Question about “Just The Way You Are” Love Song

[Michael]

😎 Hi Johnny,
I just bought the WaterMelon Man and was getting ready to buy the love songs too; regarding “Just the Way You Are”, was the original song played on the Alto? Will that mean if I decide to play it on Alto there will be some Altissimo notes to deal with? For the time being, I could just play the same notes on the scale 1 Octave lower, correct?
The sheet music for the Watermelon man looks to be great fun and is very easy to follow along with while I watch you play it–the Sax solo will take a little bit of work….but so has the solo for “Take Five” that I will be uploading to the blog sometime in the Spring LOL. For me, I found it a big help to work on these solos as a song WITHIN a song of sorts; breaking it down and working on it separately from the main melody and then putting it all together.

[john]

The original solo was done on alto and so has no altissimo notes. There are a couple altissimo notes if done on tenor as I did.

[Michael]

Cool, I had that song going in my mind and knew I heard Altissimo notes somewhere, so it was the Tenor I was hearing them in (memory not always reliable LOL).

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