Anyone with perfect pitch or other awesome music skills?
Off topic as it gets here..
I'm getting married in a month and the song my fiance wants for the procession by Jon Schmidt (Love story meets La Vida or Love Story meets Love story ) I have been unable to find sheet music.
Anyone have the skills to transcribe this into sheet music?
Will
April 11th, 2010 at 11:34 PM ^
well im tone deaf. so im no help but congrats on getting married
April 11th, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^
I can fart the melody from "Wind Beneath Your Wings."
air guitar rendition of "Free Bird"...
April 12th, 2010 at 12:02 AM ^
Is there an App for that?
April 12th, 2010 at 12:06 AM ^
Hold your phone up to a song, and it spits out sheet music for every instrument. Steve Jobs better get on that shit.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
Are you doing this at a church? The pianist/organist there would probably be able to help you.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
Hey, college cello major here.
I don't know if you have a musical background or not, but what you're asking is not particularly easy.
My best advice is to find your pianist and cellist first (if you don't have people in mind, look up a professor of either instrument at the nearest big university and ask them if they have students or might know someone willing to take this on) and describe what you'd like them to do. An exact recreation will take most people a decent amount of time and great people somewhat less, so either way they're going to need some persuasion with cash.
When describing what you'd like, send them YouTube link and maybe a link to chord charts for both songs and they should be able to do something pretty close.
Note: If you live in Michigan, email Anthony Elliott and Richard Aaron at U-M, Diane Winder at EMU, and Bruce Uchimura at WMU. Best of luck.
I agree with the post above. I'm minoring in music here at Michigan and have done some arranging and am currently composing for class as I'm reading this. Arranging is pretty time consuming.
How many voices/instruments do you want this written for?
Many people enjoy making music, but show me one who says "well, yeah, selling out Madison Square Garden would be fun and all, but what I really want to do is transcribe music."
This is no small favor you're asking... lots of time and rectal pain.
Just hire this guy! Your wife to be will love Zelda tunes at the wedding. (No need to ask beforehand, this would make an awesome surprise!)
Have you tried emailing Jon Schmidt himself? He looks like the kind of musician that would be more than happy to share his music, especially for something like a wedding. He might not even charge you anything. Maybe try sending him an email before you look into getting someone to transcribe his piece--like everyone said, it's very difficult and time-consuming.
I'm sure Jon wants to, but according to his site and facebook, Taylor Swift's people haven't agreed to allow him to produce it. I actually emailed him about it 4 months ago.
I knew a guy in HS who could jot down sheet music for just about anything just from hearing it, so didnt realize it was that difficult. Dude also wrote a symphony for our orchestra in HS so guessing hes more talented than your average Joe.
The guys playing in our wedding say they can try and reproduce it, but it would be easier with sheet music. Trying to help them out.
majoring in music myself and it would definitely take a ton of time to create a piece. kids like the one in your high school are 1 in a 100 million. not many in the world can do that at the high school level.
I can't transcribe it into sheet music, but I'm good enough to be your wedding singer if I'm in the shower the whole time.
Nah... too early today.
Contact me directly. I do this all the time for a fee.
[email protected]
Where anything is possible.
It's like Zombo.com, only for real.
My first hand experience says he's a skilled musician that's worth whatever he's charging for transcription
-Crunchy
I think my sister (a cellist) and my family's foreign exchange student (a pianist) might have done this for a stage show at their high school. I know they did some sort of mashup that included Viva La Vida, because I would hear it every time I was home.
They're both very good, so I have no idea if they got sheet music or if they just figured it out. I shot my sister an email, so I'll come back and post if she's got it.
This would be perfect if she already has it.. Even if its a slightly different version it might help reduce how much improvisation my friends playing during the ceremony will have to do..
my email is miaminemo at yahoo
Evidently they tried and tried to get the song you mentioned as well, but never ended up with it. I think they played around with it for a little while and never got to the point where it was good enough to do for their stage show. They ended up doing U2's With or Without You with Canon in D, which I'm guessing is readily available.
Sorry, good luck!
well thats discouraging.. but so is our secondary... guess I just gotta have faith in our guys; or a great backup plan!
that perfect pitch means they can stay on key perfectly. It's way tougher than that. Perfect pitch means that this person can sing any note out of the air with no piano, whistle, tuning key, etc... I've only ever met one person who could do that. If you want to check out my musical skills, listen to this: www.myspace.com/thrive07 - I'm the lead singer/guitar player.
Perfect pitch also means you can hear something that's even remotely out of tune and it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. I can't stand to hear people whistle because of it. It's honestly more of a curse than a skill.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:48 AM ^
I've heard your trombone playing - now THAT'S nails on a chalkboard.
Seriously though, I read a while ago that perfect pitch is a mutation, so anyone with that skill truly is a freak.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:00 AM ^
I had a teacher in high school who had perfect pitch. He would always tune the pianos in the school, and whenever a cappella groups would sing he would give them their pitch before starting. Pretty cool.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:13 AM ^
I know several people with perfect pitch. They've never referred to it as a curse. Of course, they're all singers, so it helps not to need a keyboard/pitch pipe/whatever to get their starting notes.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:38 AM ^
I bet this guy is "fuckin" available.
Their name is The Dan Band and they are a real band.
in other words, youre better off whistling over a beer bottle than having me contribute. but hey congrats!