Hi I am professional saxophonist in Australia, I suggest that listen to other guys mainly sam"the man" taylor play harlem nocturne and just listen to what they are doing. Also what strength reed are you using? Personally i dislike hard rubber mouthpieces. I use a otto link and for its price its a very good mouthpiece and you'll be using it for a loong time. I got an otto link when i started to play and it has served me very well in the future. All the best
Heartless. ba da ba da bee "daaaaaa"... the "daaaa" is flat. But more so, heartless. It takes so much more then fingering and embouchure to play this instrument. Best of luck to you though.
really nice playing. I always wanted to learn this song. I think I'll listen to you play it again and try to write it down. Thanks for the great music!
I have the exact same version of this song ^^ i play the start straight and when it gets to the chorus i swing it then go back to straight and then i play thewhole last bit swing and step up. like more grace notes and bends and more vibrato and stuff. Just giving you ideas :) but good job though :)
I really like what I see coming out of the Netherlands... musically speaking, you guys are doing something right. Nice work on Harlem Nocturne... it's hard to believe you'd only been playing sax for a short time. :)
Even ballads are supposed to be swung. Unless specified by the writer or leader of a big band all big band pieces are swung. And if you look at the chart for this tune it says swung
what sort of reed are you using? and was ur sax warmed up much before this? its good but sounds like ur almost struggling to get the notes to come out
Every time I hear this song on youtube no one ever swings it. Listen to the earl bostic version. You need to get a really heavy swing on it in order for it to sound right
Wow! Fantastic for only 1 year playing! And don't those TruTones have incredible sound? You might wanna look at a brighter sounding mouthpiece, the TruTones can be a little dark. Just make sure it has a large chamber, the Trutones don't like small chamber mouthpieces much.
Always like Harlem Nocturne! You play it and you alto very well! Fist time I heard this tune was as the theme song to the Mike Hammer TV series in the 80s.
ok ..sorry about that comment on it yesterday...it wasnt actually me that left that. It was my yourger brother. Maike i think you are an excellent player and im not as good as you...not even close. But i might catch up in a year or two.... So keep playin hard.
I think you are great (of course I watched your video after the post yesterday). Amazing! I also like your "thrills". I have never done that before, so I will try something like that as well in future.
It's funny that it was your younger brother that posted yesterday. He is a very very proud brother and I understand why! Keep up the good playing!
ok if you think shes good go check out my vid its im just as good as her and ive been playing for less time...+ Im a kid...+ there is a whole band playing In mine! "Harlem Nocturne - middle school version
I don't know what 'slurred' means. But I think you refer to the part of Harlem Nocturne that I play a bit different than what is shown in the book. I just used part of an other version of Harlem Nocturne and copied that in between. If you want to have a copy of that page with its adjustments, just mail me!
Please also explain 'phrasing'. What does that mean?
slurring is when the notes will be connected by a little arc on the top of them. when you see a group like that, don't tongue any of the notes except for the first obviously. (kind of like when people are drunk they 'slur their speech' because they talk with no distinction between words) and you only tongue if there are two notes that are the same right next to each other.
i meant the part at 1:21-1:25 ish. it sounds to me like you kind of mixed slurring and slowing down.
Thanx, that makes it clear! I will soon post a new video of this same song. This video was posted a year ago, so I hope I have made some progress.
I will try that phrasing.
The slurring/slowing down part is something I thaught would just sound more interesting than the way it was in the book. Do you think I should play it differently?
no problem. i'll look for it C= and i'm sure you have.
i think it makes music so much more like a little sotry and much more expressive.
yeah. well for your style i would say it's fine because when you play this it sounds like swanky and relaxed. and slurring in a jazz piece often creates the same feel so i think it fits in fine with your version. i just noticed and wanted to ask you.
hi maike - where did you find the transcription - i did one in D but most of the commercial interpretations are in different keys - keep it up and cheers
It is a transcription that I found in '20 jazz greats' of the Guest Spot Series. But at two points I play it a bit different: the way I saw it in an other transcription of this song.
Thank you for your positive comment. I play for exactly 2 years now (but this video is already 7 months old, so I played 1 yr and 7 months at the time I recorded it).
It is indeed a Buescher saxophone: a Truetone from 1928. I use a Selmer D mouthpiece.
I thought the lady was suppose to be playing a Alto sax. It looks like a Tenor and sounds like a tenor. The fingering looks a bit odd it does not appear match the music. Very little effort is being used by the face musles to produce such a fine sound. I have being playing for over eight years, on all the saxes in three different bands and I am no where near the standard of this ladies playing. What is the secrete or are we being conned?
I take this as a very big compliment. Thank you!I am not very tall, everything looks big. Check other video's: my tenor is huge!
