So there's a new couple of videos on the channel tonight. In August 2019 Sara Bareilles released an EP of songs that were lost from the musical Waitress before it opened. One of those songs Without a Believer was also released in video form by Jeremy Jordan to coincide with the release. We've put together accompaniments in both Sara's key and Jeremy's key and both are now live on YouTube.
Jeremy Jordan Version - in the key of D Major.
Sara Bareilles Version - in the key of Gb/F# Major
New on the video channel today is the piano accompaniment for the song I Don't Need Your Love from the musical Six.
The song is part of the musical which is presently playing the Arts Theatre in London's West End, as well as from May to August 2019 in Chicago's Shakespeare Theater. The musical's songs are written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss.
The publishers Faber & Faber have released the sheet music for the songs from Six. They are all available here
Earlier in the year we produced two versions of the song Heart of Stone, one in F (as per the Original Soundtrack recording) as well as one a semi-tone lower in E major.
At present we have two of the tracks from The Greatest Showman on the YouTube channel and one of those has it's own choral arrangement which you can perform. Never Enough is on the YouTube channel as arrangements in three different keys, with A Million Dreams having been transcribed into a SATB arrangement that works with the original track. The songs are written by award winning writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Tim has recently been allowed to release his transcriptions for some of the songs from Tina Fey's Broadway musical Mean Girls. The songs for the show are written by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin and Tim has created quite a few of the tracks for the You Tube Channel which have been quite popular over the last year. Recently he has been able to create the transcriptions for these arrangements and release them through sheet music plus.
Recently I produced another track for the YouTube Channel. This time the song Waving Through a Window from the musical Dear Evan Hansen.
The show was written by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and opened on Broadway in December of 2016. On the original cast recording the song was recorded by Ben Platt.
I've created three versions for the YouTube channel so hopefully you'll find a version that suits.
The original key (as sung by Ben Platt) is in A Major.
This makes the high notes of the song quite high (a top Bb), so I did a lower version for guys as well which may be more appropriate if your voice doesn't quite get up to the highest points of the song, That version is in F#
Also I know that many ladies appreciate this song so I have also done a 'female' key of Db, this gives a high note of D so hopefully this will be suitable for many mezzos/sopranos that would like to sing the song.
I hope you find one of these suitable for your needs. Alto voices may well find that the original key will work more preferably for you.
One of the new songs on the YouTube Channel is Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' My Love, My Life from the movie Mamma Mia Here We Go Again. The song was originally recorded for the Abba album 'Arrival'. In the movie it is sung as a trio between Lily James, Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried.
The piano accompaniment that I put together now has over 50,000 views on the YouTube channel.
To go alongside this I have also been allowed to produce the sheet music for the song. This is available from here
Welcome to The Accompanist's new website. For the first time we've been able to feature the ability to purchase tracks direct from the site which means your accompaniment tracks are only a couple of clicks away (rather than having to visit AmazonMP3, GooglePlay or iTunes).
Also with the new site we're able to feature tracks from the upcoming album releases, in case you require one of songs instantly.
The third piece of exciting news is that we are now able to offer the full collection of albums as a one purchase download, yes this means all 13 albums can be purchased in one transaction, as well as the opportunity to purchase collections of your favorite songwriters' music in one batch, especially helpful for the Sondheim buffs amongst you.
We hope you'll find the new site easy to use and if you have any comments about the new site or features you'd like to see please leave a comment or drop us a note through our contact page.