Finding music

[jwilliams]

Ugh..yet another case of "Where the hell can I find a lead sheet for this?!"
I'm doing the song Mercy, Mercy, Mercy at the music student recital coming up this month. The person I'm playing with basically taught me the song, but I'd like to see a sort of lead sheet or some sort of sheet music for this song so I can build on it. Anyone know where it is, or have one on their pc by chance?

[Malcolm]

Originally Posted by jwilliams

Ugh..yet another case of "Where the hell can I find a lead sheet for this?!"
I'm doing the song Mercy, Mercy, Mercy at the music student recital coming up this month. The person I'm playing with basically taught me the song, but I'd like to see a sort of lead sheet or some sort of sheet music for this song so I can build on it. Anyone know where it is, or have one on their pc by chance?

Is this the one?
http://www.all-events-music.com/pdf/...%20Klavier.pdf

[fingerpikingood]

pretty cool tune.

Just played around with it a little, but i noticed according to this performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho

this sheet music doesn't really seem to do it justice to me. mostly on the base note part of things. at least in terms of chord structure only. because i don't read sheet music, so maybe my comment is pretty retarded because of that and the actual notation is pretty good.

but for the chord parts they always want you to keep the Bb for the bass note, and this piece is much cooler than that.

it also kind of reminds of a 70s/80s sitcom intro or something in some parts. but i can't quite put my finger on which one exactly.

i guess it doesn't really matter though, because i just clued in thati was thinking about in terms of piano and this is a guitar thread.

if i was guitar on this tune i'd probably not play much of the bass notes at all and just stick to the higher pstrings and accentuate some stuff or solo a little. so the bass notes thing wouldn't matter at all.


iow... nevermind.

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Malcolm

Is this the one?
http://www.all-events-music.com/pdf/...%20Klavier.pdf

Yes! That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks man. To fingerpickingood:On guitar yeah it's a very easy song. The pianist taught it to me, but only the melody part. It sounds somewhat dry when I only play a single line melody on top, so I just wanted to know the chords that go under the melody..also the chords so I can spruce up my improv on it a bit. And yeah it does sound like it could be the intro to a Good Times type spin-off hehe

[Malcolm]

Stealing the thread --- Speaking of bass notes. Just taken up the bass and figuring out what baseline riff to play is occupying my study time right now. If I were to play this piece I would look over the music decide what riffs to use and then concentrate on the chord changes -- yes I'm a short timer on bass.

In this piece the baseline is straight forward till the 13th measure, i.e. up to then Bd7 would be played as a B note and Bd7/D would be played as a D note. Simple root notes moving with the chord changes.

From the 13th on the bass is echoing the melody (15th measure). In my short time with the bass this is interesting.

Now my question; In the 17th and 18th measure what is the accepted way for the bass to play this double note? I'd just play a C note in 17 and a D note in 18 and move on. What is the accepted way to play a double note like these? I guess I'm having trouble deciding how I would sound a double note.