Careless Whisper Sax Tutorial | Saxplained

Learn to play Careless Whisper by George Michael with this easy tutorial for all saxophones. Play along with the backing track, sheet music, and fingerings for beginners ♬ Printable sheet music now available at www.musicnotes.com/l/v5rMF
Recorded in 1984, this George Michael song features one of the most iconic saxophone parts of all time (recorded by session saxophonist Steve Gregory). You might also know it as the 'sexy sax man' song, thanks to a viral prank video featuring Sergio Flores.
0:00 Alto Tutorial
1:02 Tenor Tutorial
Note: Baritone Sax can play along with the Alto Sax part, and Soprano Sax can play along with the Tenor Sax part
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I’ve been on clarinet for about 4-5 years. I had to switch to Alto for marching season because all our alto players graduated. I have a lot of experience with many instruments so switching wasn’t too bad. However I’m a senior now and I have been getting pretty good at the instrument. I want to surprise my band with this for our Christmas party. I’m excited because they have no idea I’m learning it- they thought they escaped the song and yes they did for a bit because I was new…but now I will do the saxophone nation justice and play it with one of my old friends who played last year as a alto sax player. We ride at dawn! I’m going out with a bang and a careless one at that 😏😉

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I was able to pick this song up easily when I learned it back in 6th grade. I can still play it by memory.

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I play clarinet but recently I've been trying the alto sax. My dad's saxophone still works so I've been using that, and I really like your tutorials. I might have to switch in the future for jazz band bc the highschool doesn't let clarinets join. So I'd be playing sax for jazz band and probably sticking to clarinet for regular.

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[@not_kryptic9398]

just wanted to let you know that you can’t just copy over the same notes for alto and move them to tenor. alto is keyed in E flat and tenor is keyed in B flat, so you can’t use the same notes. the original careless whisper is keyed in E flat specifically for also saxophone, but if you’re going to write it for tenor you have to transpose the music so it is keyed in B flat.

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He has the tenor and alto notes as the same thing and that part in different keys so it’s going to sound different between instruments

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It almost sounded like something from Banda Machos 🤣

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The lessons in this channel are on sax tenor or alto ? And which key?😊

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At 32 seconds you forgot to show the C# so my mom kept thinking that there was something wrong with the song, but still useful though keep up the good work

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