The Post Your Thoughts of the Moment Thread 2

[spitllama]

I dunno where to start???

You arranged once. Now just continue!

[Nebbles]

You arranged once. Now just continue!

With YOUR help, though. I'm not good at recognizing notes...

[SlowPokemon]

I also found yet another place where I don't talk as much as I should.

Lol xD what's that?

[Jamaha]

Lol xD what's that?

A Skype conversation.

[JDMEK5]

With YOUR help, though. I'm not good at recognizing notes...

If you're really as bad as you say you are, your first arrangements are gonna look sorta like mine.
Unrealistically hard, messy sounding, even messier looking, garbage overall.
But now I'm getting into the swing of it. I'm working on a Pokémon battle theme for two pianos that's gonna blow people away.

What I recommend:
If you really don't want to start out by ear, don't. Get yourself a midi of the whole song with all the instruments, and work off that.
(I'd give you one of my resourceful DS midis, but they're really messy. Lots of experience is needed to tell which part does what)

However, find yourself a simple song and arrange it by ear. Arranging by ear is a skill you will need. You cannot go without it.
It is invaluable. So start with something really rudimentary and work your way up from there.'

I've been seeing this problem of under-confidence rather often lately...

[Nebbles]

One of the songs I want to arrange isn't a video song game, though...

[Jompa]

Hey Nebbles! Interval training. There's no other way. Get to it!

[FireArrow]

One of the songs I want to arrange isn't a video song game, though...

It doesn't matter, the only problem is it won't end up on site. The hardest part of arranging is getting started, once you get the key signature and the first note, it becomes 10x easier (especially if the song doesn't use any accidentals.)

[Nebbles]

But I don't know how to identify those things... :c

[Jompa]

Interval training~

[FireArrow]

But I don't know how to identify those things... :c

It can be a pain, and Jompa's right, ear training does help. However, I usually figure those things just by messing around on the piano. Just kind of try to figure it out until you go "Oh, this note is x in this song!" From there, you find the note before/after it until you figure out the melody. Just try out different key signatures with that note in it until it makes sense.

If your ear is good enough to hear the tonic, then it makes things a lot easier as you just have to find the relationship that note has with the tonic.

^That's the "noob" way to do it. There's much better ways, but they require a better ear (something both you and I don't have.)

[Bubbles]

Polkabrow? :3 I actually don't know. Where are you getting these actors? I usually go on IMDB but it doesn't have the english actors

Nevermind, another character I hadn't seen yet

[Jompa]

Polkabrow? :3 I actually don't know. Where are you getting these actors? I usually go on IMDB but it doesn't have the english actors

MAL is awesome for this kinda stuff:)

[JDMEK5]

One of the songs I want to arrange isn't a video song game, though...

Do it anyways.

EDIT: I just realized how you put "song" before "game". Lol that cracked me up. XD

[Yugi]

http://kaction.com/badfanfiction/

oh my god this site is fucking hilarious

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining the National Hockey League and Scooby Doo. The story should use a plot to reanimate Hitler as a plot device!