Converting guitar music to piano sheet music

[frank1]

Hi All,
Just above beginner here.  Could someone please tell me how to:

Very old song by old artist named David Allen Coe song is Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile

I went on to guitar chords site and found guitar music but can't find the piano sheet music for this song.  What I have is:
Key: B flat capo first fret then
Intro: Bm E A E A Bm E A D E A then
first line Chorus N/C words Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile with a Bm above Smile then rest of song with very few notations.  Can someone please tell me how to convert this song into piano sheet music?  I can't find the piano version anywhere on internet, though I went to a video site that shows him playing this song on the piano and singing it.  Thanks in advance.
Frank

[sharmayelverton]

Yes guitarists often write out pop songs in this format. The format kind of requires that you are familiar with the song. My advice would be to listen through to the recording of the song carefully and figure out the structure of it. Using the guitar chart you found as reference, figure out one what beats and in which bars the chords change and then write yourself out a chord chart that displays this clearly.

I don't know the song but a written out piano part may not exist. It would then therefor be down to you to create your own arrangement from your chord chart. Have a go as this kind of thing can actually be really fun to do and very good practice for your musicianship skills. If you have more specific questions about chord voicing conventions and the like, I'm sure people will be more than happy to help. Good luck. 

[floydcramerfan]

Yay, I love that song.  I would just listen to it and figure out the chords like the previous poster said.  Here's the vid, hopefully.

Oh cool, it's live and there's a lot of piano.  Most piano players who play country play by ear or use chord charts rather than standard sheet music.

[sephethus]

You can basically take any chord progression and give it your own voicing. The main rule to harmony is that you don't want to go down or up anymore than a whole step, and don't drop voices unless they're coming together in unison. I'm still learning how to do this on the fly in real time, I'm still quite slow at improv.

[sharmayelverton]

The first step for voice leading chords on the piano is to simply find the chord inversion for each next chord that is in the closest position to your current chord voicing and requires the least finger movement possible. You'll often find that your playing one or more of the notes required for the next chord whilst your playing your first chord. This will actually lead you down plenty of nice voice leading paths.

Take your time and practice playing your basic chords through their inversions. Figure it out slowly and then learn what you have figured out. Then if you want some variation figure out another version by starting on a different inversion of your first chord. Learn this too and then you can combine the two Have fun.