On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Horace Brock wrote:
If think the Broadway books are bad (and I've played them), wait till you see brass band music published by the Salvation Army.
I hate to play "topper" (no really, I kind of like it!) but the worst by far are salsa and merengue charts, especially those otherwise pretty good ones that are making the rounds from a transcription service in Venezuela or Peru or some place like that. Nested repeats (repeated sections inside a repeat), overlapped repeats (jumping back to a place INSIDE a repeat!) double or triple DSes and double or triple codas, sometimes with instructions on what gets played twice or six times on which repeat in Spanish, so if your Spanish isn't so hot (like mine) then you are left puzzling while the Cuban trumpet player next to you who never seems to get tired (and those parts are HIGH!) rips through it like he owns it without a pause. Plus the guy who copied them with a nib pen never seems to connect his stems to his noteheads and sometimes goes for long passages with the stems on the wrong side of the notehead and who can tell the eighth rests from the quarter rests? as both are indecipherable squiggles.
Once I've been through them a few times and practically memorized them (taking my cue from the trumpet player!) they are a hoot to play and sound really good, but the copying and layout are the WORST!
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