Topic: Finding Keyboard Parts for Songs (Read 558 times)

Dapper Swindler

#1 May 06, 2008, 11:54:26 pm
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Sorry if this is a dumb question but I've looked on google for hours and can't find the answer.

I have been told to find the sheet music for the keyboard parts of some songs, specifically:

Closing Time - Semisonic
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Fade Into Me - Mazzy Star
What I Got - Sublime

I am NOT looking for keyboard or piano arrangements of the songs, but the actual notation for the keyboard or piano parts used in the song. For "Closing Time" this is pretty easy to figure out on my own (BGBGDGDGBGBGCGBG). But I have no clue for the others (Don't even hear keyboard in "What I Got")

I'm not sure if this information is readily available and I just don't know where to look or if it's impossible. I've given up Googling, hopefully someone here can direct me.
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maladroithim

#2 May 06, 2008, 11:55:27 pm
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There really isn't a piano SHEET MUSIC culture online the way there is a guitar tab culture.  I usually give up and end up buying the sheet music for any pop song that I want to learn.  I guess you can also try MIDI files?
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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#3 May 06, 2008, 11:59:57 pm
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yeah your best shot is getting a midi and running it into one of those sheet work programs. sorry man :(
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Dapper Swindler

#4 May 07, 2008, 12:20:07 am
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That might actually work.  If I can translate the midi to sheet music, I might be able to discern which parts of it are piano.
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#5 May 07, 2008, 04:03:15 am
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Quote from: Dapper Swindler on May 07, 2008, 12:20:07 am
That might actually work.  If I can translate the midi to sheet music, I might be able to discern which parts of it are piano.

Get a MIDI editor with a sheet music function like Cakewalk or Finale and you'll be in business!
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