Saxophone Scale Exercises: A Major

Video Transcript

"O'kay I am going to go over the A major scale now. We are going up in difficulty as far as sharps and flats. The A major scale has three sharps in it, F sharp, C sharp, and G sharp and I will just go ahead and walk you through the fingerings. First of all we are going to do of all we are going to do one octave of the A major scale starting on A with your two fingers, A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, A, coming back down, A, G sharp, F sharp, E, D, C sharp, B, A. Pretty simple and pretty straightforward. I am going to demonstrate playing it using 16th notes. Pretty straightforward. It is really important to get your scales down so you will know the fundamentals and you will want to have these memorized. That is the A major scale."