RudyH Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I am trying to find sheet music for guitar for Moonglow and It Had To Be You. Can you recommend a source? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I've got the lead sheets w/chords out of a couple of jazz "Fake Books". How would you like me to get them to you, e-mail, snail mail? I better not post them here, there might be some copyright infringement issues. Here's a pretty good sight for downloading (and paying for) sheet music and lead sheets: http://www.musicnotes.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayph0to Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Musicnotes is what I use if I need commercial sheet music. It's overstating a bit. But generally speaking if they don't have it, it's not to be found commercially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyH Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 Thank you for the information! I appreciate it. L5 Larry: I have never used a fake book, and don't know anything about them. I looked them up on Amazon.com to see the excerpts and it looks like what I need. I will buy one. Can you recommend a good one for guitar? How do you use them? Some are described as being for "C" instruments. Does that mean pay them in the key of C? Can you tell me a little about what a fake book is and how it is different from other guitar music notation? Thank you for the offer of the music, and I would take you up on it. But I think I really want one of these books for myself. One thing that struck me about the ones I saw excerpts from is that the music is written simply, which is good because then I can use that as the basis for adding my own color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV-Zeppelin Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 RudyH, a "C" instrument is any instrument that has a default tuning in C. a guitar is an "E" instrument. C instruments include flute and piccolo, just like trumpets are B flat instruments, French horns are F instruments, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudyH Posted October 25, 2008 Author Share Posted October 25, 2008 Thank you very kindly, I deeply appreciate the education on this matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I have never used a fake book' date=' and don't know anything about them. Some are described as being for "C" instruments. Can you tell me a little about what a fake book is and how it is different from other guitar music notation? [/quote'] The "fake book" was invented for improvisational music, such as jazz. It gives you treble clef notation of the melody line, with guitar chords or chord blocks over the staff. Some have lyrics, some don't, depends on the song and the book. Their intended use, as in jazz, is to give you a general "feel" for the song and melody, and allow you to improvise over this, as opposed to piano sheet music, or a "real book", that tells you every little note to play and when. You will want the "C" version, as this is the key which all standard music notation and music theory is based. As stated above, certain brass and woodwind instruments are "voiced" to other keys, generally for harmony purposes, but stringed instruments such as piano and guitar tuned "natural" or to "concert pitch" are all based around middle C. The fake book is more associated to piano type sheet music than to guitar music notation. This is not TAB, it is staff. If you have had no formal music training it will take some time and effort to learn to read, but once you get the hang of it, your on your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV-Zeppelin Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 ya... I don't use music... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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