Hi, all, This may the wrong place to post this -- please let me know if it should go to some other list at jmdl -- but I wanted, in the meantime, for it to have the broadest possible exposure, for feedback. Also: Howard, Marion, Steve -- I don't have e-mail addresses for Sue McN. or Mark D., and I'd especially like to thank Sue for her transciption in the jmdl guitar tablasture database, without which I couldn't have gotten started -- I'd appreciate your feedback, if you have the time and patience to look over this transcription, and please ask Sue and Mark to contact me off-list if they wouldn't mind exchanging ideas and/or feedback from my musical ramblings.
Yesterday was the first time I had the time to sit at a piano and, starting with a guitar tablature transcription for a song, work it out on the piano. (Just to make my life more difficult, I also transposed the song to a key I could, um, imitate singing in) I decided on IDKWIS partly because I've always loved the song, and the published PVG transcription really sucks, and I'm working on a project that would entail my getting it down. [If anyone's intrigued with my choice of key, it's partly to place the song in my spectacular one-third-of-an-octave singing range, but also (remembering our thread about synesthesia from some months back, Hell and Sherelle and several other people?) because the "flat" keys that I've used below give me impressions of various shades of blue, green and purple which seem appropriate to me for the song.] Anyhoo, using "@" for "flat" (e.g., B@ means B-flat), and using "9" loosely to mean "add 2" (so C9 could mean either C-D-E-G or C-E-G-D[octave]), here's what I got: Intro: E@dim/D@... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@9 (repeat) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [B@9] Funny day, looking for laughter and [A@9] finding it there [B@9] Sunny day, braiding wildflowers and [A@m] leaves in my [A@m7/D@] hair [-->A@m6/D@] [G@9] Picked up a pencil and [G@m9] wrote I love you [D@9] in my finest hand [G@m9] I wanted to send it, but I [E@dim(7)] don't know where I [D@9] stand [[EMAIL PROTECTED]@9] I haven't worked out the "scat bridge" part yet, but I figure it's just a matter of time. I *really* welcome any feedback, and apologize again if this is the wrong venue. (Oh -- and does anyone know how to get a Mac to put out a "flat" sign, and while we're at it, a "natural" sign -- "sharp" is taken care of, of course.) My apologies to those for whom this stuff is as much fun as calculus, but I find working these things out are like solving a puzzle... or doing calculus (I was a math teacher in an earlier life) Thanks, Walt
