In my very first rock band, when I was in junior high school, the first song we learned, was a Duane Eddy-ish versoion of Peter Gunn. We learned it in record key, F, but the guitarists had a difficult time so they tuned their guitars a half step high, so they could use the low E open string to be the F in the background figure.

We learned some songs, and I learned to recognize barre chords by the hand positions on the guitar necks. That wasn't a problem until I got in another band. They tuned to the conventional E A D G B E tuning, and I had to learn the same hand positions were different chords.

To complicate the issue, when the sax needs to be transposed. In the old way, when the guitar chord was E I played the sax in G, in the normal way, when the chord is E I played in F#.

Wow! That was a looooong time ago. Thanks for the memory, I hadn't thought about those old friends in many years.

Notes ♫

Bob "Notes" Norton smile Norton Music
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