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RE: Sheet music for a band

Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2001-07-25 01:39

But, you should still get the Kammen books (folios 1 and 9) for clarinet / tenor sax because they do have second part treble clef harmonies (countermelodies) which at first I didn't care for, but as our little band got better at it, I found kind of cool. Then, you need to find other tunebooks with chord symbols for the same tunes. Then you transpose everything for everybody. I got lucky with Kolomeike and happened to find a concert key book that had it one step down from the Kammen version, only minor differences in the melody, and it had the chords, so no transposing was necessary on our part. This allowed our accordion player to play both rhythm (chordal accompaniment) and melody by reading (he had a good ear anyway).

Rely heavily on your guitar and piano players for "musicianship"; this is what they know how to do, generally, in my experience...unless they are strictly classically trained or rank beginners.

Steve

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