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I know. He had alien fingers. There's a similar moment in Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar around 3:30 where he alternates between G and D triads in 16ths impossibly cleanly. I'm really not sure how he's doing it.

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​@@ahazybellcordThank you! The link appears to be private so I requested access

@@unknown6390 Sorry. I think it's fixed now.

Thank you! This is just a copy from the actual score!

Thank you for the comment! I totally agree with Zappa's beautiful melodies. I get similar feelings listening to While You Were Art II where the melody dances intricately between instruments. It's a great ride when you can really feel the "rhythmic dissonance" created between the melody and backgrounds.

Thank you!

Thank you! I've started a few others that I'd like to revisit soon....

@@ahazybellcord Great! I can’t wait. I saw another comment where you said you were working on Proclamation, which would be incredible. I’ve noticed you can find transcriptions of parts of it online, which may help you with the trickiest bits.

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​It was a pleasure! I also published some score videos, if you like, take a look!

ThdaaAAaaank youuuu

Thank you!

@@ahazybellcord No problem, this game was my favorite as a little boy.

Sure, I can send you a pdf if you could kindly donate to my paypal (see link on my youtube page). Email me at my username @ gmail and I'll send it along.

Wow!! I didn’t see that you replied. Will donate soon! Would love Night School and maybe Outrage In Valdez as well.

Thank you!

All built-in sounds, my friend! It's been a long time since I made this (or used Logic) and I'd have to look back at the project file but one of the main instruments is erhu. There's also shehnai and dulcimer in there..

A bold request but would you share the logic project with me for study? Or make a little video - see I work in sibelius w note performer for neoclassicism and its good, (not amazing sounding but good) and i record songs in logic, but i've never crossed this type of line and need to, this aroma, this approach its 'the one'@@ahazybellcord

@@matijakrunic7498 Sorry to keep you hanging. I finally found the project file but the only copy I have seems to be an early version before I worked on orchestrating it as it is here.. It's mostly various synth tones and not well mixed, a "demo" version.. It's weird because I try to keep copies of everything I work on. It's possible the newer version is on a different hard drive. I'll have to keep scrounging around. If you still want the project file in its less aromatic state, or the MIDI to try to arrange yourself with the hints I gave above, send me an email (my username at gmail) and I'll send it along in the reply.

Thank you kindly ! @@ahazybellcord

I don't believe it's this postlude he breaks down. I think you mean the "wild love" interlude. This postlude is way more intense than the interlude.

Mine too, in that I rented it from Blockbuster a few times but could never get a handle on the controls. I've tried playing it recently and had the same experience. It just confuses the hell out of me but certain aspects of the game are really cool.

Most of the songs on this LP are among Zappa's worst in my opinion. Then he put a couple killer instrumentals on it. Maddening!

I use Sibelius for music notation and audacity to view and navigate the waveform of the track I'm transcribing (and also do some basic audio manipulation to hear certain parts better if needed- isolating the sides, pitching up an octave, slowing down to half-speed, etc.).

@@ahazybellcord Ah, superb. You are quite talented - I hope you keep up the inspired work for all the rest of us to continue learning from! Best wishes.

@@kennethchadhiley2579 Thank you for that. Glad I could find another fan of this piece of music in particular! Just curious, what are your favorite vgm soundtracks?

@@ahazybellcord a few I like: Chrono Trigger, Hotline Miami, and the Aqua theme from Donkey Kong Country

Glad I could help. Definitely check out Chanan Hanspal's video if you haven't. He shows an actual score with chord symbols (but sadly not the whole score). You'll see some of the stuff I got wrong..

@@ahazybellcord yeah chanan is my inspiration to learning this score. And because he didn't show everything I am here

Hey there. Sorry if I haven't replied. I try to reply to any questions but I've found that youtube hides certain comments from me for no apparent reason. No notification and then the comments are hidden on the videos themselves until I go to the video and manually unhide them. No idea why. I wonder if that's happened in this case... (If you remember, can you let me know which other video(s) you've commented on so I can look into it??) Anyway, I'll add a link to the PDF in the description soon. I have no intention of withholding any of these scores but it's just another step that no one's paying me to do! (Except in this one case I did get paid...) Thanks for watching and commenting!

Ultimately it's a matter of taste. There are aspects of this solo that I personally love. For someone else, it's not enjoyable at all. That's just how it goes. One explanation for this phenomenon is the following, which you might not buy: Within Zappa's music there are elements that are better appreciated the more musical experience the listener has. (Analogously, the same can be said of his lyrics. The better comprehension you have of the English language and the American culture of his time, the more sense can be made of what he's trying to say.) And the same is true in any field of art. There are 'masters' operating at a very high technique level and once you start to master the subject yourself, you see the details you couldn't have come to terms with before, and you realize exactly what separates the 'masters' from their contemporaries. I believe a lot of people who are academically-minded and who like Zappa's music feel this way. I even feel this way from time to time. However, I also think that these kind of arguments are more feel-good rationalization than cold, hard fact. You find that you like something for reasons that are usually completely mysterious, and so then you find ways of explaining to yourself WHY you like it. You find interesting things to remark on and cite those as the reason it's "good". Which brings us back to "it's all a matter of taste"! As an end note, I got into Zappa when I was 11 with a listening background mostly in "classic rock" and stuff that was considered "oldies" in the late-90s/early-00s. I had taken almost two years of piano lessons at that point (very basic stuff) and had no real grasp on music theory and a pretty terrible ear for relative pitch. For whatever reason, Zappa's music "spoke" to me. It was just the kind of stuff I was dying to hear. It was listening to Zappa and other prog rock artists that lead me to a musical education, rather than the other way around. So to understand why I was drawn to this kind of music at that age with no significant musical background is an equally baffling quandary...

@@ahazybellcord Instinctively, but also from the way people talk about Zappa, I feel that he is a particular artist, like Miles Davis or Django Reinhardt. But I don't have a musical ear, no notions of music theory, and I don't know how to play any instrument. I appreciate Pink Floyd, Randy Crawford and Led Zeppelin, in short music accessible to the general public. But indeed, taking an interest in Zappa's texts can be a gateway to his art. Thank you for your reply ! PS: I am French and I use Google translation for this exchange...

No problem. Happy to contribute. Feel free to let me in on what your research entails...

@@ahazybellcord thanks so much. I’ll send a message if what I write turns out halfway comprehensible.