Looking for House Is Rockin' Transcription

[Cabo]

Would anyone have a transcription of this song?   I have the basics, but if anyone has pulled together a transcription of the piano parts, I'd be very grateful.  

 

Thanks.

[CEB]

No. The key is B concert but SRV downtunes a 1/2 step.  Reese played it in C.  It’s a pretty basic tune if you play it in C.  If you want a transcription in B I would play it in C then use the transpose feature in your transcription software or just transpose it in your head if you can. 

[Delaware Dave]

I've played this tune for years, I play in C (it was easier than learning the lead in B).  Never transcribed the piano.  Just listened and learned.

[drawback]

Seriously?

 

https://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/HL-20692.html

 

 

[Baldwin Funster]

Transcription:

I  V

Repeat.

[MathOfInsects]

I know it's tempting to jump on this, but take another look at/listen to Reese Wynan's piano performance. That's some bad-ass boogie playing. I can understand wanting to cop that part, or at least know what you're trying to get close to.
 

Here's how to play that short solo: https://piano-ology.com/pop-rock-school-the-house-is-rockin-piano-solo/

 

As for this intro, whatever key you're in, your groove basically puts an inversion of the IV chord on the 2 and 4 of each measure, with the root-7 on the 1 and 3 of each measure. So you're playing I7  IV/I  I7  IV/1 as a basic groove. In B that's B7  E/B  B7  E/B, etc. And really, you're hammering 8ths, so you're playing each one of those twice: B7-B7  E/B-E/B  B7-B7  E/B-E/B.

 

To hit the walkdown, you can look for inversions of each of those chords that puts the top notes descending close to each other. It's a little bit like the walkdown riff in Will It Go Round in Circles in that sense--just keep inverting those I7 and IV chords in their respective spots in the groove and making the "next highest note" of the chord, the top note. 

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

[Cabo]

3 hours ago, CEB said:

No. The key is B concert but SRV downtunes a 1/2 step.  Reese played it in C.  It’s a pretty basic tune if you play it in C.  If you want a transcription in B I would play it in C then use the transpose feature in your transcription software or just transpose it in your head if you can. 

 

Thanks CEB -- that's very helpful.   Playing those runs C is much easier.  

[MathOfInsects]

Yeah, Wynan is definitely transposing. Solo at :50. Fingers in C, song in B. So convert what I said above to C instead of B. As Ed says, way easier too.

 

 

[stoken6]

Man that's a blast from my youth. Every single last one of those piano riffs is hardwired into my brain and fingers, and it started from that track.

 

(I appreciate that Reese in turn picked up the vocabulary from his influences, and on it goes...)

 

Cheers, Mike.

[dazzjazz]

Yes I emailed Reese about that years ago - he used the transpose button on his digital piano, probably a Roland RD-300. If it’s fine for the Stevie to transpose his guitar…

[davinwv]

I've seen some concert videos where Reese is playing the transposed digital piano at the same time as the (obviously non-transposed) B3. So, on a tune like "Tightrope" with both instruments playing at the same time, he's essentially playing in two different keys at once😲!

[MathOfInsects]

While it certainly makes me feel better to know that people of his calibre still find certain things easier to play in certain keys, I'm curious: at the point where you're playing the song in the "proper" key anyway (as with the B3), at that point why not do the whole thing that way?

Having said that, one of my weird, random, and generally useless abilities is that I have literally no trouble at all playing in one key in one hand and another in the other. It usually happens where I've used the Magic Enchangerator button on one board, but realize it would sound good with something that needs to happen on the second board, which I haven't Magic Enchangerated. For whatever reason--broken circuitry in my brain, probably--I don't find this difficult at all. It's no different than playing different notes or rhythms in each hand. I don't know why.

 

I'm not even very strong at two-hand independence, at least beyond the rudiments. I just seem to be able to tell myself, in this one exact context, that RH is playing in Bb and LH is playing in B, and my brain goes, "Ok, cool!" and never thinks twice about it. 

[D. Gauss]

basically it's just a lift of pinetop's boogie woogie. (smith, not perkins).  fwiw, there's tons of youtube's on how to play pinetop's boogie note for note if that helps.

 

 

[DrEsophagus]

Fairly straightforward in C, not so much in B, I'm partially disabled so black keys aren't so easy for me. 

 

I still got better chops than a lot of people despite that