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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.

 Shattered [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.

AGH CHEM QWERTYUIOP

These people are creepy

First of all: 'GRATS TO LOUISE AND JORDAN! THE HSC IS OVER WOOOOOOO!

So, my IB exams have started and are presently going well. Three of fourteen papers (two of eleven sessions) are done, and all so far have been pleasantly straightforward. (That said, the exams I'm worried about — Chemistry, Biology and Geography — are in the next two weeks.) Pris, Flick, Jen, Sarah and Caely decided to vandalise some schoolpaper and pass it to me, and I've been ordered on penalty of death to post them, so, without further ado:

I always pick the strangest times for creative motivation. 've done more piano practice in the last week than I have in the last month. (Matt would pick this moment to call me weird. Don't listen to him.) With that and the steady progress I'm making on drawing faces, I'm in a good mood. Albeit a highly unmotivated one.

(Tangent: found a webcomic called The Phoenix Requiem yesterday (yes, yesterday). Great art, nice story. Recommended reading all around.)

I'd better get back to that English study. November 18^th can't come soon enough.