Re: Cheap India trumpet in c, now side tracked

Oh, my mistake, I should have been clearer.

I have no trouble playing standards in keys other than where they're
typically played. (I've worked with enough vocalists to
know...Cherokee in G, anyone?) And I know the hand signals.

I was talking about reading bass clef parts...

On Mar 23, 2:07 pm, Robert DeSavage <allegro69@(nospam)comcast.net>
wrote:

Memorize all the songs you can while going thru the fake book. While
we all want to play reader jobs with larger bands, all that's left for
the most part are for 3, 4, or 5 piece groups that play ricky tick
functions like wedding receptions. Since they play a lot of medleys
that have 2 or 4 bar segues to bring the group into the next song,
there's hardly time to be thumbing thru a fake book to catch it. Back
in the days when society type bands (Lanin and Davis) were
fashionable, for the most part it was a big 'no no' to read from the
page. Most of the players had at least 1000 tunes stored in their
skulls. Not only that, because of the short segue, more than often a
player would hold up fingers to the keyboard player to call for a
particular key rather than naming a particular song the player might
want to go into next. Hopefully all would jell. It's all part of being
able to be a virtuoso 'faker' which unto itself can be a very
lucrative 'art'.

.

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