song: I Will Survive
artist: Gloria Gaynor
album: Love Tracks (1978)
writers: producers Freddie Perren & Dino Fekaris

vocal: Gloria Gaynor
electric bass: Scott Edwards
electric guitars: Bob “Boogie” Bowles & “Wah Wah” Watson
drums: James Gadson
piano: Freddie Perren
orchestral arranger and conductor: Dave Blumberg
· strings: ?
· horns: ?
· harpist: ?
(congas: Paulinho de Costa)

This is a note-for-note and complete transcription of “I Will Survive” (the 3:15 single version). This is transcribed from the isolated tracks/stems of each instrument, which makes this as accurate as possible. This includes everything (except for the congas part). In case your band does not have horns, a harpist, or a strings section, these are all notated in treble–bass score, which gives the keyboardist something to do for the rest of the song… Enjoy this disco masterpiece!
(Historical side note: I found something similar to the opening piano run in Mozart’s Fantasia No. 3, in D minor. This raises the question: Who was the first pianist to do this half-diminished chord trick?)

This product is part of my Full Score series, where I make an extra effort to include every single instrument in the name of perfection.