Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Bach Fake Book

Yup, you read that correctly! I was searching for an arrangement of "Come Sweet Death" that I could play when I found the "Bach Fake Book" published by Cherry Lane. It is interesting to improvise from. It would also be good if one was trying to make arrangement (perhaps for choir) out of one of Bach's tunes. Each piece has a lead line (sometimes intermixed with a second part .. after it was originally polyphonic music.) Many of the chords also have other bass notes than the first inversion of the chord.. for example Fm7/Ab. It may be something you want to look at.

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