There’d Better Be A Mirrorball (With chords and lyrics)

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Hi, I am Rita. I transcribe piano sheet music since 2007. All my sheet music are accurate but simple, beginner-level transcriptions with lyrics (singing is good for health). Please, request any popular song in any genre and language.

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"There’d Better Be A Mirrorball"

It took 4 hours to transcribe the vocal line. Now you know.

"There’d Better Be A Mirrorball" is a curious and bizarre blend of choppy and hyperactive melodies over rhythms and an eclectic accompaniment including harmony and counterpoint.

The song is atonal, there is no tonic, no subdominant, nor dominant. The intro has at least two noticeable key changes (I notated in simple no sharps/no flats mode for easier sightreading), or even every new bar is a new key.

During verses/choruses the accompanying chord changes function to mark time and musical structure rather than to create the harmonic pull. The harmony chords are provided above the upper stave for those who want to make their own arrangements by playing arpeggios or other patterns in the left hand.

Vocal in the original track is sinuous and complex, marked by subtle bends and slides, with intense ornamentation. It is impossible to convey on piano with a fixed pitch of the keys. If you listen closely, you can hear than it is impossible to say when Alex Turner starts to articulate some notes, his breathing-in grows into a syllable smoothly. He also sings with swing and straight rhythm simultaneously. I guess it is because he wanted to avoid merging rhythmically with the guitar riff.

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