Guild Wars 2

I was looking for a good music sheet thread but i couldn’t find it and most of the flute ones sound awful with a harp so i thought that there should be a topic for everyone where all the cool harp music sheets/videos goes here.

I can’t offer much, but I tried playing something on the harp yesterday and recorded it:

Ballad/Hymn of the Goddess – Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T0iSxDd1mM

I will try to play some other songs, but currently I’m totally out of ideas. As you already mentioned, most songs on the flute wouldn’t sound good on the harp (at least not without adapting them with some grace notes).

someone pls do this! PLEASE!!

edit: figured out (highest octave) 8 565 312 8 565 352

Requesting Final Fantasy Prelude!

Requesting Final Fantasy: Prelude!
one of the reason’s i got the harp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIX65EMSkYY

Dempa.6391:

Requesting Final Fantasy: Prelude!
one of the reason’s i got the harp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIX65EMSkYY

Posted it to Reddit yesterday, enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rvzD7PYtA

Ram Banson.4081:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yc7kp_ETGU

someone pls do this! PLEASE!!

edit: figured out (highest octave) 8 565 312 8 565 352

Someone has posted a very nice version of this one on reddit. Yours plays the same notes obviously, but he has tabs for playing double notes. It gives a very nice effect, one that only the Harp can produce in-game currently.

Credits goes to: livskis

Link:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xm1kr/sheikh_song_tab_for_the_harp/

Here’s the Earth God’s Lyric from Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

5
3/5 |^| 1 3 2 1 |v| 7
4/8 6 4 7 5 8 6
5/7 5 4 8 4/6 7
5/8 |^| 2 3 1 2 |v| 5
3/5 |^| 1 3 2 1 |v| 7
4/8 6 4 7 5 8 6
5/7 |^| 1 2 3 4 2 |v| 7
8 1/3/5/8

Transcribed from the sheet music, which I don’t know if I’m allowed to post. I will attempt to add the chords later. (Edit: added some simple chords) Also, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can team up with another harpist and a flutist and try to replicate this version of the Earth God’s Lyric.

I also hurriedly put together this simple bit for the Hymn of the Fayth from Final Fantasy X:

2 4 3 5
5 4 5 6 2
6 7 5 6
5 4 5 6 2
2 2 3 3 4 4
3 1 1 2 2

(note that this is just how I personally matched the notes- I can’t hear absolute pitch, so they may be a bit off.)

I’ll post videos once I’m better.

so i see that i their are a few sheet out there but i wanted to make a new one that only has actual sheet music in it so ive been thinking for a while about it but if you do have a song post it here.

a few guide lines to go throw

456 normal octave or mid
(^ high octave)
|v deep octave|
~ Delay
/ a note roll Example 4/5 you hit 4 then quickly hit 5 as the note plays

so a song should be like this
Rayti.6531 for Gerudo Valley

Request, if i may
Can somebody please do this song?
Frozen – Let It Go (Disney’Song)
http://youtu.be/aO6HtZEpJbk
Thx !! <3

Awesome! I’ve been wanting to make a thread and noticed you already did. Here are some of mine:

A lot of songs that Rayti.6531 uploaded to his/her channel also work on the Harp. Just wanted to throw it out there. Cause his/her work is amazing!
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/gothic612

He/She has several songs on there, including:
- Wind Waker Prologue
- Ballad of the Goddess (Skyward Sword)
- A Whole New World
- Sunny Glade (SAB)/Logan’s Journey
- Saria’s/Epona’s Song
And many more!

Also a special mention to livskis from reddit for his amazing conversion of the Sheik’s theme:

Original thread:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xm1kr/sheikh_song_tab_for_the_harp

Also another special mention to Silverdisc for his Final Fantasy Prelude:

Original thread:
http://w3.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xn8on/harp_final_fantasy_prelude_tab

I arranged the start of the Morrowind theme for a request from some guy in LA just now. I find it pretty hard to use the text tab formats, so I’ve written it out in sheet music with fingering as the scale degrees you use.

Morrowind opening

I’m working on a few others, too

Charming Rogue.8071:

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A lot of songs that Rayti.6531 uploaded to his/her channel also work on the Harp. Just wanted to throw it out there. Cause his/her work is amazing!
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Thanks for the compliments (and for advertising my channel g)!

