Cash McCall – The Blues

I need to find the sheet music for the back up horn section for a lot of blues songs. More specifically, the trumpet parts. I don’t need fake books or lead sheets.

I encourage you to learn how to transcribe; ironically, some of your favorite blues tunes may well have been played skillfully by a section of horn players whose reading skills were either very poor or even nonexistent. If you learn how to transcribe you can create parts for yourself and the other horns in the section, too. Check the source panel below for a link to an open source (free) software that is helpful for transcribing called Best Practice; this program will allow you to speed/slow tempo without changing keys or change keys without changing tempo. Transcription is a completely legal form of downloading (albeit analog- LOL!) as long as you don’t try to sell your transcriptions without proper licensing.
I have played in some blues situations where there were simply rhythm patterns written and it was up to the horns present to flesh out the harmonies; to my ears this comes off not unlike the horn section sound of a classic blues act like BB King. Start honing your transcription skills with the simplest model possible; outline the chord changes and determine what the smallest rhythmic subdivision (straight/swung eighth, sixteenth, etc) used is to help take some of the apparent randomness out of the process. You can do it, Mal; feel free to contact me via email if you want any help.