Topic: Elvis Original Jailhouse Rock as performed by Dudley Brooks (Read 3975 times)

johnschenker · on: June 10, 2014, 02:43:40 PM

I am trying to create an accurate score and midi file with the piano part in Jailhouse Rock!

Does anyone know of a good a accurate score / recording by someone else / Original Master recording

or video of the piano part of Jailhouse Rock that accurately notates Dudley Brooks' April 30, 1957 playing style?.

Below is a Midi version of Jailhouse rock dumped into MuseScore, With only the piano and a little of the guitar parts audible. I have tried to fuse the Jailhouse Rock Piano Climax Raw Notation file (which I created from the original audio recording) with this midi that I found (see bellow) will be refining chords, notation swing using the piano as a starting point. The Goal is, of course, creating a piano part of Jailhouse Rock that accurately notates Dudley Brooks' April 30, 1957 playing style.

https://www.musescore.com/user/228981/scores/216141

any suggestions, help, will be very much appreciated!

The Original Midi can be found Here though it has parts that are clearly not synchronised.

www.midiworld.com/search/?q=jailhouse

Here as an ogg sound file (not midi) is the original but without the echoing quite unsynchronised parts.

https://soundcloud.com/ohnchenker/jailhouserockbestmidi

___________Attempt to creat midi from audio__________

After the process of isolating the audio and creating the Midi (see below) with Melodyne. I have to make sense of the notation.

The result is this (just a fragment: Do not worry fans. I will delete it

https://www.musescore.com/user/203226/scores/198226

Can anyone recommend me any method or person to successfully isolate the piano part in the 1957 recording in Jailhouse Rock?

ISOLATING THE PIANO PART-

--(My attempt)---:
-- reinforcing the piano trying to remove other parts--

Based on the stereo take 6 (The one Released, found on YouTube

I have enhanced the piano Part on this recording using Audacity, I have:

* Copied the Left channel which has the piano guitar and drums, (but hardly any Elvis Vocals) and pasted this audio from the left channel on both channels of a new audio track.

* Created form this track, a new track with no guitar sound by:

- Creating a "Noise Profile" of the Guitar's First Chord
- Removed that sound footprint from recording

and then I "rendered and Mixed" (in Audacity) this isolated Piano track with guitar removed, (sounded like jingles - not usable on its own as an audio of the Piano) with the original track that had vocals removed (content of the left channel in the original recording)

The result is this:

https://soundcloud.com/user382593122/sets/elvis-jailhouse-rock-piano#

Please would anyone be so kind to direct me to a accurate score?

Thank you any comments would be VERY much appreciated!

This is my very first attempt to notate the swing of the piece which is proving very difficult! (having to swap from 12/8 to 4/4 time for the trilled chords)

https://www.musescore.com/user/203226/scores/196671

I also used the isolated piano track (see below)

and inverted the phase of this rendered and mixed with the enhanced piano track (see above) to eliminate the piano thus leaving the guitar.

I then inverted this to eliminate the guitar "walking riff" from the original . I used the equalization on Audacity to filter out the bass and saved this version as 16 bit ".WAV" file.

Then I opened with Melodyne, eliminated any remaining bass notes; increased the amplitude of the piano's top and chord notes (using Melodyne's amplitude tool), and saved as MIDI. Then I open the MIDI file with MuseScore and I have to make some sense of the crazy notation!

Please Help I really could do with your help! The Notation is gone mad and but it is very difficult to notate the swing of the piece!

Please. Would anyone be so kind to direct me to a accurate score?

Thank you any comments would be VERY much appreciated!

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