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Playing alto sax with guitar help?
If my friend is playing an A major scale on his guitar, and I m trying to do improve on my saxophone, what key do I use for my improve? Do I just base it on the concert A major scale? Sorry I know a lot about wind instruments, but not much about string, and even less about playing win with string. If anyone can help that would be great!
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- MamiankaLv 74 years ago
Also sax is a transposing instrument. Built in Eb. So to balance that when playing with NON-transposing instrument,s you have to add 3 sharps. Or subtract 3 flat (or - do the math - whatever combination moves you in the sharp *direction*) to match. A has 3 sharps. SIX sharps for you - the key of F# major!!!! DANG! Make THEM move to something that works for YOU as well. If they are in F - you are in D. (Get it? You lost one flat, added 2 sharps - always looking to move THREE DEGREES into, or towards, sharp territory.) If they are in Eb (not always a welcome key for student guitarists . . ) then you are in C. They are in C - you are in A (3 sharps.). You can make a chart on paper for yourself in 5 minutes.
BTW - there is a GREAT website and podcast called tenminutejazzlessons.com. It will help you with ALL improv for popular music. A few minutes of teaching- you shut it off and go practice the thing they taught you - you come back and turn the thing back on and you JAM with their tracks, using what you learned. I LOVE THIS THING! I send all my students there, who want to slowly, in private, learn how to improv.
Good luck with this - it takes time, but this podcast will be a HUGE help.
- Anonymous4 years ago
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