Learn To Play Saxophone with the help of computers

Hi Tony

Well done with the backing track. I love the melody.
Could you make another recording but without the saxophone part
or with another instrument for the solo part.

I would love to play tenor saxophone along with this tune.

Love
Alisha

Musical intervals what is a seventh or a ninth

Alexander Bringsoniou web page explains musical intervals

http://www.akribi.org/Webbplats/Music_theory.html

Intervals

Intervals tell us the distance between the notes you play. The distance between C and G is equal to the distance between D and A and intervals are used as a universal tool to describe this. The keys may differ but the intervals are always the same.

Basics

In the example below C is the root.

C ? C = Root (the same note)
C ? D = Second
C ? E = Third
C ? F = Fourth
C ? G = Fifth
C ? A = Sixth
C ? B = Seventh
C ? C = Octave
C ? D = Ninth (the same as the second but one octave higher)
C ? E = Tenth (the same as the third but one octave higher)
C ? F = Eleventh (the same as the fourth but one octave higher)
C ? G = Twelfth (the same as the fifth but one octave higher)

And some slightly more difficult stuff

There are more intervals than the ones presented above. As you can see the intervals between C and the notes D and E are presented but there's nothing about the interval between C and the note between D and E, the D#/Eb.

Here's how it works. If you want to name the interval between C and Eb. The Eb is a flat E. If the notes is flattened you say that it's minor. The interval C ? Eb is therefore called a minor third.

It's the opposite if you sharpen a note, the interval C ? F is a fourth, the interval C ? F# is a major fourth.
To read the full article visit
http://www.akribi.org/Webbplats/Music_theory.html

Hello all
I wonder if any of you guys have made use of Singing Machine STVG-502. Compact Disc + graphics with built-in Karaoke Centre.
A friend gave me this item and has two wireless microphones SMM107T and a T-112.

Could I use this as a audio pre-processor and output to a PC?
We tested playing an alto sax near the wireless microphone my friend listened to the karaoke machine in a different room and said that sounds good.
Would I need another interface to my computer for good sound reproduction?
Would Audacity sound program be satisfactory.

Another question I would like to produce a saxophone cd+g compact disc.
and add my own text to display on the display perhaps notes chords or my own lyrics
how do you synchronise text to music

Hi everyone

Another free download.
This 1980 book has lots of interesting saxophone studies in multiphonics, variations on fingering
including diagrams, variations on timbre and quarter tones.

Preliminary Exercises&Etudes in Contemporary Techniques for Saxophone.pdf
1.59 mb download. 44 pages.
http://www.mediafire.com/?gg4kenihvm4

Hi
The answer to the question on the music after Close Every Door
Lullaby of Birdland
is a 1952 popular song with music by George Shearing and lyrics by George David Weiss under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster"
Birdland was a famous jazz club in New York City.
Morris Levy renamed the club Birdland in honor of Charlie ?Bird? Parker.
Original Key   F minor/Ab major.
The genius of George Shearing in a devine moment during dinner party went over to the piano and wrote the whole thing in about ten minutes.


Oh, lullaby of birdland, that's what I
Always hear when you sigh,
Never in my wordland could there be ways to reveal
in a phrase how I feel
Have you ever heard two turtle doves
Bill and coo, when they love?
That's the kind of magic music we make with our lips
When we kiss
And there's a weepy old willow
He really knows how to cry,
That's how I'd cry in my pillow
If you should tell me farewell and goodbye
Lullaby of birdland whisper low
Kiss me sweet, and we'll go.

Try playing the score transposed for easy play on Saxophone.
http://learnsax.co.uk/media/lob.PDF

Love Alisha

Hi Tony

I love watching and listening to the Macclesfield Music Centre on Youtube
Try playing a few bars on your alto sax from "Close Every Door"
in the pdf file
http://learnsax.co.uk/media/ced.PDF

Alisha