How to play the ARTHUR'S THEME sax solo (by Christopher Cross

How to play the ARTHUR'S THEME sax solo (by Christopher Cross - Ernie Watts solo)

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In this video you'll learn how to play Ernie Watts' incredible alto sax solo on Arthur's Theme by Christopher Cross. There's full note names and fingerings for both alto and tenor sax, although the tenor notes are down the octave in case you're not an altissimo demon!
Chapters
00:00 Arthur's Theme
00:29 Introduction and Welcome
00:45 Theme Music
00:52 About Arthur's Theme
02:28 About Playing Arthur's Theme
03:23 Tips for slowing down KZfaq playback
04:04 Main Performance
04:46 Backing Track
05:29 Outtro
06:50 End Music & Bloopers
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@vincescuderi 2 жыл бұрын

Ernie Watts! Great player. He plays tenor sax like it's a flute - no resistance. Great model to approach. Thanks for this!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@miyakawajun9711 2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t know Watts did this. Beautiful!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@raspyni 2 жыл бұрын

Such a gem! And to hear you call it pop perfection makes me realize my sax-sensibility might not be as far off as I thought. Great teaching on this one, Jamie.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@PonderousProse Жыл бұрын

Bravo for the alto! So much of the time in pop music...it's the tenor.

@GetYourSaxTogether Жыл бұрын

True!

@pand0rium235 2 жыл бұрын

I've never seen this approach by including the fingerings. you've just hit god mode in teaching. fkn legend! coffee incoming!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!! And thanks for the coffee! 🙏🏻

@jacintoroymendoza7903 8 ай бұрын

you know what's good my man. you know what we wanna play babby!

@GetYourSaxTogether 8 ай бұрын

👍

@scottraustin 2 күн бұрын

Thank you for shining some light on an unsung hero of mine and choosing a challenging (what key on alto was this solo?) example to learn from. Beautiful job restating it on alto; great Chris Cross classic tune that helped make the movie (written in part while during a holding pattern over JFK as I recall "when you get caught between the moon and New York City...") and yes Ernie is amazing and an outstanding human being. From his 60's solo with the Buddy Rich Big Band on the worlds best arrangement of Love for Sale, to this pop legend solo you'ver captured so well on alto, to dueling tenors with Pete Christlieb on the Tonight Show in '84 over the tune "Sax Alley" that Johnny called "world class saxophone playing". Great work.

@wyndhleodumegwu253 2 жыл бұрын

Jamie, you are the Boss teacher! Thank, you. Didn't know Ernest IS the awesome alto'ist on this one, too. Surprised? No, not really. Ernie, as a young saxman, had recorded a few Pop, R'n'B and Funk tunes on tenor and alto saxophones as well as on flute - his being an early disciple of King Curtis (1934-1971), Mr. Altissimo of the '60's and very early 1970's Jamie, you always nail these (more-often-than-not) intricate solos with tonal clarity, accuracy and ease. Thanks, bro'!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@rafaelesquivelruiz2288 2 жыл бұрын

Maestro agradezco el tiempo vida que nos regalas ., bendiciones desde México

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias mi amor!

@Bossa_Lounge 2 жыл бұрын

Great.... you have no idea how long I was wanting for it.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@markbro396 2 жыл бұрын

Yesssss finally I have been waiting on this since I was born, thank you Sir Anderson, you are the greatest

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. You’re so welcome!!!

@otmsnp 2 жыл бұрын

🎷☕Thank, you.....There is no one in my country who shares such beautiful things :)

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening 🙏

@martyg374 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Enie Watts was in my class at Berklee.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@concernedoldandwisepatriot2650 2 жыл бұрын

That was an amazing video! The fingering along with the traveling highlight....and that tone! I am far away from that level, but it all picked my spirit up. Will have to do the slowing down.... a lot..ha, 'cause I'm old and (very) slow- just bit by bit. But having the pdf download, even if I can get a few bits will be dynamite. Not only can you blow, you can show what ya need to know. You are a true professor of the 🎷. The internet was made for amazing videos like this!!!! Radio free (golden) saxophone!! Keep going, amazing tutorial that screamed. This is like oxygen for the world!! And no out-takes...... Thanks!!! God bless!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

What a lovely comment, thanks so much 🙏🏻

@oldreedguy 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you Jamie. I had no idea that one could adjust playback speed until today ✅🎷🙏

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@Islendingar 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the film and the sax theme is just so well thought out and written too !!! Amazing and very technical too ….. one of those ones that sounds straightforward but when you dig in it’s a tough one!!!! Can’t wait to get to it !

