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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.

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.

well played Leo!

having listened to your tone, the following gladiator tune would sound great on your sax

gladiator – now we are free

i got mine for $149 instead of paying $579

upgrade price from finale

Hi Jeff

i keep calling it dorito instead it is called Dorico, confusing as they sound similar.
the version i have is Dorico Pro5. I got mine for a lot less, as i upgraded from Finale software.

Dorico Pro 5

That’s the stuff that keeps me playing.
i’m starting to write my own stuff now .. got fed up of not being able to upload someone else’s stuff because of copyrights.

and the tune played by the Dorito music software

tune

later on i’ll record it again on my guitar and sax.

hiJeff,
here are the final lyrics

lyrics

Hi Jeff,
it’s a song i made up about my Oak Tree in the garden.
i’m still working on it, currently working on the 3rd revised version with 3 verses instead of one verse.

i came up with the lyrics first and then added the melody on the guitar, then added the alto, clarinet and tenor. Last of all i added the guitar chords.

Currently revising it,…[Read more]

In chord arrangements for song writing in a Major Key, it’s common to have the I, IV, V chords arrangement where the V resolves back to the I chord.

i didn’t realise in a Minor Key song when you use the i, iv, v chord arrangements until i looked it up, you can also use the i, iv, V format instead of the i, iv, v – both arrangements work well in a…[Read more]

After looking at my Transposing Score Sheet, i can see why a Tenor player would want to play in the Altissimo range more so than an Alto player. If you want to play and sound the same notes as on a piano sheet, there’s tons of piano sheets where you would need to play in the tenor altissimo range.

Thanks for the heads up, i’ve rewritten it in 3/4 time.
I’ll have to record it again to hear the difference.

it’s a good point.

What happened was i looked out the window at my oak tree and noticed the leaves slowly starting to turn colour.

In my head in thought ‘my oak trees turning brown, oh no. when all the leaves drop on the ground i’m going to have to pick up 30 sacks of dead leaves’.

So i came up with the 1st line of my song, wrote it down – ‘My…[Read more]

I’ve now added the Guitar Chords to my music sheet, which is in the Piano Section, so now i plan to record the guitar chords as my 1st track as this will give me the rhythm timing (as i don’t have a drum track), then i can add the Alto afterwards.

my green oak tree full score

Thanks.
I think it’s in F# harmonic minor on the Alto, but i left it in C major as i wrote and sung the lyrics first on a blank sheet, then added the notes to the sheet as i went along – which is easier to write down.

Now i’ve got to add the guitar chords to the sheet in Concert key by ear to find which chords sound the best, which will be trial…[Read more]