douggibson
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Just kidding. I did not transcribe any Mike Verta.
OK, just kidding again. I did transcribe. No drugs other than coffee was used. ;-( (my days of snorting cocaine at strip clubs are long gone. - well they never actually started)
The true context of the story is my wife is due to give birth this weekend, and so I cleared out my work schedule for the week. On Sunday I thought: Well..... I don't really feel like composing so why not work on some transcribing.I think I had some of the posts on these forums in my mind.
Not sure of what to work on I went to Mike's Youtube channel to see if there was anything of interest. I had never heard his Batman Simulator ride before. Growing up I was always a big fan of the animation series and the music for the series. So I downloaded it, and began transcribing. I pretty much have not been doing anything else except about 12-14 hours a day transcribing this piece. (thus the title of the the thread). It's just a really fun piece of music, and sent me down a rabbit hole.
I notated everything in Sibelius and I only use Note-performer for playback.
Anyway, I am posting what I have done, and asking for feedback and suggestions for improvement. I am now hitting the "wall", where ear fatigue is setting in, and quite frankly I want to see this strange thing called "the sun".
To be clear, if this was a gig it would be a first draft... as I know some of the nuances are missing (three day cocaine binges tend to lack nuance). I have no doubt after some time away from it, coming back with fresh ears, I will forehead slap myself.
However I did manage to reach two of my goals (I hope)
1. Get all the way to the end
2. be in the "ball-park" (i.e you can at least recognize the tune.... I hope)
One disclaimer: I am only intending on using Note-performer. Some of the cool effects in the piece are not possible to sound 100% realistic. This is one of the things I actually love about Note-performer: it's imperfections. Good enough to know what it is intended to sound like, but inferior to be used for actual production. I say this as in no way do I want to infringe, or give an impression a infringement, on another composers work could occur. (This is why I am not uploading my PDF score)
On that note: Mr. Verta if you come across this and there is any issues with me posting this please let me know and I will take it down straight away. My intention in posting this, aside from my request above, is to acknowledge this forum thread, and Mr. Verta's advice and composition inspired (Thanks for writing such a cool piece !) my transcribing binge. That's all.
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TRANSCRIPTION - VIA SIBELIUS PLAYBACK
OK, just kidding again. I did transcribe. No drugs other than coffee was used. ;-( (my days of snorting cocaine at strip clubs are long gone. - well they never actually started)
The true context of the story is my wife is due to give birth this weekend, and so I cleared out my work schedule for the week. On Sunday I thought: Well..... I don't really feel like composing so why not work on some transcribing.I think I had some of the posts on these forums in my mind.
Not sure of what to work on I went to Mike's Youtube channel to see if there was anything of interest. I had never heard his Batman Simulator ride before. Growing up I was always a big fan of the animation series and the music for the series. So I downloaded it, and began transcribing. I pretty much have not been doing anything else except about 12-14 hours a day transcribing this piece. (thus the title of the the thread). It's just a really fun piece of music, and sent me down a rabbit hole.
I notated everything in Sibelius and I only use Note-performer for playback.
Anyway, I am posting what I have done, and asking for feedback and suggestions for improvement. I am now hitting the "wall", where ear fatigue is setting in, and quite frankly I want to see this strange thing called "the sun".
To be clear, if this was a gig it would be a first draft... as I know some of the nuances are missing (three day cocaine binges tend to lack nuance). I have no doubt after some time away from it, coming back with fresh ears, I will forehead slap myself.
However I did manage to reach two of my goals (I hope)
1. Get all the way to the end
2. be in the "ball-park" (i.e you can at least recognize the tune.... I hope)
One disclaimer: I am only intending on using Note-performer. Some of the cool effects in the piece are not possible to sound 100% realistic. This is one of the things I actually love about Note-performer: it's imperfections. Good enough to know what it is intended to sound like, but inferior to be used for actual production. I say this as in no way do I want to infringe, or give an impression a infringement, on another composers work could occur. (This is why I am not uploading my PDF score)
On that note: Mr. Verta if you come across this and there is any issues with me posting this please let me know and I will take it down straight away. My intention in posting this, aside from my request above, is to acknowledge this forum thread, and Mr. Verta's advice and composition inspired (Thanks for writing such a cool piece !) my transcribing binge. That's all.
ORIGINAL VERSION
TRANSCRIPTION - VIA SIBELIUS PLAYBACK