[TPIN] Cowboy chords and bar bands (long)

[Michael Anderson]

Russ,

What a TREMENDOUS post! You just wrote a primer for how to organize a horn
section in a working band. Fantastic! Thank you for taking such time with
it.

MA

> 
> Travis ---
> 
> You are not crazy, and are no more masochistic than necessary to play this
> unforgiving beast in the first place.  I found myself in that very same
> situation about 4 years ago, joining a brand new blues band.  Learned hours of
> complicated tunes and riffs, always in concert E or A.  Even more demanding,
> as it was a 2-horn band, with tenor sax.  Spent 100s of hours practicing
> scales and exercises in those ugly keys until they became somewhat less
> unnatural.  

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