Don't know what is odd about my fingering. Really me playing here. Perhaps because I often play a C# (so I just blow with no fingering)? According to my teacher the secret is blowing lots of long notes before starting to play. So every time a start practising, I start with 10-15 minutes of blowing long notes and do some other excersises to loosen my 'embouchure'.
Nice to communicate with a really smooth sax player I do have you in my favourites. I will take your advice and try blowing long notes, my alto is a yamaha YA 620 which is a superb instrument but they say it does not have a soul compared to intruments like yours from the USA. Best Regards Max
nice. thats what i love about old horns! only thing is its missing that little x factor, u know? add jus a little more feeling. one suggestion is tapering the notes, its what i would do. Of course every one has their own style. Or another thing is adding a grunt, or growl, as some refer to it. still, VERY good, its jus the little extra stuff. Again, Very nice!
Hi I am professional saxophonist in Australia, I suggest that listen to other guys mainly sam"the man" taylor play harlem nocturne and just listen to what they are doing. Also what strength reed are you using? Personally i dislike hard rubber mouthpieces. I use a otto link and for its price its a very good mouthpiece and you'll be using it for a loong time. I got an otto link when i started to play and it has served me very well in the future. All the best
saxman327 1 month ago
Nice playing. What kind of alto sax are you using???
djlovaglio 7 months ago
Thanks great song I have been looking for the alto notes to this song
for some time,thanks to you
I found it in 20 great sax hits,although a few notes are missing from the book the main ingredient is there ,so enough is there to fill in the blanks.
Thanks again.
michaelnoonan77 7 months ago
Heartless. ba da ba da bee "daaaaaa"... the "daaaa" is flat. But more so, heartless. It takes so much more then fingering and embouchure to play this instrument. Best of luck to you though.
Abmin9 9 months ago
@Abmin9 I'd like to see you do that, make a video on your own.
Jimmehftw 7 months ago
beautiful, well done!!! and you have played for under 2 years...makes it even more impressing!
stephanhamel 9 months ago
really nice playing. I always wanted to learn this song. I think I'll listen to you play it again and try to write it down. Thanks for the great music!
cyclejac51 1 year ago
Awesome!! I loved this. Thanks so much for posting it.
danaherd 1 year ago
I am listening to this song because I have to play it tomorrow, rrrsrrsr
thanks for posting!!!
claitontesch 1 year ago
out of tune ;)
OrzelBialy616 1 year ago
I love the little bends! Well done!
RB1US 1 year ago
fantastic .... i cant believe it
sinvinci 1 year ago
Great Job> Can you tell me where you got the sheet music for Harlem Nocturne?
teufelz99 1 year ago
Bravissima
Riccardo26450 1 year ago
Very soulful. Sounds like music from a film noir.
flooflox 1 year ago
nice job, learn the tune by heart rather than reading the dots so you can put your own feeling in it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,again great job
gerrysaxman1 1 year ago
keep playing AND SHAREING!
THEEsaxmaniac 1 year ago
WOW! pretty awesome!! where did you get the accompany music for this song?
darcon123123 1 year ago
I got my first alto saxophone lesson this week. One day I will play as wonderfully as in this clip. Great work!
Filmore87458 2 years ago
Very nice job...I too have been learning alto sax since March 2008...nice warm sound. I am looking at old conns and Bueschers
mattdoran2006 2 years ago
I have the exact same version of this song ^^ i play the start straight and when it gets to the chorus i swing it then go back to straight and then i play thewhole last bit swing and step up. like more grace notes and bends and more vibrato and stuff. Just giving you ideas :) but good job though :)
thatjamesguy1 2 years ago
Nice trills!
emmymz304 2 years ago
ps!!!!! its very good
gerrysaxman1 2 years ago
you need to learn the tune by heart and not read it dot for dot, this will help you feel it more. a tune like this needs a lot of feeling.
gerrysaxman1 2 years ago
hmmm it sounds very close mic'ing. As if its the proximity effect
which causes more body and a lot of low in the signal. But thats about the recording... You did it very well with playing this song!!
mimaxworld 2 years ago
I really like what I see coming out of the Netherlands... musically speaking, you guys are doing something right. Nice work on Harlem Nocturne... it's hard to believe you'd only been playing sax for a short time. :)
AllknowingGuitarGuru 2 years ago
Even ballads are supposed to be swung. Unless specified by the writer or leader of a big band all big band pieces are swung. And if you look at the chart for this tune it says swung
mellow2333 2 years ago
what sort of reed are you using? and was ur sax warmed up much before this? its good but sounds like ur almost struggling to get the notes to come out
LydiaLuvsMJ 2 years ago
Every time I hear this song on youtube no one ever swings it. Listen to the earl bostic version. You need to get a really heavy swing on it in order for it to sound right
mellow2333 2 years ago
that's not suppose to be swing, it's a ballad, lol there should be an emphasis on the 4th bit and only the B part is swing...