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@jonathangunter6118 2 жыл бұрын

So amazingly HELPFUL!!!! GREAT WORK!!! Beautiful piece of music!!! Thank you!!!!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@markussax1412 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful solo. It's brilliant and so well thought by one of the best teachers ever.....!👍🎷☕

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@viper1320 2 жыл бұрын

Another great classic! Brilliantly explained and done, sir!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@HeathWatts 2 жыл бұрын

This is great! I love that song and the original show. Dudley Moore was great. I wrote an arrangement of this years ago over the "All The Things You Are" changes. It fits perfectly and adds poignancy to the melody.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@vincita51 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful solo.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻

@KeeperOfPoops 2 жыл бұрын

Finally! you don't know how long i've been waiting for this one :D I remember the day i first heard this song... it was when i stayed over at my grandparent's house, i was in the car with my granddad billy and this song came on the radio, the sax solo took me by surprise and now it really makes me wanna learn to play sax! hoping to see China in Your Hand at some point in the future! 💖💖

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks William! Glad you enjoyed this.

@rubyyenma3520 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect I was looking for it for a long time, excellent work!!!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@Learning2Sax 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Thanks.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Anytime 😊

@gangofgreenhorns2672 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Crushed it!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@jamiedanielus 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant as usual....

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@3107197000 2 жыл бұрын

Super Jamie... Ernie Watts is truly amazing 👍👍

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@sabrinashea198 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Fabulous song! Thanks, Jamie. 😎🎷🎷❤️

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@pavelpatsenkov 2 жыл бұрын

That's great song Mr Anderson! Thanks for that lesson.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@MrPittelkow 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thanks Jamie! 🙏🏻🎶🎷

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@juliehodges7935 2 жыл бұрын

Love this thankyou jxx

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@keeshea6718 8 ай бұрын

hi jamie! have you recorded the whole song also? if so, is it available somewhere? you sound amazing on the solo!!!

@GetYourSaxTogether 8 ай бұрын

Nah, just the solo!

@bobpremecz5429 2 жыл бұрын

Love that you put that list together of other Hall of Fame Sax Solos. What a treasure trove! Didn't realize you did so many! BTW - I use more bis and 1-5 A#s than you do on this one, but we both use the same Rascher altissimo A (2-3). Love how close you sound to Ernie Watts on this one. It's those nuances that really make this one sing. Aldo Bertolino posted a transcript on KZfaq back in 2021-01-24 that contains some more details that may or may not be there, like the G#-A altissimo, which may be more a player thing than a mechanical thing. I really look forward to Sax Sundays!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Great comment. Thanks as always Bob. 🙏🏻

@ryanmcdonald2027 2 жыл бұрын

i can't play the saxophone BUT i would love to be able to play this on the piano keyboard ! thanks for showing me what the actual notes are ! this really helps me out :)

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

@JuanDSolanoZ 3 ай бұрын

Now i need a Sax....

@GetYourSaxTogether 3 ай бұрын

🙏🏻

@gilmac415 2 жыл бұрын

Meu amigo, você é um saxofonista extraordinário, perfeito... Deus te abençoe grandemente... Gilvan de São Paulo Brasil.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Obrigado! 🙏

@pdqmusic3873 2 жыл бұрын

I'd believe that Ernie Watts did this in one take - he's just that good! look at all the people he's played for - from Frank Zappa to the Tonight Show Band under Doc Severinsin.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@israelayola9287 5 ай бұрын

Gracias!!!

@GetYourSaxTogether 5 ай бұрын

🙏🏻

@richprice5609 2 жыл бұрын

You've got an audacious sound😎

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@pauloprieto5709 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Yes!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@bossgroove 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@ryanmcdonald2027 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for this ! you are so kind ! i want to transpose this to piano so that i can transcribe the the exact same solo for piano for a piano solo but still sound like the original record ! :)

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Get your free sheet music pdf for Arthur’s Theme (including note names) here➡️www.getyoursaxtogether.com/arthur

@patrickshea5596 2 жыл бұрын

Hi I’d say I am a beginner-intermediate player. I really want to play this solo but I have been trying to play the altissimo notes and I can’t get them out. I have practiced overtones but I can only get one octave above the home note. Any tips? I feel like I have tried everything. It seems I have watched like every altissimo video on KZfaq. Anyway I can play the rest of the solo apart from those notes so far. Your video is great! (Even though I can’t play it)I will keep practicing and trying and maybe sometime I will be able to play it. Also I’m not familiar with this tonguing style. It seems you slur some notes and half tongue others I don’t understand that as well. But thanks as always. 😀🎷

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Have you watched MY altissimo video? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obuCrduQy8CaeKM.html

