What annoys me is why someone would post a song for a group of professional musicians playing maybe 4, 5 or 6 chords when all they need to do is what most average professional musicians do and purchase a "Fakebook" for around $35 and use the 15 chords that the song calls for. Or, perhaps just play it on a gig with the 4, 5, or 6 chords where the general public doesn't know that you're murdering the chord chart of the song. Doesn't this make good common sense?

Playing by ear causes this. I play by ear. However, I won't play a tune unless I do research on the chord structure, unless it is a simple blues or a 4, 5 or 6-chord tune.

Less face it, the public enjoys the lyrics of a pretty song and all of the popular tunes of the day and the oldies but goodies. However, they don�t know a Kb from a Q#, so you can get away with anything if you know the lyrics. But why murder a beautiful song like �Body and Soul� with 5 or 6 chords, especially in front of a group of professional musicians. What�s more pitiful is being told that you did a great job because no one wants to be called a know it all on the forum because they told you that you need to learn the other 12 chords and repost.

Get a Fakebook and educate yourself, if you�re wanting to play intricate chord changes for the many tunes written in this fashion. Otherwise, do what you know you can do and stick with it. The public in general is one thing. Hurting the ears of your professional musician peers is very annoying. Also, you�re actually teaching others how to play intricate chord pattern tunes with simple 4, 5, or 6 chord changes. What an injustice to music and to the person that thinks that that was �cool.�

Now I guess I�ll only have Russ and a few others here that will agree with me.

I quit listening to the old jazz standards that the folks post here on the forum. Dam�it Russ , why did you ask this question.