Such a gem! And to hear you call it pop perfection makes me realize my sax-sensibility might not be as far off as I thought. Great teaching on this one, Jamie.
Jamie, you are the Boss teacher! Thank, you. Didn't know Ernest IS the awesome alto'ist on this one, too. Surprised? No, not really. Ernie, as a young saxman, had recorded a few Pop, R'n'B and Funk tunes on tenor and alto saxophones as well as on flute - his being an early disciple of King Curtis (1934-1971), Mr. Altissimo of the '60's and very early 1970's Jamie, you always nail these (more-often-than-not) intricate solos with tonal clarity, accuracy and ease. Thanks, bro'!
Thank you for shining some light on an unsung hero of mine and choosing a challenging (what key on alto was this solo?) example to learn from. Beautiful job restating it on alto; great Chris Cross classic tune that helped make the movie (written in part while during a holding pattern over JFK as I recall "when you get caught between the moon and New York City...") and yes Ernie is amazing and an outstanding human being. From his 60's solo with the Buddy Rich Big Band on the worlds best arrangement of Love for Sale, to this pop legend solo you'ver captured so well on alto, to dueling tenors with Pete Christlieb on the Tonight Show in '84 over the tune "Sax Alley" that Johnny called "world class saxophone playing". Great work.
I'd completely forgotten about Arthur's Theme. I used to play that in a function band donkey's years ago. Great solo, prompted me to buy a few Ernie Watts records at the time.
Loved the film and the sax theme is just so well thought out and written too !!! Amazing and very technical too ….. one of those ones that sounds straightforward but when you dig in it’s a tough one!!!! Can’t wait to get to it !
That was an amazing video! The fingering along with the traveling highlight....and that tone! I am far away from that level, but it all picked my spirit up. Will have to do the slowing down.... a lot..ha, 'cause I'm old and (very) slow- just bit by bit. But having the pdf download, even if I can get a few bits will be dynamite. Not only can you blow, you can show what ya need to know. You are a true professor of the 🎷. The internet was made for amazing videos like this!!!! Radio free (golden) saxophone!! Keep going, amazing tutorial that screamed. This is like oxygen for the world!! And no out-takes...... Thanks!!! God bless!
This is great! I love that song and the original show. Dudley Moore was great. I wrote an arrangement of this years ago over the "All The Things You Are" changes. It fits perfectly and adds poignancy to the melody.
Finally! you don't know how long i've been waiting for this one :D I remember the day i first heard this song... it was when i stayed over at my grandparent's house, i was in the car with my granddad billy and this song came on the radio, the sax solo took me by surprise and now it really makes me wanna learn to play sax! hoping to see China in Your Hand at some point in the future! 💖💖
i can't play the saxophone BUT i would love to be able to play this on the piano keyboard ! thanks for showing me what the actual notes are ! this really helps me out :)
Love that you put that list together of other Hall of Fame Sax Solos. What a treasure trove! Didn't realize you did so many! BTW - I use more bis and 1-5 A#s than you do on this one, but we both use the same Rascher altissimo A (2-3). Love how close you sound to Ernie Watts on this one. It's those nuances that really make this one sing. Aldo Bertolino posted a transcript on RUclips back in 2021-01-24 that contains some more details that may or may not be there, like the G#-A altissimo, which may be more a player thing than a mechanical thing. I really look forward to Sax Sundays!
thank you so much for this ! you are so kind ! i want to transpose this to piano so that i can transcribe the the exact same solo for piano for a piano solo but still sound like the original record ! :)
I'd believe that Ernie Watts did this in one take - he's just that good! look at all the people he's played for - from Frank Zappa to the Tonight Show Band under Doc Severinsin.
Great video. I always loved this solo. This helps with my altissimo practice. You are one of the best sax teachers on the planet. On another note, did you happen to see the young man saxophonist Avery Dixon on America's Got Talent, win Terry Crews' golden buzzer?
Yeah, he’s pretty awesome and has good stage presence as well. I kept rewinding and watching it over again until I heard my wife sighing. His playing reminds me of Eric Darius. Love his sax sound.
