{"id":161,"date":"2016-09-01T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/?p=161"},"modified":"2016-09-01T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:15:47","slug":"alternatives-to-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/2016\/09\/alternatives-to-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little trick if scales have got a bit boring;<\/p>\n<p>Pick a scale as usual (I&#8217;m working on a web app for that!), then instead of just climbing up and down the stairs as normal, play some simple tunes. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t all start on the root note; Work out what key they&#8217;re in!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God I Look To You, you&#8217;re where my Help Comes From<\/li>\n<li>Happy Birthday (starts on 5th)<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars Theme (1st interval is a 5th)<\/li>\n<li>Away In A Manger (1st interval is a 4th)<\/li>\n<li>Once In Royal David&#8217;s City (1st interval is a 3rd)<\/li>\n<li>Somewhere over the Rainbow (ist interval is an octave<\/li>\n<li>Amazing Grace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pick songs you&#8217;re playing regularly, or want to play regularly too. There are plenty of lists of &#8220;songs you must know&#8221;, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/?q=100%20sax%20tunes%20you%20should%20know\">google<\/a> for them<\/p>\n<p>Idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestsaxophonewebsiteever.com\/simple-songs-an-alternative-approach-to-warming-up-training-your-ear-and-learning-your-keys\/\">www.bestsaxophonewebsiteever.com\/simple-songs-an-alternative-approach-to-warming-up-training-your-ear-and-learning-your-keys<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little trick if scales have got a bit boring; Pick a scale as usual (I&#8217;m working on a web app for that!), then instead of just climbing up and down the stairs as normal, play some simple tunes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/2016\/09\/alternatives-to-scales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/sax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}