I read on his blog where Jim was trying to learn the Star Wars Theme on his keyboard. This got me to thinking about my own HarpTab.com website and how hard it is to read tab. I wrote a Flash object that lets you play single piano notes using JavaScript and now my tab site has sound to match the tab. Just roll the mouse over the note and hear the sound of it. One of the song snippets on the web site is the Star Wars theme. I only had the sounds of piano notes, but I am going to record all the notes on a harmonica.
So Jim, here’s the first few bars of the Star Wars Theme. I think it’s in the key of G, but who can tell with these translated tabs?
3 Comments
Thanks for this.But Star Wars starts off with 3 D’s. A Triplate.
Then the Key of G. I’m having troubles with the “E Key” with that A&B note.
Jim
Thanks again for this, That was a nice thing to do.
Jim
It was just fun. These are translated from Cell phone ringtones so the key has been transposed and won’t match the key in the movie. I compounded it again by dropping it a fourth so it would play well on a ‘C’ harmonica, even though it it probably (now that I look at it) in the key of F.
Harp players do this all the time. They can play the same song in any key by switching harmonicas and they play in the ‘wrong’ key, such as playing a song in C when the label on the harmonica says F. This is called Cross-harp and is a whole chapter in itself.