Badly Drawn Boy: Silent Sigh tabbed by: Hugh Mortimer, hugh_mortimer@hotmail.com This is my first attempt to write piano tab on a computer, and not on manulescript. I've seen a few ways people have tried to write piano tabs but don't particularly like them as they seem difficult to follow fluently. I've done mine the way I initially feel is fit. I guess my tab requires some knowledge of reading piano music. Don't know why I'm doing this...a good alternative to revising! Hope it's good. All feedback welcome and appreciated. According to this, I'll try and adapt my style to what people want. Problem is, I really don't know what type of people look for piano tab - how experienced they are, and how complicated I need to make the tab. Please tell me! hugh_mortimer@hotmail.com If I get some feedback, I may do some more, adapting my style if necessary // Haven't actually got a piano handy, so am doing this completely by memory. Hope the key is right. // I'll check it when I get the chance. // Read the notation like manulescript. The spaces between the lines represent the notes between the lines. // This is my interpretation of the song, so may not be completely right // If you don't understand the key, just take every letter as a note, and time them according to the music. // I haven't included rests, as it would be too messy to read - thus not always 4 beats in a bar, but spaces in music should indicate where rests do lie // Notes played at the same time are vertically alligned. Key: m - minim, c - crotchet, q - quaver, # - sharp, b - flat, * - (note length + a half) Note: m = 2c, q = c/2 MAIN PIANO PART THROUGHOUT MOST OF PIECE: NOTE LETTERS of each line (spaces are notes in between) bar lines / / 1. / / / Trebble: / |F|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|---- | | q | c | |D|---------------------c-------|------------q---------q-----------|------- | | q | q q | |B|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | q q | q | |G|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | | | |E|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|--------- | | | | |C|<<<<<(middle C) | | repeat, but 2nd time through | | Bass: | | last note is a G instead of A |A|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | | | |F|-----------------------c-----|---------------------------c------|------- | | | | |D|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | c* | c* | |B|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | | | |G|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | c* | c* | 2. |F|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|---- | | q | c | |D|---------------------c-------|------------q---------q-----------|------- | | q | q q | |B|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | | | |G|-------------q-------------q-|-------------------------------q--|-------- | | | | |E|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|--------- | | | | |C| | | repeat, but 2nd time through | | | | last note is an A instead of G |A|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | | | |F|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------- | | | | |D|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | c | c | |B|-----------------------------|----------------------------------|------ | | | | |G|-------------c*--------------|---------------c*-----------------|-------- | | | | ---- ---- -c*- -c*- \ \ notes beneath stave (each line represents 2 notes under G) 3. "never gonna be..." |F|------------------------------|----------------------------------|---- | | | | |D|------------------------------|----------------------------------|------- | | | | |B|------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | | | |G|--q---q---c------q------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | c | q q | |E|------------------------------|----------------------------------|--------- | | q q c q q | q q q c | |C| --- --- --- --- -c- --- | --- --- --- --- --- --- | back to 1. | | q q c q q | q q q q q c | |A|---------------------c--------|----------------------------------|------ | | q | q q q q q c | |F|------------------------------|----------------------------------|------- | | | | |D|------------------------------|------------------c---------------|------ | | | | |B|---------------------------q--|----------------------------------|------ | | c | | |G|--m---------------------------|----------------------------------|-------- | | | | Notes on playing: Most of the notes at the end of each bar should be held on until the next note is played. // I couldn't be bothered with the easy solo bits which come later, but these are // easy to work out.