Yes - Sound Chaser

[marius63]

I am studying Sound Chaser by Yes.
I could not find a score so I am writing one based on my ear and the ear of others via their MIDIs:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4E99DjowH6tMmY4OTRlNjMtNDdlNS00NmIyLWIwMGUtZmRhOTMwMjgzNGNl&hl=en_US&authkey=CLfirZ8C

I'm playing the intro riff with a little help of the LH, as annotated in the score.
What do you think?
Can you play it only with the RH?
How does Moraz do it?
Prutsman uses only the RH, but perhaps different notes.
Thanks.

[marius63]

Please use this "fresh" link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4E99DjowH6tMmY4OTRlNjMtNDdlNS00NmIyLWIwMGUtZmRhOTMwMjgzNGNl/view?usp=sharing&authkey=CLfirZ8C

I keep getting requests to access the document, albeit it is open to anyone with the link, so it's probably a Google bug, but anyway try this fresh link, please.

[dcstudio]

I think, wow--4 years you have been working on this?   Am I not seeing it all or is there only the one page?

how does Moraz do it... I was always a Wakeman fan... so I don't know. lol.  This is pretty ambitious.. what is your musical background and do you read music? and why is there a Tenor Clef for the voice?  don't know a single vocalist who will read that without making serious complaints... most won't even know what it is.  Are you planning on transcribing the whole thing--all instruments?  If not you have way too many staves there.

I don't mean to sound rude... really.. I am just wondering why you are writing this out like this as it is pretty inefficient scoring?  Can you play this yet?

[marius63]

To clarify: I did not advance this project, I refreshed the link just because of the Google issue.

Just one page, yes, sorry. Should I take it down?

I recall playing this intro some years ago, yes, with the help of the LH as noted, and planning to transcribe some band parts, but then plans changed.

The clefs can be changed, but I don't see an issue with the tenor clef per se, I think Yes vocals are in this register.

How does Wakeman do it?

[dcstudio]

To clarify: I did not advance this project, I refreshed the link just because of the Google issue.

Just one page, yes, sorry. Should I take it down?

I recall playing this intro some years ago, yes, with the help of the LH as noted, and planning to transcribe some band parts, but then plans changed.

The clefs can be changed, but I don't see an issue with the tenor clef per se, I think Yes vocals are in this register.

How does Wakeman do it?

  countertenors use this (viola) clef on occasion...but those are highly trained and very rare creatures--with a range quite a bit higher than John Anderson's.. I am an accompanist... for vocalists mainly...  most of your average singers won't even know what it is. So unless you plan on hiring Larry Zazo or another pro to sing this -- might want to stick with the standard clef... that's all I am saying--just a suggestion. 
Also if you use the treble clef instead of the bass clef for the left hand--you won't have to put all the LH's above the grand staff and you will leave yourself room to notate the right hand--if you choose to. That is the standard way of notating this type of thing.

I apologize for my comment... just wondering why you decided to refresh the link after 4 years? You obviously have very progressive taste in music... this is a tune for only the die hard yes fans.  It's been decades since I skipped high school and sat in a room full of black light posters and listened to this one...lol.   So are you from this era like me or did someone else turn you on to the wonder that is/was YES. 

Sound Chaser was one of the tunes that caused Wakeman to (first) leave Yes... the entire Relayer album was not to his liking--..  I am not sure that he has ever played it--don't think that tune was part of the more recent YES concert line-up after he rejoined the 3rd, 4th and 5th times... I could be wrong though...

I am curious as to why you want to transcribe this?  unless you are in music school and it's an assignment...   do you play keyboards?   also, this was originally played on a now obsolete minimoog..et al  a piano transcription--actually standard notation as a whole... won't cover everything... too many things a minimoog could do that a piano--or any other instrument, for that matter-- can't.

I would be very interested to see this when you have it finished...