@ William: That’s weird that you would have problems buying sheet music from his site, weird. Glad you got it worked out, maybe he had some troubleshooting issues or something? Might be a good idea to e-mail Curtis who operates that site and talk to him about it, he probably can help you. In his playing, King Curtis seemed to use scales that lots of other people wouldn’t use–like you said for Tenor he played that song in C# Major while everyone else would have done that type of a song in C Major, E minor, or something along those lines LOL Another example is his version of the Green Onions, for Tenor Sax he’s in A minor…again, another weird key for that Great song. But I think it’s great because rather than just playing in 1 key all the time and doing the same ole’ thing that everyone else is doing, different keys/scales gives our playing different sounds. Here’s another good example of how using different keys adds so much to our playing: Look at what Johnny did with his version of Baker Street-on youtube he got comments from people wanting to know why he changed the key and, personally, when I learned to play Johnny’s Baker Street v.s. the original version, I think Johnny’s cover is better. When you play it, it has more of a feel of really wanting to ‘let loose’…especially with the Altissimo part in his solo, it’s really, really fun 🙂 The original release is cool too, but when you play it, it feels more ‘contemporary’. Some people like the contemporary thing, but personally I prefer Johnny’s cover of Baker Street.
@ Peter: Very cool, keep at it…we never can get too good at practicing those things 🙂
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