An aid to remembering tunes...

The problem with playing music without proper knowledge is that we often ask, 'How does it go?' Just imagine, say, playing Man of Mystery (The Shadows) without knowing the melody!

I asked for and was given a CD of tunes which the saxophonist has selected for me to try out if I can accompany him. It turned out to be a dud CD because, according to Cheng, each song has only less than 100kb which is impossible to have recorded properly. This explains why I tried the CD player and DVD player and each time showed 'No disc'. So I searched for them at Youtube (wonderful facility) and looked for those with more distinct drumbeats and the following are my selection, though the first tune has hardly any drum accompaniment.

Over the rainbow (Kenny G)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh07llqnVl8

A day in the life of a fool ('Black Orpheus')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4beJksepOo

As time goes by (Kenny G)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOA7EzEoPW0

Emily (Dave Koz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrETGwk2AWg&feature=related

Misty (Conner Plant @ Mel Brown 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Tx_dj5Um4&feature=related

It would be helpful to me if Foo would start with the first line of each tune so that I get to know the tune to follow!

How I wish I have the magic stethoscope (as shown in the following clip) to just place it one top of each song name!

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