Hi I’d say I am a beginner-intermediate player. I really want to play this solo but I have been trying to play the altissimo notes and I can’t get them out. I have practiced overtones but I can only get one octave above the home note. Any tips? I feel like I have tried everything. It seems I have watched like every altissimo video on RUclips. Anyway I can play the rest of the solo apart from those notes so far. Your video is great! (Even though I can’t play it)I will keep practicing and trying and maybe sometime I will be able to play it. Also I’m not familiar with this tonguing style. It seems you slur some notes and half tongue others I don’t understand that as well. But thanks as always. 😀🎷
Jamie’s video really helps to understand the meat of altissimo and will get you along your way. I started sax a year ago and dealing with the pandemic situation found I had a lot of time on my hands so would play sax for hours and hours every day. By June I figured I was far enough along to start learning altissimo (jumped the gun on that one, I’d say). On the alto I was told that altissimo G is the hardest note to play so every day I would dedicate time to trying to get that note out. I refused to learn any other note until I could get G out consistently. Took a couple of weeks before I could get it out about 50% of the time. Then I learned the rest of the notes. Have to say the G was by far the hardest. The rest of them came along quickly. But have to say I’ve been at it for a year now and although I’m pretty decent at my altissimo notes, I still need to concentrate my efforts to play them with relative ease. It’s a work in progress and you have to be dedicated to it when you start. Don’t give up, you’ll get them.
I was a bit disappointed by Ernie Watts for going on about how he's so good, good enough to play giant steps and then has to 'tone it down' for pop music. Giant steps is awful as a music track, it's only good as a technique and skill piece. Pretty much anyone can hum arthurs theme, giant steps is just nonsense compared to that. Pointless noodling, even if it is over actual progressions and key changes.
@@GetYourSaxTogether No, I think I'm as close to musical objectivism as possible on that one. If you ever claimed that you hum the saxophone part of giant steps in any situation of your life other than pertaining to giant steps as a piece (like performing it, or keeping it in your mind) then I will NOT believe you. As if anyone goes oodleedeedleeoddledeedleblueybblueydeedlebleedledtweedledeedleheedle for three minutes for fun...no chance.
Ernie Watts! Great player. He plays tenor sax like it's a flute - no resistance. Great model to approach. Thanks for this!
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Didn’t know Watts did this. Beautiful!
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Such a gem! And to hear you call it pop perfection makes me realize my sax-sensibility might not be as far off as I thought. Great teaching on this one, Jamie.
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Bravo for the alto! So much of the time in pop music...it's the tenor.
True!
I've never seen this approach by including the fingerings. you've just hit god mode in teaching. fkn legend!
coffee incoming!
Brilliant!! And thanks for the coffee! 🙏🏻
you know what's good my man. you know what we wanna play babby!
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Excellent. Enie Watts was in my class at Berklee.
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Yesssss finally I have been waiting on this since I was born, thank you Sir Anderson, you are the greatest
Wow. You’re so welcome!!!
Great.... you have no idea how long I was wanting for it.
Awesome!
Maestro agradezco el tiempo vida que nos regalas ., bendiciones desde México
Gracias mi amor!
Jamie, you are the Boss teacher! Thank, you.
Didn't know Ernest IS the awesome alto'ist on this one, too.
Surprised?
No, not really. Ernie, as a young saxman, had recorded a few Pop, R'n'B and Funk tunes on tenor and alto saxophones as well as on flute - his being an early disciple of King Curtis (1934-1971), Mr. Altissimo of the '60's and very early 1970's
Jamie, you always nail these (more-often-than-not) intricate solos with tonal clarity, accuracy and ease.
Thanks, bro'!
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Thank you for shining some light on an unsung hero of mine and choosing a challenging (what key on alto was this solo?) example to learn from. Beautiful job restating it on alto; great Chris Cross classic tune that helped make the movie (written in part while during a holding pattern over JFK as I recall "when you get caught between the moon and New York City...") and yes Ernie is amazing and an outstanding human being. From his 60's solo with the Buddy Rich Big Band on the worlds best arrangement of Love for Sale, to this pop legend solo you'ver captured so well on alto, to dueling tenors with Pete Christlieb on the Tonight Show in '84 over the tune "Sax Alley" that Johnny called "world class saxophone playing". Great work.
In the inner circle of course I interviewed him for a whole 90 minutes. So good.
I'd completely forgotten about Arthur's Theme. I used to play that in a function band donkey's years ago. Great solo, prompted me to buy a few Ernie Watts records at the time.
