Paul Baribeau Songbook

For my own use and practice, I started transcribing all of the songs by Paul Baribeau. I am pretty confident about most of it, and I have just about the whole self titled album done, Like Bells, his two songs on myspace from Grand Ledge, most of the guitar parts from the Ghost Mice split, Ghost Mice's version of Tablecloth, and I've done most of the significant differences between the Yikes Baribeau tracks and their self-titled counterparts. I'll borrow a friends copy of 25 to wrap those up. There are a few demos I probably won't include, and I will probably skip (at least most of) the Bruce Springsteen covers with Ginger Alford. I won't do the Keyboard songs either, I don't think.

The cover art will probably be an imitation of the front cover of the self-titled album. Loop bound, plastic cover, harder back. I will probably do the songs either in order of chronology (as I have them indexed now, more or less) or alphabetically, which might be more useful. I'm leaning towards chronology with an alphabetical cross reference in the back or front. Format of each page would be TITLE, then a description of the non-standard chords, then the lyrics with the chord letters written above them. Melodies will be written out in tablature I suppose. I figure as I get closer to my goal, it will become more apparent what exactly I need to do.

Currently, the book will have the 14 tracks from the s/t album, Like Bells, 2 songs from Grand Ledge (until I can get it!), 3-4 songs from the Ghost Mice split (I don't know if I will include Dead Flowers And Dirt), and 5 or 6 of the 8 songs from Yikes Baribeau. So, 27 or so pages there, then a slew from 25, and some other demos might get us to 50? I think I can put that as a goal.