[Dixielandjazz] Keys

[Mike]

That's the key to the puzzle Steve.

ALL keys are easy IF you woodshed them.

As Jamey Abersold once said at a workshop:

"There are no hard keys, just unfamiliar ones."

Nice post.

Mike



> All keys are easy if you woodshed them. Especially on clarinet because you
>> can switch registers to ease the burden of difficult fingering. I remember
>> Tommy Loy posting his band did not play much in Ab because the clarinet
>> players always told him it was a difficult key for them. Well we clarinet
>> players can solve that "difficulty" either by going to the lower register,
>> or by practicing Ab.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Barbone