Hi folks, I'm Pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson you're watching Get Your Sax Together
and this week I'm going to teach you how to play the song "Lily Was Here"
by Dave Stewart and saxophonist Candy Dulfer.
Lily Was Here was written
by the Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart as a sound track for a 1989 Dutch film
called Lily Was Here or De Kassiere. It features Dutch saxophonist Candy
Dulfern and apparently it was all recorded in one take. It proved such a
hit in Holland that the single was then released worldwide and became a big hit.
It was also featured on candy Dulfer's 1990 album Saxuality. In this free sax
lesson for beginners or intermediate players I'm going to teach you exactly
how to play Lily Was Here and because it's an alto feature I'm gonna have all
the alto fingerings up on the screen, however if you go into the free pdf in
the description I've got the all the music written out for alto and tenor sax
so that's a fantastic bonus feature - and in the meantime if you're enjoying the
channel please do subscribe, ring the bell to be notified when I upload new
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and get that free pdf. Print it off, follow it along as we learn the lessons.
So without further ado let's learn how to play Dave Stewart and Candy Dulfer's
Lily Was Here.
First of all let's talk about the structure, and that is four
eight bar sections - a a b c. So you've got the first eight bar section, you'll
repeat that, then your B is slightly different and the final eight bar is
slightly different again. The key for the song is concert E minor, which means for
tenor you're in f sharp minor and for alto sax you're in c-sharp minor. The
whole thing is mainly played on the blues scale apart from the odd note here
and there which is outside the blues scale. Finally remember this tune is much
more like a jam than a set in stone melody, so Dave Stewart plays the phrases
on guitar and then Candy Dulfer echoes them on sax, but if you look at all the
different versions of her playing it the variations are different every time
she answers the guitar. So learn the blues
scale and once you've learned this melody start making up your own
variations to echo the guitar.
So without further ado let's learn the notes. I've
broken this down into eight individual phrases and each time, the sax echoes a
guitar phrase, so let's start with phrase 1, and here it is played slowly...
Now here's phrase one played a bit faster.
Now phrase 2 played nice and slowly.
Now phrase 2 played a bit faster.
Phrase three now, played slowly which is almost
the same as phrase one.
Now phrase three played at full-speed.
Phrase four is an improvised fill on the blue scale - here it is played slowly.
Now phrase 4, played faster.
Phrase five echoes the guitar melody exactly. Here it
is played slowly.
Now phrase five, played faster.
Phrase 6 is another improvised fill on the blues
scale. Here it is played slowly.
Now phrase 6, played faster.
Phrase seven is another one that sticks very closely to
the guitar melody, here it is played slowly.
Now phrase seven played faster.
finally the last phrase, phrase 8, is another improvised fill and here it is
played slowly.
Here's that final phrase 8 played at full speed.
So now you've learned all the notes
but you're only halfway there, because it's really important to copy the exact
phrasing to get the feel and the sound of how Candy Dulfer plays it. If you follow
that link on the card up there you'll find my transcription series, that's
going to go a long way to help you learn how to copy the exact way the sax
players play things that sound good.
So once you've learned how to copy the
phrasing and the sound exactly, we've learned all the notes, all the phrases
and stringing it all together it should sound something like THIS... [MUSIC]
So that's it for this week now you've learned how to play Lily Was Here by
Dave Stewart and Candy Dulfer. I hope you enjoyed the lesson, as always you can
support me by subscribing to the channel, tell all your mates, ring the bell to be
notified when I upload new videos, go and check out my Instagram, and of course
don't forget to go down into that description to get your free pdf with
all the music for Lily Was Here, written out for alto and tenor sax. So hope you
enjoyed the lesson and I'll see you next week on Get Your Sax Together!