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Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)Elton John
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GrooveSheet separated Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) by Elton John and transcribed the guitar part to notation you can read, hear played back against the recording, and export. It transcribed the drum, piano and bass parts too, on pages of their own. It also has a chord chart of the whole song, read from the full mix, with the chord symbols over every bar.
The music
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) by Elton John is in E♭ major, at about 136 BPM. It is in 4/4 time and runs 130 bars. Its main chords are Gm7, C7, E♭ and B♭, out of 17 different chords in all. The guitar part has 2,260 notes, from G2 up to G5 (3 octaves), at about 10.2 notes per second. Its biggest chord stacks 6 notes at once. Estimated difficulty: advanced. It plays more notes per second than 83% of the guitar parts on GrooveSheet.
- Part
- Guitar
- Key
- E♭ major
- Tempo
- 136 BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Main chords
- Gm7, C7, E♭, B♭
- Notes
- 2,260
- Range
- G2–G5
- Difficulty (estimate)
- Advanced
- Album
- Honky Chateau
- Released
- 1972
- Length
- 4:42
- Separated parts
- Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar, Piano and Other
- Sheet music
- Piano, Drums, Guitar and Bass
What you can download
- MusicXMLthe guitar part, for MuseScore, Sibelius, Dorico or Finale
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- Stemthe isolated guitar audio on its own
Other parts of this song
- Drum sheet music for Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
- Piano sheet music for Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
- Bass sheet music for Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
- Chords and chord chart for Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
- Every part of Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) on one page
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