[Dolph]

OK, thanks.

[Dolph]

Hi Johnny, I’ve been practising Help Me Make ITTN all evening and think I’m getting there. Question: In bar 43 you perform a glissando (or do you call it a fall-off?) over two octaves from high Bb straight down to the low Bb. I know how to do a glissando, but just over one octave. So I’m OK from middle Bb to low Bb, but how do i get from high Bb to low Bb? Is there a cheat? A shortcut you take from high Bb straight to low Bb?
Cheers,
Dolph
France

[Dolph]

I never noticed that. Shouldn’t be too much of a problem then. Thanks.

[Dolph]

Yes, that’s it Johnny. I like to play along with the song on full volume and pretend it’s me on stage. Unfortunately I can’t expect Hazel O’Connor to record a version on Tenor just for me. If only I had the money like a Russion Oligarch…………..

[Dolph]

Hi Johnny, I just bought your Yakkety Sax and it’s brilliant. I got the backing track and the Tenor sheet music. However, I would like to play along with your rendition to get my phrasing right etc. Could you add the mp3 file of your video to the site for download?
Cheers,
Dolph

[Dolph]

Johnny, it’s been difficult. Maybe it’s me, but I find it a difficult song.
I managed best with B, D, E, F#, A with an additional G#. I don’t know if that makes sense. I agree that the song is in concert A, thus B for my tenor.
I will keep at it.

[Dolph]

Most excellent reply. Thanks for your time. I will give it a go and impress the hell out of the Harley croud !!

[Dolph]

Johnny, you invited feedback in one of your recent e-mails regarding the Killer Blues lessons.
I absolutely love the way you molded the scales into fun exercises that sort of sounded cool too. I’m a big sucker for cool. Appearance over comfort!!
Anyway, from your site I distilled that the most used rock scales are in the keys of (in order of importance, concert): E, A, G, D & B. Thus for Bb sax it would be the keys of F#, B, A, E & C#.
I am assuming that the exercises you published are stored in your computer and you have a handy feature to transpose these exercises into any key you want. Would it be possible to transpose them in the above Bb keys? That would save me a tremendous amount of transposing / hand-writing notes.
I guess the same goes for the “7 Licks”.
I can then practise the exercises in the most used keys and keep them as a reference for when I am trying to “blow-along” a CD track.
Cheers,
Dolph

[Dolph]

I think that one sounds simpler that it actually is !!!
Some time ago I bought the sheet music (for Tenor Sax and for Tenor Sax with Piano) and had a problem with the start note. Both pieces started with a different note: The one for only Tenor started with an F sharp and the one for Tenor plus Piano with an E.
I e-mailed Boots Randolph and he replied that the start note was an E with a long slur to A, and playing in concert G for Piano, so there you go.
However, you need some seriously quick hands to be able to play Yakety Sax properly !!
Cheers,
Dolph

[Dolph]

Thanks Johnny, but I could not eliminate the squeeks. Especially in the lower register I could not make it work. I sold the Guardala and now have a metal Vandoren V16 T75. This works much better for me, maybe because it resembles the Otto Link a bit more.
I am in the process of finding out which reed will work best for me on this one. At the moment I,ve got a whole range to chose from !!
Cheers,
Dolph

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