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Tristan

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Sep 16, 2010, 12:23:45 PM9/16/10
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Hello fellow fans :D

I've made it my LONG mission to compile every Kate Bush song...
And put chords to it.

I'm doing a very successful job- I just received sheet music for The
Red Shoes and Aerial.
Lionheart+The Kick Inside are currently posted on my website

http://katebushchords.webs.com/index.htm

But these are also available at Ultimate Guitar .com, a website I
frequently contribute to.
Spread the word of this website!

Will

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Sep 16, 2010, 1:09:17 PM9/16/10
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Very cool. I'm an ear-player, but chords sometimes help me get the gist. I'll bookmark it!


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Bryan Dongray

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Sep 16, 2010, 3:15:40 PM9/16/10
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An excellent idea!

If it helps I have a webpage of a few of melody/chords too:
http://dongrays.com/kate-bush/chords
including some from albums you've not listed.

I also have a page containing sheet music scans:
http://dongrays.com/kate-bush/sheetmusic
some of which are a full instrumental score, ie including MORE than
just lyrics and chords (or sometimes melody too)!
eg "The Man With..." and "This Woman's Work"

FYI: These are from a select few the pages of the sheet music books
(as requested by various people over the years) and I believe I have
all the chords/sheetmusic books of every album (which means I don't
have the various non-album songs).

Bryan

Tristan

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Sep 16, 2010, 4:13:14 PM9/16/10
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Thank you so much for your website!!!
It's been a great inspiration over the past few years.
I own all her sheet music
Except for B sides, etc.
So they're the most difficult.
The entire Red Shoes should be posted by the end of the week,
And then I'm off to Hounds of Love.
I don't own the Dreaming and only have a few chords for those songs
(Suspended, Pull Out)
So help with The Dreaming and B Sides would be LOVELY
Thank you all :D

Will

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Sep 16, 2010, 4:21:50 PM9/16/10
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I just booked myself a practice studio down here in FL, since I didn't drive my keyboard down with me... I really want to work on figuring out Ne T'en Fuis Pas and adapting it for piano. I think I could do something really interesting with it.

Tristan

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Sep 17, 2010, 6:02:20 PM9/17/10
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Well I would love a copy of it if you ever get the chance :)

On Sep 16, 4:21 pm, Will <willdog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just booked myself a practice studio down here in FL, since I didn't drive
> my keyboard down with me... I really want to work on figuring out Ne T'en
> Fuis Pas and adapting it for piano. I think I could do something really
> interesting with it.
>

sozo

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Sep 18, 2010, 11:03:39 PM9/18/10
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Hi,

There were sheet music for Kate songs on Keyboard Magazine (Japan).
They are transcriptions by the magazine's writers.

I have;
- Rubberband Girl, full band score
- Moments of Pleasure, piano score

I you like, I can send you scans.

Sozo

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Tristan

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Sep 18, 2010, 11:49:43 PM9/18/10
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I have The Red Shoes book, so I have all I need for those.
Thank you so much though! I appreciate your help :)

Martin

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Oct 10, 2010, 7:18:57 AM10/10/10
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Hi musicians!

I am in search for the melody notes for "The Jig of Life" as I would
like to play the violin on my gitar :)
Once I had the songbook from the "Hounds of Love" album in my hands
and I remember that I stared on these notes, wondering if I ever could
be able to play this. Well, now I am maybe, but I don't have the notes
so if anyone has this book (could not get it anywhere on the web) and
could send me a scan you could really make me happy!!
I recently bought the "K B Complete" and was disappointed cos it has
just the chords and the singmelody in it and even the chords are not
all correct I think.
@Tristan: I could help you in your long mission if you don't own the
"Complete" and write the chords for songs you're missing. As I don't
have a scanner I really have to write, so this could take a little bit
time.
But again: If anyone could please send me a scan of the violin notes
for "The Jig of Life"...!

Tristan

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Oct 10, 2010, 10:08:27 PM10/10/10
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I don't own the Complete book... Such a thing exists?
I feel now that I've been doing a silly task trying to do many by ear.
And I'm a perfectionist so they all have been as right as I can get
them.

If you could send me anything I'm missing... I would appreciate it.
Plus, if you can't get a copy of the violin parts for Jig of Life,
I've become very (VERY) good at figuring out musical notes and would
love to help.

-Tristan

Bryan Dongray

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Oct 10, 2010, 11:02:57 PM10/10/10
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Yes, it does exist, and I have the book "Kate Bush Complete",
by "International Music Publications", whose address is listed as:
Southend Road, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 8HN, England
but they may have moved or perhaps don't even exist anymore!
It says it was edited by Cecil Bolton, but there's a introduction
by Peter Fitzgerald-Morris!
ISBN 0-86175-413-1

Anyway, a very few of the pages of this, and some of the other books
I've scanned if/when someone wanted to see the melody, chords,
including Jig Of Life.
See: http://www.dongrays.com/kate-bush/sheetmusic
and the two pages are there (click to see the JPG images, which
hopefully can help you play it)

Bryan Dongray

Martin

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Oct 11, 2010, 5:03:13 AM10/11/10
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@Dongray: this is strange, I was on this site yesterday and didn't see
JoL!! Thanks for that.

I must admit that I found the violin notes hidden in the singing notes
in the "Complete"-book also yesterday.

