Take Me To The River by Talking Heads (Easy version with lyrics and chords)-Lorde

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Hi, I am Rita. I transcribe piano sheets for popular music. All my sheet music are accurate but simple, beginner-level transcriptions with lyrics (singing is good for health) and harmonic chords. I consider reasonable requests. Sometimes I post free files, don't miss it!

More Lorde

Talking Heads cover.

I doubled note values to make sightreading easier for beginners. The track isn't recorded in the 2/2 time.

Remember that the notation system was not intended to represent the sound of modern pop music with its layered vocal, computer-generated sounds, and inflections of modern electronic instruments. My piano sheet music can only show you the score within the boundaries of the twelve-note scale and a metered rhythm; alas, the pitch and rhythm have little to do with the aesthetic value of the track. Listen to the song before practicing to fully imitate the beauty of the song: its timbre, phrasing, inflections. Play the song, not sheet music. Sing a phrase before playing it on your keyboard.

Imitate the vocal delivery by Lorde or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is rhythmic but with pitch inflections (slurred notes). All inflected notes should be played very quietly.

The melodic line is built on repetition of one note. The composition lacks intervallic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer.

There are many phrases of an indefinite pitch. I notated it as chanting on the tonic note.

A predominant vocal style is staccato.

"Take Me To The River" is played with a straight rhythm in common time. It is easy to count for beginners; accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. Practice slowly along with the recording.

Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

A single vocal line accompanied by an instrumental part constitutes the entire musical texture. "Take Me To The River" has a semi-improvised, loosely organized and wandering melody and homophonic arrengement: the instrumental part provides a harmony to support the vocal but lacks its own melody.

"Take Me To The River" is transcribed in the original key, E Minor, and uses bass progression E7 D A G B♯ C♯m. The underlying harmony lacks motion and is fundamentally static: there is no sense of harmonic progression, only a pedal tones and bass riff. Its only use is to mark time.

The aesthetic value of a melodic line is achieved through the use of unconventional tonal behavior and talking vocalization.

Of course I consider filling your *requests* of sheet music except for not popular tracks.

00:17 Verse I

01:18 Verse II

02:09 Bridge

03:07 Verse III