In a message dated 2/4/02 12:01:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 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.>> (Marian)
(Walt) Yikes, of course I did [mean to include them in my thanks]-- I just haven't "met" them on the web yet. Thanks to all concerned! <<(M)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? >> (W)Yeah, except without the guitar -- I don't have one. :-) . I'll figure out the chords from the tablature, sort of abbreviate the chords with my variation on the usual chord notation, and use the actual tablature for timing guidance. If that makes sense. <<(M)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.>> In fact, I recently got the anthology on amazon.com, and was alternately pleasantly surprised, and bewildered at the choces made by the editor (e.g., like one song each from FTR and Hejira (??!!), but (yay) Jericho was included). It stops at WTRF (3 selections), so nothing from after '82. But it's got over 30 songs, so it's probably the best thing for her early stuff readily available. The thing that sort of puzzles me is the fact that once someone has published an arrangement (presumably with JM's imprimatur), it stays that way forever -- even if the arrangement has errors (it happens), or (more subjectively) just sorta sucks. I wonder if there's any hope that someone will go over the early, oversimplified arrangements and "fix" them for the two-volume "Complete" editions, or just reprint them. If the latter, okay -- as long as they come out *soon*! :-0 <<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. >> I'm sick now myself, so I feel for both of us. Hope you're completely recovered and back on your feet soon, Marian. And thanks again -- Walt
