Hi, Howard, [and I'm sending this to the list, too, in case anyone else can help]
I'm still enjoying going back and playing some of the Joni from the Blue and FTR era; and of course, I'm loving having some of the more recent pieces, too. One does wonder what Joni was thinking, writing Sunny Sunday in C# -- I ignore it and play it almost automatically raised to D, which is a hell of a lot easier; and, as it turns out, works perfectly in my scheme to bring that song together with I Don't Know... and Harry's House. [for anyone who doesn't know, I play piano, but I can make some sense of guitar tablatures] But the reason I'm writing -- I have no idea if you have the time or the inclination to check this out -- is Two Grey Rooms. There are a couple of errors in the transcription, I'm pretty sure (what else is new?), but I wanted to see what you thought. Specifically: Right at the beginning, the first two chords that open the song: The first is a plain old D/E(5) -- but the second chord, written as D(add G) in chord tablature above, is written as (from the top down) F#, C(!), A, G. Of course, if one corrects the C to a D, it's way better, but what I'm hearing in the recording is F#, D, B, A and possibly a G on the bottom or something. More like a D6/G or D6add4, the latter of which is too crowded. Hope you don't mind me bothering you about this -- I'll try not to make too much of a habit of it. I do have some questions about the piano transcription for "River"; the jingle bells sequence at the end isn't correct as written, I think, but I haven't done the listening part of my homework on that one (yes, I give myself homework). I'm in the early stages of another possible pastiche that may already have been "done" by any number of jmdlers, a Christmas pastiche combining River with Chinese Cafe's third verse, and Facelift. I'd add in Gift of the Magi (what a beautiful, haunting song! I'm just getting to know it), but I'm currently working without a broswer, so I can't check the guitar tablature database at jmdl to see if it's been done; bummer. This too shall pass. Oh, I've also been working on Man From Mars -- the transcription is regrettably more like Joni's somewhat shrill [referring to the piano, only; her voice is fine] version on TtT; I much prefer her own "unofficial" version, yours, and the one from Grace of My Heart, so I'm listening to those for inspiration. The sole reason I'm working on MFM is that it's actually suitable for my unbelievably limited voice. :-) Wouldn't you know, probably because of sickness, when I played piano for the first time in 3 weeks yesterday and sang, I was able to reach notes I hadn't even attempted since the '70's, when I didn't sing that well, either, for that matter, but I had more range to my croak back then. Robert, my partner, stopped and looked at me with some amazement during one of the songs, when i hit a relatively high note. "You sound diffferent today." Sigh. Yeah, all I needed was the flu. Hope all is well at your end, Best, Walt
