dont stop me now guitar solo notation

Subject: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,rewster
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 12:33 PM

Does anyone know where I can find the notation for the above Queen song? There's plenty of Tab but I need standard notation. Cheers!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 06:06 AM

Let me googe that for you

Notes

Only £4.16

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 06:15 AM

Many thanks

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 06:29 AM

Why do you need notation, surely you listen to the record then work it out on guitar!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 06:41 AM

Or perhaps convert your tab Tab to notes

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 07:31 AM

Bonzo, if I'd wanted to do that I wouldn't have started the thread, would I?
Go and do something useful.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 07:57 AM

I've never needed "guitar notation" in 55 years of guitar playing!!!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 09:16 AM

Bonz - the swotty posh type kids who used to play classical music at school have now taken over rock music...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 11:48 AM

Smart arses. Who needs them?

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 11:49 AM

Always remember that however clever you think you are there will always be someone clever than you

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 12:07 PM

..and plenty more a lot thicker...

it's nice being mediocre to almost fairly talented & interesting...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 12:25 PM

Look - everyone can do something others can't, nothing clever about it at all, and nothing wrong with stating that you can do something. I can't play golf, I tried but I couldn't hit the ball, it doesn't bother me at all. So there you go!!!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 01:21 PM

What are you idiots on? It's a simple request. If you can't help then shut up.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 01:23 PM

Not you, Nick. Ta for the Google.
Wish everyone else was as helpful...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 01:27 PM

What am I on...???

Well I'm having a laugh taking the p!ss out of belligerent supercilious pomposity...


Us punk rockers have been merrily winding up sanctimonious pillocks for over 40 years...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 01:29 PM

Ha ha ha!!!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 02:09 PM

years ago i learned from tab its ok,but if you can learn by ear, in the long term its better, rarely do i agree with bonzo but in principle he is right

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 08:00 AM

Ho hum. Predictable responses from those too dumb to learn to read music and reduced to mocking real musicians.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 08:54 AM

But they're not too dumb to use google ...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Reel
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 09:05 AM

How do you know they cannot read music.
The Sandman is a real musician, and can read music apparently he played in a Concertina Quartet playing classical music.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 09:48 AM

Rewster sounds like a complete bellend...

...of course, he might not be.. he is a GUEST mudcatter after all..........

I went to Grammar School and had music theory forced on me from week one
by a very unforgiving ex-army music teacher,
who was bitter that he never made it as a Jazz musician in Paris after the war.
He took it out on us 11 year old boys...

so shove that up yer bass clef...

Thank the music gods for electric guitars and fuzz boxes...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 10:21 AM

btw... if this thread is about Brian May's solo

it's dead easy to work out by ear,
and even less effort if the fingering on this video is exactly as recorded...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM



It's not one of his more demanding solos.

Even I could play a run through after a short concentration of trial and error...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Lea
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 10:45 AM

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Stanron
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 10:52 AM

Rewster, as our resident punkfolkrocker has pointed out you haven't made it clear exactly what you want.

It could be a transcription of the lead guitar solo, as Pfr suggested, a version of the song as a guitar solo instrumental or a guitar accompaniment for you or someone else to sing to. All perfectly doable. I could do all three but I don't want to do more than one of them.

You probably already know that this is a folk/blues forum and a Queen song is, generically, a long way from the center.

In this genre it is not unusual for someone who calls himself a musician to be able to produce their own arrangements 'by ear'. That's how I learned to play over fifty years ago. By about thirty or forty years ago I had taught myself to read and write notation. It's a useful skill in this genre and I am sure that many people here can both play by ear and read and write notation. Hence the threads on ABC and Lilypond.

Ask nicely, be specific in what you want and somebody, maybe even me, might come up with the goods.

As for the raspberries, take them with a pinch of salt.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Tootler
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 10:57 AM

Learning to play by ear takes just as much time and effort as learning to play from notation. It takes practice and unless you're used to doing it it's actually very difficult.

The OP's request was a reasonable one.

I agree it's worth finding some software to convert tab into dots as a lot of guitar riffs are available online as tab and if you prefer notation, suitable software can save time over laboriously transcribing by hand.

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 11:14 AM

I saw them in 1973 and then shared a place in London with a girl whose boyfriend engineered one of their albums.

I can read music but have never been any good at reading time - I can play in time but not read it in real time from sheet music. I guess that means I can't read music. I presume I should learn one day but not sure if I ever will.

But I can definitely play by ear and in time and am reasonably good at working out harmonic structure and notes in real time. So I get by. And I realise not everyone can. So I just accept that I am stuck where I am unless I make a huge effort and that I will always try and help if I can...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 11:25 AM

Cheers Nick :)

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 12:15 PM

This thread has reminded me I have a small device
that fairly accurately captures monophonic guitar melody lines as midi,
which can then be converted to notation....

Something else now on the list to find and check for leaking batteries...

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 12:19 PM

INDEED i can read music,Brewster, you ill informed person

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: Nick
Date: 03 Jul 18 - 01:54 PM

Just rethinking - I think that most versions of guitar pro (4 or 5 upwards) will create standard notation from tab. And I think reaper will do it too though I haven't tried apart from a keyboard midi file.

And Power tab 2 I think would give you what you want. Just google it and it's free

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 04 Jul 18 - 10:08 AM

Thanks again, Nick. You're a star!

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: leeneia
Date: 04 Jul 18 - 11:39 AM

Hi, Rewster. When I saw the title of your thread, I discovered that the musical phrase "Don't Stop Me Now" was running through my head, and that surprised me, because I don't listen to rock.

Then I realized that the song is playing during one of my favorite videos, one that I turn to to cheer me up when I'm down. See if you like it:


I chose not to tell my parents

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: GUEST,Rewster
Date: 04 Jul 18 - 04:37 PM

Brilliant leeneia! Thanks x

Subject: RE: dont stop me now guitar solo notation
From: leeneia
Date: 05 Jul 18 - 11:17 AM

The women in the audience clearly agree he's the supersonic man of the year.