ere ya go John. I've picked songs that I thought would be most likely to have already been arranged.

Meditation
Route 66
Summertime
Sweet Love
Somethin' to Talk About (Wanted a pop song in there somewhere)

THANKS for all the help!!!

Best,
Jim

PS: I'm sort of mixing my goals here.

Goal #1...To get backing tracks for a promo demo.

Goal #2...To get backing tracks for gigging in small venues that can't afford to pay a trio/quartet.

Goal #1 shouldn't be too hard. And I imagine that you and others might have killer tracks for some of the above. Or others that would work just as well.

Goal #2 gets trickier since she (my wife/singer) would want the tracks to conform to HER charts...to HER arrangements with 1st and 2nd endings etc. etc. etc. So, that is the scenario in which I would get a chart to the arranger and get back the biab arrangement that conforms to her chart.

At that point, I can mess around with the real tracks styles and get the finished product that way.

The reason I stared this thread is that I just don't have time to RTFM and figure out how to do all the things like...different endings..swing the bridges...etc. etc. etc.

Someday, I may be able to get up to speed with all the intricasies...but not any time soon.