{"id":142,"date":"2008-08-17T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-08-17T19:03:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:03:29","slug":"transcription-of-elizabeth-june-by-kristen-hersh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"transcription of &#8220;Elizabeth June&#8221; by Kristen Hersh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is my transcription of Kristen Hersh&#8217;s song <a href=\"http:\/\/kristinhersh.cashmusic.org\/\">Elizabeth June<\/a>.  This is a lead sheet with the chords, melody, and lyrics together.  I don&#8217;t have a good transcription of the guitar picking patterns.<\/p>\n<p>I got to know this song well by transcribing it, which is a great thing about transcription.  The engine of the song is the way that she handles variation.  The left and right picking patterns are closely related but clearly distinct; for example they have contrary motion within a narrow range of pitches to produce enough complexity to keep the song from sounding like a Joan Baez accompaniment.  The melody is about balance between repetition and invention.  Economy is a big issue.   The thinking in this piece me of Morton Feldman&#8217;s piece &#8220;For Bunita Marcos.&#8221;  If you listen to the MP3 of the MIDI of the vocal line by itself, as if there wasn&#8217;t supposed to be anything else, it sounds a *lot* like that.<\/p>\n<p>At first my least favorite line in the lyrics was &#8220;your new moguls: trees&#8221;, which struck me as trying too hard.  Now it&#8217;s my favorite line because it&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June.mid\">MIDI of the vocal line<\/a>, for remixers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June.mp3\">MP3 of the MIDI<\/a>, using a piano sound to get a reasonably uncrappy tone.  This is for humans who want to listen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June.pdf\">PDF of the lead sheet<\/a>, for players who want to perform the song.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June.sib\">Sibelius source file<\/a>, for people who want to modify the sheet music.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June.wav\">WAV of the vocal line<\/a>, for remixers who just want to sample.  This uses a reasonably ok piano patch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June -- picking patterns.pdf\">PDF of the guitar picking patterns<\/a>, for people who want to do something close to the original.  I don&#8217;t think this is accurate.  These patterns are subtle and I had a hard time grabbing them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the sheet music looks like:<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June_page2.png\" alt=\"Elizabeth June sheet music, page 2\" style=\"width: 90%; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em; margin: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/elizabethjune\/Elizabeth June_page3.png\" alt=\"Elizabeth June sheet music, page 3\" style=\"width: 90%; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em; margin: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my transcription of Kristen Hersh&#8217;s song Elizabeth June. This is a lead sheet with the chords, melody, and lyrics together. I don&#8217;t have a good transcription of the guitar picking patterns. I got to know this song well by transcribing it, which is a great thing about transcription. The engine of the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablature","tag-transcriptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}