I didn't transpose it; you did. That's what I think started the problem.

This tune is generally played and written in Ab concert, and that's what my recording is.

Your leadsheet (with the one wrong chord in bar 4) is for a Bb instrument to play along with the song when it is played in Ab concert (like my MP3). Thus the song on your leadsheet is transposed up one full step to the key of Bb, and you just read it as-is on your tenor to play along with my MP3.

To put this another way, you should not enter the song into BIAB using your Bb instrument leadsheet without dropping all notes and chords one full step, then transposing to see it in terms of a tenor sax. That's the most important lesson here.

Once you decide to work and think in concert pitch, these problems disappear. Think about what I play: My horns are pitched in C, Eb, F, G, A, and Bb. I don't have the slides for my Eb trumpet to play in D or I'd have that one covered, too. I think you see the problem. If my base song were not entered in concert pitch, I would really be sunk trying to keep track.

Is this making sense?


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