I’m currently rewriting some of my flute tabs for the harp (like the Wind Waker Start Screen/Earth Temple Theme). They work with the flute tabs too, but I’m trying to add some grace notes/chords to some parts, so they sound a bit better on the harp. In case of the Earth Temple Theme it looks like this (notes in brackets are grace notes/chords with separately played notes):

I haven’t recorded it yet, but I definitely will in the afternoon (CET)… I’ll also adapt my notation to something more readable (like what you are using in this thread). I realize mine is “a bit” difficult to read for anyone but me

PS: I’m female

PPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE8OwB8Xeh0

Here are the tabs for “The Tengu Wall.” I prefer to play the song on the highest octave for the best effect. These are the basic notes, but feel free to embellish it with whatever you like!

I’ve also included a link to a brief video of what it sounds like in-game, hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YATQwtmA3s&feature=youtu.be

Thank you i really wanted to find some good music that fits the harp

So i’ve been trying some flute music sheets and alot of them really work just as good with a harp soo here’s the ones i think are easy to play with a harp
U=upper octave D=lower octave
Silent Night
5 65 3 5 65 3 U2 2 D7 8 85
6 6 8 76 5 6 5 3 6 6 8 76 5 6 5 3
U2 2 4 2D7 8 U3 D8 5 3 5 4 2 1

Morrowind Theme – Call of magic ( )- upper octave
678 (123 352 321)76
678 (123 356 5 76)
(6 78 7 6 5 654 3 2)
(132)
876

Game of thrones – opening
(6 2 456 2 453 5 1 435 1 432)
(3) 6 (123) 6 (12)7 (2) 587 (2) 5876

Btw i didn’t make any of these i just copied them from the flute Topic and modified it to be easier to play on harp.

Decided to write Hilda’s theme from A Link Between Worlds.

PLEASE READ: The brackets mean that note has to be played simultaneously with the note it’s attached to without spaces.
For example, if it says (2)4, the important note for the melody is 4, but press ‘2’ immediately before 4 so it comes out as a chord.

Here’s a new song for you all!

The Sea of Sorrows (AKA Lion’s Arch Theme)
NOTE: (H) means high octave, (M) means medium, (L) means low.
65678 - 765673 - 5678(H)32123 - repeat

Here’s a link to what it sounds like in-game, with grace notes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9s-m_KxZ0

I had to make this, because the theme is just too awesome (keep in mind that it’s not possible to play the entire song due to the harp’s limitation).

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOc0TmdaW2k

I got a couple questions. Does the flute tab move over to the harp well for Saria’s song? And, what are the actual notes in each octave?

Grok Krog.9581:

I got a couple questions. Does the flute tab move over to the harp well for Saria’s song? And, what are the actual notes in each octave?

Yes. It plays very well for Harp. I love to play it. It sounds very accurate.

Credit: Rayti

Not sure how accurate it is but I was playing with the Harp yesterday and I think I made the tune for frère jacques.

4564 – 4564 – 678 – 678 -887654 – 887654 -323 – 323

All done on the middle octave. If someone finds a better tune to match the actual tune PM me and I’ll update this

Morte de Angelis.7986:

Not sure how accurate it is but I was playing with the Harp yesterday and I think I made the tune for frère jacques.

4564 – 4564 – 678 – 678 -887654 – 887654 -323 – 323

All done on the middle octave. If someone finds a better tune to match the actual tune PM me and I’ll update this

I think this would be more accurate:
1231 1231 345 345 565431 565431 [858 858]

Thanks Rogue. I think I should’ve rephrased my second question a bit better. By the actual note I meant is 1 E, 2 F, etc. etc.

Hi. Does anyone have an idea for this one ?

Just the intro, Starway to Havean by Zeppelin

Grok Krog.9581:

Thanks Rogue. I think I should’ve rephrased my second question a bit better. By the actual note I meant is 1 E, 2 F, etc. etc.

On the Harp it’s:

1 = C
2 = D
3 = E
4 = F
5 = G
6 = A
7 = B
8 = C

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

Falunel.7645 Here’s the Earth God’s Lyric from Legend of Zelda

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5
3/5 (^ 1 3 2 1) |v 7
4/8 6 4 7 5 8 6
5/7 5 4 8 4/6 7 |
5/8 (^ 2 3 1 2)|v 5
3/5 |(^ 1 3 2 1) |v 7
4/8 6 4 7 5 8 6
5/7 (^ 1 2 3 4 2) |v 7
8 1/3/5/8|

I’m afraid you wrote my contribution wrongly. Here’s the correct version:

Earth God’s Lyric – The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Original: [link]
Video of the piece in GW2: WIP
Special version from Wind Waker, probably could do this with the help of some other musicians: [link]

If you could, for clarity’s sake, delete your post in this thread with my transcription, it would be appreciated.

