Help for a score Two steps from hell
hello, after so long that I hesitate to do it I am finally writing the song of the two steps from hell Race to Durango, but I have some problems with timing and feeling the instruments that are there.
I state that I am writing for string orchestra, so a little different from the original, for now the part of the horns I adapted on the violets. For now I have arrived at the minute 0.39
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I've got it up to the .27 mark. Had to stop. Do you have the opening and horn (now strings) rhythms? I don't have a way to look at your file. I'm away from my computer.
In reply to I've got it up to the .27… by bobjp
yes I have the opening rhythms of the strings, but I can't understand how many other instruments there are that play.
On beat 5 I play violin, cello 1, cello 2 and double bass.
The cello 1 has the same note only 1 lower octave and the double bass as well.
While the cello 2 I raised a fifth.
But I am not sure that it is complete, for example always in bar 5 you hear the violins that make a subspecies of scale in the background but I can't make out the notes
In reply to yes I have the opening… by Glitso
Wouldn't it be nice if there was no reverb in their recording? You may never figure out everything that is going on. Here's my thoughts. Feel free to ignore them.
I would start with only one string section on the opening ostinato. To me, that figure gets louder in measure five, not softer. I don't hear parallel fifths in the bass part. Nor do I hear the 2nd violin part you have written starting in measure 9. It seems to me that because you aren't using full orchestra, you'll never get the same effect as the recording, anyway. So you have to take a different approach. This tune builds as it goes along. You should, too. Don't try to add too much too soon. In the recording, it sounds like the ostinato figure changes to something more consistent at mm 17. Hard to tell just what is happening. Maybe an eight and two sixteenth figure, or just the first measure repeated.
But these are my impressions. They may or may not mean anything.
You certainly have your work cut out for you. Lot's of fun
In reply to Wouldn't it be nice if there… by bobjp
thanks for your help and opinion, yesterday in music class my violin teacher and I discussed 1 hour on what was the rhythm, now I think I have improved something, I have replaced the sixteenth notes with simple quavers, I deleted the cello 2 and the violin 3.
I also slowed the song down to be able to hear the various instruments better