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That’s not my problem - in fact the sax parts published for most praise choruses are so bad that if they started requiring me to use the sheet music I wouldn’t play at all. Even players who can survive such keys don’t always do their best work in them.Ī number of praise band players in other churches have bought C melody saxes because it’s easier than transposing or improvising. But lately, we’ve been doing more and more songs in keys like B, which puts a Tenor sax in C# (seven sharps) and an Alto sax in G# (eight sharps). For example, if the song is in C, a tenor player would play in D and an alto player would play in A. Most of those years, the church was doing music in keys that a sax player who mostly improvised could easily play along with. Though I started playing my Bb tenor in concert, rock and jazz bands over forty years ago, I’ve also been playing it in church services off and on for about 35 years. Horns in my Life: 1920s Selmer New York C Melody
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