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

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Since you're wanting to do R-K pieces, I have a good guitar arrangement 
of The Flight of the Bumblebee I could send you *grin*      I'm not kidding.

Mike Miller wrote:
> 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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