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  • 05-04-2009 10:55AM
    #1
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,434 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭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#


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,434 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Thanks a million for the quick response.


  • #4
    Jeanious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,434 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


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


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