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John Patitucci "Tone Poem" Transcription


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Here is my transcription of John Patitucci's "Tone Poem". If you want to check out the recording its on spotify, on the CD Line By Line :)


[attachment=89006:Tone_Poem.pdf]


[attachment=98310:Tone Poem treble clef.pdf]


*note: You need either a 6 string bass or an E - C 5 string to play it in the original arrangement. if not, some parts will need to be played down an octave*

edit: Treble clef version now added

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[quote name='Faithless' post='1367773' date='Sep 9 2011, 03:50 PM']Seems like someone doesnt like Treble Clef at all..... :)[/quote]

Think of it as a way to familiarise yourself with ledger lines :) I usually use treble clef when transcribing solos. The bass solos in the Hiromi transcriptions im working on are all in treble clef

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The whole treble clef/ledger lines/8va debate is one I have never been able to resolve in my own mind. I probably do it differently in every transcription. I guess the rule is, if it goes up there for a couple of beats, iyou seek one solution, if it stays up there for bars and bars, its another.

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Penguin, are you writing out the transcription on paper by hand first of all, or straight 'to the computer' (Finale, Sibelius, etc)?

The thing why I don't go crazy with ledger lines is just the amount of time it takes to mess with those ledger lines (think, count, write out in a way that's 'readable'), because most of the stuff I write down, I do it by hand first of all, and, to be honest, it's very rare to meet tunes notated that up high - it's way simpler to go to Treble Clef (once again, if you're doing it by hand..)


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[quote name='Faithless' post='1368605' date='Sep 10 2011, 02:55 PM']Penguin, are you writing out the transcription on paper by hand first of all, or straight 'to the computer' (Finale, Sibelius, etc)?

The thing why I don't go crazy with ledger lines is just the amount of time it takes to mess with those ledger lines (think, count, write out in a way that's 'readable'), because most of the stuff I write down, I do it by hand first of all, and, to be honest, it's very rare to meet tunes notated that up high - it's way simpler to go to Treble Clef (once again, if you're doing it by hand..)


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Laimis[/quote]

sorry man, hadn't seen your reply before i posted :) erm....sometimes i work straight into sibelius, but usually i do the rough transcription onto manuscript (mainly to get the notes/chords down) then write it up into sibelius. All the transcriptions ive been working on recently are onto manuscript then into computer, so my desk is a huge mass of half completed transcriptions :lol:

One of the reasons i used bass clef in this is that ive been looking at alot of Gwizdalas tutorials recently, and since theyre getting me into reading these high ledger lines i decided to transcribe this one using the ledger lines :)

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[quote name='lobematt' post='1371691' date='Sep 13 2011, 12:53 PM']Woah that is high, you got the tab??

:)

Haha only messin, quick (probably quite daft) question though... If this did go between bass an treble clef, would a C in treble still be a C on the bass, as in it doesn't get transposed just a different octave??[/quote]

No transposing of pitch involved, just different octaves :) C above the stave in Bass clef transposes to become the C below the stave in Treble clef

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[quote name='lobematt' post='1371691' date='Sep 13 2011, 12:53 PM']Woah that is high, you got the tab??

:)

Haha only messin, quick (probably quite daft) question though... If this did go between bass an treble clef, would a C in treble still be a C on the bass, as in it doesn't get transposed just a different octave??[/quote]

The C on the first ledger line ABOVE the bass clef is the same note as the C a single ledger line BELOW the treble clef. THe note is the 5th fret on the G string or the open (top) C on a 6 string bass.

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  • 4 months later...

Hey Penguin,

Thanks for the Treble clef version, though I had to commit myself learn this in Bass clef, as[i] [i][font=times new roman,times,serif]I had to do an graduation exams rehearsal last week- it turned out ok, but the way Patitucci's phrasing and holding the 'breath' is just unbelievalbe - so hard to imitate...[/font][/i][/i]

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