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Re:The Real Book by bewareandaware on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:52PM (#26743621)
I thought they were all in the same key! I got mine because someone gave it to me. Then later I gave it to someone.
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Re:The Real Book by nhumrich on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:15PM (#26745766)
they come in the different transposed keys for instruments that read in different keys, but technically. the actual key, is all the same.
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Re:The Real Book by ganafagol on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:20AM (#26749579)
And the good jazz musicians can play their instrument from the C version. Over time you learn to transpose on the fly. It's just 12 keys after all, and the melodies tend to be not that complicated anyway.
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