If you could, for clarity’s sake, delete your post in this thread with my transcription, it would be appreciated.[/quote]

sorry for the miss communication i did delete my post from you. ty for pointing that out.

Would it be possible to make the musical harp sound as beautiful as a real one? ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4s_7qVvZY

msyu.3689:

Would it be possible to make the musical harp sound as beautiful as a real one? ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4s_7qVvZY

You can actually do those awesome Harp sound effects that you hear in that clip. You can get it pretty close, but it won’t be ‘exactly’ the same of course, cause you don’t have all the strings necessary to make certain tones.

I’ll try to make a tab soon on that video and record a video of me playing it. It will probably be almost the same as the existing tab that’s been flying around on the web (for flute, I think it was), except with some dual notes and funky harp sound effects added to it. It does sound rather nice.

Charming Rogue.8071:

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Wind Waker Earth Temple

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5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (45)7 54 8 (4)6 7 (35)8 -0- 23
12 -9- (13)5 5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (25)7 8 (57) -0- 2 342 -9- 78 (35)8
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I’m a complete noob at this music and tabs stuff. Can somebody tell me how I would play this song? Like, almost exact description, because I have no clue what I’m doing here. If you could, an explanation of sorts on what all of the above numbers/characters mean?

The main reason I got the harp was because of Aerith’s Theme. I don’t remember where I heard the harp version but I have been hacking away at trying to put it into the simple keys.

First time fiddling with this type of thing so yarr.

1-3-6 5-3- [ 7] 1-3-6-5-7-6-4-5-3-[ 8] 1-3-6 5-3-[ 7] [7-7-6-7] 1-[8-7-8-7]

Hopefully someone can help me out with this. <3

Here’s a link if you wanna hear a real harp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HSExugLmM&feature=youtube_gdata

My songs. Please note the frozen song cannot be played correctly with GW2 notes.

Charming Rogue.8071:

msyu.3689:

Would it be possible to make the musical harp sound as beautiful as a real one? ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4s_7qVvZY

You can actually do those awesome Harp sound effects that you hear in that clip. You can get it pretty close, but it won’t be ‘exactly’ the same of course, cause you don’t have all the strings necessary to make certain tones.

I’ll try to make a tab soon on that video and record a video of me playing it. It will probably be almost the same as the existing tab that’s been flying around on the web (for flute, I think it was), except with some dual notes and funky harp sound effects added to it. It does sound rather nice.

Thank you very much for your efforts, the simultaneously played notes are what makes it pretty i think ^^

I LOVE YOU NEXXIUS !!!!

VoidFusion.3026:

Charming Rogue.8071:

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Wind Waker Earth Temple

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5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (45)7 54 8 (4)6 7 (35)8 -0- 23
12 -9- (13)5 5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (25)7 8 (57) -0- 2 342 -9- 78 (35)8
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I’m a complete noob at this music and tabs stuff. Can somebody tell me how I would play this song? Like, almost exact description, because I have no clue what I’m doing here. If you could, an explanation of sorts on what all of the above numbers/characters mean?

I didn’t actually write that. But i know what it means. The annotations kinda confused me at first too, because it’s different than what most people write in tabs. That’s actually because no one has yet to write tabs where you use this harp-like technique of playing songs. The problem is that numbers in brackets () usually means higher octave. But it actually doesn’t in that tab.

In this tab the numbers inside the brackets () mean that you have to play them really fast after one another. Kinda like gliding your fingers along the keys. So that you get that beautiful harp sound.
The 0 means switching to an higher octave, this is because 0 is binded by default as this key.
The 9 means switching to an lower octave, this is because 9 is binded by default as this key.

I think it will clarify a lot of what I mean when you check out the video of the girl actually playing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE8OwB8Xeh0

I’ve rewritten it to make more sense to me in the following example. Note that it’s the same tab, just written differently:

GW Factions Theme

6(up)12(4)4312(down)(6) 6(p)12(4)31(down)(6) 6(up)1(2)(down)85(6) 5452(4) 56(8) 85(6) 54(5) 245(6) 545(2) 245)6)
568(up)(2) 23(1)(down)68(up)2(down)(5) (up)23(1) (down)6(up) 43(2) – 6(up)12(4)4312(down)(6) 6(up)12(4)31(down)(6)
68(up)(2) (down)85(6) 54(2)

See in the youtube videos description for a better layout of the tabs, the forum kittened them up a little

Here are some more songs of mine:

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnw-Qu_Ucg

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LDyYDuWyc

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEoEdqbRTFM

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H5t82Mhbw8

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nywMd4N_LuI

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vP8g5M1pg

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDMXtiE1-8

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1iZO_MuO1M

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGfMNddMLHQ

msyu.3689:

Would it be possible to make the musical harp sound as beautiful as a real one? ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO4s_7qVvZY

I tried my best. But it’s practically impossible to make it sound exactly like it does on a real harp.

Recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8mMq07fudo

— = Numbers within – and – means to slide your fingers across them to make the unique Harp sound
{} = Lower octave
() = Higher octave
/ = Dual notes
_ = Nothing. But for some reason 4_5_5 without the _ is filtered as kitten

Thank you very much for the work and it sound very charmingly ^^

(edit: Frozen on Harp)

For Harp and Flute:

Charming Rogue.8071:

VoidFusion.3026:

Charming Rogue.8071:

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Wind Waker Earth Temple

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5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (45)7 54 8 (4)6 7 (35)8 -0- 23
12 -9- (13)5 5 (13)5 -0- 13 21 -9- 7 (46)8 64 8686 (25)7 8 (57) -0- 2 342 -9- 78 (35)8
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I didn’t actually write that. But i know what it means. The annotations kinda confused me at first too, because it’s different than what most people write in tabs. That’s actually because no one has yet to write tabs where you use this harp-like technique of playing songs. The problem is that numbers in brackets () usually means higher octave. But it actually doesn’t in that tab.

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I’ve rewritten it to make more sense to me in the following example. Note that it’s the same tab, just written differently:

Zelda - Earth God's Lyric (Harp) - by Rayti (Different annotations)

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5 -13-5 (13 21) 7 -46-8 64 8686 -45-7 54 8 -4-6 7 -35-8 (2 3 1 2) -13-5
5 -13-5 (13 21) 7 -46-8 64 8686 -25-7 8 -57-(2 342) 7 8 -35-8

Numbers within: — = Means gliding (or almost playing them at the same time)
() = Means switching to an higher octave

You are right, the notation I used there is more than confusing, especially after we’ve all agreed on () being high octave on the flute. The thought behind using brackets in the notation was that you can leave out the notes in brackets for some kind of “Easy Mode” where you still have the main melody. Wasn’t the best idea I had by now

I thought about rewriting my tabs to use () as high and [] as low octave and to write chords/gliding like 1/3/5. At least these are notations I see commonly used in different tabs by different people. Maybe we should agree on some kind of notation for the tabs we share to prevent further confusion… I think I’ve caused enough

EDIT:
It took me a while, but here are the updated tabs:

I also updated all harp and horn tabs in my youtube channel to follow the same notation and will keep that up for all future videos.

FFX: To Zanarkand:

6 – 3678765 – 653 – 6 – 36787(12123) – 6 – 3678765 – 653 – 3 3 3 3 2 – 5 [8 8756] – 266543 – 88 – 7532 – 6 – [ 868 ] 2

Can I make a request? Not sure if I should post this to reddit or not What gets checked more often? lol

the Song on Harp

I’ve made some edits to a few of Rayti’s songs above that make them sound a little more accurate to me. Big thanks to Rayti for putting them out there! Used her tabs for several of my starter songs.

Pretty close to Rayti’s version but the ending sequence has a couple more notes and scales slightly quicker.

Overall tune has similarities, but changed the line endings since they originally felt slightly off. Also added a few chords in the middle to get a little closer to the original. Ending sequence was changed a good bit too.

I wrote a harp version of “The Hero of Canton” from Firefly recently!

() = high octave
{} = low octave
/ / = chord (let it roll, don’t do the notes perfectly simultaneously. Go from low to high in a swift motion)

First full version of Fear not this night – acc. to THIS
The octaves are very deep with harp at some points but thats very originally.
If somebody wish to improve this, go ahead.

edit: sounds better with choir bell XD

Need some help with this stuff,maybe there is somebody who will help me out.

GDGA#A
DGD
G#A#D#A#DFG

GDGA#A
DA#ACF
C#AAFGA

GDGA#A
DGD
G#A#D#A#DFG

#AF#ACD
F#AF
CFC#AAFGA

GDGA#A
DGD
G#A#D#A#DFG

FC#ACACG
C+F C+F *2
#ACACGC

GDGA#A
DGD
G#A#D#A#DFG

DG#A
DG#A
DG#A
DGC
DGC
DGC

It’s the Intro of Nightwish-Everdream

Can anybody help me make Dear You from Higurashi?

(edit: added 2 more songs)
sounds also good on flute:

I have no idea how to play this, but i think the notes are corret :