By request from a long, long time ago, I give you the piano accompaniment sheets for Tsumibito. I would have finished it much earlier but my hard drive wiped the partition with my music projects on it so I had to start over. To be honest though, I’m actually kind of surprised that no one else seems to have made them by now. So anyway, this song is track no.2 on Supercell’s MyDearest single,and is another vocal/piano only piece. The song has a slow-to-moderate pace, so don’t rush and be fairly strict with the tempo (barring the intro, which should contain ample use of rubato).
Looking over the sheets, it doesn’t seem like a particularly complex song but I ran into a lot of troubles trying to figure out whether a note was an overtone or an actual key press. There was also an issue of formatting the notes so they would be easy to read. For this, I opted to separate the left and right hand divisions into two separate parts each; you’ll notice in each stave the notes have stems facing up and down simultaneously. For this sheet, every note in the top stave is played by the right hand, and the same goes for the bottom stave and left hand. One other important point you’ll need to be aware of is that everything in the bottom stave (apart from the intro and the last two chords) is played an octave lower than notated. This is signified by the 8vb bass clef.
Make sure to put greater weight on the bottom and (more importantly) top notes of each passage rather than letting the middle notes muddy up the sound. Play legato for the most part and depress the pedal in predictable patterns. The expressions are just a very rough guideline of sorts and aren’t meant to be followed strictly or at all. In fact, I didn’t actually properly sit down listen to the original audio when I wrote the dynamics into the sheet so everything in that department is up for your own interpretation.
As usual, you get to choose from .pdf sheets here, as well as .png [–1–2–3–4–5–6]formats. Have fun!
All right, that’s about all I’ve got for now. I’m not sure if I’ll get around to doing a video demonstration of the sheets but I’ll update this post when I do. Wishing a happy 2014 to everyone 🙂
This song is no.9 on the EGOIST album Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities and is an acoustic vocal/guitar track. The song is played at a moderate tempo, so it sounds like it isn’t particularly difficult to play. I’ve made a guitar tablature sheet, which you can find here in .pdf, and in .png [–1–2–]formats. This song reminds me of Yakusoku wo Shiyou, which is slower and more melodic. If you know how to play that, this will be a tiny bit easier to learn. It’s in the same key and shares a few other similarities which I won’t go into, but I thought it was interesting.
Anyway, there are some things about the symbols on the sheet which you should keep in mind, and I’ll list them here:
Minims are notated in the same way as crotchets
Slurs = a tied note, a hammer-on, or pull-off
H = Hammer-on
P = Pull-off
/ = Slide
Squiggly downwards facing arrow = upstroke (strum towards yourself)
And because I don’t know how to do the notation for these properly:
Diamond box = harmonic
A.H. = artificial harmonic (different from an open harmonic because you have to fret the string with your left hand)
Now, this post is a bit longer than previous posts, because there are a few things I’d like to talk about in regards to playing the song, if you want to know.
First things first, if you know how to play harmonics, great! If you don’t, I can’t help you out much, but I’ll give you a vague idea. Look up some YouTube videos, read the Wikipedia article, and do some of your own experimenting! As an example, if you pluck the top E string with your thumb at the sound hole, it sounds pretty normal. If you pluck it near the 12th fret, the sound changes. because the resonance of overtones changes. Now if you touch the 12th fret and pluck it at the same time, you can make a 1st degree harmonic! Note that you’ll have to lightly touch the string just above the metal fret, not above the wood (this gives you a clearer, more focused sound). Timing is crucial, and your aim is to lift the finger touching the 12th fret just a split second after you pluck. The gif below shows a common technique, using the middle (probably more people use the index) finger to touch the string at the harmonic, while using the thumb underneath to pluck the string. It takes practise!
So what are the harmonics you need to learn?
The 1st degree harmonics sound one octave above the fundamental tone, e.g. a 1st degree harmonic on an E4 string will sound like E5. It is both the easiest to play, and probably the most useful. This is played at the 12th fret. If you divided the string into two equal parts, it would be at the centre point between the two. The 2nd degree harmonic is an octave+fifth above the fundamental tone, e.g. E4 will sound like B5. You can play this at the 7th or 19th fret. They’d be at the endpoints of each section if you divided the string into thirds. There are more, but those are all we need for today.
Artificial harmonics are played at the beginning of the piece, but nowhere else. I notated these with rounded square brackets underneath the staff, because I don’t know how to actually notate it. These are all first degree harmonics of the G, B and E strings when played in a standard D chord [xx0232]. This means instead of playing harmonics of the G, B and E strings at the 12th fret like you would if they were open, you have to play them at the 14th, 15th and 14th frets, respectively. There are other ways to play the same notes using open 2nd degree harmonics of the D, G and B strings, and this TAB does use them in some parts, but not all. What this means is that you don’t have to use artificial harmonics at all, if you don’t want to, and you can use the 5th fret of the A string (for the left hand) instead of the open D for the first verse. The reason I didn’t tab it this way is because you’ll have to do it the way I tabbed it later anyway, and it’s good practise.
