"My way" and "tango"

[uvichem]

Hi all,
I just recently say a performance on youtube by 馬曉暉 and I was wondering where I can find the score for My Way for the erhu and this tango piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpD8CTPKg_8 (book or websites)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Stephen

[davidmdahl]

I don't know where to refer you to for jianpu scores for the tunes, but staff scores should be easily available for both. The tango is "Por una Cabeza" by Carlos Gardel. It is quite popular, and so should not be hard to find in staff notation.

The following are usually good resources for scores:

www.free-scores.com
www.sheetmusicplus.com

Best wishes,

David

[uvichem]

Thanks David!!

I wasn't aware of those sites. What a great resource!

Now comes the hard part of translating staff notation to jian pu...for the guzheng and erhu.

I wonder if there are students/people out there who would rearrange a piece of music for a fee? I tried to directly translate the first two bars of the violin to jianpu for the erhu and there already seems to be a problem.

[davidmdahl]

What sort of problem are you having transcribing staff notation to Jianpu? It is somewhat tedius, but should be reasonably straight-forward once you get the hang of it. When you have the Jianpu score, you can play in any key that suits the range and comfort on the erhu. If you need to transcribe a tune in an unfriendly key, just write out the Jianpu and decide later what key you will actually play in.

Best wishes,

David

[uvichem]

Hmm…would you mind checking this quickly to see if I’m on the right track. So the first two bars for the violin are B C C# D E D and this translated to erhu (1 5 strings, key D) I would say it’s 6 7 #7 1 2 1 (121 being higher).
Thanks David!

[davidmdahl]

That's pretty good for the tango, except I would put it as "6 7nat 7 1 2 1" or "6 #6 7 1 2 1". The numbers always indicate the note in the current key, so you only need accidentals (sharp, flat, natural) when a note is outside of the scale.

Best wishes,

David