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Bionicle Music


Letagi

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Some of you may know that I'm a musician. My instruments are flute and string bass, but I also do a fair bit of arranging and transcribing for fun. My current project - and one that I just started a few hours ago - is this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLByq36ENg

 

I'm sixteen measures in, or about 30 seconds, not counting the brief intro because I don't like it. Since I have no sheet music at all to go off of, I'm transcribing every note by ear into a music notation program called Finale. Those first 30 seconds took me about two hours. It's very time-consuming.

 

To be honest, I don't think I've ever actually finished a project like this after starting it. But it's a great exercise in ear-training.

 

-Letagi

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What's the instrumentation you're using for this? 

I'm trying to make it as accurate as possible, so basically full orchestra minus woodwinds. Specifically: violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, trumpet, horn, trombone, bass trombone, tuba and lots of percussion.

 

The tricky bit will be the electronic stuff. I'm trying to simulate it with percussion because Finale doesn't have a lot of synthy options.

 

-L

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