Welcome back to Get Your Sax Together, I'm pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson
Hope you had a great week, welcome back to the show
This week, I'm gonna teach you how to play a fantastic sax break from Bakermat's version of 'Baiana'
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Pronunciation warning coming up
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Sorry if I offend any of the relevant people
So, Lodewijk Fluttert aka Bakermatt sampled the 'Baiana' version by Barbatuques
a Brazilian band
That fantastic vocal really makes the track.
If you can't remember all the notes don't worry just go down into the description and you can
get a free PDF of the sheet music for 'Baiana' easy to download. Print it off and
follow along as we learn this track so without further ado let's steam
straight in. This sax hook repeats over and over throughout the track from about
halfway through. Let's go straight in and learn phrase one
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Moving on to phrase two then. I would advise you to go and check out the original to really dial in
the phrasing for this particular segment because [humming tune]
It's quite hard to notate exactly. I've tried my best and tried to keep
it nice and simple but go and check out the original to really dial in the
phrasing for this one. Here is phrase two
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In case you hadn't realised, most of this solo like almost every other pop
solo is based on the pentatonic scale - the normal version of the pentatonic and
the bluesy version of the pentatonic. If you don't know what pentatonix are or
even if you're a bit shady about it, go up to the card linked above me now. Watch
my video which is an introduction to pentatonix. I'll spell it out in black
and white view so there's absolutely no doubt and this solo uses all those
scales so that's a really useful thing to go and check out. Okay let's move on to
phrase three here we go.
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So let's move on to phrase four here we go.
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Phrase five, like many of the other phrases in this song has notes with bends and scoops up to them
If you want to learn how to do that properly go to my card linked up there
because normally, beginners on sax sound awful doing these bends, so learn how to do
it properly go to that card up there. Now here is phrase 5 played slowly for you.
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And finally to round off the solo here's phrase six.
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If you enjoyed these videos
learning how to play fantastic sax hooks then make sure you go up to my playlist,
the one that's linked on the card up there right now. That is my saxophone
Hall of Fame which has got lots and lots of very famous sax hooks, all broken down
so that you can learn them dead easily. Right let's move on putting together all
six phrases. I've knocked up a little backing track so it sounds a bit better
Here is the whole thing performed for you with the notes for alto and
tenor displayed by the side, here we go.
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I've said it once and I'll say it again on Get Your Sax Together, learning the
notes is only the first step, you must copy the phrasing. If you want to
transcribe your own solos go to my card linked up there, that's my series on
transcribing solos that will help you learn how to phrase exactly like the
people you are trying to copy and you need to copy every little inflection
scoop, bend, fall so go and learn how to transcribe your own stuff if you want to
sound effective doing these solos.
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That's all we've got time for this week on Get Your Sax Together
I hope you've enjoyed learning how to play Baiana, Baiana, Baiana!
by Bakermatt. If you enjoyed the content you can really help me out by
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