I continued on my Music Theory training from the Vaughn Cube book.  Today I was taught the Relative Minors and Majors of each key, as well as how to write the scale for each key, and their relative minor and Major as well as how many sharps and flats are in each one.  It was quite exciting, and I’m retaining all the information complete so far.  Tomorrow I will get in the terms such as Tonic, Super Tonic, Mediant, Sub Dominant, Dominant, Sub Mediant and Leading Ton Sub Tonic.

I tried doing the scales, however I couldn’t get anything over a high D, and even that wasn’t all that great.  I’ll have to work.  With GREAT effort I was finally able to get the high F out of the saxophone.  I still can’t do it from the start, I have to just start blowing into the saxophone and working around until I can get the note to come out correctly.  I’m sure it will just  take some practice to get it right.  The key combination isn’t the easier either, so that will take a little getting use to.

I setup a mic stand and a Shure microphone and connected it to my audio recorder to get a better recording than I have in the past.  I then played six different Long Tones, some in the mid range, and a few in the lower registers.  I am putting them online for everyone to hear.  This is how long I can hold the note, and the quality of my tone at this particular stage of my development.  I’m not sure if it’s good or not, however the notes sound fairly steady, and the volume on my mixer shows it at a steady -18 db.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.