Catchytunes

Catchytunes

for all instruments

play and improvise along with your playback CD

extract from Gerald Schwertbergers Ohrwurm collection

Table of Contents

• Banana Tropicana (Rumba)
• This is My Blues (Medium Swing)
• Samba Butucada (Bossa Nova)
• Bei der Cumbia (Cumbia)
• All O.K.-Blues (Blues)
• Sauce Tartare (5/8-Jazz)
• Gospel-Bossa Nova (Bossa Nova)
• Petite Charlotte (Jazz-Waltz)
• Happy Peppi (Swing-Fox)
• Whatever You Say… (3/4, 4/4, 5/4)
• Too Good to be True (Slow-Fox)
• Rumba Romantica (Bolero)
• Just Married (Jazz-Waltz)
• Teenage Love (Pop-Ballad)
• Waluliso (Jazz-Waltz)
• Barcelona Red (Medium Swing)
• A Melancholy Dream (Slow Fox)
• El Coco Loco (5/4-Swing)
• A-B-C (Classical-Popsound)
• Floppy Disk (Medium Swing)

Of course live musicians would be preferable to any “canned” band.  But who has a band for practicing at home-and a band with infinite patience?  And who can get enough out of notes and chord symbols to make him want to practice?  A metronome is not the answer either, if you want to provide your listeners-voluntary or involuntary-with a convincing sound.

The musical text of these pieces allows any kind of free, improvisational treatment.  The detailed working out of some arrangements, whoever, suggests that they played, at least partly, note for note.