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Title: Seven new song sheets Post by S J Birkill on Today at 11:13 Now available to view or download in PDF format, also linked from the Discography (http://www.peteatkin.com/disworks.htm) -- look for the clef. Direct links: Here We Stay (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i76a.pdf) Here We Stay (The Marching Version) (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i76b.pdf) Have You Got A Biro I Can Borrow? (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/a3.pdf) Lady Of A Day (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/b11.pdf) Nothing Can Touch Us Now (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i80.pdf) The Magic Wasn't There (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/h1.pdf) Tonight Your Love Is Over (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/a10.pdf) Comments welcome! Pete is happy to give more of his songs the 'lead sheet' treatment. Requests in this thread, please. I'd like to start us off with that should-be jazz-singer standard "My Dreams Are Troubled". S |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Gerry Smith on Today at 13:32 Wonderful. This will keep me busy for a while. Just had a quick look at Lady of a Day. Has my ear really let me down so badly all this time or has Pete simplified the second (and recurring) bars a bit? Pete has put the chords F to Eb in mm1-2. I have always played this as F followed by F11 (voiced at the piano F, G, Bb, Eb, F). F to Eb works but sounds a bit thin in my opinion. Gerry |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by S J Birkill on Today at 14:22 on 02/20/11 at 13:32:13, Gerry Smith wrote :
Hi Gerry Looking at the song's chord transcription (http://www.peteatkin.com/b11c.htm) on the site, I see I've credited it to you -- unfairly it seems, for in fact what I eventually posted was a hybrid of yours with Pete's version, sent in response to your proposal. I see you originally (September 1997) suggested: Quote:
Pete responded with Quote:
Your reply to me, which I hope you (Gerry) don't mind me quoting, was Quote:
...and what followed was what I uploaded to the Chords page. Do you think I should change its attribution? This level of interest in the songs and their construction was also reflected in the MV posts of the time. Anyone new here should make a point of checking out the Midnight Voices Year 1 Archive (http://www.peteatkin.com/mvindex.htm). Steve |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Gerry Smith on Today at 15:11 Goodness, thanks for dredging that one up, Steve. My mind is still making the quantum leap but really,the matter of attribution doesn't matter! So please do as you see fit. For the benefit of anyone who wants to compare the (my?) 1997 transcription with Pete's official one of today, I did it a tone higher than the original. No particular reason other than that's how I chose to do it. The Eb chord in m2, as I said above, is a bit weak in my opinion, a bit of a compromise. I prefer to think of it as F11 (ie F incorprating the 7th, 9th and llth with a further F at the top of the chord) but to simplify matters slightly it could be construed as Eb with a ninth root, ie Eb/F. The crux for me is that the root note (F) stays constant in the first eight bars (including intro) and it seems more sensible to define the chord in terms of F rather than Eb. Also, as a straight Eb chord the 'wistful/yearning' quality that I alluded to is lost. Gerry |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 28.02.11 at 19:40 I'm almost certain you're right, Gerry. I'll sort it out. Apologies for a bit of laggardliness, though. I've been in studio with a new Freddie Raphael play for BBC Radio3 about the Roman poet Catullus, and I'm currently compiling, mixing, and editing it against a tightish deadline, but I'm sure I'll find a moment. (Incidentally, I've been able to book the extraordinary Clive Bell (shakuhachi on Thief In The Night on the Midnight Voices CD) and his extraordinary collection of sometimes literally unnameable pipes and flutes to provide the music for it.) |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Gerry Smith on 28.02.11 at 20:17 Well, I'e been busking on alto sax and whistles in Brighton again, in the road tunnel under the station. Lovely acoustics. A profitable if somewhat cold experience. Did same on Friday last and got dragged in off the street to a studio to play on some guy's album. I thought I had turned into Mr Benn - got dressed up in my best 'urban sax player' gear and found myself in an adventure! A proper job would be nice, though. Gerry |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Ian Chippett on 17.03.11 at 21:35 For myself, I'd like to have the music of "Commercial Traveller" and "A Man Who's Been Around" if possible. Every time I think I've worked out the chords, something happens to send me back to Square One. Ian C |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 19.03.11 at 17:48 Shaw nuff, Ian. I'll get onto them. (And I haven't forgotten I need to have another look at the chords to Lady Of A Day.) |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 19.03.11 at 17:54 Oh yes, and I mentioned somewhere back there a new Frederic Raphael play about the Roman poet Catullus which I've been directing for BBC Radio3 and for which I'd booked Clive Bell to provide the music (he of the shakuhachi on Thief In The Night on the Midnight Voices CD). The play is to be transmitted on Sunday April 10 2011, but - and I'm probably breaching some contractual requirement or other by doing this - if you're interested in having a listen you can download an MP3 of it from http://www.sendspace.com/file/t7f3ih. |
