I finally went through all 38 of my alto music books which have backing tracks, and combined them with the backing tracks from Johnny’s website – a total of 459 songs with backing tracks.
Some songs are repeated in different music books.
The most popular song in my books are Harlem Nocturne and Sway occurring in 4 different music books, followed by these songs that occur in 3 different music books –
A whiter shade of pale
Besame mucho
Fly me to the moon
Jingle bells
Over the rainbow
Satin doll
Silent night
Stand by me
Tears in heaven
Tequilla
The girl from Ipanema
The house of the rising sun
What a wonderful world
Winter wonderland
Yesterday
Been meaning to index the list of songs by book for a long time, as it’s a pain when i want to find a song and have to go through all the music books, and more confusing when a song occurs in several music books. Now i can just look through the spread sheet and go straight to the correct book.
I also put all the music books into ‘forScore’ Ap on my iPad, so i can view any sheet in the Ap, and each song is linked to the backing tracks on my Ipad, so i can view the sheet and listen to the backing track or the sax playing track.
Come a long way, back in the 80’s it was get the cd player out and look at the music book.
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