Fred Hersch - You Are There - Piano Transcription (Sheet Music in Description)

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[@sj6296]

I feel like looking at Fred Hersch transcriptions make me appreciate him so much more. His playing is more complex than it sounds

[@larryjulien4017]

Any transcription of Fred Hersch is gold

[@peterdowning9191]

Stunning Beautiful

[@mitchellwooldridge5118]

That modulation back to G through the E minor in bars 22-23 is so cuttingly beautiful - actually puts a lump in my throat! Great transcription! :)

[@pianotubeleonbricht9635]

Well Done! Don't Stop!

[@peterdowning2869]

Fabulous arrangement - so sensitive, beautifully played. Thank you

[@supertintin4244]

what a beautiful piece. big respect to the effort you put in.....so happy i discovered your channel:) Keep it up!

[@TimothyGondola]

Absolutely gorgeous- thank you for your work.

[@SuperNorini]

Heartbreakingly beautiful ❤

[@peterdowning2869]

Thank you for a stunning arrangement - beautifully and sensitively played

[@Radiatoron88]

Thank you for making this lovely arrangement available! I ordered a copy and am relishing every measure--thanks again so much for your hard work!

[@miketayro]

amazing

[@timhsu1624]

So Beautiful

[@SpencerMusicSchool]

I love Johnny Mandel... What a lovely arrangement.

[@nezkeys79]

I love his ballad stuff its always so beautiful. do more!

[@MatNewtonTrio]

Stunning...

[@jtoddmusic7090]

The lyrics are great, too. I actually first heard this on Roberta Gambarini's date with Hank Jones. I love the temporary key change here to E Major. (The first time I heard the tune with Roberta that surprised me in a good way).

[@timbruer7318]

You've done a great job of transcribing this wonderful performance, it's so good to see Fred's masterful playing notated. FYI, I noticed one very small error - in bar 74 you've written B13sus instead of Bb13 sus.

[@rhtranscriptions9665]

Ah, yes you're right. Thanks, I'll update the PDF

[@timbruer7318]

@@rhtranscriptions9665 no problem

[@andicus1]

He was checking to see who's paying attention. ;)

[@jeremiaoktavian5971]

That's sus

[@ernestmathewson828]

excellent Rowan!

[@willrandall4012]

Thanks for this!

[@vecernicek2]

So beautiful!

[@Victor48323]

Just outstanding work!

[@stephenterrones3561]

Debussy would love this!

[@nezkeys79]

This Nearly was Mine People will say we're in love ^ both awesome

[@paolofranceschi6874]

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[@nezkeys79]

In bar 14 I think its an A minor chord first not D11 the whole bar

[@rhtranscriptions9665]

That D natural is very quiet, but I'm pretty sure it is there. You can almost feel it and the way it changes the characteristic of the chord more than you can hear that individual note.

[@nezkeys79]

@@rhtranscriptions9665 strange. For me I hear a very distinctive shift to the D11 on the second half of the bar and the first half I hear an A at the bottom Maybe I need headphones to hear the D but when I held my phone speakers directly against my ears I could not hear a D

[@rhtranscriptions9665]

@@nezkeys79 Well, I doubt I'd be able to hear it on a phone speaker either to be fair.

[@nezkeys79]

Bars 24 25 26 are you sure it's not just 4/4 still with rubato?

[@rhtranscriptions9665]

It could be notated in that way. I actually changed it to 4/4 and then back again when I was going through the transcription. For me there's such a clear downbeat at the start of bar 25 that it would be less descriptive of the recording to notate that as the second quaver of the bar. Obviously the fact that it's played rubato is a factor but the rhythms there are actually fairly straightforward and in time, they just don't suggest 4/4 to me.

[@nezkeys79]

@@rhtranscriptions9665 you've done it elsewhere when he is playing rubato. These kind of transcriptions are the easiest for an actual piano to player to read just pick out the melody like you did before. I am 99% confident he was still thinking in 4/4 the whole time and not switching in his head. Transcribing rubato is 👀 imo. I remember years on cruise ships MDs would try to do this and have a vocal count through it all and it was just annoying hearing "I a few bars it will suddenly change to 5/4 for 1 bar then...." Whatever it was all just stuff to get in the way of a musician actually sight reading. Your transcriptions are great tho don't don't me wrong (far better job than I could do as a whole) I just think these places should be 4/4. Unless of course Fred says the opposite

[@nezkeys79]

@@rhtranscriptions9665 bar 31 for example he pauses on the last beat which is why you've notated 5/4 but its really 4/4 imo

[@rhtranscriptions9665]

@@nezkeys79 I'm sure you're right in the sense that Fred Hersch wasn't thinking 5/4 in those particular bars. Personally I don't find that it gets in the way of being able to read a piece if there's an occasional change of meter. Notating anything that's played rubato or even slightly rubato there's always a trade off between accuracy and readability, but for me it's clearer to notate how the music sounds rather than to keep everything 4/4 and leave everything else down to it being played rubato, which is not very descriptive when it comes to any one bar.

[@nezkeys79]

@@rhtranscriptions9665 for me as a pianist I prefer to see the melody as its supposed to be I context of 4/4. All the time signature changes only make it harder to read and understand the feeling imo. Dont get me wrong im not saying the odd 5/4 and 9/8 bars are impossible to read I just think the whole point of someone reading this is to play it with their own feeling anyway as trying to copy Fred's rubato is sort of weird to me

[@juwonnnnn]

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