Piano Sheets > Abba Sheet Music > Name Of The Game (ver. 1) Piano Sheet

Name Of The Game (ver. 1) by Abba - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
   Other avaliable versions of this music sheet: Version 1  Version 2  
"The Name of the Game", first called "A Bit of Myself", was the first song to be recorded for ABBA's fifth studio album. It was their most complex composition yet with Agnetha Fltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad sharing the lead vocals but with solo passages from both women and contained the influences of the laid-back California sound of the day. The opening riff on bass and synthesiser is inspired by Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" from 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life, and both Andersson and Ulvaeus have acknowledged being influenced and inspired by Wonder's music during this era of ABBA's career. A preliminary version of "The Name of the Game" was worked into the 1977 feature film ABBA: The Movie. The song had not yet reached its complete version, but when it was eventually finished, it was released as the lead single from The Album in October 1977. Originally, another track entitled "Hole in.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
ABBA was a Swedish Eurovision Song Contest-winning pop music group active between 1972 and 1982. The quartet was formed through the friendship of Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus and also consists of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (usually known as Frida) and Agnetha Fltskog.They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The name -ABBA- is an acronym formed from the first letters of each of the group member-s given name (Agnetha; Bjrn; Benny; Anni-Frid). "The Name of the Game", first called "A Bit of Myself", was the first song to be recorded for ABBA's fifth studio album. It was their most complex composition yet with Agnetha Fltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad sharing the lead vocals but with solo passages from both women and contained the influences of the laid-back California sound of the day. The opening riff on bass and synthesiser is inspired by Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" from 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life, and both Andersson and Ulvaeus have acknowledged being influenced and inspired by Wonder's music during this era of ABBA's career. A preliminary version of "The Name of the Game" was worked into the 1977 feature film ABBA:.
Click here if the video doesn't work
Random article
Music sheets - what is all about? Back in the 19th century, songs in the United States were popularized by musicians through music sheets. It was only in the 1950s when musicians started to bring music sheets to bands so they could play, allowing more people to hear their compositions. Simply, a music sheet is musical composition in printed form. It is composed of unbound sheets of paper where a musical notation of a song is printed. Many associate it with popular music. However, musicians say popular songs are not the only ones written down on paper. Many classical songs were published in music sheets and classical musicians performed even unfamiliar songs with these printed compositions.  (More...)