TimothyGondola

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Blessed Assurance| Gospel Jazz Version

Late upload... but here's my rendition of Blessed Assurance. In these hymn arrangements I'm looking for ways to play the original melody in the original key, while having the harmonies be transpose...

O Sacred Head Now Wounded| Timothy Gondola

The latest installment of my hymn series. Hopefully some good new harmonies in this one as well! 

PDF & MIDI will remain attached to the post until June 1st. Enjoy! [After June 1st: ...

Answer Me My Love| Keith Jarrett

Answer Me My Love by Keith Jarrett, now with video! Detlef Kleinert plays my transcription of Keith Jarrett's performance here. PDF and MIDI attached below!

Keith Jarrett| Answer Me My Love

Hello dear patrons! Today's transcription does not have video unfortunately, as the music couldn't be uploaded to YouTube since it's copyrighted. This is my first time transcribing Keith Jarrett. W...

Clap Yo' Hands| Johnny Costa

I started transcribing this ages ago, back in college in 2014. I've finally circled around to finish what I started, enjoy!

PDF & MIDI will remain attached to the post until March 1st. En...

Ode To Joy| Timothy Gondola

Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee, AKA Ode To Joy, is a theme originally written by Beethoven. Fun fact: Ode To Joy served as Rhodesia's National Anthem, and today is the European Union's Anthem.  2021-01-02 15:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Winter Wonderland| Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier is my favorite musician. He's inspired much of my own music. This is from a recent virtual performance on CBS This Morning Saturday Sessions. I've transcribed, bass, piano and melodic...

O Come All Ye Faithful

My rendition of this Christmas hymn. Tried to make full use of my handspan to find some tasteful chord voicings. PDF & MIDI will remain attached to the post until February 1st. Enjoy! [After Fe...

2020 Holiday Giveaway 🎄🎁

Happy holidays!

You've probably received an email from me about the holiday giveaway, but just in case:

For the rest of the month of December, I'm rolling out two special events:

Transcription scores on Patreon

Hi patrons, 

Just a friendly reminder that there are many transcription PDFs which you can download through Patreon, if you haven't already. To see the full list, click here: 

Amazing Grace by me

Here's my arrangement of Amazing Grace. I'd uploaded a video of this a few months ago but without the score. PDF & MIDI attached below until November 1st [After November 1st: 2020-10-19 14:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Composition Premiere Tonight

Tonight (10/09) at 8:30 EST, a composition I wrote for quartet will be premiered at the Music In Bloom Festival via YouTube livestream!

You can catch the premiere here: 2020-10-09 19:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Samba do Avião| Marcos Ariel

A song by the legendary Brazilian composer Tom Jobim, about his love of Rio De Janeiro. Rendered by Marcos Ariel. 

PDF with chord symbols and MIDI are attached below until January 1st. E...

Monthly scores now downloadable thru Patreon

To make things simpler, I'll be attaching  PDFs/MIDIs within the Patreon post. You'll be able to download them therein. 

This means that you won't have to wait until the end of the ...

My Way| Hiromi Uehara

This is a tune by  Frank Sinatra, improvised on the fly by Hiromi! PDF & MIDI attached below.

You can download more transcriptions through 2020-08-17 14:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

My rendition of one of my favorite hymns :) 

PDF and MIDI are attached below until August 1st. Enjoy! [After August 1st: ...

Transcriber's Notes

Have you come across a bit of notation in my transcriptions that you haven't seen before? Here's a breakdown! PDF attached below.

2020-07-08 15:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Summer 2020 Content 🎹

Hey guys! 

This summer, I'll be creating new kinds of content on YouTube, namely: jazz exercises/tutorials, and covers. To make time for this, I'll be trimming back my transcription work...

Maple Leaf Rag- Marco Marconi

Marco Marconi is an Italian jazz pianist, here's his arrangement of Scott Joplin's classic Maple Leaf Rag! If you hear any discrepancies between the transcription and the music, they're adjustments...

How Great Thou Art- My Rendition

Greetings! 

I've starting arranging some hymns, so this is the first of several more to come. For this, I've created two scores: a note-for-note, near-exact transcription, as well as a s...

April's Sheet Music- Jazz Tier

Dear patrons, Dropbox is down so I'm attaching last month's PDFs for download within this post. Enjoy!

Timothy

St. Louis Blues| Brian Holland

Greetings! I actually uploaded this to YouTube a week ago, and by a lapse in judgment didn't include it here. 

PDF & MIDI available here: 2020-04-26 14:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Amazing Grace by Timothy Gondola

In celebration of surpassing 20,000 subscribers, here’s the first of many more covers to come! My rendition of Amazing Grace, with inspiration from Vladimir Horowitz, Chopin, Cory He...

20,000 Subscribers!!!

Hey folks! In celebration of 20,000 YouTube subscribers, which we've recently hit, I'll be posting a video of me covering Amazing Grace, next Monday. There's a first time for everything!

I...

Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri (長く短い祭)

In celebration of Japan~ this song has been floating around on YouTube for years and I haven't found a transcription. So did it myself, enjoy!

PDF & MIDI available here: 2020-03-01 15:02:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Terrance Shider| How Great Thou Art

Opening with Debussy's Arabesque... :) another brilliant piece by Terrance. Check out the amazing chord changes towards the end. PDF coming to all patrons March 1st. Enjoy!

Fred Hersch| Pretty Girl

This is my second Fred Hersch transcription (first was Both Sides Now), with more to come. Another brilliant tune from Fred Hersch, composed by Billy Strayhorn, and played in his album Passion ...