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Originally recorded with Bob Dylan during the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions, The Band"s version became a feature for Richard Manuel's haunting falsetto (and a symbol of his decline as his voice became increasingly ravaged). The chart is based on the Big Pink version with some of the bass...

Dylan walked into Big Pink one day and handed Richard Manuel the lyrics to this tune. Manuel put the music to it - a rock & roll kid trying to make sense of Dylan"s imagery. This chart is for The Band's version that opened their first album. Be sure to check out the Woodstock version online...

Blessed with a vocal as lonesome as the title, this track was apparently chosen over the equally gorgeous Katie's Been Gone when the album Music From Big Pink was sequenced. Key of C BPM 75 Style: Jazz - Ballad Even Lonesome Suzie (The Band) - Richard Manuel

Chart for another classic from the 2nd album, ending with some wonderful vocal back-and-forth between Richard Manuel and Levon Helm. Mostly taken from the official sheet music, the first 4 bars have 3 time signatures which might take a bit of rehearsal. I've tabbed the outro as 2/4 to...

I plan to spend the weekend trying to approximate the country-funk of The Weight by The Band though it is a song that certainly pushes the boundaries of iRP, involving the drums dropping out for bars, time signature changes, a syncopated bass line using 8th notes slides to get the stolid verse...

Cheers, Bob - it seems to run all right as is but I'll file your notes: I'm working on two more charts where this will come into play.

My chart for the final track from The Band's eponymous sophomore album. I feel I've reasonably approximated the feel and pausing between sections of the original - although it's generally notated in 4/4, I feel 2/4 is closer to the anxious feel of the song. BPM 110 Style: Jazz - Ballad EVen...

Hi Bob, That is strange - I did check that it imported after the same thing happened with another post. I add the code after my text, however I may have re-added the chart after adding The Band to the title..? Anyway, here's the chart: In A Station (The Band) - Richard Manuel

3rd track from the album Music From Big Pink - a quiet little gem with a soulful vocal and some spectral keyboard work by Garth Hudson. BPM 65 Style: Jazz - Ballad Melodic or Even. Key - G major In A Station (The Band) - Richard Manuel

The final classic from these much-revered pioneers of Americana. I have the changes for all parts save the solos - for lack of space, I have not replicated the complete structure. The bass moves are based on the wonderful live version from The Last Waltz. BPM 70-75 Style: Jazz - Ballad...

Re-posting: Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band) - Robbie Robertson

Lovely festive number for those who are generally too folk-rock for festive numbers. From The Band's final, odds-and-sods, contractual obligation album 'Islands'. BPM 125-130 Style: Jazz - Ballad Melodic or Even Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band) - Robbie Robertson

Could someone give me a step-by-step on how to put all the charts I have recently posted of songs by The Band into a single playlist or thread where they can be found by iRP users as per Jazz Standards or Chansons Francaises etc. Cheers!

Chart for stand-out track from the album Stage Fright. I have not tabbed the chords for the guitar solo for lack of space. BPM 128 Style: Jazz - Ballad Melodic Rumor (The Band), The - Robbie Robertson

Chart for track from the 2nd album. Rick Danko's bass is important for the lope of this tune - to replicate it, I've incorporated bits from the studio version as well as the live version from Before The Flood. BPM 135 Style - Jazz - Ballad Melodic When You Awake (The Band) - Manuel & Robertson