Hi, welcome back. This is week three tenor saxophone lesson part of the music coach program. Today we're going to be learning the melody that makes up the A section of our song. Now the reason why we call things by a section and B section is in this program, there's going to be two melodies, and two sets of bass notes. Today we're learning the melody for the A section of our song. So the notes we're going to play all come from the a major scale, which is what we've been playing and the notes are C sharp, C sharp, D, E, A, G sharp, F sharp, F sharp, A, G sharp, G sharp, A, G. Sharp, F sharp.

Here's what the melody sounds like all together. Now, because of the melody runs in a circle, sometimes on the backing track, you're going to hear that it sounds like it runs around so we get to the end, but that that so it'll sound like the last note is the same as the first note because it is so because it runs in a circle like that. That's why the C sharp is at the end of the sounds like it's at the end of the melody sometimes. So we're going to add one more thing to our technique toolbox today, which is tonguing, which is tonguing is the way we articulate the notes. And simply put articulation is just the way we separate the sound. A good way to think about this is, if you imagine a tap running, articulation is like sometimes turning the water on and off completely.

And sometimes it's like running your hand underneath the water. So when we do soft tonguing, which is similar to making the sound, da da, da, da da like that, that's like running your hand under the water, and hard tonguing where the sound completely stops and there's a little space is like turning the tap on and off and completely stopping the water, and that's more of a toss sound. So longer, slower tonguing is just flicking the tip of the read very gently with your tongue, but allowing the air to really pass through and harder. tonguing is harder against the read and stops the sound completely for a little bit of space. For this melody, you're going to be working on long tongue so the DOS sound is going to be hard to play. So we'll see in the practice video