Snoohi1 2 years ago
selmer c* mouthpiece
atreyu88756 2 years ago
superbe le son j adore et la fille bien
eddyfranck1964 2 years ago
This is amazing! Seriously, I've playing for like forever it seems and can't play like that. Ha...
I'm looking to get a new mouthpiece any suggestions?
airsovereigns23 2 years ago
Thanks!
About the mouthpiece: I have a Selmer D, never had anything else. So I cannot say which one is better.
jortje11 2 years ago
@airsovereigns23 I have played for around 4 or 5 years, mostly jazz. I have a Meyer 5 mouthpiece which allows for a terrific, open jazz sound.
Sakito13 1 year ago
kenny c is really good too!
luvmusic325 2 years ago
Wow! Fantastic for only 1 year playing! And don't those TruTones have incredible sound? You might wanna look at a brighter sounding mouthpiece, the TruTones can be a little dark. Just make sure it has a large chamber, the Trutones don't like small chamber mouthpieces much.
LincolnFStern 2 years ago
Always like Harlem Nocturne! You play it and you alto very well! Fist time I heard this tune was as the theme song to the Mike Hammer TV series in the 80s.
I've always like it ever since
DrDoom1951 2 years ago
linda tocando el saxofone, marivillosa .que viva la mùsica, saludos de perù
Viremape 2 years ago
1 year 7 months O: ! woooow ! nice soong, this song is gorgeous,
greetings from Chile.
Vale
Valeeeotro 2 years ago
If you really play saxophone since only 1 years and 7 month it's really really great. I play since 3 years and I'm not so good.
Great job and don't stop you'r talented !!
AfroDurf 2 years ago
EARLE HAGEN!!! a legend
Noobanator428 2 years ago
I love your style .the way you play it is really sensual. can you send me where did you get your play back
joulljoull 2 years ago
Thanks!
Playback comes from the book "20 jazz greats" from the Guest Spot series.
jortje11 2 years ago
sweet and jazzy. a perfect cup of cafe....
very nice!
gustosax66 2 years ago
ok ..sorry about that comment on it yesterday...it wasnt actually me that left that. It was my yourger brother. Maike i think you are an excellent player and im not as good as you...not even close. But i might catch up in a year or two.... So keep playin hard.
Mirrorflip 2 years ago
I think you are great (of course I watched your video after the post yesterday). Amazing! I also like your "thrills". I have never done that before, so I will try something like that as well in future.
It's funny that it was your younger brother that posted yesterday. He is a very very proud brother and I understand why! Keep up the good playing!
jorandesign 2 years ago
ok if you think shes good go check out my vid its im just as good as her and ive been playing for less time...+ Im a kid...+ there is a whole band playing In mine! "Harlem Nocturne - middle school version
Mirrorflip 2 years ago
great job for a year and 7 months!!!!!!! do you play any other instruments???
i do want to ask, is the section of 16th notes slurred? because in my piece they aren't...
and i have played alto for 6 years and i think you have a good control, so i would try phrasing.
mrsedwardcullenwonks 2 years ago
Thanks!
I don't know what 'slurred' means. But I think you refer to the part of Harlem Nocturne that I play a bit different than what is shown in the book. I just used part of an other version of Harlem Nocturne and copied that in between. If you want to have a copy of that page with its adjustments, just mail me!
Please also explain 'phrasing'. What does that mean?
jorandesign 2 years ago
sure.
slurring is when the notes will be connected by a little arc on the top of them. when you see a group like that, don't tongue any of the notes except for the first obviously. (kind of like when people are drunk they 'slur their speech' because they talk with no distinction between words) and you only tongue if there are two notes that are the same right next to each other.
i meant the part at 1:21-1:25 ish. it sounds to me like you kind of mixed slurring and slowing down.
mrsedwardcullenwonks 2 years ago
and phrasing is when you change the dynamics of a piece according to your opinion to make the piece an emotion like cheery, bright, dark...
mrsedwardcullenwonks 2 years ago
Thanx, that makes it clear! I will soon post a new video of this same song. This video was posted a year ago, so I hope I have made some progress.
I will try that phrasing.
