I’m learning to play the keyboard and I would love to play the Ghostbuster’s main title theme (Elmer Bernstein’s). I’ve been looking for the sheet music for it on several places; but I haven’t been able to find it. Any music books or recommendations of on-line digital sheet music I could buy will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Well, not being able to find the sheet music for this piece, I decided to do it myself. Using Widi Pro and several hours of editing, I finally managed to come up with something that sounds decent enough. The sheet music is published here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31278575/GhostbustersMainTitleTheme-ElmerBernstein
Admittedly, this score is somewhat hard to play. But the MIDI sounds good enough. Bits of it may need further arrangement too; but I’ll leave that to more talented people.
Enjoy!
Thanks!
I just uploaded the MIDI file for this piece here:
and the source file in NWC (NoteWorthy Composer) format here:
Again, both files may need some editing: for instance, the MIDI is all pianos, so it still needs the right instruments in each track. Hopefully, these files will be useful anyway.
Maybe you’d be interested in this, too:
I updated this piece to attempt a better orchestration. Then I rendered the resulting MIDI to MP3, which can be downloaded here:
(I took some liberties with the instruments to make the MIDI sound reasonably decent)
The sheet music for this arrangement can be downloaded here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31278575/GhostbustersMainTitleTheme-ElmerBernstein
The MIDI is here:
NWC format:
This piece is still somewhat unplayable solo… but that’s my next goal!
Is the midi link still available to download? I would like to make a full band remake.
Skraag hasn’t been active on the forum in seven years.
Well, it’s true: I haven’t been in this forum for a while; but I got a notification and I was able to find these old files. So here you go:
The PDF for the orchestrated version:
The MIDI:
and a sample MP3 rendered from the above:
and also, the source Noteworthy file:
Please, bear in mind that I’m not a professional musician and I worked backwards from the audio to render the sheet music through a spectral analysis tool (and some guesswork too). So, I guess what I’m saying is that the sheet music can still be improved; but it should give you a pretty good starting point.
I would love to hear what you can do with these, and – if it’s not too much to ask – could you please share any MIDIs you render from them?
Good luck!
Awesome! Great stuff! I’d been looking for something like this for years! It’s my favourite bit of music from the entire movie!
Hi!
The links doesn’t work, I need the MIDI version but there are a Google Error
Unfortunately some stuff posted on the internet has a shelf life. As Skraag hasn’t been active on the forum since 2018, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get the MIDI files from him.
Oh… This is very unlucky.
Thank you!
Thought I could add to this discussion, Omni Music Publishing has the full orchestral score for the first film on their website. Here is the link:
Elmer Bernstein "Ghostbusters" Full Orchestral Score — Omni Music Publishing.
I know the price may not be the best, but for the content it’s well worth it.
The Cleanin’ Up the Town documentary has images of some of the original hand-written sheet music from 84! :love:
I used the Wayback Machine and was able to get the midi from a snapshot of the website if anyone wants it.