Product Description
Color-coded Lead Sheets for Jazz Combo. Separate lead sheets for Concert instruments and Bb instruments included with purchase. Color allows quick understanding of the sections and form of the tune, the rhythmic hits, and the counter-melodies. Special care has been taken to clearly indicate intros, sections, solos, and codas/outros. These form-based markings are in GREEN. Special care has also been taken to notate the rhythmic hits. Hits are notated above the staff, in RED. Finally, any counter-melodies or harmonies appear in reduced size, in BLUE.
"Sympathy" is a song with a rock feel and four distinct parts, hence the name, akin to a Symphony. The song starts with a varying bass pattern heard throughout the first section, switches to a sweeter variation for the second section, moves to an odd-time third section, and then switches back to a regular rock feel for the fourth section, which features tricky, quick-moving major chords.
The composer/arranger, Rob Ames, is a soprano saxophone player from New Hampshire and the Boston, MA area. His album of original tunes, "Sounds From the Boardwalk", is widely available.