Nice! 👌🏻
Loved the film and the sax theme is just so well thought out and written too !!! Amazing and very technical too ….. one of those ones that sounds straightforward but when you dig in it’s a tough one!!!! Can’t wait to get to it !
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Brilliant, thank you Jamie. I had no idea that one could adjust playback speed until today ✅🎷🙏
Happy to help!
Thank you for this beautiful solo.
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
That was an amazing video! The fingering along with the traveling highlight....and that tone! I am far away from that level, but it all picked my spirit up. Will have to do the slowing down.... a lot..ha, 'cause I'm old and (very) slow- just bit by bit. But having the pdf download, even if I can get a few bits will be dynamite. Not only can you blow, you can show what ya need to know. You are a true professor of the 🎷. The internet was made for amazing videos like this!!!! Radio free (golden) saxophone!! Keep going, amazing tutorial that screamed. This is like oxygen for the world!! And no out-takes......
Thanks!!! God bless!
What a lovely comment, thanks so much 🙏🏻
🎷☕Thank, you.....There is no one in my country who shares such beautiful things :)
Thanks for listening 🙏
Awesome video. Thanks.
Anytime 😊
Another great classic! Brilliantly explained and done, sir!
Thank you kindly!
So amazingly HELPFUL!!!! GREAT WORK!!! Beautiful piece of music!!! Thank you!!!!
You’re welcome!
This is great! I love that song and the original show. Dudley Moore was great.
I wrote an arrangement of this years ago over the "All The Things You Are" changes. It fits perfectly and adds poignancy to the melody.
Cool!
Thank you for this beautiful solo. It's brilliant and so well thought by one of the best teachers ever.....!👍🎷☕
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally! you don't know how long i've been waiting for this one :D
I remember the day i first heard this song... it was when i stayed over at my grandparent's house, i was in the car with my granddad billy and this song came on the radio, the sax solo took me by surprise and now it really makes me wanna learn to play sax!
hoping to see China in Your Hand at some point in the future! 💖💖
Thanks William! Glad you enjoyed this.
Thank you so much! Crushed it!
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i can't play the saxophone BUT i would love to be able to play this on the piano keyboard ! thanks for showing me what the actual notes are ! this really helps me out :)
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Super Jamie... Ernie Watts is truly amazing 👍👍
Couldn't agree more!
Love that you put that list together of other Hall of Fame Sax Solos. What a treasure trove! Didn't realize you did so many! BTW - I use more bis and 1-5 A#s than you do on this one, but we both use the same Rascher altissimo A (2-3). Love how close you sound to Ernie Watts on this one. It's those nuances that really make this one sing. Aldo Bertolino posted a transcript on RUclips back in 2021-01-24 that contains some more details that may or may not be there, like the G#-A altissimo, which may be more a player thing than a mechanical thing. I really look forward to Sax Sundays!
Great comment. Thanks as always Bob. 🙏🏻
Now i need a Sax....
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Perfect I was looking for it for a long time, excellent work!!!
Glad you like it!
Gracias!!!
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Brilliant as usual....
Thanks 🙏
That's great song Mr Anderson! Thanks for that lesson.
My pleasure!
Meu amigo, você é um saxofonista extraordinário, perfeito... Deus te abençoe grandemente... Gilvan de São Paulo Brasil.
Obrigado! 🙏
Great video! Fabulous song! Thanks, Jamie. 😎🎷🎷❤️
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thank you so much for this ! you are so kind ! i want to transpose this to piano so that i can transcribe the the exact same solo for piano for a piano solo but still sound like the original record ! :)
You're very welcome!
Yes! Yes!
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I'd believe that Ernie Watts did this in one take - he's just that good! look at all the people he's played for - from Frank Zappa to the Tonight Show Band under Doc Severinsin.
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You've got an audacious sound😎
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Amazing! Thanks Jamie! 🙏🏻🎶🎷
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Love this thankyou jxx
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gracias
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hi jamie! have you recorded the whole song also? if so, is it available somewhere? you sound amazing on the solo!!!
Nah, just the solo!
Great video. I always loved this solo. This helps with my altissimo practice. You are one of the best sax teachers on the planet. On another note, did you happen to see the young man saxophonist Avery Dixon on America's Got Talent, win Terry Crews' golden buzzer?
I’ll check it out.
