{"id":43841,"date":"2017-04-27T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=43841"},"modified":"2021-11-23T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:49:54","slug":"michael-brecker-sax-solo-transcription-on-david-letterman-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/michael-brecker-sax-solo-transcription-on-david-letterman-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brecker Sax Solo Transcription on David Letterman Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s another great Michael Brecker tenor sax transcription to check out. \u00a0It&#8217;s a short one of Michael Brecker sitting in with the Paul Shaffer band on the David Letterman show in the 80&#8217;s. \u00a0This transcription was done by Joe Raia who is a local sax player down in Massachusetts and was nice enough to share it on Facebook. \u00a0I actually found the transcription as I\u00a0was cleaning stuff off my computer the other day and asked Joe if it was ok to share here on the site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is classic Michael Brecker playing over the standard Letterman show intro in A7 concert (B7 for tenor saxophone). \u00a0This is a great example of Brecker mixing up the G# blues scale G#BC#DD#F#G# with the B blues scale of BDEFF#AB over B7. \u00a0The G# blues scale which is also called the B Major Blues Scale BC#DD#F#G#B (notice it is the same notes as the G#Blues scale) is a very consonant sound and the only note with a lot of tension is the D which gives it a bluesy sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In measure 5 Michael\u00a0plays a few notes from the\u00a0B Blues scale which gives you\u00a0a little more tension and bluesy sound with the F and D. \u00a0It also introduces the A (b7th) into the line. \u00a0He gives a little taste and then switches back to the G# blues scale until measure 8 where he switches back to B blues scale. \u00a0Measure 9-10 is back to the G# blues scale. \u00a0Measure 11-12 back to B blues again for the unison lick with the band.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Measure 13 until the end is just pure classic Brecker mastery that he was\u00a0known for. Holding out the ending chord? \u00a0Brecker&#8217;s going to crush it with everything he&#8217;s got! \u00a0Love it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-_mEczXCKk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Brecker Sax Solo Transcription on David Letterman Intro\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2017\/Brecker-Letterman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Brecker Sax Solo Transcription on David Letterman Intro Bb<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em>*If you would like to support me here at neffmusic.com, you can do so\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product-category\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support page of my store<\/a> by debit or credit card. \u00a0 Any support is appreciated and will go towards keeping this site running, saxophone reeds, mouthpiece patches, coffee, and towards justifying the many hours I spend on providing free transcriptions to the saxophone community!\u00a0 Thanks,\u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another great Michael Brecker tenor sax transcription to check out. \u00a0It&#8217;s a short one of Michael Brecker sitting in with the Paul Shaffer band on the David Letterman show in the 80&#8217;s. \u00a0This transcription was done by Joe Raia who is a local sax player down in Massachusetts and was nice enough to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":25365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1599,1602,10,1601,35,1600,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-43841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-dave-letterman","9":"tag-intro","10":"tag-jazz-saxophone","11":"tag-letterman-show","12":"tag-michael-brecker","13":"tag-paul-shaffer","14":"tag-tenor-sax","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}