Artemus's July Mtp Thread, Weekly assignments and uploads here |
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Artemus's July Mtp Thread, Weekly assignments and uploads here |
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Jul 5 2010, 03:34 PM |
Hello Art,
We are continuing our work in July now! For your 1st assignment I have decided to assign you some transcribing. Lets get to work straight away. 1st Assignment : The Simpsons theme - Check out The Simpsons theme HERE - Transcribe the main melody and create a lead sheet in Guitar pro or software of your choice (Finale, Sybelius etc) - Upload your work here - For extra work, assign VST instruments to midi parts and upload that here Deadline for this assignment is 12th of July! If you complete this assignment before the deadline I will give you 2nd assignment before the deadline!!! Let me know if you got some questions, Pedja |
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Jul 17 2010, 08:27 PM |
I want Chris Hein's Horns...
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Jul 18 2010, 01:14 AM |
Simple lead sheet will be fine Art. Melody with harmony on top
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Jul 19 2010, 12:01 PM |
I finished the assignment the other day but I've not had chance to upload it. My work's on my home computer so I'll upload it as soon as I get back from work today.
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Jul 19 2010, 01:10 PM |
Great Art, look forward to final result man
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Jul 20 2010, 01:10 AM |
Heh - long day.. we had a leaving-do at work, so I'm back late. Anyhow, as promised, here's the assignment:
The simplified lead sheet: ..didn't spend much time on this I'm afraid, but the essential elements are there I think. It's not laziness; it's Danny Elfman. His style, in this, is predominantly lead by a simple melody that is played around with and varied over a main "riff", therefore it's not as simple as "this harmony for this part of the melody" (it's not a choral suite). So I've chosen a limited number of places to suggest a harmony but it is to reflect either what the melody suggests or what the underlying riff creates, or both. Therefore, it may not... nay, probably will not sound correct if it's just harmonised with the melody that's written - that's not what I'm describing here.. However, it should be enough info for a jazzer to reharmonise to their own content - there's bags of room for "play", which is how I think Elfman uses the music: he does a lot with very very little. So, no full orchestral transcription this time round, however, I could provide if needed. Trust me though, it would be a large file - the number of instruments involved would cover a page and a half just for two measures. Simpsons_Lead_Sheet.pdf ( 39.61K ) Number of downloads: 204 And now for the fun bit - how I used my VST's to transcribe and recreate the theme you forwarded me to. As mentioned, the horn sections are not to my liking - you try getting an "orchestral/symphonic" VST to sound like a big band. I'm not going to go into some of the workarounds I had to think of, but this thing wasn't straight forward. Nevertheless, here's the completed project. The_Simpsons_Main_Theme.mp3 ( 1.58MB ) Number of downloads: 225 |
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Jul 20 2010, 11:36 AM |
Well, I only have the EWQL Symphonic Orch (gold XP edition.. I haven't upgraded yet) but they really didn't sound good in a jazzy/big band context, so I used Colossus samples, also from EWQL, but the sounds and articulations are very limited.
As I was crying about it earlier - I think that the Chris Hein Horn collection (there are 4 volumes) offer the best sounds on the market at the moment. I really really want to get my hands on it - I've got a few uses lined up. http://www.chrishein.net/ The Colossus library has now been replaced with Goliath, but they're pretty much the same. It has the different sax samples, trombones, trumpets etc, but as I said - not that much you can do with them - I had to faff lots with expression envelopes and fades - not much fun Good alternatives are Garritan Jazz and Big Band (JABB) http://www.garritan.com/index.php?option=c...4&Itemid=56 and there's AMG KickAssBrass http://www.samples-now.com/proddetail.asp?prod=KickAssBrass |
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Jul 20 2010, 12:34 PM |
Art I just checked the 1st link and sounds are phenomenal I will look into getting that package with brass and woodwinds section!
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Jul 20 2010, 01:20 PM |
If you do, I shall be thoroughly jealous
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Aug 1 2010, 01:12 PM |
Assignment 2
I quickly types up my notes this morning - sorry it's just over a page. Introduction_to_Arranging.pdf ( 85.76K ) Number of downloads: 1038 Assignment 3 I still need to type up my notes. Unfortunately, I'm out all day now, but I'll try to get it done before tomorrow. Assignment 4 Enjoy! |
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Aug 1 2010, 05:12 PM |
Great work Art ! I really look forward to another article of yours and then we start with work in August. You did great so far
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Aug 2 2010, 04:45 PM |
Great work Art! Really enjoyed reading it. I will close this thread now and open new one for you later today for August!
Pedja |
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