Saxophone Scales??

Question:I need some help with two sax scales. What notes do I play for a Concert A flat and Concert G on an Alto?

Help!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I need some help with two sax scales. What notes do I play for a Concert A flat and Concert G on an Alto?

Help!!

The Concert A-flat scale will be an F scale on the alto and the Concert G scale will be an E scale for you.

The F scale is: F G A Bb C D E F

The E scale is: E F# G# A B C# D# E

i am curruntly playing in my school band on an alto sax too
ive been playin for 5 years now so here are the scales
concert A flat:
E, G, A, B flat, C, D,E, F, and the same then down

Concert G:
E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#, E, then the same thing down

Hope that helped! :)

Alto Sax sounds a major 6th lower than written, so when you hear "concert pitch," you have to think a major 6th up (9 half steps). So for concert A-flat, you would play an F major scale, for concert G, you would play an E scale.

Another way to think of it, is you always add three sharps (which can also be taking away three flats, etc.) to play on alto, thus concert C is your A, etc.

If you think of the circle of fourths (from C through all the flats and sharp keys):

C F Bb Eb Ab Db/C# Gb/F# Cb/B E A D G

The transposed version for Alto sax would be:

A D G C F Bb Eb Ab Db/C# Gb/F# Cb/B E

Just think 3 spaces to the left of the concert pitch row to find the alto sax row.

This also works on bari sax, which is also an E-flat horn.

Hope that helps!