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07-04-2010, 03:08 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | My turn to ask for an unknown song title and performer
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Hi and thank you in advance for reading. As the thread title suggests, I've just remembered a song that long ago I heard many times on the radio, but never knew (or can't remember) its title and performer. It's a power ballad (from the 70s, I guess) that starts with a 3-part male choir a cappella (ala Eagles' "Seven Bridges Road"). Unfortunately, that intro is the only part that I can remember to some extent. I've transcribed what I can recall from sheer memory: 
Not a big piece of info, but if you sing accurately the melody in my transcription and the song is in your brain's database, there's a big chance that you have the answer to my question. Thank you again!  |
07-04-2010, 03:12 AM
| | | | have you heard about the lonesome loser........ |
07-04-2010, 03:14 AM
| | | | Australian band
Little river band |
07-04-2010, 03:20 AM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Wow! That was fast!  "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band! I've just confirmed that I never knew the title nor the performer (I mean, not that I forgotten them). Thank you so much! That's why TalkBass is such a great place.  |
07-04-2010, 03:25 AM
| | | | Im an Aussie.
Glen Shorach was the singer |
07-04-2010, 09:59 AM
| | | | oooooooo I love that song! Forgot all about it.
Man I gotta learn how to sing harmony........
and boy it's gotta be a pain playing with a lefty guitar who stands on the left.....
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07-04-2010, 10:47 AM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nsmar4211  oooooooo I love that song! Forgot all about it.
Man I gotta learn how to sing harmony........ | Well, if you can read music notation or someone near you can do it, you can use the transcription below (now made from the recording) to sing it with a trio. The upper part fits a female voice perfectly.  |
07-04-2010, 02:21 PM
| | | ohhhhhhh I can't sightsing, but I can read music, so I can play the harmony part on a piano and learn it that way...
How did you do that transposing? Was it a program? I would *love* to have a program that would notate out the melodies for me of a recorded song......
*steals transcription*
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07-05-2010, 08:14 AM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nsmar4211 ohhhhhhh I can't sightsing, but I can read music, so I can play the harmony part on a piano and learn it that way...
How did you do that transposing? Was it a program? I would *love* to have a program that would notate out the melodies for me of a recorded song......
*steals transcription* | I use Finale for transcribing music, but everything is figured out by ear (and I'm very confident about my aural skills, I must say).
P.S.: Just in case, don't forget that, according to the clef, all the notes in the score should be played (sung) one octave lower than written.
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07-05-2010, 12:31 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: rio grande valley, texas | | here's a youtube link to a recent rendition of 'happy anniversary', a song i enjoy, which also starts with an acapella section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Dna8dffc4
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