Recently Jim Besser gave me the dots to Tra Veglia E Sonno, an Italian mazurka, to learn for our group The Squeezers.
I have played the tune for years in the key of G minor which evidently is not a very good key for Anglo. So the music he gave to me is in Dm/D. Now its not a difficult piece so much that for so many years I played it in one key that transposing to a different key turned out to be a challenge at first, causing a bit of a brain freeze.
Finally, after playing in the new key over and over, I began to structure my previous arrangement and even found some additional phrasing and chord structures.
Nice to know the kid's still learning.
just saying....
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