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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - FULL SCORE
Hello,
I took a bigger challenge: transcribing all of A Link to the Past. This took me many hours and weeks, but it’s finally done. The music is reduced to as few staves as possible, however not one note is left out. Book Full Score Individual PDFs Title Theme The Journey Begins Seal of Seven Maidens Time of the Falling Rain Hyrule Castle Princess Zelda’s Rescue Safety in the Sanctuary Hyrule Field Main Theme Kakariko Village Guessing-Game House Fortune Teller Soldiers of Kakariko Village Dank Dungeons Lost Ancient Ruins Anger of the Guardians Great Victory! The Silly Pink Rabbit! Forest of Mystery Master Sword Priest of the Dark Order The Dark World Black Mist Dungeon of Shadows Meeting the Maidens The Goddess Appears Release of Ganon Ganon’s Message The Prince of Darkness Power of the Gods Epilogue - Beautiful Hyrule Staff Roll Sound Effects Enjoy!!! |
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Amazing job! Big props to you, this is quite a large project to undertake and you did it very well!
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...and I keep correcting stuff. You know, the little things. Those .00x parts of updates (v1.0001).
By correcting, I mean the output (layout, design, pages), not the notes. Thank you very much!!! |
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I'm sure you learnt a lot from doing this. Care to share the challenges you may have had while going through the process? Also, what program are you using?
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I remember back a decade ago, I wanted to transcribe Yoshi’s Island ending music note for note. I found it to be a hassle, because I had to get used to the fact that the Super NES only has 8 channels of polyphony. This means that a song with held notes like the piano part of that ending theme, is switched around channels—sometimes in a seemingly chaotic way. Other times, channels are used to simulate reverb. Back then, I recorded each channel individually (using a SPC player with channel masking capabilities) and then used—the then pretty buggy—Audacity so that I could easily isolate tracks, stop, pause, etc.
Actually, I do quite the same now, but this SPC player, SNES SPC700 Player, is a lot more intuitive so that the workflow is a lot better. What I used:
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Out of curiosity, did you split each SPC channel into its individual parts? When I made MIDIs many many years ago I did that.
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I don’t understand the question. I just said, ‘...I recorded each channel individually (using a SPC player with channel masking capabilities) and then used—the then pretty buggy—Audacity so that I could easily isolate tracks, stop, pause, etc.’ and later on that I practically did the same thing using that SPC player.
Is that what you mean or something else? |
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Thanks for all of your hard work. The notation looks pretty clean, aside from the key signature on the Hyrule Field theme, which I wouldn't recommend keeping, even if it does accurately describe the mode used.
A question about the fortune teller theme. It sounds octatonic to my ear, but the collection replaces C with D natural. Do you know why? I remember hearing it as a kid and thinking it sounded off-key, but now I'm used to all those weird tritone relations. Last edited by Xenofan 29A; Dec 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM. |
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What do you mean by it replacing C with D natural?
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An octatonic scale on B-flat would have the following notes:
B-flat, C, D-flat, E-flat, E, F#, G, and A, or B-flat, C-flat, D-flat, E-double flat, F-flat, F, G, and A-flat. The notes are mostly in the first, but looking at it again, the A-flat is also an outlier. It sounds octatonic, though. |
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If there are any other transcribed versions from other people/companies, did you compare against them to see if they were the same, you heard more things than they did and it may have been based on different versions, or you heard less and need to go back to recheck?
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A lot of the transcriptions sold in sheet music books in Japan are simplified, so they'll alter the key if it's hard to play and cut things out if they're seen as less necessary. I wouldn't advise using them to make transcriptions.
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To me, the main melody looks like a whole tone scale.
D-E-F#-Ab-Bb-(C) The Eb and Db on the first stave are 5ths of the Ab and Gb (F#). The Abb is a leading neighbour to the Gb (or G to F#). I could respell the accidentals to give more structure. I prefer flats over sharps, which is why I started with Gb. I could respell E to Fb to get Gb-Ab-Bb-D-Fb: Gb9+. @Fearin: I listened to the source file, isolated. This is just like having the master tape of a CD recording—being able to mute channels at will. Therefore, I didn’t need a reference (other transcriptions). Last edited by Manolito Mystiq; Dec 20, 2012 at 02:20 AM. |
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