Transcriptions

Here I post transcriptions of a variety of tunes, mostly rock/pop/reggae, but occasionally jazz and everything in between.  They are most often rough lead-sheet style charts, listing chords, lyrics, form, and prominent melodies.  Most were originally intended for personal use, and so are best utilized with a familiarity of the tune.

I’m only human and I don’t have anybody proof-reading these for me, so if you notice a mistake, please let me know, and I’ll make the change to the chart.

 

Rock, Pop, etc:

Amos Lee – Sweet Pea

Animals – House of the Rising Sun

Beatles – Dig a Pony

Beatles – I’m Only Sleeping

Bill Withers – Use Me

Black Sabbath – Ironman  - Leadsheet & Tab

Bob Marley – Lively Up Yourself

Bob Marley – Sun is Shining

Bob Marley – Waiting in Vain

Bob Schneider – Bullets

Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock

Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You

G Love and Special Sauce – Cold Beverages

Gorillaz – Latin Simone

Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama  - Leadsheet & Tab

Mr. Bungle – Vanity Fair

Radiohead – No Surprises

RHCP – Dani California

RHCP – Road Trippin

Stevie Wonder – Superstition

Sting – Love is the Seventh Wave

Sublime – Pawn Shop

Tin Hat Trio – Empire of Light – Transposed to E

Tom Petty – Last Dance with Mary Jane

Wild Cherry – Play that Funky Music – Leadsheet & Tab

Jazz/Latin/etc:

AC Jobim – Lamento – From the album Wave, not found in Realbooks that I’ve seen.

Bebel & Cazuza Gilberto – Preciso Dizer Que To Amo

Hoagy Carmichael – Heart and Soul – Hard to find a simple one-page sheet for this for free online, so here it is.

Wayne Shorter – Nefertiti – Transposed Score for Trumpet, Alto & Tenor Sax, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums

Classical:

Bach – Bagatelle op.119 no.11 Orchestral Score

Dearest God When Shall I Die Re-Pitched – I reharmonized the Bach chorale into a Lydian b9 b13 scale.  A recording of it can be found here.  I also made a track of this chorale in the Phrygian scale, which you can download here.

 

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