Posted here with Robert's permission, and with his comments on the
transcription, below.
From: Robert Blyman
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:12:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Tsuru no Sugomori
It probably took about eight hours give or take. I did it over a
couple of weeks. I did make up some of my own notation such as
using brackets to indicate notes played together quickly rather
than putting one or two lines through the characters(it would become
to messy).
Most notation I have writes Ko Ro as Ko Ro Ro I just simplified it
to save space. At line 9 at 5.13 (5min. 13 sec.) to get the crane
sound he fingers a low octave re (G pitch on 1.8) and does Ko Ro
alternating the 1st and 2nd finger holes. I could have notated it
differently but I decided on that. To get from the Hi octave back
down to the low octave he momentarily does the low octave re
alternation of the 1st and 2nd hole than starts to also alternate
the 2nd & 4th holes at the same time eventually coming back to the
standard Ko Ro(as far as I can tell). I don't know if I really
notated it clearly.
You definitely get to really know the piece deeply when you transcribe
it. Years ago when I used to transcribe jazz solos and pieces and
parts of solos (for bass from sax and bass solos) I found my level
of playing always went up a notch.