The slurring/slowing down part is something I thaught would just sound more interesting than the way it was in the book. Do you think I should play it differently?
jorandesign 2 years ago
no problem. i'll look for it C= and i'm sure you have.
i think it makes music so much more like a little sotry and much more expressive.
yeah. well for your style i would say it's fine because when you play this it sounds like swanky and relaxed. and slurring in a jazz piece often creates the same feel so i think it fits in fine with your version. i just noticed and wanted to ask you.
mrsedwardcullenwonks 2 years ago
this sounds way different than my sax o.o really good tone quality!
iamtheawesome14 2 years ago
im doing the solo in jazz band and i keep messing up on the triplets and its pissing me off
cheeziness234 3 years ago
sounds great for the time you have been on the horn.......keep it up and keep the video's comin'
ModernSaxDotCom 3 years ago
Great job you've come a long way in a hurry, keep up the great work!
tuber2u 3 years ago
Nice work! when I was still taking lessons I played that very same rendition
Dilliboy63 3 years ago
Really cool! I know this song from a guitarist named Danny Gatton, and its nice to hear more versions like this!
jschmidty 3 years ago
Great tune.
hohnerladd 3 years ago
hi maike - where did you find the transcription - i did one in D but most of the commercial interpretations are in different keys - keep it up and cheers
leo
azoro13 3 years ago
Hi Leo,
It is a transcription that I found in '20 jazz greats' of the Guest Spot Series. But at two points I play it a bit different: the way I saw it in an other transcription of this song.
jortje11 3 years ago
faire les notes ne suffit pas, l'expression ou est elle ?
stanpaulartzoot 3 years ago
AGAIN!! And this time with FEELING!!
hummlyhummly 3 years ago
Nice playing. :)
MercianLass 3 years ago
it really looks like you are actually feeling the cool jazz through you, you are awsome! keep it up!
iamkewlness 3 years ago
i love it! but do you have a link of some sort of harlem nocturne so i can learn it, i play alto sax tho it looks like you play a tenor.
globman90 3 years ago
tenor has a wavy neck...
ItIsKsher 3 years ago
ya i know lol tenor just well i just dont need it , next year i might play brass which everybody says its very hard.....
globman90 3 years ago
Nice job Maike. You make me happy in my pants!!
bushna2007 3 years ago
Great job...
We. women, really can play :)
may I ask few questions:
How long you've been playingsax? Is it Buescher sax ? ( i have Buescher Aristocrat 1964) what mouthpiece do you use whith it?
natakova 3 years ago
Thank you for your positive comment. I play for exactly 2 years now (but this video is already 7 months old, so I played 1 yr and 7 months at the time I recorded it).
It is indeed a Buescher saxophone: a Truetone from 1928. I use a Selmer D mouthpiece.
jortje11 3 years ago
I thought the lady was suppose to be playing a Alto sax. It looks like a Tenor and sounds like a tenor. The fingering looks a bit odd it does not appear match the music. Very little effort is being used by the face musles to produce such a fine sound. I have being playing for over eight years, on all the saxes in three different bands and I am no where near the standard of this ladies playing. What is the secrete or are we being conned?
maxwellmorris 3 years ago
I take this as a very big compliment. Thank you!I am not very tall, everything looks big. Check other video's: my tenor is huge!
Don't know what is odd about my fingering. Really me playing here. Perhaps because I often play a C# (so I just blow with no fingering)? According to my teacher the secret is blowing lots of long notes before starting to play. So every time a start practising, I start with 10-15 minutes of blowing long notes and do some other excersises to loosen my 'embouchure'.
jortje11 3 years ago
Nice to communicate with a really smooth sax player I do have you in my favourites. I will take your advice and try blowing long notes, my alto is a yamaha YA 620 which is a superb instrument but they say it does not have a soul compared to intruments like yours from the USA. Best Regards Max
maxwellmorris 3 years ago
No way!!! I have that SAME CD! Thats the version I play :D
davisguitar 3 years ago
Hi Maike,
great!
I want to marry you!
;-)
Stephanqwertz 3 years ago
beatiful, congratulations that melody it's one of my favorites
Yelmox 3 years ago
Dude, who is this hottie
GoFuckAHorseCunt 3 years ago
Are you on drugs or what, just show some respect for a lady has talent
maxwellmorris 3 years ago
I have been playing alto for some 2 years now. I got ranked a one for solo and ensemble!
smtuns321 3 years ago
i have an old alto from around the 20's or so... it's kinda beat to hell, but yours is nice. i love old horns, the tone is just "ah".
glennmiller2005 3 years ago
nice. thats what i love about old horns! only thing is its missing that little x factor, u know? add jus a little more feeling. one suggestion is tapering the notes, its what i would do. Of course every one has their own style. Or another thing is adding a grunt, or growl, as some refer to it. still, VERY good, its jus the little extra stuff. Again, Very nice!
SaxoRamirez 3 years ago
pretty sweet for 1 year 7 months. I been playing tenor for 8 months and dont sound nearly as good
chogo888 3 years ago
your sax has a beautiful sound.. i wish i could afford a decent one to play!
watkns 3 years ago
nicely done, you have a nice clean tone, go ahead, dirty it up a bit and have some fun. ;-)
omegasaxyvideo 3 years ago 2