Hi I'm Pro saxophonist of Jamie Anderson, you're watching Get Your Sax Together
and in THIS video I'm gonna teach you how to play the theme from Game of Thrones!
This video is part of my Hall of Fame series and you can find the other
videos linked up there. I've got a fantastic PDF that you can get by
following the link down in the description and that is going to include music for
alto AND tenor sax, so you've got all your bases covered there. As usual if you
like what you're seeing please subscribe to the channel and "ring the bell" to be
notified of new videos. I'm a massive massive Game of Thrones fan, from the books and
the TV show, so I can't wait to teach you this, so let's get going!!
Ok so the Game of Thrones theme is played on strings and has a kind of rolling 6/8 rhythm to
it. To keep things simple I've written it out in 3/4 in the free pdf that you can
find linked down below. So let's subdivide this into separate
phrases and there are four main phrases to learn for this tune. So I'm gonna play
this on alto but you're gonna get the fingerings and notes for alto AND tenor
on this video. So let's start with phrase 1...[SAX]
That's phrase one now let's move on to the second phrase...[SAX]
Obviously I'm playing it with a nice slow rhythm. So you can work out the
notes by looking at the diagrams and then I'll speed it up later. Now those
first two phrases both repeat so you play phrase one, phrase two, then go
back and play phrase one and phrase two again. So let's now move on to phrase 3...[SAX]
Now phrase 4 is almost exactly the same as phrase 3 but with a slightly
different ending. Now at the end of this one we're gonna tag on the counter line
so I think it's going to work well for playing the arrangement so let's do phrase 4...[SAX]
Now I'm gonna play phrase one, phrase two and then phrase three and phrase 4 but
in the actual arrangement phrases 1 & 2 repeat before you move on, but for the
purposes of this video I'm just gonna do phrase 1, phrase 2, then move straight
on to phrase 3 and phrase 4. Here we go...[SAX]
Now that is the basic melody but if you get the free PDF link down in the
description I've also included the counter lines that go with the melody
that are actually quite famous as well. So there's three different counter lines
the first one being...[SAX] The second one...[SAX] and the third one...[SAX] They come at different
points in the tune but you have to go down and get the free pdf to learn those
notes. so that's it that's all you need to know it's in exactly the same key as
the original so you can play along with the telly and impress your friends at
the same time lol.
So I hope you enjoyed the video today learning how to play the
theme from Game of Thrones. Like I mentioned before go down into the
description below to find the link which will get you a free pdf with all the
music written out for alto sax and tenor sax. If you like what you see please do
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