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Jeaneaj69
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Hello,
I'm looking for a Django Fakebook in eB (for alto saxophone). Not only the chords, but the heads as well.
If someone know where i could find it, i would really appreciate. I've been looking for it for month, can't find anything except some tunes here and there.
Or if anyone know/can how to transcribe easily a whole .pdf, please MP. I've been trying with soft but it's a nightmare (200 pages or so full of bugs and mistakes after minutes of process...)
Thank you very much !
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It doesn't exist as far as I'm aware. Transposing chord charts is no big deal but if you also need the heads moved it's going to be a lot more work unless there's a way to do it I'm not aware of. I know you can import the PDF into Sibelius/Finale and transpose the heads that way.
It is honestly going to be much easier to just practice reading concert keys and transpose in your head although I understand there is a learning curve to that.
Yeah but most of the time, transpositions are full of nonsense. If you have to deal with one or two, it's okay. But 200 in a row, wow.
Nevermind, someone somewhere should have one. Maybe he'll read this message one day !
You can get the chords via iReal - the Django Facebook is on the iReal forum and once loaded you can transpose the key a minor third on a song-by-song basis. I’ve never seen an Eb lead sheet for Django - a lot of the tunes in the Facebook are superfluous so if you focus on the key tunes it wouldn’t take too long to write the heads out yourself.
Yes if the automatic transposition has errors you'd need to clean them up manually, that is expected. I seriously doubt anyone has ever transposed any of the commonly used books for Eb. As lucky mentioned I would use iReal to transpose the changes and then transcribe/transpose the heads manually if you're not comfortable using Sibelius/Finale to do it automatically.
I would not worry about doing this for 200 tunes. All of the commonly used Gypsy jazz songbooks have a lot of fluff that is rarely played by anyone. Just transpose each song as you learn it, the melodies in Gypsy jazz are not really meant to be played by reading them IMO.
I see that this discussion is about 18 months old. Any progress, anyone, in finding an Eb Django book? There are many Eb fakebooks, but none with the commonly played Django gypsy tunes.
I have spoken with Jack Soref about this, and he encouraged me to try. For five years I have been using his materials for Bb clarinet (and tenor sax) and I have made numerous Eb transpositions using MuseScore. I export them to PDFs, so that I have MobileSheets on my tablet loaded with this stuff. Some is great, some not so good. I try to fix them when I find errors.
I would be willing to exchange MuseScore or PDF files. I should put up the better MuseScore lead sheets on their forum, but all this stuff takes time.
Dennis Maher, Troy NY
I would just start transposing them one by one as you learn the songs. Manually, in your preferred notation writing program (I use Musescore). You ain't gonna play 200 songs at once anyway. I did this with Bob Mintzer's 15 Easy Jazz, Blues, Funk Etudes but from Bb to C, as I wanted to play along the originals with a guitar. Transposing is a skill like any other, you'll get faster as you do it.
By the way, later I did found out that there does exist a version for C instruments too actually.
Dennis,
I think it is great you are transcribing those Bb scores and putting them in Eb. I remember when I was in middle school band, I was stuck playing French horn but wanted to play in the jazz band. My teacher said rather than have me switch instruments, he'd allow me to play in the band and I would just play transposed trombone parts. What I didn't realize was that I'd be doing the transcribing! He gave me the Bass Clef trombone part and I'd transpose it up into Treble Clef, having to make note of any accidentals, keeping the appropriate key signature, etc. And it was all by hand. I'm sure it is much easier using your MuseScore software. But I do think I learned a lot about reading and understanding musical notation doing it.
Good luck to both you and the OP.