WIND WAKER WEDNESDAY #15

Heat. — Heat. Hey, hey. — wind. Aker Wednesday. Wind waker Wednesday. Wind waker Wednesday. This is a bit of a cheat one because I already transcribed the ocean theme. This was called ocean actually. Uh in a full score transcription for a video. video I did a little while ago about the great sea is cursed when the ocean theme turns all spooky. Um, but we'll go we'll listen to the song and read the score and see if I need to fix anything. This is a more recent transcription, so probably am not going to change anything. Like I think anything that I would have caught I would have caught. Anything that I could catch now, I would have caught when I transcribed this. So, this will be a quick one. But, hello everybody. Uh, thanks for tuning in. Let's see where we are here. I remember the snare drum being on the transcribe. Oh, where are we? I'm way off here. There we go. Oh jeez. Where am I? Okay, wait. Hold on. This formatting sucks. I'm going to Oh, it's because the staff size is 3. 5 millimeters. I don't want that. It doesn't need to be that small. Okay, let's try this again. So, yeah, it's cool. We got the uh the uh tuba cello bass figure. I kind of wish that I had transcribed this on stream because it's such a great tune. It feels like a shame not to give it its due, you know, but um yeah, the tuba is kind of quiet, but it's in the left ear. Well, you know what I'll do? I'll put uh

chord symbols on it. We'll go bit by bit. The intro is nice. I'll put chord symbols on the string part because that's where you can see like everything that's going on. Start on D with a nice little D sus 2. Uh, let me turn the volume of this. I hope my audio is working. The last couple times I've streamed, I've been muted or something. Uh, what's the best way to learn to recognize chords on site? Well, let's talk about it. I mean, reps. just getting your reps in is part of it. But so here is a very obvious root position. D major triad. Boom. Um A triad, A minor, G. But for more complicated stuff or stuff that's voiced out differently, um well, let's see. Let's go through this. This will be a good because this is not a hard song to analyze, but it's a good uh it'll be good to work through the process. So, we have our consistent bass pattern. You don't have to think like, okay, A major over D, then A major over A, and D. You know, you want to understand the sort of tonality that's being expressed by a line, by a melodic line. So, this is like D A D That's just like D power chord. So, it's like, okay, so we're just it's D. Um, and then this little second back to the root. You can add all these notes together to make a D sus 2. Um, or you can just think of it as like a D with a little non-cord tone, a little extra flourish. Doesn't really matter because this is in the bass. It's just kind of giving a foundation of D. Um, and so we can put all these triads over D. O. boom. D over D. Oh, it doesn't even let you do that. Uh, A over D. So, this is kind of a funky one. You can hear that it sounds diminished. It really should be spelled like with this because that's B flat diminished. Um or with an A sharp. But here's my thinking. If you think about playing this, the guy writing this, who was uh Kenta Nagata, actually we have that one. That one is confirmed. Um, you think about these lines. The E from this A triad is staying the same. That jumps up to G for the last bar. That's the line. The middle voice is going D C sharp sharp C. That's the line. So it's not like D C sharp D flat C like that doesn't really make sense right so that's why I kept it C# sharp and E but uh the bottom line being a B flat A the B flat's moving to an A so it doesn't make as much sense melodically to have it a sharp D you know hopefully that makes sense but I'm still gonna put B flat diminished um over D and then a minor 7 over D. I guess there's no fifth in the chord, but that's okay. That's the one that you can lose and it doesn't ruin the effect of the chord. Okay, let's keep listening. Uh, of course, it doo be Wednesday today. So now this is an interesting bit because it's not just a straight up like uh 135 D chord. The notes are all spread out. Um but when I'm looking at chords, you start with the bass. Bass is hammering a big D on beat one. So you know it's a D chord. It's some sort of D chord. And then you just add up the notes. A and F sharp. D, A, F sharp, make up a D chord. When you're starting out, that'll take a lot longer to add up and go, okay, D and then A and then F sharp. Uh, you know, but that's, you know, you just need to do it a lot until it becomes second nature. Um, and then same thing here. Yeah. F# C# A makes F# minor.

