The Beatles – Lady Madonna

This classic Beatles song wasn’t written to include a trumpet. Not that that’s ever stopped any trumpet players before! But the Beatles did sing “fake trumpet” lines as backing vocals. So here we get to play those on real trumpets, as well as muscle-in on the sax lines.

And as luck would have it, I was asked to play this song twice within about 12 hours!

Resources:

The Beatles - Lady Madonna - Trumpet chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

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Be sure to check out my other transcriptions of music by The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr!

Walter Murphy – A Fifth of Beethoven

Tonight, New Year’s Eve, my amazing and talented friend Amanda Tse will play the violin as guest Concertmaster with The Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore. The New Year’s Eve Countdown Concert is at Singapore’s School of Arts, and the feature piece of the evening is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor. A very well-deserved honor and I’m so happy for her!

Meanwhile, by myself and in the privacy of my home, I recorded trumpet and flugelhorn parts for my transcription of A Fifth of Beethoven, from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Also in C minor, I might add.

Virtually the same achievements, don’t you think? 😉

Resources:

Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven - Trumpet Flugelhorn chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com
Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

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Ringo Starr – Not Looking Back

I loosely transcribed the strings parts from Ringo’s original recording and adapted them for harmonizing flugelhorns.

Resources:

Ringo Starr - Not Looking Back - Flugelhorn chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

What do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know.

Be sure to check out my other transcriptions of music by The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr!

Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream

Elvis Presley on StageElvis performed and recorded this song for his 1968 NBC TV Special. I was unavailable for the gig, so I recorded my parts earlier this afternoon…

Resources:

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream - Flugelhorn Trumpet chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

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I’m up to date (for now)!

A ream of transcriptions. The pile of trumpet charts I've transcribed, to date.

The 3-inch pile of charts I’ve transcribed and downloaded in order to record music on Bandhub.

This post serves no useful purpose, other than to mark that I’m currently up to date publishing my transcriptions, which I think is in the order of 140 or so. I had a backlog, but now it has gone!

I often search for and download trumpet charts that I need to play, only transcribing out of necessity when my searches come up empty. I started this blog simply to share work that I’ve done, for free, and perhaps “pay back” a little for all of the content I’ve benefited from over the years. When the time arises and some trumpet player seeks the same material I was once after, here it is! I don’t do this for any other reason.

When so often we take, I enjoy a great sense of giving through this simple blog. My stats tell me that I receive around 10 unique site visits from across the globe each day, which surprises me given the narrow and specialized scope of this offering. I initially thought 10 per month would have been a good result. From memory, one day the volume of unique visitors peaked at 77. And some ad-hoc searches show that Google indexes my blog posts very regularly and returns my transcribed charts in search results, often at or near the top of the page. I’m very happy with all of that.

I’ve got several transcriptions in-flight at the moment, including some that I’m waiting for the recording to finish before I publish them. And I’ve got a little housekeeping to do on some of the older posts, retrofitting thumbnail images of the charts (which I started doing a few months ago to improve my Google Image search results).

So, with this moment of reflection having passed, stay tuned! 🙂

Ike & Tina Turner – Come Together

Ike & Tina recorded and performed a successful cover of this uber-cool Beatles song.

Resources:

Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together - Trumpet chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

What do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know.

Be sure to check out my other Tina Turner transcriptions!

Keith – 98.6

I’d always thought this was a jingle for a radio station. But it turns out this is a legitimate song and was a pop hit, back in the day.

The original recording features trombones that I had to replicate on flugelhorn. But here, for you, are transcriptions for both.

Resources:

Keith - 98.6 trombone chart Keith - 98.6 flugelhorn chart

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

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Stretch – Why Did You Do It?

Tom Bornemann tells a great story about this song on his blog Four Strings Basslessons, which I found while looking for a trumpet chart for this song. Well worth checking out!

Of course, I never found a trumpet chart, so here are the fruits of my labor for you to enjoy. My chart is for both trumpet and tenor sax.

Unfortunately, the full ensemble recording of this was not completed before Bandhub closed-up shop, so I’m afraid I can’t share the video of me playing my part.

Resources:

Stretch - Why Did You Do It - Trumpet and Tenor Sax charts. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

What do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know.

Sammy Davis Jr. – I’ve Gotta Be Me

How funny is this? In this video, Sammy halts the song to move along a stinky cigar smoker because “I’m about to sing”. He then picks up a lit cigarette and proceeds to sing while holding it mere inches from his face…..

Resources:

Sammy Davis Jr. - I've Gotta be Me - Trumpet chart. Transcribed by Gary Badger - www.GaryBadger.com

Transcribed by me and free for you to use.

What do you think? Please leave a comment and let me know.

Gerry Niewood – Homage

I absolutely adore this jazz tune, composed and originally recorded by the great Gerry Niewood as an homage to John Coltrane. Later, Adam Niewood recorded his own version as an homage to his father, Gerry.

Here are the complete score and charts that I transcribed for solo tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, piano, and bass.

Resource:

Gerry Niewood - Homage - Score and Parts

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