Fakebook & Songbook Index
- Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Fakebooks, Real Books, song books and various other large collections of sheet music can take alot of time to search for that one tune.
Fakebooks, Real Books, song books and various other large collections of sheet music can take alot of time to search for that one tune.
WHERE TO START We recommend using the series in the following order:
Thanks to the good people at Emusic, the Internet's biggest MP3 subscription service, you can now get 25 FREE CLASSIC JAZZ MP3s (worth £40!), with no obligation for the first two weeks.
The brilliant saxophone fingering chart and saxophone altissimo fingering chart are now available as free downloads from Jazzwise. They are for all saxophones (especially alto and tenor sax) and together cover four octaves from Low Bb through to a Very High Bb. Note the alternative fingerings for several of the notes.
London Orchestrations includes a huge range of musical charts covering many different artists, composers, arrangers and musical styles from the 1930s to the present day, arranged by Dave Tanner.
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Where can I buy Transcribe?You can purchase the latest version of Transcribe! for PC or Mac either -as a software download from Seventh String or the software on CD-Rom from Jazzwise.
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Making another welcome visit to London last year, to perform at Ronnie Scott's in 2007, Mike Stern took time out to talk to Jazzwise about his latest album, Who Let The Cats Out? that features a stunning cast of musical friends including Roy Hargrove, Richard Bona, Dave Weckl, Jim Beard, Victor Wooten, Anthony Jackson and Meshell Ndegeocello on Stern's strongest studio set for years.
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