More Blues Brothers. Another Tom “Bones” Malone Bone solo, transposed for Tenor.
Bone solos are interesting to play on saxophone. The slide makes glisses and bends such a natural part of every note, and it’s different than the way a lip bend works on the saxophone. Check out the last measure. Since it’s too fast to do a lip bend, I went for the 1-2 RH key alternate fingering for A to flatten the note instead of playing it straight down to G#
This song is pretty simple – one chord with the same driving background riff the whole time. Everyone takes 16 bars. I’ll post some of the other solos over the coming weeks as well.
We’re definitely in a ‘guitar’ key. Tom sticks pretty much to the minor pentatonic scale with the occasional flat 5 and 13 for color.
Tom Malone - Peter Gunn Theme
- Artist: Tom “Bones” Malone
- Album: The Blues Brothers – Original Soundtrack Recording (1980)
- Track: Peter Gunn Theme
- Instrument: Trombone (original), transposed for Tenor Sax
- MIDI file: Here
Enjoy!
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