Any pianists and/or music producers able to decipher piano pieces please?

[snerkler]

For years I've been trying to decipher a couple of piano pieces and I've been beaten so I was wondering if anyone would be able to do this and share them with me please, either in Midi format, a video that I can watch, sheet music, or even a clean audio track that I could try to break down in logic pro x?

The first track is an oldshool dance track that has some complex (to me) kind of bluesy/jazzy style piano in the second half of the track, see from about 3.19 in this track

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9jQQVnU2g


I appreciate that is a bit fast/speeded up so here's a live performance of the same track which I think is a fraction slower, although said piano is slightly different in parts. It comes in around 3.01 on this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTlpBqMnqA



The second track is the Immaculate Collection version of Madonna's "Into the Groove" which has an added piano 'solo' in the middle that is (imo) a similar style to the above piano (I'd love to know what the style is?). It comes in around 2.28.

Madonna - Into the Groove

Song: Into the GrooveArtist: MadonnaAlbum: The Immaculate CollectionFull Track Listings:1. Holiday 2. Lucky Star 3. Borderline 4. Like A Virgin 5. Materi...

www.youtube.com

 

[Marcel]

No idea on the actual melody / sheet music / midi etc, but just reading on Wiki about Hardcore Uproar and it says this

The song was written by Jon (Jonathon) Donaghy, Mark Hall and Suddi Raval though the underlying chord sequence was based on featured samples from John Carpenter's "The End"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LICJFjBCR8



I know it's not much but you'd at least be able to pull out the key and the chord progression to start with perhaps

 

[snerkler]

No idea on the actual melody / sheet music / midi etc, but just reading on Wiki about Hardcore Uproar and it says this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LICJFjBCR8



I know it's not much but you'd at least be able to pull out the key and the chord progression to start with perhaps

Thanks for looking into this, much appreciated. I did however know all of the above. The part copied from The End I believe is the sort of spacey flute sound that runs throughout the track and not the piano. Jonathon unfortunately died in a car accident and I've contacted Suddi but he doesn't have the stems and/or multitracks for the original recording.

Last week I started trying to decipher it note by note, slowing the record down to 80bpm to make it easier, however and hours work got me about 2 bars of the piano riffing (I already figured out the other parts of the track before). The trouble is the notes aren't 'clean' as there's the other piano, beats, bass etc that 'mask' some of the notes, and also I think the piano is slightly detuned. I shall persist though and hopefully will get there. When I was deciphering it the other day I didn't have me keyboard with me so was trying to do it using MIDI which made the whole process slower so hopefully when I get stuck into it on Wednesday when I have me keyboard I can do it a bit quicker.

Unfortunately Logic and Melodyne can't decipher the audio into MIDI either.

Thanks again.

 

[Marcel]

No problem. I did get the feeling from the wording of your post that you were way beyond the point I was suggesting.
I did think maybe you could contact them, hence why I went looking on Wikipedia. I noticed that Jonathon had died, which is a shame.

Sorry I can't be of more help!

 

[FlyPhot]

The rhythm of the chords is as follows, in a 4/4 time signature, below is 1 bar (hopefully you can decipher this):

for this i've used
Quaver = Q
Semi-quaver = S
Tie = ^

SS Q Q SS^Q SS Q SS

as for the melody - good luck with that!

 

[snerkler]

The rhythm of the chords is as follows, in a 4/4 time signature, below is 1 bar (hopefully you can decipher this):

for this i've used
Quaver = Q
Semi-quaver = S
Tie = ^

SS Q Q SS^Q SS Q SS

as for the melody - good luck with that!

Thanks. As above I have all the track sorted apart from that complex piano