Welcome back to get Your Sax Together. I'm pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson,
welcome to the channel. This week I'm gonna teach you how to play David
Woodford's gravelly sax hook from Glenn Frey's "The Heat Is On" from the 1984
movie Beverly Hills Cop.
If you're a complete beginner on sax you should be
able to play this solo. It's not too fearsome, unlike some of the other things
that I cover on this channel which are pretty pearly, however, this one is okay.
So if you're a beginner you should be okay. If you're intermediate, absolutely
fine. As we always do on this channel let's break it down into manageable
bite-sized chunks, nice and slow. Here are the fingerings for alto and tenor sax,
and here's the first phrase...
If you listen to the original of this you will notice that the sax has got a
real growly gravelly sort of rock-and-roll quality to it. If you want
to learn how to grow on sax you can go to the card linked above me now and I
teach you exactly how to do it. Two ways how to do actually. So with that in mind,
and applying this gravelly sound to your playing, let's learn the second phrase...
If you can't remember all the notes in a one-er
fear not, just make your way down into the description beneath this video, click
that link and I will send you your own PDF sheet music for The Heat Is On,
transcribed for alto and tenor sax. Check it out, it looks like that..lol...
and that can be yours. That can be yours to own. So, conveniently, that is all the
material you need to play this whole song so let's talk about how you put the
whole thing together - the structure. You're gonna play phrase 1,
you're gonna play phrase 2, you're gonna play phrase 1 again, and then you just
play the first half of phrase 2. So you don't play the whole thing, you just go
ba da da da dut and then you stop. That gives you the whole performance. So if
you're enjoying learning how to play these iconic sax hooks go up to the card
linked there - that is my Sax Hall of Fame series. You can find loads of other
wicked sax hooks on there to learn. Now, once that's all put together the whole
thing should sound like this. I've knocked up a quick backing track and
here it is...
So that's it, that's all we've got time for this week on Get Your Sax Together.
That is another big hitting sax legendary tune in the bag. Go and stick
that on your musical mantelpiece, add it to your collection of incredible sax
hooks to impress your friends and family and they'll be much more coming this
year, don't you worry! If you're enjoying the
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On, as usual lovingly transcribed and copied by meee! Okay-dokes, more wonderful
sax related content coming up next week and I'll see you there. Take it easy.
Bye!