I recently started playing in a quintet with 2 horns - Trumpet (Bb) and Sax (Bb and Eb).
We have a bunch of existing charts that cover the usual suspects (Miles,Turrentine,Jobim,Adderly,Lots of Standards, etc).
A sufficient but somewhat predictable book.
I bring a lot of guitar centric stuff tunes to the band. (Wes, Burrell, Larry Carlton,Danny Gatton, etc)
I would like to add horn parts to these tunes.

I have no illusions of becoming a great arranger.
I just want to put some charts in front of these guys that they can play.
They like having charts in front of them.

For example - Lets take Wes Montgomery's "Road Song".
Form of the tune is AABA.
The arrangement I'm thinking is for the head Guitar plays the A sections. Horns take the B.
Nothing too fancy but should sound nice. A little variation in the middle of the head

My envisioned approach is to use MuseScore and midi files.
A million midi files exist to get a reasonable version of the head.
Apparently musescore does import midi (to get the melody) as well as add harmony parts to a line.
I envision a creating a simple lead sheet for them so they know the changes to solo over.

Again, I am shooting for something simple.

Would love to hear from those who really know how to do this.


Thanks,

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