy a lemon and try that instead.

[Jeff]

Hi James, only the lemons have the required very low pH to nail the bugs properly.

I can read music but my Ear is terrible at identifying pitch.
My friend plays guitar and has developed the skill of playing the notes on sax that he hears.
He can listen and play the same note where I have to read the sheet music and play.

Trying to work out ‘Woke Up Clipped’ via Audacity is taking me about an hour per 60 seconds of music.
That’s just to find the correct notes, and I still have to work out their exact timing.
The free MP3 ‘sound to notation’ SW came back thoroughly cluttered and totally unusable.
Now I play the MP3 note and match the note using a mini Yamaha keyboard before entering the note in Crescendo.

One tip I’ve realised is to first establish the bpm and set that correctly in the music notation program.

[sxpoet]

reading music is the easy bit, reading a scale with 6 flats and playing the sax while reading the scale is the hardest bit.

i know this because i’ve been doing it on the clarinet for the last year – practicing reading all 12 major scales and playing the clarinet at the same – and i’m still making mistakes while playing the scales. So if i cant read and play a scale at the same time, i ain’t got no chance of playing a music sheet in that scale.

practice, practice….zzzzz

still haven’t had chance to buy a lemon!

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