Take My Breath Away on tenor sax

[Anonymous]

woa – no way would i get in that!
The smallest passenger plane i ever flew in was from Trinidad to Tobago.
When it revved up its engines before hurtling down the run way,
it shook that badly i thought the whole plane was going to fall apart.

Cool video & great playing – thanks for sharing!!

[john]

wow cool vid thanks William.
But there is a modulation about 3/4 way thru the tune and your sax music did not.

[William Cingolani]

Thanks Johnny. The sax music is in B flat all the way to the end. I went back and listened to the backing and I think I heard the key change. Maybe from B flat to B. My musical ear is not so in tune. I now have to search for the actual sheet music. Gonna be a fun search. Thanks again for pointing out the modulation. I had to look on the web what a “modulation” is. Concert wise the backing track should be in A flat If my sax music is in B flat, so maybe the key change is A flat to A. I’ll look into it.

[Michael]

Hi Williamn,
Very cool 🙂 Yeah, that stuff is fun to learn, all these things we have to deal with 🙂 Modulation is just when a song changes from one key to another. Around 3/4 way it sounded like it went up 1 semi tone. The song I think is in Ab and you’re playing in Bb, so when it modulates it would go from Ab to B, so for Tenor that would be going from playing in Bb to C–if it did only go up 1 semi tone when it modulated; that’s what it sounds like it did. Going up 1 semi-tone is what happens 90% of the time, there’s a few exceptions. Great stuff William 🙂

[William Cingolani]

Thanks Michael. I do have some music that is written with a simi tone modulation written into the sheet music. E.g. my Green Green Grass sheet music, and some others. Thanks for the comments.

[Michael]

Hey William, just wanted to say if you post anything here on Johnny’s site and I don’t around to seeing it as quickly as I should, I don’t ever mean to not see it–same thing goes with any of the awesome Members here on Johnny’s site who upload videos. Since I started working with a Pro player every Monday/what he has me learning and the Moondance project he gave me to have done by April 25th, plus getting with the Blues Society every Friday or Saturday and the stuff I do in the week–I think you can understand that I’m busy LOL You’re on my friend list on facebook, all you have to do is look at my homepage, read what’s going on every week, and you see quickly that I’m just really busy these days..but it’s a good busy 🙂 I made sure to subscribe to your channel on youtube so I don’t miss anything you do, I get notified anytime you upload anything. Some members have asked me to check some stuff out and I get busy, forget to look at it, etc.. I don’t ever want anyone here thinking I don’t wanna see their uploads and post a comment in the way of encouragement; I’m just busy right now. I got to go look at “St.Louis Blues” on youtube in a few minutes that a member asked me to check out, haven’t gotten around to that yet LOL Our member Wayne and Myself were working on a drumming/Alto Sax duet of the song “Give Me One Reason” and it’s all ready, was just waiting to get my mics/interface first and I ordered those this morning. There were a couple of members wanting to do a Blues duet with me and I’m all for it for sure, but I got to finish my project with Wayne first; so yeah I got a lot going on right now.
Keep up the great stuff William, you make cool videos! 🙂

[john]

William, if you send me the sheet I’ll have a look at it.

[Anonymous]

Hi William, I had a look yesterday and the tune does have four flats Ab, so that would be Bb for the Tenor and F for the Alto – lucky me!

I’ve nearly finished transposing a C Major version I found for piano, I’ll try it later today on my Alto.

I’m also going to see about that Mac Book Pro today! Cheers

[john]

Ok William I’ve had a look at the music you sent me…
It’s in the original key of Ab. Your music is correct in that it’s in Bb since you’re playing tenor. All good so far.
Near the end on the 2nd last staff line going into the 2 repeat boxes, the 2nd repeat has a DC al Coda which means you go to the very top again, it’s there that you modulate up a half-tone. So what I suggest you do is on a seperate sheet transpose the verse up to B major from Bb major.
This is a really easy transposition to do because it means you can simply write all the notes as they are and change the key signature. So, instaed of the key signature having 2 flats it will have 5 sharps. This will mean all those notes will now be sharp; the Bb will be a B natural, the F will be F# the A will be A# etc.
Does this make sense? If you do this and then record it again it will match perfectly to your backing track.

[William Cingolani]

Thanks Johnny
Makes sense.I know how to transpose. B C# D# E F# G# A# B. I’ll record it again making the proper key change to B major.Right now I’m working on some latin music with no backing tracks, songs like “HEY” and “Cuando Se Quiere de Veras” and others, and some Dixieland. I’ll get back to “Take my Breath Away”.

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