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The Sea Chanty Tune

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Category : Learning to play the Saxophone

Well it took me a week to just to get the entire tune to come out right at all.  The issues I ended up having is while recording the song I would either hit the wrong note (which is me just being unsure of where the key is on the saxophone), or if I did hit the correct note, I would do something wrong in my breathing which would cause the note to either squeak or squawk or some other horrible sound.  Both were unacceptable to me, which is why I kept trying.  Then I would just tire out and couldn’t play at all, so I would have to stop for the day.  I finally got through the song today, however listening to it over again it is far from perfect, however technically I hit all the right notes.  I will be spending most of my time now on long tones.  I just wanted to get a few tunes down to hear how I was at the start (not very good).  I hope that after a few more months I can play the song again and it will sound much better.  I will re-post it at that time.  For the weekend I plan on spending plenty of time with breathing exercises and long tones.  My next post will be next week, and I’ll go over what happened and if I noticed any improvements or not.  Comments are always welcome on the Sea Chanty song, you can hear it on the Music page.

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I like it! It made me smile :)

I prefer to listen to this rather than Kenny G.

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