I was bored this afternoon, so I figured out how to play Trading Yesterday's Shattered on the piano. And I have to go cram Chemistry, so I'ma link and disappear.
AGH CHEM QWERTYUIOPShattered [YOUTUBE / MIDI / PDF (PIANO) / PDF (VOCALS AND PIANO)]
This song is based around repetition with buildup, so it was never going to work translated one-to-one onto piano. The fact that this isn't a straight transcription is the reason why one of the .PDFs has the vocal line: as a point of reference.
The "verses" need to stay subtle, so I jumped an octave for the second verse group of three, and left the rest as is. For the "choruses", I open with the vocal melody, move to the "yeah yeah" BGVs, then to the "lalalalala" BGVs that are only on the TBTT version of the song, followed by the piano/string theme. A jump in dynamics accompanies the "I'm waiting and fading…" BGVs only on the MTT version, then the song returns to the piano/string theme, and the "yeah yeah"s. The vocal melody is played twice to end the "chorus" section, with double octaves the second time. Then the outro. Woo!
Again, the .MID is only to show the notes; Finale Notepad handles dynamics horribly. Srsly. And I think there's an errant dotted minim rest somewhere. Apologies; don't know why it's there, and don't have time to figure out where it came from.
EDIT: Blagh, I forgot DH writes in nocaps. Finale's refusing to open (another strike against it), will fix later.
EDIT2: AND I forgot the dynamics at the end. Man this is not my day.
7 comments:
WHEEE
also, YOUR TITLE IS AN ABOMINATION! HOW DARE YOU SWEAR LIKE THAT?!
YAY NEW MUSIC!
YEAH WELL I'LL ',.PYFGCRL/=\ YOU IN THE AOEUIDHTNS- YOU ;QJKXBMWVZING F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9F10F11F12PRTSCSYSRQINSDEL
er well, mmm... i feel so unmusical!
have fun with all the figuring out n stuff :D <3\
SACKE!
I HATE YOU SO MUCH B RAWWRR!!
You might wanna add the "post a comment" thing on the actual site. all this switching is making me twitch.
/twitch
-Pris
Actual site wha? And for the record, I looked up the Dvorak keyboard so I could swear at you in robot. Feel honoured!
Also, file updated. Changes:
— LH in the verses where the right hand jumps up an octave. Changed to the actual guitar. (Previously was moved down and squashed to compensate for the low treble clef melody. Except oh wait, said melody isn't low here!)
— Octave jump of first echo post-chorus, BECAUSE.
— Missing dynamics added.
— Fixed capitalisation of quotequote.
Errant mysterious dotted minim rests are still there, but meh.
WOO SHATTERED!
BUT I ALREADY PRINTED OUT ALL TEN PAGES, VERMIN!
Well, I'd say the first change is a good one, so reprinting the pages containing the octave jump would be good? :I
And the last page (of the piano+vocal ver.) if you want that other gratuitous octave jump.
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