Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 2005/09

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: fake books
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:30:25 -0400

Tim,
Yes, it's true...unless you want to learn to do C transposition. I do
it all the time and it is not difficult with a b-flat instrument. With
my alto sax, it's interesting. Luckily, most pop tunes are so simple
that you can pretty much fake your way through. Of course, you CAN get
the B-flat book also...

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo
On Sep 26, 2005, at 7:34 AM, tim parks wrote:

> I just bought "The Ultimate Fake Book" by Hal Leonard. Its sales pitch
> said
> it was for keyboard, guitar AND clarinet. I am not a guitar player but
> I
> always assumed that a guitar was "c" instrument. I expected that the
> chords
> would be written in a different key so as to be the same concert key
> that I
> am playing in. The written chords for the guitar look to be the same
> written
> key that the melody is written in. I am wrong or should have the sales
> pitch
> said guitar OR clarinet. I guess that if any "C" instrument wants to
> play
> with me then they need the "C" book.
>
>
>
> MY goal was to be able to sit down with friends that play either piano
> or
> guitar and mess around with some tunes. But it looks like I will have
> to buy
> two books to accomplish this, is this so?????????
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org
>

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org