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Saturday 6 October 2012

000's FREE JAZZ SONG CHARTS ON THIS WEBSITE

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Band in a Box thousands of free jazz songs in this Yahoo Group It has over 13,000 musician members around the world. Arranged in sections. A-Z If you just add up the songs in the A section alone, there is over 300 including dots, not just chords. I think there must be 6,000 songs there, all for free.

How they manage to do this without infringing copyrights I do not know. Nominally they are for educational purposes. Yeah, right.

Once you have Band in a Box software installed, then you can get thousands of jazz songs, pop songs, blues, country songs installed for free from this Group. New songs are being added all the time.
Mostly the  dots are ok, but the chords can be terrible if they've been laid down by a know-nothing. You may have to tidy them up.

With the software, it is then easy to transcribe them to another key so concert, Bb and Eb players can each have them.

You can put your own songs and chords down in the software - with difficulty it must be said. I've put down half a dozen practise chord progressions, 11 V1 V 1, up 5ths, down 5ths, up/down minor thirds, whole tones, and the same with 1 V1 11 V and so on. I can play them at 180 or 90. Perfect for practise, and transcribing riffs etc. Chords-are child easy to do it is the dots which are difficult.

The software is not the most user friendly but grit your teeth and stop saying "Surely they can do this better"
Band in a Box is old, before navigation was made easy.

You can get Band in a Box $120 for Windows or Mac from this site. PG music

John



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