No. Nothing is being prohibited here. That's just the name of latest tune I'm arranging.
At first, I was not interested in it at all - kind of a tuneful piece of nothing, really. But then I realized I have been doing two things - arranging fast tunes, because they sound impressive (and look that way on the page also), and arranging difficult tunes. The difficult part especially. I guess for the personal challenge.
But that means the band can't really play them well enough. They're a technical challenge for me with all the counterpoint, but that sort-of misses the ultimate point.
Which is: I want these arrangements to be playable. And I want them to be played, aka saleable, aka sold to amateur and school bands.
Soooooo - Prohibition Blues it is. In fact, the last two have been "easy". As in playable by a decent university ensemble.
Starting to get a decent stock of material too. This will make 15 of them that are in-the-can.
Starting to think now about how to market them.
Of course it would help if I could figure out how to make a decent recording of them, so potential users could actually hear how they sound!
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