Yarrun's Sax Journal and Sax Requests

Yarrun XIX

Training myself to learn how to busk, so give me a song and I'll give you a saxophone rendition of it to the best of my ability.

Be kind. No speed metal, please.

Salix Babylonika

"Rhythm of The Night" by Corona.

Haven

https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/darling-kanaya

Yarrun XIX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bk7cpQ2VHo

Rhythm of the Night

Crystal

Any of Alice's themes.

Yarrun XIX

This will also be a trial of fire of my ability to record the saxophone without it sounding all bleary

glennmagusharvey

something natively for sax:
Dave Brubeck - Take Five

something not natively for sax:
Scop - Irony

Your pick.

Salix Babylonika

glennmagusharvey said:

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

this is a good one actually

Yarrun XIX

Oh god, I'm way too rusty to be doing Brubeck.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1GpTme2sEIE

Yarrun XIX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s09XfZ83fNSh : Irony

And this is in B major for me, so it was tricksy in a completely different way

glennmagusharvey

Pretty decent.  The rhythm seems a bit off -- perhaps taking it slower might be better -- but at least all the notes sound right.

Doesn't sound quite like Take Five, but something vaguely along its lines.  Not that I mind.

Also, you're lucky your mike doesn't click on you every 0.8 seconds or so.

Yarrun XIX

Crystal said:

Any of Alice's themes.

Oh great. One of the touhous whose theme I never properly learned

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1F4zLatygun

I'll try and redo this one later. Kind of got sloppy.

Haven said:

https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/darling-kanaya

I make no promises, but give me five minutes.

Yarrun XIX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s08Qp6aoinEz

Yarrun XIX

Yarrun retains the right to interpret the songs as he sees fit

SF_Sorrow

interpret as you like

Yarrun XIX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1WEZLWgYMk6

I feel like trying to jazz that up woud be a Bad Idea, so I didn't

Sredni Vashtar

A few obvious and not-so-obvious ideas:

- The ending theme from Steven Universe

- My Bloody Valentine, "When You Sleep"

- Legendary Pink Dots, "One for the Pearl Moon" (particularly the bassline)

- The Birthday Party, "The Friend Catcher"

- Wire, "Once is Enough"

- Akron/Family, "Raising the Sparks"

- Coil, "Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night" and/or "Penetralia"

- Sonic Youth, anything that isn't astoundingly obvious (e.g. "Kool Thing", "Teenage Riot")

- The Rolling Stones, "Paint It Black" (fast and reckless as possible)

Yarrun XIX

That is a lot of material and I have to leave for a flight in about an hour.

The first one is getting done. The rest will wait.

Haven

Yarrun XIX said:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1WEZLWgYMk6

I feel like trying to jazz that up woud be a Bad Idea, so I didn't

I like this one a lot.

Sredni Vashtar

OK! :3

thenamelesssamurai

Ornette Coleman - "Lonely Woman"

Alternatively, if possible John Coltrane -"Syeeda's song Flute"

Yarrun XIX

Yarrun XIX said:

That is a lot of material and I have to leave for a flight in about an hour.

The first one is getting done. The rest will wait.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Bo8ZgjKnq2

Yarrun XIX

thenamelesssamurai said:

Ornette Coleman - "Lonely Woman"

Alternatively, if possible John Coltrane -"Syeeda's song Flute"

Yeah, at this point, this might actually be out of my reach. I'm, erm, not exactly trained in Jazz, so it's harder to pick up on the fly.

Not saying I can't. Just that it would take a while, and again, I have a flight in half an hour.

Yarrun XIX

And one more, and I'm done for the day

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0V8a1gcLnzC

Bee

Imipolex G

no speed metal????

well then, if you're still gonna do this

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Klinotaxis

of course, you'll be doing the accordion too

glennmagusharvey

^^ "Sam and Max.  Sax."

Haven

If you'd been playing a different instrument, this thread would've been the Cellonate

Yarrun XIX

We promised to never mention the decaying corpse of a turtle again

I do NOT want the forum turning apocyan again

Corvina

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

thenamelesssamurai

Yarrun XIX said:

thenamelesssamurai said:

Ornette Coleman - "Lonely Woman"

Alternatively, if possible John Coltrane -"Syeeda's song Flute"

Yeah, at this point, this might actually be out of my reach. I'm, erm, not exactly trained in Jazz, so it's harder to pick up on the fly.

Not saying I can't. Just that it would take a while, and again, I have a flight in half an hour.

I wasn't sure how fluent you were in jazz, so I figured I'd take a shot in the dark. Also, I meant to throw a "whenever it's convenient" into that post, since I didn't expect you to be able to record with the flight coming up. Sorry about that.

Yarrun XIX

Trying to get this going again, to assauge my fears about actually doing this before I have to wait another month

Here's When You Sleep

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0mUCjDRES8Q

Yarrun XIX

The F key's sticking a little. 

Yarrun XIX

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ZBrcyayH8t

Okay, Sredni, what in blazes were you thinking when you recommended Friend Catcher? Anything but the bassline is practically unreadable.

Yarrun XIX

Mountain Goats are found to be generally playable with ease.

except for "This Year", which is written in Gb. A deplorable key in general and especially on the saxophone. The F and Gb aren't built to be flipped between.

Yarrun XIX

That's it for today. The music just isn't coming.

Here, have a sloppy rendition of the Mountain Goats' "Psalms 40:2"

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1D7Tga7VVa9