The Noten exist because we made them exist. They’re in the tabs you share with a friend. The voice memo you record at 1 a.m. The busker in Munich who plays “irgendwie” as four chords and a shrug. So here, finally, are the irgendwie und sowieso Noten — not as a PDF, but as a permission slip.
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Dm – G – C – E7 “Und trotzdem…” (And still…) irgendwie und sowieso noten
Am – Em – F – C “Irgendwie bin ich hier gelandet” (Somehow I ended up here) The Noten exist because we made them exist
But then comes the strange request. Every week, a handful of guitarists, pianists, and curious souls type into search engines: — sheet music for somehow and anyway . The busker in Munich who plays “irgendwie” as
The Noten became a community project. Not official sheet music, but a living, crowdsourced score for a feeling. After scanning guitar forums, MuseScore files, and a mysterious Google Doc shared by a music teacher from Freiburg, here is the consensus “irgendwie und sowieso” progression — the closest thing to a standard:
When you sit at a piano and play an unresolved Am–G–F–E7 loop, you’re not performing a hit. You’re accompanying a generation that has learned to find comfort in the vague.