Week 19: Sheet music

Any time you have a hit song, people are going to want to play it themselves. To do that, they need sheet music. And music publishers are usually happy to oblige, for a modest fee. Hence, we have the official "Pac-Man Fever" sheet music! (My copy is rather heavily used, I'm afraid.)

And what do you get for your $2.50? Well, first you get a reprint of the album cover with additional text underneath. Next, on the inside, you get some pretty simple piano music in B-flat major with the singing part and guitar chords. And I mean simple piano music. There's not a single triad to be found! The best you get are some dyads (two-note intervals) in the bass clef during the chorus. You do, however, get the opening music from the video game, if you ever wondered how it would go on the piano. (Interestingly, there is no separate credit or copyright notice for that bit, which technically should belong to Namco or Midway.)

I will give it credit for a dal segno segno (D.S.S.) notation, however. That's not something I usually see a lot.

What I really would have liked, however, was the music for the guitar solo. Sadly, that's not to be. Instead, it just says to ad lib for a verse.