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Sheepathon

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I'm trying to find sheet music, but most search results are just retail sites. I'm not trying to find guitar tabs, but actual sheet music, note by note, etc.

I want to play the solo at the end of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb via violin, so I'm trying to hunt down the sheet music to it. I've tried listening a few seconds at a time and writing the notes onto blank sheet music paper, but some of the stuff Gilmour is playing blurs by rather quickly and I can't tell exactly which notes he's playing. I know I can keep up with the fingering, but I need the notes first. I've spent a lot of the night fruitlessly searching - any help, please?

If not, any links to sites that actually offer sheet music (whatever genre) and not a shopping window are appreciated as well, thanks.
 

Fritzo

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You'll probably have to check out a music store. Not too much sheet music out there. There's a program called Guitar Pro that will convert tab to sheet music. Might be less expensive to buy that in the long run.
 

fishmonger12

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sheet music is owned by the artist who wrote it, and therefore if you want it you will have to buy it. tab is an individual's own representation of the artist's work, which means it might not be correct and it can only be used for "personal or academic reasons". anyways, if you want sheet music, you have to buy it.
 

stars

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If nothing else, slow the music down and transcribe it. Its time consuming but it will greatly improve your playing.
 

Jzero

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Transcription is really the best way to pull this off. Even if you found sheet music, it will likely be watered down.
It's VERY tedious, unfortunately.
 

LeiZaK

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
You'll probably have to check out a music store. Not too much sheet music out there. There's a program called Guitar Pro that will convert tab to sheet music. Might be less expensive to buy that in the long run.

Guitar Pro :thumbsup:
 

sourceninja

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i have a giant hardback of the Wall in sheet music with tab underneth. If I can get access to a scanner, I'll send you a PM. A small section of the book like a solo should be fair use.
 

nakedfrog

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If you can find a MIDI copy of it that sounds close enough to suit you, you can run it into MidiNotate or something similar.
 

Kelemvor

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Well this isn't going to be real helpful but I found a website at one time where you could list all the sheet music you had and people could earch and then you could hook up and trade stuff basically. You'd have to have it scanned in or soemthing and then email back and forth with some PDF files.

I can check in my email at home and see if I have it somewhere but I haven't been there in a long time.
 
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if you can find tab for it why not just transcribe it? All the notes and stuff will be there right? Like many have said guitar pro will do this for you.
 

Sheepathon

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Guitar Pro = works for violin as well? Sorry, I know nothing about guitars or their sheet music.
 

JasonSix78

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OP, I haven't had any luck finding a whole lot of sheet music for free online. If I come across any I'll send them your way.


Originally posted by: fishmonger12
sheet music is owned by the artist who wrote it, and therefore if you want it you will have to buy it. tab is an individual's own representation of the artist's work, which means it might not be correct and it can only be used for "personal or academic reasons". anyways, if you want sheet music, you have to buy it.

True, but in my personal experiences with online tabs for guitar and piano I can take someones interpretation and tweak it to the original artist's version. That's in 90% of the tabs I've used. If you have an ear for music then it's usually not that hard.

-Jason
 

SludgeFactory

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PowerTab is free and gives you both guitar tab and standard musical notation. The solo to Comfortably Numb is uber-famous among guitarists, and the tab will be highly accurate at powertabs.net. The person(s) submitting it quite likely will have copied one of the many pro transcriptions of that song.

It's up to you to try to replicate the feeling Gilmour puts into it :)

EDIT: You can also get a plugin for Winamp and slow the tempo down w/o affecting the pitch, so you can attempt to transcribe blurs of notes for yourself. Fun times :)
 

Sheepathon

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Oct 22, 2003
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Practicing it now. This is great fun on violin. I'll try to post an mp3 recording (via my crappy computer mic) when I've gotten good at it. Anyone have any mp3s on hand with this solo played with a violin in studio quality?