Yeah, he’s pretty awesome and has good stage presence as well. I kept rewinding and watching it over again until I heard my wife sighing. His playing reminds me of Eric Darius. Love his sax sound.
Awesome I don’t think I’m quite up to this yet 🤣🤣🤣
That's why we practice! 😉
I do and I’m awesome on my keyboard and singing lol I only started learning sax 6 months ago 🤣
WOW How i wish i could do it the same..
Practice practice practice! 😁
@@GetYourSaxTogether thank you so much Sir..
Get your free sheet music pdf for Arthur’s Theme (including note names) here➡️www.getyoursaxtogether.com/arthur
Hi I’d say I am a beginner-intermediate player. I really want to play this solo but I have been trying to play the altissimo notes and I can’t get them out. I have practiced overtones but I can only get one octave above the home note. Any tips? I feel like I have tried everything. It seems I have watched like every altissimo video on RUclips. Anyway I can play the rest of the solo apart from those notes so far. Your video is great! (Even though I can’t play it)I will keep practicing and trying and maybe sometime I will be able to play it. Also I’m not familiar with this tonguing style. It seems you slur some notes and half tongue others I don’t understand that as well. But thanks as always. 😀🎷
Have you watched MY altissimo video? ruclips.net/video/kURzx_fZ6Ho/видео.html
Jamie’s video really helps to understand the meat of altissimo and will get you along your way. I started sax a year ago and dealing with the pandemic situation found I had a lot of time on my hands so would play sax for hours and hours every day. By June I figured I was far enough along to start learning altissimo (jumped the gun on that one, I’d say). On the alto I was told that altissimo G is the hardest note to play so every day I would dedicate time to trying to get that note out. I refused to learn any other note until I could get G out consistently. Took a couple of weeks before I could get it out about 50% of the time. Then I learned the rest of the notes. Have to say the G was by far the hardest. The rest of them came along quickly. But have to say I’ve been at it for a year now and although I’m pretty decent at my altissimo notes, I still need to concentrate my efforts to play them with relative ease. It’s a work in progress and you have to be dedicated to it when you start. Don’t give up, you’ll get them.
Thank you very much for your videos, can you make us a similar video with this beautiful music by David Sanborn *Maputo*
I'm adding Maputo to the list of viewer recommendations. Thanks!
Thank you very much 🎷 👍
Hi @get your sax together. Do you have the lesson for the solo of I will always love you? (even in your payable courses)
It’s on my 80s sax compilation and you can get the pdf there. No dedicated tutorial yet though.
Nice!
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Hey nice video. Any chance you have the solo for Billy Joel Just the Way you are???
It's here > ruclips.net/video/XDBDR5uIgn8/видео.html
@@GetYourSaxTogether thank you thank you thank you.
Wow wow w🤩🤩ow 😝😝
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Hi Sir can you share unto us also solo music sheet for CALL ME by Dennis Deyoung.. thanks much
We will add this song to the list of viewer recommendations. Thanks!
in what key is your saxophone solo for this version ?
It kind of goes round the houses with the chords. You’ll be able to find the chords online easy enough I think. 👍🏻
@@GetYourSaxTogether ok thanks ! :)
NICE SOUND,WHAT IS THE BRAND OF YOU ALTO SAX?
Thank you! My complete setup > www.getyoursaxtogether.com/gearlist
Hi, I’m struggling with A altissimo, any recommendations master?
Check out my altissimo videos 👍
I was a bit disappointed by Ernie Watts for going on about how he's so good, good enough to play giant steps and then has to 'tone it down' for pop music.
Giant steps is awful as a music track, it's only good as a technique and skill piece. Pretty much anyone can hum arthurs theme, giant steps is just nonsense compared to that. Pointless noodling, even if it is over actual progressions and key changes.
To each his/her/their own!
@@GetYourSaxTogether No, I think I'm as close to musical objectivism as possible on that one. If you ever claimed that you hum the saxophone part of giant steps in any situation of your life other than pertaining to giant steps as a piece (like performing it, or keeping it in your mind) then I will NOT believe you.
As if anyone goes oodleedeedleeoddledeedleblueybblueydeedlebleedledtweedledeedleheedle for three minutes for fun...no chance.
@@dorklymorkly3290 I can see you’ve already made your mind up, so let’s leave it there.
absolut super!
Thanks