Looking for sheet music

[jghtb]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find the sheet music for drums for any (or all) of their songs???

I have been looking everywhere and the only song I can seem to find is One Week - good song, but I would like to add more songs, I'm looking for the old songs (prior to SJP leaving) such as Old Apartment, Call and Answer, Break your Heart, Showbox, etc.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!!! :D

Thanks,

Tanya

[Amicustoall]

http://rockitoldschool.com/

Have you tried here?


Looks like piano and guitar there, sorry

[Ellen from Saint Louis]

There are published sheet music books for Stunt, Maroon, and a typo-filled compilation of even earlier songs (including the poorly-titled "Call Me Clamly"). But I dont know if they have drum parts.

[Amicustoall]

Out or curiosity I took a quick look at ebay and found lots of sheet music, but all said piano/vocals/guitar. That doesn't look promising.

[TheHYPO]

There is no existing Drum music for BNL that I know of. If you have a SPECIFIC song in mind, I MIGHT be able to help you out by converting a drum track I created some time in the distant past into written sheet music, if I happened to have that song. I can't make any guarantees. When I started rockitoldschool.com, I really intended to work on drums and bass, but ultimately, writting out full tab, even for guitar proved to be very time consuming and tedious to be fully accurate. I have barely done tab for guitar in a few years (I usually just fall back to doing chord sheets) because sometimes you can cheat on guitar and list chords for rhythm parts, but bass is pretty much all tab. Drum has some "repeat" in there, but it's still a lot of writing and listening and I just don't have the time I did in 2002, as sad as it is.

Just out of curiousity (not that I have much use for it), but I'd be interested to see the drum sheet for one week that you found.

Just for sheet music completionists, the following songbooks are available, and I have never seen any others. ALL are primarily piano (arranged to sound nice played solo, and not particularly related to what any one member of hte band plays) with a vocal line at the top. The vocal line for all books seem to have harmonies very occasionally intersperced in the songs, but not consistant at all. They all also have guitar chords with box figures; where a capo is used, the open chord is listed below the figure:


Born on a Pirate Ship - This is the only songbook [see the next one though] that I know of which BNL actually had any input at all. Ed and Jim were consulted, and as such, the guitar chords are pretty accurate to what Ed plays mostly - still some errors though.
The Best of BNL - Circa 1997, it has basically every song that got a video from Gordon, MYSD and BOAPS, plus also Box Set, Mil$, Nutshell, Straw Hat and This Is Where It Ends. Ed and Jim are listed as consulting on the book again, but I believe this is just the reused BOAPS material. Pre-BOAPS material seems far less accurate (including Brian Wilson just sitting on E-minor during the chorus' "James Bond" run). I could be wrong though.
Stunt This and the subsequent books are all pretty generic. No band input. They are good enough to recognize the song played on piano or guitar, but won't win any medals for accuracy, and there are chords that don't sound quite right all over the place.
Maroon
Disc One

BNL Chord Songbook (aka: "All you Need to play 21 BNL songs") This one is the EXCEPTION to the above: contents listed here (http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Barenaked-Ladies-Chord-Songbook/3684516) - The book is not from Warner, I don't believe, and includes ONLY lyrics, chord names and guitar diagrams. It is the most inaccurate book, but claims to be "easy-medium", but I still think you could play different "easy" chords and still be closer in accuracy. I would not likely have purchased it, but I won it signed from the old Ladies Room (Possibly the first thing I ever had signed from them, and well before I had ever met them. A kind of ironic/fitting prize for me as well, given what I'm known for).

[Philip]

Figure out the basics and then make it your own - it's a less technically satisfying process but way more fun. :)

[DaWezl]

but bass is pretty much all tab.

When I played bass, I worked with sheet music rather than tabs, so maybe I'm just not familiar enough with how to use them, but in my limited beginner experience working on maybe 2-3 BNL and Bros Creeggan songs, Jim's bass lines were really wide ranging and very difficult for an inexperienced player to master. Even my teacher who was an exceptional jazz and rock bassist commented on how challenging Jim's lines were. It seems to me that while a tab will give you a passable bass rhythm to put underneath the other elements, it's not really going to give you a true "BNL-style" bass line.

[jghtb]

Thanks for all of your input - it seems like this is going to be more difficult than i anticipated lol
to The Hypo - thanks so much for your input, i am mostly interested in songs on the Rock Spectacle album
Also I found the tabs for One Week on

http://www.mxtabs.net/view/tab/76251/barenaked_ladies/one_week/

Thanks again,
Tanya :D