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Title: Three more, and an update Post by S J Birkill on 29.03.11 at 00:13 Pete has delivered on the requests in this thread, with three new lead sheets and a revised one: A Man Who's Been Around (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i29.pdf) The Commercial Traveller (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i20.pdf) My Dreams Are Troubled (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/i35.pdf) For Lady Of A Day (http://www.peteatkin.com/download/b11.pdf), Pete has changed the chord notations in the light of the discussion above, to include a tonic pedal note in the first four bars of the main tune, which he feels best conveys the harmonic structure around that contentious second measure. All of these are indexed from their respective album entries in the Discography (http://www.peteatkin.com/disworks.htm). Steve |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Ian Chippett on 06.04.11 at 09:30 Thanks, Pete. One slight technical quibble: shouldn't the F# chord in "Commercial Traveller" really be Gb? I know it's the same thing really but Gb is more logical. I say this because I was once asked to play a riff where the opening notes were F Bb F# and Bb. The accompanying chords were Bbm and F#. It sounded strange until I realised the author meant Gb at which point his ideas became clearer. I'm also amazed that Pete could come up with something as sophisticated as My Dreams Are Troubled at a time when everyone was wearing flowers in their hair. Ian C |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 06.04.11 at 14:02 You're absolutely right, Ian. And Gflat is what I entered, but Fsharp is what the program (Finale PrintMusic!) insisted on, no matter how I tried to change it. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by oliver ash on 14.05.11 at 07:59 Hello to the Regulars from an Irregular I would love to see the sheet music to Hill of Little Shoes in due course if at all possible...thanks very much Pete for all the songs transcribed so far. They are giving our household much pleasure. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 16.05.11 at 09:54 Thanks for that, Oliver. That's really good to know. Yes, I've been thinking I should get that one uploaded. Expect it soon. Any interest in piano parts at all? I've been wondering if I should copy the songs in the 'handwritten' First Folio - or some of them at least - into 'print' format. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by oliver ash on 16.05.11 at 10:19 Yes Pete, given the unavailability of The First Folio I would definitely be interested in the piano score to as many of the songs as possible, as well as Hill of Little Shoes. Thanks in advance. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by hannibalmcnee on 24.05.11 at 21:59 I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd love to see some more piano scores in the style of First Folio become available. I'm not an accomplished pianist. I can play what's written on the page (or a vague approximation of such) but I'm lousy at playing by ear and have no undertanding of musical theory, so things like chord tabs and even melody lines are completely wasted on me. I want to play the piano parts from the actual records. I nabbed my own copy of FF a few years back and it's perfect. But it only covers a small percentage of Pete's output. I personally would be overjoyed if even so much as one or two songs became available in a similar format. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 25.05.11 at 11:47 Hi Hannibal - I'd be delighted. But although I might fondly nurture the ambition of getting everything transcribed in this form, it's not exactly realistic, so an idea or two of what you'd like me to start with would be most welcome. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by hannibalmcnee on 25.05.11 at 15:58 Ooh, how exciting... I'm suddenly overwhelmed by song titles. Personally, the number one song I'd like to play would be Get It Out Of Your Head. Following that, in order of preference: Thirty Year Man, An Empty Table, History And Geography, Early Days, The Magic Wasn't There, The Faded Mansion On The Hill, Nothing Left To Say, Just For Me (Amy's Blues) The Trophies Of My Lovers Gone, A King At Knightfall, Between Us There Is Nothing, Cold Bitches, and so on and on and on and on... (I could keep this going quite a while, but I expect that's plenty). |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by Pete Atkin on 26.05.11 at 09:56 Oo-er! Yes, right, fine, thanks, good. That'll keep me quiet these long dark evenings. No, but seriously, though, thanks. That helps me focus. They will indeed, as they emerge, turn out mostly as an approximation of the way I them (a la First Folio) rather than as a cleaned-up 'proper' version - which I'm guessing is what you're after anyway. My lack of any equally 'proper' piano-playing technique will also mean, I hope, that they're not exactly difficult to play - I do use all kinds of cheats and short cuts to cover my inadequacies. Perhaps not only in playing the piano, but let's not go there, as they say. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by hannibalmcnee on 26.05.11 at 21:26 I'm glad to hear my list of demands hasn't put you off. No, no cleaned up 'proper' versions, thank you. I always find it such a disappointment to discover the sheet music for a song I've always wanted to play and it turns out to be some bland, workmanlike arrangement that bears no resemblance to the record. I mean, if I buy 'Baby Just Cares For Me' I want it to be the way that Nina Simone played it, including the transcribed solo (Regardless of whether I can actually keep up or not). I found First Folio great in that respect, and very accessible, meaning I only have myself to blame for so consistently cocking up 'The Hollow and the Fluted Night'. I'm very much looking forward to finally taking a crack at some others. |
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Title: Re: Seven new song sheets Post by hannibalmcnee on 29.06.14 at 20:49 Three years on, I'd like to reaffirm my desire for some new piano parts. Surely I can't be the only one who longs for a 'Second Folio', can I? |
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