Sheet Music Archives - Daniel Harding

Big Band arrangement of Lazy Bird, arr by Daniel Harding

For my arranging module at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, I wanted to do something that I was particular interested in at the moment – and so, I chose to write in the style of Bob Brookmeyer. This turned out to be the most intense and beneficial task of the year. I chose to arrange the John Coltrane composition “Lazy Bird”
I made a 1500 words rationale to support my arranging decisions.

I will upload an audio file of the arrangement when I get hold of it.

Harding_Daniel_Lazy Bird_preview.pdf – feel free to have a look at the first 6 pages of my score.

Transcribe tunes you like – keep educating yourself

By admin|2021-11-15T18:42:27+00:00July 20th, 2014|Categories: Daniel|Tags: Anders Jormin, Bobo, drum solo, Jansson, Jarrett, listen to drum solo, progressions, Sheet Music, standards, Stenson, transcribing, transcribing drum solos, Transcribing solos drums, voicings|0 Comments

A few years ago I started transcribing some tunes that I really like. The latest ones are “Moon River”, “Ballad of The Sad Young Men” and Anders Jormin’s composition “Q”. Speaking of Anders Jormin – I’ve found his composition to be particularly interesting. His use of melody and harmony is very musically interesting and satisfying to me.
I’ve transcribed Jormin’s compositions and made lead sheets for “Not”, “Seli”, “Sediment”, including the whole piano part for his theme on “M” played by Bobo Stenson from his album Cantando.
I also transcribed a couple of tunes by Keith Jarrett (The Mourning Of A Star, Rainbow, So Tender), Lars Jansson, Bobo Stenson (Reflections & Mindiatyr), amongst many others. All tunes which are not formally published by the artist, making it more interesting and intriguing to study and learn from.

Transcribing will benefit your ability to recognise sounds (including chord extensions), your reading, ears, your piano skills in terms of voicings and chord progressions.