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I don't know if you guys know already, but if you go to Chris Squire's website you can get sheet music for several Yes songs, including all of "Heart of the Sunrise." I was pretty pumped to find it. Usually I like to figure out songs by ear, but with Yes things can get a little crazy.

This is good news. I was usually happy with getting a high percentage of Chris's bass lines when I was younger.

I can't wait until they, as promised on the site, add more than just the four PDFs they have now.

Maybe the tracks from TFTO or Relayer

Okay, here'e a link worth having...

http://www.johngoodall.com/miguel/mp3s.htm

Maybe I'll put this on a new thread.

The version of Tempus Fugit is more accurate on Chris' site, but its the same guy, Miguel, who does the honors. He does take a few liberties, ie., Roundabout, but for the most part he is faithful to the recorded version. Enjoy!

Miguel is Portuguese like me. He lives a few miles from Lisbon. I exchanged a few e-mails with him a couple years back. He is truly Rick crazy!

Hi Sergio!! So, is Miguel the one to whom you sold your August 1970 4001, when you should have sold it to Rick crazy me instead ??

BTW, is your PayPal email address the same as your main email address? Can I send funds there?

I emailed Miguel this morning through his web site and requested a version of "Close to the Edge" if he is still doing these types of recordings. Sergio, perhaps you could persuade him if your paths cross? His interpretations are quite good. (I hear your pickups are quite good as well, I may be in contact in the future with a project or two).

Wow! Nice transcriptions! A lot of effort goes into that type of work.

Being a music theory type of guy I had a good idea about 3 of the 4 tunes already. Khatru and Fugit are no real surprises perusing the scores, but HOTS surprises me with the time changes. It never struck me as that complicated back in my heavy Yes listening days.

I'm going to have to listen to it while reading that transcription...

YES was famous for its complex time changes. But in an interview once, Steve Howe said that they jammed their lines first, put in all the cool styles and riffs and goodies that each one of them wanted, then used the time changes to "explain" it all on manuscript paper. In other words, they did not set out to write according to a preset Formal Analysis pattern of time signature, as the great composers did in Romantic and Classical composition. Instead, it just grew organically in their writing.

Dunno if all that was right, but it sounded cool to me at the time I read that interview, with only a general knowledge of composition and music theory.

Oh, I know that Yes used a lot of odd time changes. Just never realized Heart of the Sunrise was as complex as the chart says.

And as for it "just working out that way", I'd buy it as an explanation. I'm working on some originals now with my band, and there are a few place where we just "do things". Eventually I'll transcribe the tunes, and I wouldn't be surprised to find a few bars of 7/8 just "happen". Especially the drum fills and place we tacit and/or pause.

The guy that transcribed those songs, Lionel Gibaudan, had done a lot more of them. He used to have a website with Yes, Rush, Gentle Giant, and more transcriptions. I cannot find it now; he has a professional photography site up now. If you google his name, you will find some tabs of Rush and other group songs.

He had 22 Yes songs transcribed last time I was there.

It's been a great thing to get those bass lines. Today is a great day for me. Thanks Jim for the link.

You're welcome, and now I retire to my next project, which will be a study of "HOTS". I'll be learning both guitar and bass parts, even though I've known the main riff and chords for years. In the past few months I've come to appreciate all of the real subtleties in this track, it is an excellent arrangement whose magic really lies in the details. And, (not to get too heavy) I always believed that Jon Anderson summed up five thousand years of human chaos and confusion with those first seven words...

I'm still campaigning for Miguel to post a bass part for CTTE. I know there is a tab out there somewhere, but I love hearing the parts played solo and Miguel sounds almost right off the record.

Twenty-two, John? Wow, I wish I could find copies of the PDFs! It is a real drag that he does not have them posted anywhere

Yes-songs!