Tips for fingering All right, now onto the next thing I wanted to talk about. When learning the song, I found that the form is fairly simple (extended binary: A-B-A-B-coda pattern), and the notes aren’t that hard to figure out. The problem was with the fingering.
See, normally you play a D chord by using your index, middle and ring finger to make the shape. But in this piece you have to use a few different fingerings for the same D chord. At the introduction, you can use the normal fingering, but you have to change it quite quickly at the 3rd bar to your middle, ring and pinky (see the picture above) if you want to be able to sustain the bottom note with your index. After this you have to shift to the A string 4th fret, and fretting the G string 2nd fret with the index and B string 3rd fret with the middle finger. This leaves your pinky free to fret the G string 4th fret afterwards.
The verse (or A section) requires the use of either that odd index/middle-ring-pinky fingering of the D chord, which lets you play the bottom note with the finger that’s free (your index or your middle, depending on which one you used to fret the G string. I chose to keep my middle finger free because it was easier for me). There is an alternate choice to this odd fingering, and that is to play the chord using the barred D chord as the base [557775], instead of the open D. This way is probably easier, but you’ll need lower tension strings, or a very strong grip, or both.
In the chorus, (or B section) the first chord is a B minor 7th [x2423x]. Normally this is played with the same fingering as a normal B minor chord, but without the pinky. That means that normally you’ve got your index barring the 2nd fret, your middle finger on the B string 3rd fret, and your ring finger on the D string 4th fret. In the case of this song, the fingering done so your ring finger is where your middle finger normally is, and your pinky is where your ring finger normally is (see the image below). This leaves the middle finger free to move to the next part of the chorus smoothly.
Okay, so that’s about all I wanted to talk about. If you have any issues with parts in the song, let me know and I might be able to help. Hopefully all the writing has been useful to your learning. I’ll catch you next time.
This song is the last track in Tanya Chua’s 2011 English album Just Say So. On the album, the guitar uses standard tuning, with a capo at the 4th fret. The tablature I made follows more closely to the way the guitar is played on the album, rather than to how I played it on the youtube video.
Slurs above the staff are meant to indicate a hammer-on, so make sure you play it that way! Inconsistencies in the way I make scores will be blamed on my lack of knowing how to use these scoring programs (I don’t know, I feel like they aren’t as easy to use as they’re supposed to be).
Not unlike the previously posted sheet music for Watashi e, this is also from Supercell’s Today is a Beautiful Day album. It is the first track on the album – Owari e Mukau Hajimari no Uta (The First Song That Heads Toward the End)I had actually been planning to transcribe this a while ago, since no one else seems to have uploaded sheet music for it. Just a note: like the other two songs I transcribed earlier, this sheet music is for the piano accompaniment only, and doesn’t include the melody. As far as I can tell the transcription is pretty close to the original, though there was something weird going on with the time signature change, but I’m sure you’ll be fine 🙂I must say, this one was quite a bit harder than the other two to figure out. Probably should have spent the time studying, haha. But anyway, enjoy the sheets (below) and start spreading the Supercell love!Update: I wasn’t that happy with the original sheets, so I’ve updated them to include some 8vb markings, a change time signature to 9/8 (instead of 3/4), and added some expression, pedal markings, and a couple of other things here and there.Click HERE for the .pdf Click 123 for .png files of each pageI received a request to upload an off-vocal recording, so I’ve added it below. You’ll be able to download the file.Edit: The SoundCloud link is getting close to the download limit so I’m adding a OneDrive link below.
Just a little over 2 minutes long, this is track 13 of Today is a Beautiful Day, the second album from Supercell and is something of a reprise of Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari (of the same album). I noticed no one had uploaded videos of covers of this song – at least on youtube anyway, so I thought I’d give it a go. I only transcribed and played the piano part in the video and the sheet, which I though was sensible because I can’t sing that high, nor can https://kuenlight.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=44&action=edit#I speak, read or write Japanese 😛
Click HERE for the .pdf of the piano sheet music (accompaniment only) for this song.
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Composed by Ryo (of Supercell) and sung by Yanagi Nagi, this is the transcript for the piano accompaniment for One Day, a short insert song for the original video animation Black ★ Rock Shooter (close to 20 minutes in). The song has a tempo of 95 but I prefer to play slightly slower. You can find the .pdf sheet transcription HERE. I didn’t add pedal markings or lyrics so just do whatever sounds good to you 🙂
It’s a lovely song. This ukulele tablature is intended for GCEA tuning, rather than ADF#B and is my interpretation of Jens’ Triple J live recording of the song. This version is very different to the variant found on the album Night Falls Over Kortedala. Click HEREfor adownloadable .pdf file
Old transcriptions from Kuenlight 
