carletonkent, enlarge it. In the lower right hand corner you can see the original copyright date, written as ‘10…After that is today’s running date…. Wiley’s been on vacation for the last couple weeks….
I’ve written many songs and I can’t read or write musical notation at all…Folk music, (and by that I mean the larger sense of folk music, which includes, rock, rockabilly, country, blues, bluegrass, any kind of hoe down, folk music itself, and much of jazz,) is a product of the right brain, and doesn’t need it. You strum a guitar (Or tickle a keyboard), to a pretty series of chords, write lyrics that seem to fit the mood of the strumming, have somebody lay a bass line behind it, get a drummer to do some thumpin’, add some guitar solos…Viola! Ya gotcher self a song…..Let somebody else transcribe it….
DavidGBA: Except for a few short passages in school band competition pieces, obviously designed to trip up the players, the only thing in 9/8 I can recall is Blessed Assurance and Beautiful Dreamer. Not your everyday time.
I’d go with 3/2 for the time signature (the bass line is probably more important for defining the time signature); the treble clef line is composed of triplets (not explicitly stated, but it can be assumed). I don’t have a keyboard in front of me, but I just hummed the treble line to myself, and it actually is rather pretty (note that the root chord isn’t reached until the third beat, well sus2 anyway). I can’t read bass clef fantastically, so I would have to play that out to hear what it sounds like. (Don’t play piano, but do sing.) I can tell that if the base line is supposed to be an F clef, then the sharps are shifted a little too high, but I’m not really bothered by it.
Caddy57 almost 10 years ago
And so it was…..the roots of “ROCK” music run deep!
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
Is that Clef , the original song transcriber?
watmiwori almost 10 years ago
The key signature needs a bit of work1
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 10 years ago
Follow my lead, I’m going to do some Bob Marley in the middle.
dadoctah almost 10 years ago
Time signature’s a bit of a mystery too. Is it 9/8 as suggested by the treble melody, or 3/2 as shown in the bass line?
Aaberon almost 10 years ago
Look at all those sharps: an instrument-playing, band member’s nightmare.
Arianne almost 10 years ago
So much for the axiom that you only need three chords to play rock music.
tahoeh2o almost 10 years ago
I can name that song in three notes…
poppy1313 almost 10 years ago
As Stan Freberg said on Heartbreak Hotel " that’s good that’s good – that’s close enough for jass "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INt48fr_ZYc
dabugger almost 10 years ago
Hey, they not got the rhythm. Not good, no beat guys.
Varnes almost 10 years ago
He’s taking notes on the meeting….
ladylagomorph76 almost 10 years ago
“All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in “B”, watch me for the changes, and try and keep up, okay?"—Marty“Back To The Future”
unca jim almost 10 years ago
I tried that out on the ol’ Yamaha keyboard.. Now I’ve got one MORE dam electronic thing to fix..
Mayor Snorkum almost 10 years ago
Oh, for God’s sake! I’ve had this one up on my fridge for three years. Is Wiley Miller pulling a Gary Trudeau?
Neat '33 almost 10 years ago
Now if he can just “sneak” in a little back beat of Booker T and the MG’s, everything will be cool huh?
neverenoughgold almost 10 years ago
Plea of total musical ignorance; I have no idea how to read music…
DavidGBA almost 10 years ago
9/8 time?
Varnes almost 10 years ago
carletonkent, enlarge it. In the lower right hand corner you can see the original copyright date, written as ‘10…After that is today’s running date…. Wiley’s been on vacation for the last couple weeks….
Varnes almost 10 years ago
I’ve written many songs and I can’t read or write musical notation at all…Folk music, (and by that I mean the larger sense of folk music, which includes, rock, rockabilly, country, blues, bluegrass, any kind of hoe down, folk music itself, and much of jazz,) is a product of the right brain, and doesn’t need it. You strum a guitar (Or tickle a keyboard), to a pretty series of chords, write lyrics that seem to fit the mood of the strumming, have somebody lay a bass line behind it, get a drummer to do some thumpin’, add some guitar solos…Viola! Ya gotcher self a song…..Let somebody else transcribe it….
hippogriff almost 10 years ago
DavidGBA: Except for a few short passages in school band competition pieces, obviously designed to trip up the players, the only thing in 9/8 I can recall is Blessed Assurance and Beautiful Dreamer. Not your everyday time.
NightOwl19 almost 10 years ago
I’d go with 3/2 for the time signature (the bass line is probably more important for defining the time signature); the treble clef line is composed of triplets (not explicitly stated, but it can be assumed). I don’t have a keyboard in front of me, but I just hummed the treble line to myself, and it actually is rather pretty (note that the root chord isn’t reached until the third beat, well sus2 anyway). I can’t read bass clef fantastically, so I would have to play that out to hear what it sounds like. (Don’t play piano, but do sing.) I can tell that if the base line is supposed to be an F clef, then the sharps are shifted a little too high, but I’m not really bothered by it.
nomzod almost 10 years ago
Jokes on all of them, there’s no key signature!
reynard61 almost 10 years ago
@ watmiwori: I think that that’s the rarely used key of L — as in “‘ell if I know what I’m doin’!!!”