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I buy my purple Pentel .09 mechanical pencils at Office Depot. They are in aisle 4 on the left, about half way down the aisle on the right hand side at about eye level. The .09 Pentel's are all purple, they use a flush trigger to advance the lead rather than a screw action at the muzzle end or pressing the breech end.

Your other questions are:

"Key of G. Say you going from Am to C on the guitar. The Am is a 2m and the C is a 4. On the in between beat, I strike the A-string on fret 2. That's a B note. I guess it's Am/B. This is a very audible "change" as I play this. I just wrote Am for my duo guy but this confused him, he was wanting to change the chord (since he could hear something change). Would you show this or leave it as Am? (2m)

AND... do you always make a chart fit one page?"

My answers,

Guitarists often play a bass run while keeping a chord down, as in your example of walking the bass up from Am to C by playing a B note. The ordinary harmonization of this run is Am G/B C...Am, G with a B in the bass, then C. I'd write it, in the key of G: 2- 1/3 (here, I'd write a one directly over a three, but because you can't do that typing, which I find inferior to writing with my purple Pentel .09 mechanical pencil, I am reduced to showing the bass note after a slash!) 4.

I write all my charts on one page unless they don't fit. Usually songs that don't fit on one page are either too long, very fast with a lot of changes, or medleys.

And now, for Graham, I just now read your lovely poem. Unfortunately, Sheb Wooley, writer of the wonderful song, "The Purple People Eater" passed away some time ago.

All the Best,
Mike

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You have to practice improvisation. -Art Tatum

Mike Dunbar Music

[This message has been edited by Mike Dunbar (edited 07-20-2006).]