Anyone with perfect pitch or other awesome music skills?

Submitted by will on

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

MGoViso

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.

mgoblue52

April 12th, 2010 at 1:08 AM ^

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?

Six Zero

April 12th, 2010 at 9:15 AM ^

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.

mgowin

April 12th, 2010 at 1:10 AM ^

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!)

Sambojangles

April 12th, 2010 at 3:55 AM ^

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.

will

April 12th, 2010 at 7:45 AM ^

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.

BlockM

April 12th, 2010 at 8:28 AM ^

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.

BlockM

April 12th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^

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!

michiganfanforlife

April 12th, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^

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.