Thursday, March 12, 2015

"10538 Overture"

Backdated, archival post

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I wasn't planning on figuring out any parts yet, but…

I was thinking about the arpeggios at the beginning of "10538 Overture," and I thought I'd figured them out in my head.  I hadn't, but I was close enough that it didn't take too long to get to this, which I'm fairly confident about.  Some of the notes sound a bit weird because I had to play the same note on different strings for different arpeggios.  Otherwise, my fingers would have to be four frets and five strings apart.

I also did the French horn part (the quotation from Also Sprach Zarathustra), but it's the fake French horn setting on my keyboard.  I know a few of the cello parts, but the fake cello doesn't sound convincing, so I didn't include them.  I don't have an actual cello (and don't know how to play one), which could become a pretty big concern.