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If in fact the chords in the Bb Fake Book are already in Bb to make it easy for the Bb player to solo over then shouldnt we load the chords into BinaB with the key sig set to Bb and then get BinaB to raise them to C but NOT transpose the chordsheet

Would this give us the right result--Sorry Matt, if thats just another way of stating what you wrore

This seems the reverse of what we currently do--we load them with BinaB set to C and then get BinaB to drop them to Bb

Phil



Obviousy Phil, you can do it any way that works for you but if you want to be musically correct in the context of what everybody does then that means everybody has the correct chart for their instrument. Example, I work with several sax players who play both tenor and alto. They play out of separate books, one labeled Eb and one labeled Bb. I also get called occasionaly to play piano in a big band and it's the same thing there except for a 20 something piece big band, the leader trucks in the charts using an airport luggage carrier because of having to have three complete sets of charts for over 100 songs. Concert, Eb and Bb. And, in a big band there's no fake charts, everything is written out with no repeats so each song is usually 4, 5, 6 or even 10 pages all taped together.
Nobody will hand any horn player a chart where the notes are in Bb or Eb but the chords are in C. Just load the song in Biab in the concert key, print it out for any concert instruments and then transpose it to Bb and Eb including the chord sheet and print those. You can do what one of my friends who also uses Biab does and save your songs in different keys in separate directories like one concert directory and one Bb directory. Then of course there's the case of bringing in a vocalist and that person needs it in yet another key so you do it again in another directory. Over the years, I've got tunes I've printed out in several different keys both concert and Bb and it was only for one gig 8 years ago but of course, I don't want to throw anything out so now I've also got paper files all over the place too. Hmmm, I need another life...

Bob

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