Hi Walt - Thanks for the compliments. I hope you also meant to include Mark Domyancich. and Sue McNamara - the other two guitar heavyweights at jmdl.com. Without Sue (and Les Irvin, of course), the guitar database would not even exist, and without Mark, well we would have had to wait a long time for transcriptions of songs like Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Black Crow, and Blue Motel Room, to name just a few.
I can't even imagine trying to work out the piano parts from guitar tablature! What a novel approach! I'm curious about your process. Do you sit at the piano with your guitar and the guitar transcriptions and then work out the chords on the piano? I have found most of the available piano music sadly lacking in critical details and have always resorted to listening to a piece over and over (and even then it's still sometimes hard). I think the Anthology (the one with the pastel-peach-colored cover) songbook has some better than average piano transcriptions, but I think you'd still have to refer to the recordings in most cases. Anthology is still available from amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, I think. It's cheaper there than trying to get it from eBay. Or try www.abebooks.com. Regards, Marian Vienna P.S. I have been home for the last three weeks recovering from flu, two (possibly three) colds, and bad back. I think I'm finally on the mend and am back at work today. If anybody has written to me privately, I'll try to get to your message ASAP. I haven't been keeping up with JMDL at all, so sorry if I've missed anything. On 29 January 2002 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hi, Howard and Marian, > > You've both sent mer good musical advice in the past, and I was just surfing > through the guitar database, and although I'm some sort of pianist, I can > make sense of the tablature -- not least because you've explained it so well. > > A very big thanks to both of you for all the work you do! > > I'm trying to teach myself to play piano directly from tablature arrangements > -- I can already sort of do it from chord names and make up my own > "arrangements" that differ from the published ones -- but your tablatures for > songs like "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey" which are very much guitar songs, > give so much more information than the published piano arrangements, some of > which are oversimplified and/or hard to find now (although that may change if > she ever puts out her "Complete" Books -- any news on that?). > > And I have yet to make a dent in all the songs available. > > Thanks again, and keep up the good work! > > Walt
