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re: Speaking Of Sheet Music...

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Steven 03:53 pm UTC 03/05/10
In reply to: Speaking Of Sheet Music... - RepeatandFade 04:11 am UTC 03/04/10

> I'd be very curious to hear from Jim as to how the process
> of having his songs transcribed works.

Hm, do you believe there is any Jim involvement?
Considering how all the PVG sheet music tends to look the same, I always imagined that it was some sort of industry by-product that doesn't involve the original artist at all.
Like movies made into VHS tapes.

I imagined some poor chaps sitting in some chamber at the end of a long corridor in a publisher's office building, doing the piece-work of having to listen to the respective latest chart hits or whatever the publisher considers a potential source of revenue at the time, transforming everything into a bassline for left hand & melody+chord rudiments for right hand.

> I am fascinated
> with inaccuracies and omissions in sheet music and how
> those inaccuracies and omissions could affect the
> "posterity" of a song.

Although I share a general fascination for ... err ... different versions of songs and how changing details changes them, I must admit that I tend to get angry when I come across inaccuracies, esp. wrong chords or loveless arrangements like e.g. the BATII songbook one.





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