We Are The Champions [Queen] vocals harmony arrangement

[Z]

I'm recording this song as some relatives wants to give this with their own lyrics, as a kind of a gift to a friend of them who's getting married.

We did a test recording for the vocals yesterday, and I thought wouldn't it be cool if we were able to get the vocal harmonies on the chorus just the way Queen did it.

So, I'm wondering if anyone knows how these harmonies were done, in which key, etc?
Tried Googling for this, but it only turned up sites where you could pay for downloadable music sheets.

[Ogg Vorbis]

I'm recording this song as some relatives wants to give this with their own lyrics, as a kind of a gift to a friend of them who's getting married.

We did a test recording for the vocals yesterday, and I thought wouldn't it be cool if we were able to get the vocal harmonies on the chorus just the way Queen did it.

So, I'm wondering if anyone knows how these harmonies were done, in which key, etc?
Tried Googling for this, but it only turned up sites where you could pay for downloadable music sheets.

Try lifting it straight off the record. There's probably some fancy freeware out there which would slow it down but keep the pitch the same.

[jof]

I have some sheet music. It's only a simple arrangement with melody, piano and chord symbols. If you want it I can send it to you.

[Z]

Yeah OV, I can use Wavelab 6 for that. Good idea, thanks.

jof: I have seen some sheets of it, but not very good ones, so I'd appreciate that. I'm not sure if you need to email it to me, or if it can be attached to a private pm in this forum?

Thanks.

[dacaumodo]

If you've got the time though it's a great opportunity to train your ear. The way to do it is: start from the highest voice and try to follow the melody sung by that voice, then do the same all the way down to the lowest voice. It's easier to do it this way than to try and figure out what "chord" is played at each point / each word of the chorus.

[Z]

If you've got the time though it's a great opportunity to train your ear. The way to do it is: start from the highest voice and try to follow the melody sung by that voice, then do the same all the way down to the lowest voice. It's easier to do it this way than to try and figure out what "chord" is played at each point / each word of the chorus.

Yes, if I had the time I'd do it, but unfortunatly I only have evenings until Saturday to do it, and that's excluding Thursday and Friday, and including laying down guitars, bass, piano and drums for the final chorus.

[jof]

I have sent a pm.