Moggio - Frank Zappa [SCORE and MIDI]
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Here's my transcription and original cover of Frank Zappa's Moggio.
I didn't transcribe any percussion and some of the electric piano parts are copy-pasted. Some harmony parts are missing. But you get the gist..
As a side note, I hope you go out and buy all of the products the nameless, faceless owners of a dead man's melody suggest to you during this short, educational presentation. It's for you own good.
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This has always been one of my favorite Zappa tunes, great work!
This music from another world.
The great modern complexity.
Love the descending line on the 'Mellow Synth Brass' as in measures 21-24. Sounds great with that timbre.
Wow! I missed that one!
Sounds like it's deflating...love it.
Fantastic!
Thank you for subscribing!
It was a pleasure!
I also published some score videos, if you like, take a look!
you don't how much you help me learn these songs, I am kinda tone-deaf so that really helps, I'll subscribe in case you upload more transcriptions of Zappa
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
Fantastic transcription! When playing this one live, Steve Vai said he always felt his sphincter tighten at the bit at 1:17, hoping he'd get through it okay.
Amazing!
one of his signature works.
beautiful work!!!
From a very underrated album. To me, the highlight of the album is We are not alone.
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!
What a nightmare this must have been to transcribe. I am really impressed. Congrats.
Thank you. It actually wasn't that terrible overall. The guitar solo was the most nightmarish part, and thankfully it's pretty short (for Zappa standards). So far the most difficult transcription has been the extremely dense polyphony in the ending section of The Legend of the Golden Arches. That one was a headache, but worth the suffering...
@@ahazybellcord You have great ears.
@@lukameah853 Hah?! What's that yeh say??
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you appreciate what I do. And for some reason I thought this was a comment on Alien Orifice, which is why I mentioned the guitar solo.. which is nonexistent in Moggio, lol.
Anyway, if you have any transcription requests, Zappa or otherwise, feel free to drop a suggestion.
Amazing work!
The main theme would be more easily read if the 16th note triplets were written as a staccato 8th note followed by a 16th. Thank you for doing this and posting it, I am really enjoying watching and listening to it 🥰🥰
Well of course in hindsight you're probably right.
I hear tremolos on the long notes of the glockenspiel part in Zappa's original version, from 00:17 to 00:25.
Good catch. But the tremolos are definitely in the xylophone part, not the glockenspiel. The xylophone is much 'closer' and more centered in the mix. I probably copy-pasted that part before adding in the tremolos and forgot to do the same for the repeat.
@@ahazybellcord I just listened again to the original version and there are definitely tremolos on most of the long notes in the glockenspiel part, and also in the repeats of the same melodic material prior to 00:17.
@@dbadagna Nope. Take another very careful listen. Let's just take the section 0:06-0:19 in the original recording. There is very clearly a xylophone that's very up front in the mix doing the tremolos. You can hear the glockenspiel way way back in the mix, mixed more to the sides and much thinner sounding, and it only articulates once while the xylophone tremolos. It's not the easiest thing in the world to hear and distinguish that difference. If you slow the recording down to half speed, the difference between the timbres becomes crystal clear: the xylophone sounds even more wooden and the metallic tone of glockenspiel becomes much more audible. You should clearly hear the single note of the glockenspiel decaying as the xylophone rearticulates the note. I'm using the 1990s Ryko CD reissue of The Man From Utopia as the 'original version'.
@@ahazybellcord Thank you, I had been listening to the version from "You Can't Do That on Stage," vol. 5, which is as I described. You're right about the "The Man from Utopia" version, which I hadn't heard before.
@@dbadagna Well that makes a lot more sense now! Happy to say we're both not losing our minds. At least on this issue... Thanks for the thoughtful comments and attention to detail. Always appreciated.
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Excellent! An amazing transcription, and fantastic cover version. I've been looking at the guitar part, and finding that some notes are on occasion an octave away from where I'm hearing them. For example, on page 6, when the 3/4 time signature returns at bar 57, shouldn't the 3rd of the 16th notes (a D#) be an octave higher? Thanks so much for providing this to the community.
Thank you. About the D#'s: nope! They're notated in the correct octave. Listen very carefully to the original recording at half speed if you're having trouble hearing it. Zappa does these kinds of melodic leaps all the time. It might be hard to get used to. Notice the D naturals as well, that leap up to the C#, a variation of the same melodic cell. This is precisely the sort of melodicism that makes Zappa Zappa!
This section reminds me a bit of the passage of Dog Breath Variations at 0:55 with all the major 7 leaps.
@@ahazybellcord You are correct. I love Zappa's angular melodies, but I couldn't hear that note. I was already listening at half-speed, so I cut out those 4 notes...at quarter speed! It's clear now: is the 3rd guitar note lower in pitch than the first two...yes it is! I thought I would share the wav: drive.google.com/file/d/1LO0Js5ior7WPul1e1q339_NEVQ3Ti0Y9/view?usp=sharing
nice,, would love if you find some guys to play it live ;)
frank played it live on the 81....82....tours...
@@volpeverde6441 yes i know :) but its stilla a nice chalange to do it now aswell :)
just make sure the musicians dont do drugs , neither eat yellow snow. XD@@dover1129
Beautiful. Only the final monster is missing 😉
Aunt Susie #310
isn't this the piece of music that gave stevie vai nightmares....