C# major scale on “Mack the Knife”

[Michael Bishop]

😎 Hey Johnny,
When I ordered my Guardala, reeds, ligature, etc this morning from Amazon I ordered a new mic/camera and when it comes in I will upload Mack the Knife–LOVE this song! On the 2nd scale in the song, C# major, on the 5th measure it shows to play C#, A#, followed by an 8th C# note and a quarter C# note. When I watch you play these notes, it sounds like you’re playing the last 2 C# notes as accidentals–C natural notes. Is this correct? (I know the sheet music shows to play the C#, as the scale shows, and that is what we should play) Started your Altissimo course today 🙂

[john]

Great Michael, as for the part in the song you need to be more precise so I can look at it…
what saxophone part are you playing (EB, Bb) whcih page, bar etc
I don’t know what you mean by ther 2nd scale in the song…maybe count the bars.

[Michael Bishop]

I’m going to play this on Tenor Saxophone, on the first page of the sheet music, measures number 38-39. On this part of the song it’s in C# major and shows C#, A#, and 2-C# notes (1 of the C# notes is an 8th and the other is a quarter) When I watch you play these last 2 C# notes, I was wondering if you had played those last 2 C# notes as accidentals on video/C Naturals instead of C# like the sheet music shows here–it sounds really nice that way you played it.

[john]

It’s just a little trick I do …when playing A# just wiggle the notes with your left hand.

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