X-rated Bob wrote:
[edit - various posts of mine in this thread combined into one]
OK... I found www.musicnotes.com. I used the search facility to find the score for a song I play ("Beeswing" by Richard Thompson). They give you the first page of the score as a sample.
It's legit. Thompson's own web site provides a link and says this is the place to download transcriptions. It's not for free, but not expensive, and you can buy individual songs rather than entire books.
The sample I got was fairly accurate with a stave, tab, lyrics and chord diagrams. It showed the turning the for the guitar (drop D on this case) and the position of the capo (Thompson plays it with capo at 3, which was what was shown on the download).
What it DIDN'T show in the tab was hammers and pulls. Otherwise it looked quite accurate.
Another reason I searched for this song is that it's not exactly a big international hit. I checked for "She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair" which is obscure even by Thompson's standards, and they had that - but clearly from a different source. Different fonts used, chord diagrams only, guitar tuning still specified but in a slightly different way, no tab. But anyway, this tells us something about the completeness of the archive.
Finally I checked for "Smoke On the Water", "Enter Sandman" and "In the Midnight Hour" just to be sure that it's not an online publishing house for beret-wearing folkies. I found them all.
Thanks Bob. Seems this site may provide the kind of help we're looking for. As Geert said, getting 80% of the work done in 20% of the time ? I just did a quick search for one of the songs we're interested in, Peter Green's "The Green Manalishi" and it's there, checked the sample page, which is basic enough anyway, hopefully the later parts that we actually want guidance on will be helpful ? ...but ja, we're not looking to copy exactly, just have a better understanding of what is happening in the original.
