Re: [Harp-L] Re: what keys?

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On May 24, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Splash wrote:

> I used to chart out the changes and who was going to get the solos  
> when,
> back while I was playing Jazz (Saxophone).

Charting the changes is fine. (Also smart). WOW, you played  
sax....ya'know, it doesn't surprise me. You're too cool.

>   We all knew the basic melodies
> anyway.  We used those charts during rehearsal religiously.  But  
> when I was
> doing my solo in performance... in the heat of battle... I never  
> looked at
> it.

Right, about that time you should be on rote mode.

>   Only when the other guys were doing their solos, I'd glance down  
> to see
> what bar we were on and what was coming next.

Smart man. Yeaah, I used to do that sometimes when playing in an  
ensemble where people had to mesh (without sounding like a garbage  
truck falling off of the Empire State building.
> Man, that brings back memories.

I can dig it. I did a tape back in 82? 83. It was sop/alt/ten sax,  
clar, and flute. (no trumpet or chromo on that one..a mistake). But  
that was 27 years ago and I was already a 'never-was'.  lolol MY era  
was actually 1960-1980.

>   I didn't know I still had those memories...
> after all, they say if you remember the 1960's, you weren't doing  
> it right.
> Maybe brain cells do regenerate???

I wasn't into anything 'kookie'. Couldn't afford it. Got out of the  
Seebees in 65, went to work in a shipyard. Joined the force in 69.  
Soooo, I was pretty much tied up just trying to feed myself. (oh, and  
I got married in 67  lolol).

Keyser Joe Sosa

> PEACE
> Splash
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