Transposing

spurious

I have sheet music for a tune in C - I'm told the original was recorded in C#.
It's 'Arrival' by Abba, which I am attempting to play on the concertina.
I would like to be able to practice playing along with a recording of the original.

Is changing the key very difficult to do? In a haze of 30 years ago Inter. Cert. music memories, I'm thinking I just have to be consistent.

If someone could start me off, I think I can manage the rest.

Here are the first few notes (in C):

c,d,e,c,d,e,c,d,e,f,e,d,c,d,c,b,a,g,a,b,c

Thanks for any help.

Sofaspud

spurious wrote: »

I have sheet music for a tune in C - I'm told the original was recorded in C#.
It's 'Arrival' by Abba, which I am attempting to play on the concertina.
I would like to be able to practice playing along with a recording of the original.

Is changing the key very difficult to do? In a haze of 30 years ago Inter. Cert. music memories, I'm thinking I just have to be consistent.

If someone could start me off, I think I can manage the rest.

Here are the first few notes (in C):

c,d,e,c,d,e,c,d,e,f,e,d,c,d,c,b,a,g,a,b,c

Thanks for any help.

Just raise each note by a semitone, add a # to every note except b and e, which you just raise to c and f respectively.

So the bit you posted would be
c#, d#, f, c#, d#, f, c#, d#, f, f#, f, d#, c#, d#, c#, c, a#, g#, a#, c, c#

spurious

Thanks a million for the quick response.

Jeanious

I dunno how the concertina is for fingering notes like C#, but if ya want to play it in C (which i assume is far easier) you can get an audio program (try http://www.goldwave.com), open up your original abba song and turn it down a semitone. Theres even options to keep the same tempo and stuff, so i reckon that might be the best way.

spurious

That might be an idea - the concertina is a beggar for all those 'odd' notes.
I'll give it a go.