Welcome back to Get Your Sax Together I'm pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson.
This week I'm gonna teach you how to play the
saxophone solo from "old time rock and roll" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
The saxophonist on "old time rock and roll" has got the rather unlikely
name, although very appropriate name for saxophone, of Alto Reed. That's possibly
not his birth name? Sorry Alto if that is your birth name, but his name is Alto
Reed. Very appropriate for being a sax player of course! This track is taken
from the Bob Seger's 1978 album Stranger In Town and it's got one of the most
famous sax solos of all time. The track was made particularly famous
after the 1983 movie Risky Business featuring Tom Cruise. I'm gonna break
down the solo down into four separate phrases, two bars each, in the way we
always do. They'll be notes for alto and tenor so you can really get a
grip of this great tune. If you don't want to remember it all at this time go
down straight into the description and get your PDF which looks like this... dah dah...
...that is transcribed for alto and tenor and very neatly and painstakingly copied
by me, but I'll give it to you for free! Just go down into the description and
click the link and you are game on for that lovely piece of work. Okay, without
further ado let's get straight into it and learn the first phrase of this
iconic solo. I'm gonna play it nice and slowly so you can learn it, here we go.
You've probably noticed that Alto Reed plays this solo with quite a growly,
gravelly tone. If you want to learn how to growl on saxophone go to the card
linked right up there now and I'll teach you how to do it!
There you go, special bonus. Okay let's move on to the second phrase here it is
played nice and slow for you...
The third phrase is a little bit gnarly for tenor
because it goes up to a top Ab which is never the best note anyway and it's
pretty impressive the way Alto Reed gets this high Ab, he just
cranks it out it's great. You might struggle with that. If you do struggle,
take it down the octave. If you get your PDF from the description you will see
that in the tenor part is marked as octave you can just play it down the
octave - no big deal. Okay, here is the third phrase...
And finally, here is the
fourth phrase broken down for you...
If you're enjoying these videos learning how to play these really great
famous solos please go up and look at the playlist I've made called Sax Hall
of Fame, with a bunch of famous sax tunes all broken down - I've made it super simple
for you to learn on sax, so go check that out. Okay let's put this all together,
let's put the four phrases together. As I sometimes do I've knocked up a backing track
to go with this so it sounds a bit better and this is what it sounds like
put together. Here we go!
iI case you hadn't already noticed, this sax solo is full of scoops and bends
and falls. Now if you want to master them I've made a whole video just covering
how to do those things, how to get up to notes how to get down from notes and the
video is linked now on the cards, so go and check that one out. If you're
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be much more sax content coming up, including a great show next week so
please tune in, keep practicing and I'll look forward seeing you there. See
you later guys. Bye!