Great Carols

Bb Clarinet/Bb Bass Clarinet/Bb Tenor Saxophone - Grade 3-4

By Various

If it weren't for the fact that the C flute version was great, I would give the B flat version 0 stars. Half the songs are transposed for E flat instruments, not B flat. It's a shame because they are really great arrangements. Reading the comments of earlier...

reviews, one would think the error would have been corrected by now.

Half of the songs are in the wrong key. Good Christian Men, Rejoice Wht Child is This O Come, All Ye Faithful Ding Dong Merrily On High Angels We have Heard on High I like the arrangements, and would like to have the solos in the correct key.

I just purchased both this book/CD and the E flat alto saxophone book. I was running through the songs on my tenor sax and did fine with the first arrangement, but I noticed that the second and third songs had the wrong notes written in the book and sounded...

awful. I opened the alto book and began to compare them, and I discovered that over half of the songs, although they were labelled B flat at the bottom of the page, were exactly the same notes as the E flat arrangements. If you order this book, try it out right away to make sure that the arrangements are in the right key. On a positive note, I love the arrangements; they are challenging and sound beautiful.

A really nice book, with excellent accompaniment CD. The arrangements are fairly difficult, with some tricky fingering as they were originally written for trumpet. Worth the effort to master these tunes to create some great music.