I’m sure you’ll recall that a while back I transcribed the song Hide and Seek by artist Imogen Heap for my school’s A Cappella choir. While the motion to have us all sing it fell through when many members abandoned the project, the sheet music still stands as pretty flawless, a perfect match-up of the original Hide and Seek song. I’ve actually put the sheet music up on TJE and made it available for download. If you want the sheet music to Hide and Seek, just go to http://thejasoneffect.net/music/SheetMusic/Hide and Seek/ and download the pages.

However, Imogen Heap has now come out with another version of her popular song, aptly named “Hide and Seek 2.” Will I be transcribing it? No, but the song itself is a veritable confirmation that my transcription is highly accurate.

You see, Hide and Seek 2 is just a single vocal part, and a background harmony. it does eventually divide, but at its greatest dividend is it split only into three parts, and never reaches the tenacity of the notes that were hit in its more digitally altered cousin. I say this because Hide and Seek 2 does not rely nearly as much on digital effects as Hide and Seek did. Hide and Seek was, in effect, completely a Vox filter - I was pretty sure every part was played by Imogen herself, but with the pitches of her voice altered to be either extremely low or high. Which was why the choir had a bit of trouble performing my transcription - the notes were inhumanly high because they had been digitally altered to be so in the song.

But no more. Hide and Seek 2 lacks this type of alteration, forcing Imogen to sing within the one range she has. And, when you listen to it, you’ll find that it’s almost note-for-note accurate to my transcription of the Alto melody line. Some notes overlap with the Soprano part I wrote, but only because the melody dances around each part and Imogen had to combine them somehow.

On an unrelated note, the harmonies that DO exist are changed in Hide and Seek 2. The overall feel has gone from “strange digital mess” to “African tribal music”. All of the chords are now quite happy, moved to major keys.

Buy it from the iTunes music store - it’s in the album “Songs for Tibet.”

Yes, I’m proud of myself. ;)