Smooth Operator by Sade and Ray St. John (1982).
Seems like the saxophone found its way into many many songs in the 1980s. Careless Whisper, Baker St, and Smooth Operator is another very famous one.
Played on tenor saxophone in original, I list the notes for alto sax below the video. To play the same notes as tenor, you’ll be starting on low B. Or you could take it all up an octave.
Notes for alto sax:
B C# D E F#
A B C# D C# B A B
Hi neal,
Could you do a lesson on basic saxophone techniques like growling and how to hit altissimo notes please?
thanks,
Justin
You’ll find things like that in Saxophone Tribe. And altissimo isn’t something I would recommend working on before getting all of your major scales.
Hi there!
I would like to know what kind of saxophone does Stuart Matthewman play in Sade’s Jezebel
Thank you
Tenor.
Do you get the sheet music along with the lessons if you subscribe?
No, you get sheet music if you buy sheet music.