Not everyone watching my videos is comfortable with English, so I thought I should write the video text so that people can use google translate. š
ā0:00Ā “One of the things I do to study music or practice is to play by earā¦ and that puts me in contact with music in a very different way than reading music or playing by memory or other ways. I donāt have “perfect pitch”, which will become clear as you watch, but I do enough of this that Iām pretty comfortable doing this. I do different things when I play by ear, this time Iām just playing the notes from the saxophone after I hear them. Iāve heard this recording before, but not played along like this”.
2:13Ā “ā¦so thatās all the way through the melodyā¦ Now starts the improvising, the jazz solo partā¦”
5:29Ā “thanks for listening, I hope this is fun and helpful for musicians out thereā. š
Song: āI want to be Happyā by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar. Stan Getz (tenor sax) with Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar) and Ray Brown (bass).