Transatlanticism Sheet Music, Death Cab For Cutie
October 15th, 2006: I mentioned a few days ago how I wanted to transcribe Transatlanticism instead of trying to describe how to play the song in words. Well I found some old software I had called MIDI Orchestrator Plus and thought I’d give it a shot. It was kinda a pain to do because you have to click on every note you want to play and the piano is sideways along the side of the page and really small so it’s hard to even see what you’re playing. So it’s not done, but I don’t have time to do anymore tonight. Basically this gets you up about the middle of the song. Anyway, here’s what I’ve got so far of Transatlanticism by Death Cab for anyone who plays the piano out there. The left hand is played at the same time as the right hang, even though the sheet music shows the notes as being off. I don’t know why it does that, but when I print to a .pdf, it scoots that left hand over.
November 5th, 2006. This will get you through almost the whole song. Listen to the MIDI for an instrumental piano version. Enjoy!
May 24th, 2007 – Okay, I’ve been playing this song for the last few months now and I’ve got the whole thing figured out, but I somehow messed up the original “orchestrator” file so I can’t update or edit it anymore. Anyway I was bumming around YouTube and couldn’t believe the thousands of videos people post of them playing songs on the piano, so I’ve been thinking about doing a YouTube-style version of the song so you actually can see how to play it all the way through (for those of us who can’t read sheet music, like myself). Also I finally figured out the small chord changes in the middle that sound so cool. Any takers on a video tutorial?
June 29th, 2008 – I fixed the file and redid the transcription and made it a little more accurate. I removed the # next to each note and just put them in their normal place. Also, the notes line up better now for some reason. The middle part just repeats over and over, I didn’t want to write it all out, since it’s already 6 pages long, but you repeat the Asus2, F#m, E, D, D over and over, with a couple of little changes in the right hand that are shown. I think they mix up those notes a few more times, but this is the gist of it. Thanks for checking it out!
Click Here for the Piano Sheet Music for Transatlanticism by Death Cab.
Posted: October 18th, 2006 under Music.
Comments: 11
Comments
Comment from Renee
Time: November 5, 2006, 9:07 pm
Hey, you did an awesome job transcribing the first half of the song. I can tell it’s not complete but it’s super good so far.
there’s a key change 3:24 minutes in. i’ve been trying to figure it out, but i can’t seem to get it.
did you finish the song yet?
Renee
Comment from Tyler
Time: January 22, 2007, 5:14 am
Hey Thank You So much! I hope you continue to work on it! It would be nice to have the entire song….but this is great! Keep it Up!
Comment from david
Time: December 21, 2007, 5:04 pm
hey..i’m really glad you’re so enthusiastic about this song! i’ve been trying to find a really good piano version of this song for a long time. what you might try is playing around with the clefs, as reading all those ledger lines is really difficult. try putting more of the chord in the bass clef and i think you’ll have a winner. otherwise, thanks for getting this together.
Comment from Dan
Time: January 5, 2008, 3:15 pm
Thanks for the comments. So where would be a good place to put the split? Should both the upper and lower sections be in the bass clef?
Comment from Tom
Time: January 6, 2008, 1:44 pm
Yeah, I think both hands should absolutely be in the bass. it would be much easier to read. (not all on the same staff, obviously) But yeah, thanks for posting this. Definitely made my life a million times easier.
Comment from Dan
Time: January 22, 2008, 11:27 pm
Okay, I tried putting both bass clefs in the upper and lower staffs and my stupid software won’t do it. It forces the two staffs to be different no matter what I select. The only other option is to put everything in a single staff on the left hand, but it looks ridiculous and would most likely be even harder to read. Changing the split point doesn’t seem to make it any easier to read either, it just moves more notes to the bass. I need some better software for doing this. :-p
Comment from Jessica
Time: March 22, 2008, 5:03 am
hello :)
thanks so much for the sheet music of transatlanticisim!
i’ve been trying to look for it for ages! :D
that’s cool how you figured the notes out by yourself :)
Comment from danielle
Time: April 11, 2008, 3:36 pm
why don’t you use finale software? its super easy to use. you can download a free version on the website. thanks for what you have so far by the way!
Comment from AndrewInScotland
Time: August 18, 2008, 1:16 pm
Sweet. Thanks for this. My brother and I are recording a cover of this – him on keyboards and me on drums and vocals. This helps a great deal.
Cheers,
Andrew
Comment from amelia
Time: January 16, 2010, 1:51 pm
hi, i cant read sheet music but want to play this song,
i am on youtube so your idea of a tutorial there is good, or letters or somthing please
Comment from Zashime
Time: June 25, 2010, 11:15 pm
Thanks for the sheets… Keep up the good work!
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