Chords for How to play 'The Girl From Ipanema' on the sax

Hi my name is Mark Archer and I'm now going to teach you the fourth tune using the chromatic
scale from chapter 8 from my Blight Sax [Ebm] book, a revolutionary approach to playing the sax,
the Blight Sax way.
So check this out on my site www.blightsax [Eb].com or check it out on Amazon
as well.
Go For Me Penina is one of the most beautiful tunes of all time [Eb] and it made one of
the greatest saxophonists of all time a chap called Stan Getz, a very famous Stan [Ab] Getz was
known as the beautiful voice.
[Eb] He had one of the most luscious sounds on the saxophone and when he
sounded with Astor Gilberto this produced one of the most lovely [C] sounds with the bossa nova which
is Brazilian [Eb] music.
Stan Getz was an amazingly _ talented musician and a very interesting person.
If you want to check out more about Stan Getz and or any other saxophone player please check out a
book I co-wrote called Sax Mad Men which is a hilarious guide to the world of saxophonists
and getting to know all [N] sorts of different horn players and a lovely guide also to listening to
sax players and getting a different taste and seeing which route [A] of the saxophone that you'd
like to go down.
But Getz is someone well [Eb] worth checking out, beautiful sound.
Now for us and
this particular tune we're doing this particular tune as well because one of the versions I loved
also was by Sinatra who's known as the voice and Sinatra's way of [Ab] phrasing apparently was one of
the things that Miles Davis did [N] early on which is how Miles Davis learned to play the sax.
It's
good [B] enough for Miles, good enough for check out Sinatra.
_ The Go For Me Penina, the actual main
part of the tune isn't too tricky.
The tricky part is the middle eight and there are [A] various
moments in the middle eight where you basically have just got to get ahead of yourself.
[Eb] So there's
one part where it goes F sharp, G sharp, B flat, G sharp, B flat, G sharp and you're basically
getting there before you've got to get there okay so there's a sequential pattern.
The first bit goes
[Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
so you're doing a B flat to the B, back to B flat, you leave it on B flat, play the G sharp,
you've already got the [N] fingering down, B flat again, G sharp, F sharp, G sharp.
So you can see
from the aspects of playing the sax that I've taught you, you can actually get to the fingering
before you actually play the note so that's [Ab] the important thing to do.
So [Eb] there's a three _ [F] phrase
[Ebm] sequential pattern in the middle so _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
it all sounds the same, it's just a different set of notes and
likewise the last part is a sequential pattern too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [A] So those are the aspects, [G] chromatic aspects
to the locale [B] okay.
So let's quick play through the Go For Me Penina.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
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_ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [E]
So it's a lovely tune to
play, keep it nice, keep it fluffy, think of being on a Rio beach, shouldn't need much more to your
imagination than that.
Beautiful, beautiful tune as well.
I [A] know it's gone a little bit from my
argy but it's worth more than that.
Listen to the original, dig it, Astrid Gilbert, her recordings
for Stan Getz, some of [Eb] the most beautiful music you're ever going to listen to [A] and again you're
working on different chromatic aspects so [Db] enjoy the Go For Me Penina.
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