Two full days working on the sheet music of The Myth Of Sisyphus tracks. Four done yesterday, half of the day was spent on 'I, Sisyphus', mostly notating the guitars. Today I fed the crazy piano track from 'Life in the Mirror' into an AI music transcriber. The results were no better than loading the MIDI directly into MuseScore (awful, and not at all correct). There's a long way to go to convert highly complex tracks like that. I imagine it only works with simple tunes of regular timing.
In the evening Deb and I went to the Congleton open mic at the Wonky Pear, a tiny venue. The performances were good, I sang 'Nick Drake' and 'We Shall See' without accompaniment, though the latter was too high without a warm up. I needed a warm up all night as the venue was so cold! It was also precarious. My chair was wobbly, the mic (and optional instrument) cable was always in the way and many trips were averted. One wasn't, the tug on the cable damaging the amp. This, plus the fact that we were so tightly packed that we couldn't move, like battery hens, made it all feel dangerous. I was on edge all evening. Comfortable and relaxing it was not.
Today, worked on 'Life in the Mirror' and 'I Care', adding some guitar TAB scoring for the letter, my first use of this. Until now I didn't realise how useful this could be for notating riffs and other guitar parts. I have little chance of notating the 'Life in the Mirror' piano, so merely hinted upon guidance, but scored the choirs and several other parts. This is creative track is very hard to score.
With luck I can finish 'The Invisible Man' today too, making 7 of 12 tracks, and a full week, with all vocals recorded too. I can't get this job over quickly enough.
I've been informed that two of my paintings have been selected for the inaugural Nantwich Museum Open too, and it seems that the '21st Century Surrealism' audiobook is progressing too.
At the open mic last night, John Lindley mentioned that the original lyric for McCartney's 'Yesterday' was 'Scrambled Eggs'. As an exercise that I couldn't resist, I wrote full words for this version...
Scrambled Eggs (to the melody of Yesterday)
Scrambled eggs
With some bacon and some coffee dregs
And some toffee for my toothy pegs
Oh I want pie and scrambled eggs
I've been lost
Since the other place has upped the cost
All my salad has remained untossed
Teeth have sadly stayed unflossed
Oh, there's no tom-a-to
There's no beer, they have no kegs
I might die if you don't fry me
Some of your scrambled eggs
