Steve Vai - Ballerina 12/24 - Piano transcription

[Bakerman]

I made this last night, it's a piano arrangement of Steve Vai's "Ballerina 12/24" from Passion & Warfare.

http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/ballerina.pdf

Info behind the original performance: It's one clean guitar with 2 delayed/panned/pitch shifted voices. A major 6th delayed by 1 16th note (right channel), and a perfect 4th delayed by 1 8th note (left channel). For example, bar 5 LH starts with C, A, F+C. The only notes played on guitar are C, C 8th notes an octave apart, and the A and F are delay repeats of the first C. At bar 16 it's easier to see this, the note + delays are isolated per hand and it's an octave skipping type thing. There are a few spots where I left a delay repeat out or left a note that technically shouldn't be there for consistency, but it's basically 98% accurate to the original.

Since there are some sections that repeat except for having a different delay note coming from the bar before, I went with parentheses = 1st time only, cue size = 2nd time.

Mike Keneally did a CD of Vai songs arr. for solo piano, including this one. It hasn't shipped from vai.com yet but I'm anxious to see if he came up with something that sounds similar.

[VINOD]

Hey

i absolutely love that song

thanks

[Blazinarps]

Jordan, would you be able to give a link of all the transcriptions you've done in pdf format?

[Everlasting_Rain]

It's great, Jordan. Thank you very much!

Now I'd better give a listen to the song because I'm not sure how to read those crazy first bars.

[Bakerman]

Jordan, would you be able to give a link of all the transcriptions you've done in pdf format?

These are the rest of the pdfs I have online right now. Some of them are short and possibly useless. :-)

http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/scarredunison.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/litsnoise.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/oltpiano.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/tttkeys.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/tttsolo.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/uagmsolo.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/wonderfultime.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/victor_wooten-classical_thump.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/PoS_of2beginnings.pdf

midi of the last one because it sounds cool: http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/midi/PoS_of2beginnings.mid

The intro of Ballerina is moving a 3 note shape around and strumming through it slowly. So you have F#, B, F# actual notes with D#, G#, D# coming from the first harmonizer repeat and B, E, B after that. The big chords in parentheses are everything that ends up ringing if you want to arpeggiate up the whole thing, but the slurred stuff is the actual order of each one. Since he strums through some faster/slower and the delay is a set time, it doesn't always end up being the same thing.

[VINOD]

Awesome man Thanks

You should be putting these up in some kinda website or something

In fact if you could come with a few more transcription i'd be happy to post them in my website http://www.Emusicman.tk
(Ofcourse with your permission )

just let me know what you think

BTW please also let me know wat kinda notation s/ware you use ?

Thanks
Bye
Vinod

[Tigerfolly]

Jordan, would you be able to give a link of all the transcriptions you've done in pdf format?

These are the rest of the pdfs I have online right now. Some of them are short and possibly useless. :-)

http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/scarredunison.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/litsnoise.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/oltpiano.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/tttkeys.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/tttsolo.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/uagmsolo.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/wonderfultime.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/victor_wooten-classical_thump.pdf
http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/tab/PoS_of2beginnings.pdf

midi of the last one because it sounds cool: http://s92612683.onlinehome.us/midi/PoS_of2beginnings.mid

The intro of Ballerina is moving a 3 note shape around and strumming through it slowly. So you have F#, B, F# actual notes with D#, G#, D# coming from the first harmonizer repeat and B, E, B after that. The big chords in parentheses are everything that ends up ringing if you want to arpeggiate up the whole thing, but the slurred stuff is the actual order of each one. Since he strums through some faster/slower and the delay is a set time, it doesn't always end up being the same thing.

I love that you did Classical Thump ;)

[Kurzweil88]

Is that Wonderful time from the Beartracks video?? lol! :lol:

[Bakerman]

That's right!

I made some small changes to the look of the Ballerina score. If you found it potentially useful, you may want to download from the same url again now.

[Nick]

umm..i cant read music :wink:

well..i can sorta..but it'll be like going from 1bpm to 70bpm and all over the place and been a general mess :P

[VINOD]

umm..i cant read music :wink:

well..i can sorta..but it'll be like going from 1bpm to 70bpm and all over the place and been a general mess :P

I've put up some lessons for beginners on reading music
so you can check that out in the lessons section of my website

http://www.Emusicman.tk

hope you find the site helpful