@Tristan: Got my copy from amazon, right now the cheapest is at 53
Euro, so cheap is not the correct word. Got mine for around 25.
It was released in 1987 and includes:
-a chronology ( 9 sides)
-a disco/videography (did you know she sung background for Big Country
on The Seer?)
-all the lyrics seperately
-all the songs alphabetically with chords and melody (including
important instrumental melodies as I found out yesterday ;) )
-all the songs means all the songs, so there's also the single B-
sides!

Though, as mentioned before, I'm not convinced that it is all correct,
but you do get the correct, ehm, Skala, Tonart (I am german, sorry for
my english by the way) and a good basic if you want to go further.


I don't know about your budget, Tristan, but maybe you should think
about buying this one. Although I totally agree that this is a very
good training musically. Done this with almost every theCure-song as I
was young. But didn't manage TheJigOfLife because it's just too fast.
At least for me. Also it's very nice for all those who don't own the
books and want to play KB-songs. Saw your site yesterday and it's just
perfect for these modern times :)
Greets from Norway,
Martin

Tristan

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Oct 12, 2010, 5:25:00 PM10/12/10
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@EVERYBODY

Ok. So the site is going really well. Added "The Sensual World", "Walk
Straight Down the Middle" few other etc.including THE DREAMING!!!
AHHH!!! It's a really cool scan from Gary Franklin.

However, I still need a few (cough cough many many cough) chords for
the following songs.
"Not This Time" and "My Lagan Love" I figured out today. Easy ones.

Kate Bush Chords Still needed: send to matty...@hotmail.com

Obviously anything from her early demos, but especially the following:

-Ran Tan Waltz
-Warm and Soothing
-Delius
-Blow Away
-All We Ever Look For
-Egypt
-The Wedding List
-Night Scented Stock (Apparently similar to Blow Away)
-Sat in Your Lap
-There Goes a Tenner
-Leave It Open
-Night of the Swallow
-All the Love
-Houdini
-Get Out of My House
-Ne'ten Fui Pas (However it's spelled…)
-Running Up That Hill (Surprisingly cannot find a real version that
seems right. I'd love to see what the official chords are)
-The Big Sky
-Mother Stands for Comfort
-Experiment IV
-Cloudbusting
-Under Ice
-Waking the Witch
-Watching You Without Me
-The Morning Fog
-The Burning Bridge
-Never Be Mine
-Reaching Out
-Heads We're Dancing
-Rocket's Tail
-The Handsome Cabin Boy
-Violin (I'm considering not even including chords because this song
irritates me so much. It's so damn catchyyyyy)
-Between a Man and a Woman
-Passing Through Air
-Ken
-Show a Little Devotion
-The Confrontation
-Home for Christmas (Preferably BY Christmas.)
-You Want Alchemy
-Be Kind to My Mistakes (Speaking of, I now see that it is "Ne
t'enfuis pas" :) )
-I'm Still Waiting (…for people to send my sheet scans…)

Email me at: matty...@hotmail.com

THANK YOU EVERYBODY for helping to spread her music!

Martin

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Oct 13, 2010, 4:32:00 PM10/13/10
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Ok, Tristan. I will try to write the songs from the "Dreaming"-album
and afterwards I can do the same with the Hounds of Love plus
Experiment IV (the other reason I bought the CompleteSongbook).
You will only get the chords, not the lyrics, if that's ok for you.
Out of the CompleteSongbook. As said before, I don't own a scanner,
but I'm going to do the first songs or maybe the whole Dreaming this
weekend.
Hope this will help.
Martin

On 12 Okt., 23:25, Tristan <mattybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @EVERYBODY
>
> Ok. So the site is going really well. Added "The Sensual World", "Walk
> Straight Down the Middle" few other etc.including THE DREAMING!!!
> AHHH!!! It's a really cool scan from Gary Franklin.
>
> However, I still need a few (cough cough many many cough) chords for
> the following songs.
> "Not This Time" and "My Lagan Love" I figured out today. Easy ones.
>
> Kate Bush Chords Still needed: send to mattybo...@hotmail.com
> Email me at:   mattybo...@hotmail.com

Tristan

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Oct 13, 2010, 7:46:25 PM10/13/10
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YES!
That will help so much!
Thank you!!!
-Tristan
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Martin

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Oct 15, 2010, 12:27:34 PM10/15/10
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@Tristan:

You've got mail :))

Tristan

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Oct 18, 2010, 9:35:23 AM10/18/10
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All the chords for The Dreaming are now available.
This... rocks.
Played Night of the Swallow on piano. So cool.
Thank you Martin!

Will

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Oct 18, 2010, 9:38:59 AM10/18/10
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Wanna toss that link over again? :) I need to bookmark it.

I picked up this little lady over the weekend. She needs a little love, but I love little side projects... It's a Korg C-15S concert series. A little damage on the board, I'll have to find some parts and bust out the soldering iron, and I'll probably have to rewire and retrofit a sustain pedal... it'll be nice to have a piano in the house again.

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Tristan

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Oct 18, 2010, 11:34:26 AM10/18/10
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http://katebushchords.webs.com/

That keyboard is so neat!

On Oct 18, 9:38 am, Will <willdog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wanna toss that link over again? :) I need to bookmark it.
>
> I picked up this little lady over the weekend. She needs a little love, but
> I love little side projects... It's a Korg C-15S concert series. A little
> damage on the board, I'll have to find some parts and bust out the soldering
> iron, and I'll probably have to rewire and retrofit a sustain pedal... it'll
> be nice to have a piano in the house again.
>
>  needslove.jpg
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