“And thirdly, the code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner.”

-Barbarossa, Pirates of the Carribean

When you’re learning saxophone, you’ll hear about many rules.  Don’t play the notes outside of the chord, which notes you can play on saxophone, etc.

These ‘rules’ are useful and will usually help you with the process of figuring out how to play sax.

However, after you have progressed enough with your playing, you can bend and even break the rules!