Oh, but we notice in the pad there's a E that goes down to D. So now it gets confusing because you're going okay these two voices are F# minor but with the middle voice and the bass actually also jumps down to a D here. Let's hear that in the actual listen to the baseline of the actual tune. If this was really an F# minor chord, he'd be going down to C sharp, but he's not. He's going to D. So really, this is a D over F#arp chord. But then what's with the C sharp notes in the uh string part? It's a D major 7 over F sharp chord. That's what we're going to do. Um and this because this is such a prominent counter line and it's like a non chord resolving to a chord tone. The resolution on that D is doubled by the horn. It's just you can't get around it. You can't ignore it. You can't go, "Well, yeah, that notes in there, but you can't really hear it. " Like, no, it's pretty prominent. So, we have to call this a D over F#. Uh, and then let's see. G. This is pretty straightforward. G. Uh, what is that? An A. Yeah. A seven. Sus. I'm going to put the seven because we have a G natural for one beat. Let's listen to it and make sure that that's actually there. I'm having trouble hearing these staccato string stabs right now. Let's see. Yeah, I think that's there. Um, well, maybe I'll just put a sus4 to a. Let's listen to the melody. Hold on. Let's go back a little bit more. There we go. That's such a great melody. I love the countering. It's kind of like I remember going back and forth on what instruments were playing the melody and counterline because they just kind of sounds like generic brass MIDI, you know, like uh probably you could make a French horn sound like this. They could both be horns, but sounds a little aggressive, too. Like a little pointier than a French horn typically sounds, I think, from my limited orchestral knowledge. So, I ended up playing melody and trombone. Uh, this is a very obvious D over F# because you get a D power chord over an F# note. So, pretty straightforward. Nice little E minor 7. You get the D note in the string pad. A7 sus A7 straight up A7. Um, let's keep going. Nice. That's so great. the uh like we've heard the uh we've heard that Super Mario cadence B flat to C to D a lot in our lives, but this little twist of having B flat over C first, a little extra prep.

That's nice. That's a nice little movement. Great piece. Great tune. And oh yeah, and this is a fun one because it's A and C sharp and D. Very pretty over the bass note. So, do you go D major 7 with note three? You could put that. You wouldn't be wrong. Or do you go A over D? A add four over D. This is one. This one's a little ambiguous. You could put a number of different things and they would all be right. [clears throat] Vote in the chat. What do you like? What makes the most sense? I think I'd probably go for some sort of A over D. I think I'd probably go for Is the audio super low? Like which audio? Trying to balance Selius audio and music playback, audio, and my voice. All of it is equally low. I don't know how to fix that. I'm kind of tied to Selius is just quiet. Um, like I have it turned up all the way in Selius. So, um, but yeah, sorry. I wish I knew how to fix that, but I don't on my inter or no, I don't know. I'm not going to try and figure that out on stream, but I'll look into it. D E over D D D D A 4 over D. The thing is I can bump up my volume, but then it won't be balanced. Like hopefully it's semalanced the way it is. I guess you guys can tell me. Um, and then we get a little This is such a nice nice development because we get the same. So, this is a new section, letter C, but it's the same rhythm, same accompaniment. The melody starts the same way almost like we have which is exactly the same as over here, but instead of jumping up D to D over F#arp to G to A, the bass starts going down and the melody changes as it goes and we get this nice back and forth between the violins and the um trombone, the little like echo. So nice. Let's listen. We're right here. Base is going down. Why is this five bars on a line? That's no good. beauty. Um, B flat over C. C, same move, ends the same, starts the same, ends the same, but the stuff in the middle is different and a little more sentimental. This line ruined everything. Offset everything by one bar. Uh, but yeah, let's listen to my version. Let's turn that snare down. Strings can come down, too. Maybe not. Sounds pretty bad mix wise. I probably just need to put dynamic markings on everything. Like if I did

P and F, would this sound better? Oh yeah, that's already better. Sort of. I wonder if they I know when you does this. Yeah, it's like the volume's changing after the note hits. That's really weird. I'm not going to care about it that much. I'm not listening to the Sibelius playback, you know? Like that's not why I'm making these. Uh D E over D A over D spind. How's it going? Been dragged to jogging. Well, I hope you enjoy it. And we're overd Okay. Do we need to We heard this part before earlier. Yep. I'm going to I guess the only question is like horn or trombone is that but I mowled over this when I transcribed it originally. Okay, let's move. Let's do the next one. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. This is the maritime battle. Oh, this is interesting. This is going to be hard. So, what is that? Xylophone. Mima. Morima for sure. Okay. Wait. So, we definitely need strings. We definitely need snare drum. We definitely need MMA. I don't know if we need a grand staff, but we'll start with a grand staff and see if we can lose the bottom one. Um, what up, 8bit? I've been trying to teach myself how to read sheet music, and I'm having trouble understanding dotted notes. I get the half thing, but I don't get how to apply it. Um, If you get the half thing, that is the whole thing. The half thing That's a very smart way to put it and not confusing at all, I'm sure. I mean, it just means that it takes up 1. 5 of that rhythm, right? I guess how you apply it is that you can have a um this kind of rhythm, this kind of bop bump bump. Like you almost always see dotted notes followed by a shorter note, right? Dotted quarter to an eighth, dotted eighth to 16th. like they're almost always um to have a rhythm that's not even instead ofum bump you can do bump like do I let it just ring out the whole dur duration or do I play it again at the end of the duration? Oh, you just let it ring out. Yeah, you only play the note when you have a note. You don't play it again. Um, what instrument are you playing? I'm uh like I'm a percussionist, you know. Well, no, I'm not a percussionist. I'm a drummer. A different thing. But, uh, like coming up in band class and stuff, I was always on percussion. And you never need to worry about note lengths because if you hit a snare drum, bomb, that's it, you know? But if you're playing clarinet or something, you have to decide when to end the note, and it matters a lot. So that was something that I had to learn after everybody else already learned it. Guitar, if you're playing guitar, then you do kind of have to worry about note lengths, but not the same as something that you need to breathe to play because you have to like stop blowing through it. Um, if you bang your head into a symbol, you become a concussionist. That's true. And I know I met a lot of percussionists that seemed like they had done that. U Oh, there's a high hat, too. Chicka tick. Is there like just high hat? No, there's not a So, I'll have to do drum set. Rock. We'll do rock drum set.

