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Video Game Music: The Transcribing
Rigor Mortis
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Hoping to play the con circuit, I've started building up the necessary repertoire. I'd like to know what people think of my work thus far.
Grotesque Figures (Shadow of the Colossus)
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Sheet Music
Violent Encounter (Shadow of the Colossus)
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Sheet Music
Grotesque Figures (Shadow of the Colossus)
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Sheet Music
Violent Encounter (Shadow of the Colossus)
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On the second one at around 1:40 when you start the octave leaps with your left hand, it's going a wee bit faster than your right hand. You probably know that already though and it'll just take practice.
Other than that I just noticed a couple of wee mistakes but that's not really that relevant.
When I think about it though, none of that really matters because you'll just be wanting crits on the transcribing itself which I thought was excellent and 100% accurate....so WELL DONE! And good choice of music aswell. I think it's one of the best scored games out there and really well suited to the piano.
... do you have plans to learn this one (plays at 3:08)?
Thanks! Transcribing is always a challenge because orchestral scoring never works straight on the piano. It always needs to be modified while staying as faithful as possible. And Mistakes? Oh, they're there. I was rather too pumped to wait until I'd totally perfected Violent Encounter. :P
Ah, "Revived Power". That was actually next on my list. I might be able start writing it out tomorrow.
Err...would you have any advice for a person trying to improve his musical ear? I can't even tell the difference between a third and an octave right now.
I've have friends who have become more comfortable with ear training by remembering little songs for each interval... you can go with famous, or you can go with personal. For example, a fourth is "Here comes the bride", a fifth is "Star Wars" and a Tri-tone is the start of "Maria". Eventually, you'll just be able to hear them, but this tool seems to help a lot of people.
If I'm doing a horrible job of helping, let me know.
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This is a good way to start. There are songs for all of them and I still use them sometime. I remember a tritone by the way The Simpsons starts. A major 6th down is the "no-body" in "Nobody knows, the trouble I've seen". An octave is Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Btw RM, I love your shit so much. I've never played SotC but I'm really, really liking the music. Keep making more!
Revived Power is transcribed, now I just need to figure out how to make it work best on the piano....