Note question for a song

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:30pm

What is the music note (like, starting note of 'I') for the line "I've heard it said.." in 'For Good' in the musical Wicked? Thanks!

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:31pm

There is a vocal book.

[meagan9848]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:07am

From listening it sounds like an Eb to me...

This song was transposed from the original key and put into C (or maybe F or G...something easy) so it would be easier to play. Which key do you want? What you hear on the recording isn't what's in the vocal selections...

[meagan9848]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:07am

my first double post :x

Updated On: 8/30/05 at 12:07 AM

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:11am

Being as anal as I am, I can't believe I didn't notice that!

Now I'm gonna have to transpose the damn thing merely out of curiosity. Thanks...

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:22am

i don't have the vocal book with me and I need it for tomorrow. And I want to know what it is on the recording. Thanks!!!!!!

[Roxie]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:27am

Pretty sure it's a D in the vocal score...don't balme me if it's wrong. I know it's in C....hope this helps

[meagan9848]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 1:15am

it could be a D, but it sounded like an Eb to me.

[Sarah2]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 1:55am

I just looked in my Wicked piano/vocal selections book and it starts on a D.

[chenofan]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:04am

you do not need to transpose it. any song you want in it's original form, you just ask Stephen for it. His email is in the front of the book - he is VERY nice about it!

[Sarah2]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:19am

I don't think it even is transposed though. At the front of the book he says that some of the songs have been changed a bit (beginnings/endings of songs were changed, some things were taken out) so that it makes more sense out of the context of the show. I don't know why "For Good" would be transposed because there clearly wasn't any effort to make "Defying Gravity" or most of the other songs easier to play.

[meagan9848]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:45pm

go to his site. Before the vocal selections were released he said that song was going to be transposed to C because it was only a 1/2 step or something and it's in a very difficult key. I just played it along with the recording, they're not in the same key. I'm not wrong...or going crazy.

I'm also not going to go through his site to find "proof" because it's not really my problem.

[Sarah2]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:23pm

Wow, calm down. All I was saying is that he doesn't say in the book that he changed the key for any of the songs and I just found it odd that he would decide to change "For Good" into an easier key, yet "Defying Gravity" is kept in a key with 5 flats in the key signature. I believe you, but if you feel it's "not really your problem" then why are you even bothering to post in this thread?

[meagan9848]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:02pm

Maybe I wasn't clear.

For Good was changed because he only had to move it a half step to get it into C Major. So he went from a complex key sig to one that most people would be able to play by moving it only a half step. To do that with Defying Gravity, the key would have had to be changed more drasticly...so those Fs at the end would have either become a lot higher or a lot lower, in which case they would either be impossible to sing, or not have the same effect.

[Sarah2]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:41pm

Oh ok, got it.