Another example of what one might find/not find in the sheet music. My wife and I went to see Oliver at the Theatre Royal in Bath, and although we thought we had booked seats that were five rows from the front, they had actually taken out the first four rows in order to have more space in the orchestra pit. Our knees were right up against the railings .. but one advantage of being so close was that we could see all the members of the orchestra quite clearly.
It was a fabulous production, and one song that really got me going was their arrangement of
I'd do anything. Probably because I could see him as well as hear him, it was what the horn player was playing I thought went so well with the song. Obviously the sheet music the orchestra were using was written for each instrument, but when I got home I did look at some sheet music available for this song to see if that horn was written into the music anywhere.
The first one I came across was this one, which gave the melody and the chords for the song, but no clue as to what the horn player was doing.
Then there was this, which gave you a lot more notes .. but no chord symbols.
And still no clue as to what the horn player was doing.
So what was this fabulous 'part' the horn was playing that caught my imagination so?
Just as well I could hear and pick out the notes he was playing 'by ear' so I could put them in to my arrangement of this piece. This is what I ended up with. Listen carefully to the 'horn' part. Hope it grabs you as it did me.
Click the below to listen.
After listening, click the back-arrow top left to get back to this page.I'd Do Anything (DEMO) from OliverThe moral of this story? Don't always expect what you want to play to have everything you want to hear written into the sheet music. Be prepared to pick up bits and pieces 'by ear' and put them into your arrangement.
PS. In several places in this forum there are LINKS where you can listen to the music directly (as in the piece above). If you want to download the music from one of these LINKS, do a right-click on the LINK and choose
Save link as... which will download the track into your
Downloads folder (unless you have set your Browser up to ask you
where you want it downloaded to).