... for either Easyworld or David Ford's songs, I wonder if anyone has made some? There's a lack of piano chords for the songs, but I have found a blog called MaybeMemories, where a guy has but up several MP3s of him playing some Easyworld/Ford tunes. Now, if only we could get these into Musical Notation...
How Did It Ever Come To This:
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How Did It Ever Come To This (Piano Only):
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Drive:
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He's also done some notation for Till The Day:
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That's an interesting version of HDIECTT. Although to be fair I preferred the original melody.
The notation is correct, but just missing a few notes. Although I can't really criticise when I've said for so long that I can do it but just haven't! I'll hopefully have a bit of time over summer, so might be able to transcribe all the piano favourites (SFTR, Till The Day, er...).
Aha, that'll be my site you've found... It's quite funny, you put stuff on the internet for all to see, but then forget that people might actually see it.
The sheet music for 'Til The Day needs a bit of work, as Chris said there's a couple of notes missing which frankly I never managed to work out. However I think a fair bit of the timing (note lengths and stuff) is much less rigid than it appears on paper (er, PDF) and I don't really play it exactly like that anymore. I don't really know if there's any way to write that in sheet music or if that's just left up to the player to do themselves.
Those other recordings were usually just done to entertain myself and as a bit of an experiment with GarageBand (where those delightful drum loops came from), and the piano HDIECTT was just me messing about after I'd worked out the bulk of the vocal melody.
My source of the HDIECTT chords was from asking Chris on here and the Drive chords and tabs came from the still living Easyworld forum,
here.
Steven Wrote:Aha, that'll be my site you've found... It's quite funny, you put stuff on the internet for all to see, but then forget that people might actually see it.
Hah! We've all been there (haven't we?).
Steven Wrote:The sheet music for 'Til The Day needs a bit of work, as Chris said there's a couple of notes missing which frankly I never managed to work out. However I think a fair bit of the timing (note lengths and stuff) is much less rigid than it appears on paper (er, PDF) and I don't really play it exactly like that anymore. I don't really know if there's any way to write that in sheet music or if that's just left up to the player to do themselves.
That's part of the reason why doing sheet music hasn't been top of my priority - a lot of 'pop' music is hell of a lot easier to play than to read! It's always better if you can 'feel' it. Kudos for going to the trouble to help people out though!
ChrisFlynn Wrote:The notation is correct, but just missing a few notes. Although I can't really criticise when I've said for so long that I can do it but just haven't! I'll hopefully have a bit of time over summer, so might be able to transcribe all the piano favourites (SFTR, Till The Day, er...).
Hey there,
God I would love for somebody to be able to give me the sheet music for Song for the Road. I'm a pretty good piano player, but I really suck at just listening to something and then being able to play it. I have always played classical music from sheets, so i never learned to play anything else then sheet music.
Also if someone could just point out a homepage where i could find piano sheet music for davids stuff that would be great.
thanks a lot
cheer
stefan
(09-13-2008 03:57 PM)El Stefano Wrote: [ -> ]ChrisFlynn Wrote:The notation is correct, but just missing a few notes. Although I can't really criticise when I've said for so long that I can do it but just haven't! I'll hopefully have a bit of time over summer, so might be able to transcribe all the piano favourites (SFTR, Till The Day, er...).
Hey there,
God I would love for somebody to be able to give me the sheet music for Song for the Road. I'm a pretty good piano player, but I really suck at just listening to something and then being able to play it. I have always played classical music from sheets, so i never learned to play anything else then sheet music.
Also if someone could just point out a homepage where i could find piano sheet music for davids stuff that would be great.
thanks a lot
cheer
stefan
hey stefan
as a classically trained player myself, i totally understand where you're coming from. i'm currently working on an assignment for an orchestration class where i'm doing a mash-up of a couple of david's songs and a couple of duke special's. working with duke's music has been easy, thanks to a book of the piano scores to a bunch of his songs, but david's has been really hard. i'm starting to think that maybe my summer project should be to create some piano scores of david's music.
methinks i'll start with song for the road. i'll let you know when it's done.
-ali
i'm sure there must still be programs like cakewalk that score it for you as you play...
Without wanting to sound too arrogant, it's not that tricky - think in terms of where your fingers go easily, rather than complex chord structures!