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Does anyone know if there are any Benny Goodman or Charlie Christian songs in BIAB format available on line? Songs such as Grand Slam aren't in the Real Book, and I can't seem to find BIAB files for these anywhere. Any help you can provide would be appreciated!

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Except for a rare lucky find, you will have to enter arrangements yourself of the sort of stuff you describe. The general run of prepared BiaB numbers available for free is hackneyed and limited (and often none too legal).

In your field, you already see how you find the same old Realbook jazz heads over and over, and maybe a couple hundred overplayed standards. This fakebook search page will help you find legitimate leadsheets:

http://www.seventhstring.co.uk/fbindex.html

You can look for songbooks on eBay. I have found a number of useful bargains there. People mostly want the same popular thing, so interesting books may go cheap. Music stores sometimes have some old and unusual stock.

Downloadable sheet music is also online from a number of sources. That can get expensive, but sometimes it's the sensible way to get a scarce thing; buy a leadsheet for 3 bucks.

Bob Norton has entered many current fakebooks as BiaB arrangements, for sale at Norton Music website, with or without the accompanying fakebook. They are very accurately done, and one or more of them might cover your interests.

You will be surprised at how many tunes just don't exist in print. Learn to take those off your records or the radio. BiaB is a great help in that.


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Hi,The 557 jazz standards book has 4 Benny Goodman tunes."Don't be That Way""Flyin Home""A Smooth one""Soft Winds"..If you google it you should get all the links you need..It doesn't take that long to put together your own tracks including the written melody part..

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Don't restrict yourself to just Biab files, look for midi files too. Biab is pretty good at extracting the chords from a midi file and laying the whole song out for you. That chord wizard is not perfect, you usually have to make some corrections but it's a good start and saves a lot of time because you at least have the roadmap done. The same can be said about the Audio Chord Wizard. If all else fails, get a recording of the song in question and let the ACW have a run at it. Again, not perfect but still useful because even if the chords are all wrong you still have the song layout as a start. Rharv has an excellent tutorial in the Tips and Tricks forum about using the ACW.

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Thanks!!

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I was just wondering why you picked 'Grand Slam'. Is it because you have problems finding the more unusual tunes. Most of the tunes Benny Goodmanb recorded are jazz standards and readilly available in BIAB format, particularly from that other BB forum's archive:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Band-In-A-Box-Files/

Maybe this list of BG recordings will help:

Benny Goodman – Trio, Quartet and Sextet

June 13th 1928
Clarinetitis C6

October 22nd 1931
Farewell Blues C6

July 13th 1935
After You,ve Gone C2
Body And Soul C2
Who C2
Someday Sweetheart C2

April 24th 1936
China Boy C2
More Than You Know C2
All My Life C2

April 27th 1936
Oh, Lady Be Good C2
Nobody’s Sweetheart C2
Too Good To Be True C2

August 21st 1936
Moonglow C2

August 26th 1936
Dinah C2
Exactly Like You C2

November 18th 1936
Sweet Sue C2
My Melancholy Baby C2

December 2nd 1936
Tiger Rag C2
Stompin’ At The Savoy C2
Whispering C2

February 3rd 1937
Ida, Sweet As Apple cider C2
Tea For Two C2
Runnin’ Wild C2

July 30th 1937
Avalon T3

21st December 1937
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon Part 1 C6

29th December 1937
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon Part 2 C6

March 25th 1938
Blues In My Flat T3
Sugar T3

December 15th 1938
Bach Goes To Town C6

December 29th 1938
Pick-a-Rib Part 1, Part 2 T3

December 20th 1939
Shivers T3

April 16th 1940
Boy Meets Goy (Grand Slam) T3

June 20th 1940
Six Appeal T3

January 15th 1941
On The Alamo T3
Gone With The Draft? C6

February 1942
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise T3

Sept 9th 1948
Stealin’ Apples T3

April 14th 1949
Bedlam T3
Blue Lou T3

November 24th 1950
Lullaby Of The Leaves T4
Temptation Rag T4

June 13th 1951
Farewell Blues T4

July 29th 1952
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea T4
I’ll Never Be The Same T4
Bye Bye Blues T4

July 30th 1952
How Am I To Know T4
I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling T4
Under A Blanket Of Blue T4

October 22nd 1952
East Of The Sun T4
Four Or Five Times T4

March 13th 1972
I Want To Be Happy T1
Where Or When T1
The Sheik Of Araby T1
A Smooth One T1
It Had To Be You T1
Flying Home T1

January 17th 1978
Moonglow T1
Oh, Lady Be Good T1
Roll ‘Em T1

Those are just the ones I have and most of them are available from the archive.


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Thanks! Boy Meets Goy (or Grand Slam) is the one I was looking for because I am trying to learn the guitar solo, and it would be nice to play along to a version of the song a la Aebersold. I see it in your list, but don't see it under either "B" or "G" folders in the archive. Can you please let me know where you found it?

In addition, what does the "T1", "T4", etc. after each title refer to?

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