@robfairbrother3014 2 жыл бұрын

Jamie’s video really helps to understand the meat of altissimo and will get you along your way. I started sax a year ago and dealing with the pandemic situation found I had a lot of time on my hands so would play sax for hours and hours every day. By June I figured I was far enough along to start learning altissimo (jumped the gun on that one, I’d say). On the alto I was told that altissimo G is the hardest note to play so every day I would dedicate time to trying to get that note out. I refused to learn any other note until I could get G out consistently. Took a couple of weeks before I could get it out about 50% of the time. Then I learned the rest of the notes. Have to say the G was by far the hardest. The rest of them came along quickly. But have to say I’ve been at it for a year now and although I’m pretty decent at my altissimo notes, I still need to concentrate my efforts to play them with relative ease. It’s a work in progress and you have to be dedicated to it when you start. Don’t give up, you’ll get them.

@samitroy5001 2 жыл бұрын

Wow wow w🤩🤩ow 😝😝

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@MSmith7777 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I always loved this solo. This helps with my altissimo practice. You are one of the best sax teachers on the planet. On another note, did you happen to see the young man saxophonist Avery Dixon on America's Got Talent, win Terry Crews' golden buzzer?

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll check it out.

@robfairbrother3014 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he’s pretty awesome and has good stage presence as well. I kept rewinding and watching it over again until I heard my wife sighing. His playing reminds me of Eric Darius. Love his sax sound.

@jbrainsart6534 2 ай бұрын

Hi @get your sax together. Do you have the lesson for the solo of I will always love you? (even in your payable courses)

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 ай бұрын

It’s on my 80s sax compilation and you can get the pdf there. No dedicated tutorial yet though.

@spidermansmum 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome I don’t think I’m quite up to this yet 🤣🤣🤣

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

That's why we practice! 😉

@spidermansmum 2 жыл бұрын

I do and I’m awesome on my keyboard and singing lol I only started learning sax 6 months ago 🤣

@xianreiss 5 ай бұрын

Hey nice video. Any chance you have the solo for Billy Joel Just the Way you are???

@GetYourSaxTogether 5 ай бұрын

It's here > kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqpyd7Vm2q_Lnmw.html

@xianreiss 5 ай бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether thank you thank you thank you.

@reptirom 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your videos, can you make us a similar video with this beautiful music by David Sanborn *Maputo*

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

I'm adding Maputo to the list of viewer recommendations. Thanks!

@reptirom 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 🎷 👍

@agustinh.sardidojr7569 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Sir can you share unto us also solo music sheet for CALL ME by Dennis Deyoung.. thanks much

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

We will add this song to the list of viewer recommendations. Thanks!

@FunkOsax 2 жыл бұрын

I'd completely forgotten about Arthur's Theme. I used to play that in a function band donkey's years ago. Great solo, prompted me to buy a few Ernie Watts records at the time.

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! 👌🏻

@agustinh.sardidojr7569 2 жыл бұрын

WOW How i wish i could do it the same..

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

Practice practice practice! 😁

@agustinh.sardidojr7569 2 жыл бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether thank you so much Sir..

@Secret-ls4kv 15 күн бұрын

Hi, I’m struggling with A altissimo, any recommendations master?

@GetYourSaxTogether 15 күн бұрын

Check out my altissimo videos 👍

@ryanmcdonald2027 2 жыл бұрын

in what key is your saxophone solo for this version ?

@GetYourSaxTogether 2 жыл бұрын

It kind of goes round the houses with the chords. You’ll be able to find the chords online easy enough I think. 👍🏻

@ryanmcdonald2027 2 жыл бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether ok thanks ! :)

@dorklymorkly3290 Жыл бұрын

I was a bit disappointed by Ernie Watts for going on about how he's so good, good enough to play giant steps and then has to 'tone it down' for pop music. Giant steps is awful as a music track, it's only good as a technique and skill piece. Pretty much anyone can hum arthurs theme, giant steps is just nonsense compared to that. Pointless noodling, even if it is over actual progressions and key changes.

@GetYourSaxTogether Жыл бұрын

To each his/her/their own!

@dorklymorkly3290 Жыл бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether No, I think I'm as close to musical objectivism as possible on that one. If you ever claimed that you hum the saxophone part of giant steps in any situation of your life other than pertaining to giant steps as a piece (like performing it, or keeping it in your mind) then I will NOT believe you. As if anyone goes oodleedeedleeoddledeedleblueybblueydeedlebleedledtweedledeedleheedle for three minutes for fun...no chance.

@GetYourSaxTogether Жыл бұрын

@@dorklymorkly3290 I can see you’ve already made your mind up, so let’s leave it there.