Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] amusing solo guitar trick: Bohemian Rhapsody

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 2/2/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > So I just looked it up and found it here:
> >
> > http://www.8notes.com/scores/2915.asp?ftype=gif
> >
> > I can see that it is in Eb major (three flats).
>
> My son is a genius, but he wasn't playing it in Eb major back then. :-) 
> I think the version he had was maybe even in C major, which actually 
> isn't a great choice for guitar. I think I decided that D (maybe with a 
> dropped D tuning) would work best.
>
> > The Rimsky-Korsakov piece could be transposed to D (2 sharps) or to E 
> > (4 sharps), but you don't want to play it in Eb.
>
> No way. For this, you would have to take advantage of open strings. I'm 
> definitely thinking of dropped D.

That sounds like a really good idea.  To be sure of the best result, I 
would have to sit down and work through it both ways.  It's pretty hard 
even to do that to decide which key to use, and then there are tons of 
other things to work out along the way.  It's fun though - definitely the 
kind of thing that appeals to technically-oriented people like us.  Is 
"technically-oriented people" just a really long way of writing "geeks?"


> > Their just jealous because they can't take their pianos with them on 
> > vacation.
>
> s/Their/they're/

Thanks for the correction, but won't you have to escape that apostrophe?

s#s/Their/they\'re/#s/Their/they\\\'re/#

Probably not, actually.  So you win that one!

Mike

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