Bum bum. There's the Jaws bass sort of. Oh, there's like choir, too. Choir pads. I'm just going to put actual choir or Hold on a sec. Is there like a choir pad? Pad for choir. Should I do pad for choir or just straight up choir? It definitely is a pad, not a straightup choir. That sounds I mean the choir patch in sibilities probably sounds identical to that but that does sound right. Um, okay. So, what note are we starting on? There we go. But it moves. Let's get that bass. High hats. Doing sixuplets. So, it's doing this. That's kind of cool. That's the loop. It's such an interesting uh like the formula is the same as the ocean theme. You have the bass ostanado instead of da da. It's this new Jaws thing. And then you have pads on top changing chords every bar over top of the steady bass rhythm. That's funny. So it's an F on top. This is super quiet though. That didn't help much. Oh, I think that changed in half notes actually. Hold on here. Hey, get out of here. Let's see. We have not gone through Farewell Highrule King yet, but I do love that tune. That's going to be a good one. Okay, let's listen to that D. Maybe it's an E flat. What is that middle note? That's it. What happens here? We need more room. How's it go? Is that E flat drop down to D? It's definitely an E flat here. That sounded exactly right. But that's not a It's probably a D. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's always easier to hear a note like when it moves. You can almost hear what it was before it moved easier than just trying to hear it, you know, in a batch of other notes. So, this is cool. So, I'm going to try and put down some dynamics to make this all audible. We'll see how it works. That's way too loud. Not bad. Okay. If this was a real choir, they'd be

working hard. It's an A on top. Top notes always easiest. Welcome, Lucina Mane. Who's your Smash Man? Um, I bet I can guess. Let's see here. I'm going to put call this choir pad instead of pad 4. That is an A. And then the bottom note is an E flat that goes down to D. Nice little trionee drop. Well, you're a changed man. You used to be Lucine, man, and now you are. I don't even know enough about Smash to like current Smash to make a joke. Who's bad? Who's the worst Smash character? Is it still Kirby? No, it's all weird. There's a bunch of weird ones now, right? I dropped off after a bit. I got the Piranha Plant when they added Pey Piranha. Or it's not even PD Piranha. It's just the uh Piranha Plant. That was the last one, the last like DLC. That was the first DLC, I think. Actually, I only did one. But yeah, now there's like I don't know, Bubsy and Minecraft man and etc., etc. Gex, I assume Gex is in it. Garfield and Odie. Is that right? Let's see. Sounds like another minor second. Like this sounds the same as over here. So, uh, wait, I don't want that. Okay, hold on here. Hold on. Yeah, that's right. Uh, I see they both go down. I think that's right. Let's see if we can hear that. Yeah. Oh no. I think this top voice, this G is jumping down to E. And there's something in the middle again. Let's see. Yeah. Okay. Feels weird to make this D flat like E natural, D flat, and G. It's obviously C# looks better here, but then going from D flat. I guess I could make this a C#. Why not? Then it feels like that should be E, but that also sucks. There's not really any winning with this one. Uh, go get some coffee, wind, wake yourself up. I just got a coffee, so that's why I'm late actually for the stream. Later than normal anyway. I can't really be late because I don't have a boss. Um, be nice. Okay, and that's the loop for this part. Whoa. Okay, wait. So, we need is that piccolo? Oh jeez, I hate having it on all instruments. Where's that like trombone? Oh, there's definitely

Excuse me. Those B. Oh, they left. Oh my goodness. They went away as soon as I tried to point them out. But there's a little bass trombone bass bop bop. Uh, so let's see. Let's see what we can do here. I might make this drum part Q- sized. Is that dumb? It's going to make everything so messy. Um, yeah. I have to drag myself into my own HR meetings. You should not have made that comment to yourself. Um, it's probably nicer to run in the rain than in the sun. Um, maybe this maritime battle music is very appropriate if you're running in the rain. It maybe feels perfect. Actually, I should just let it play out for you. I am going to make this uh small. That might help with the spacing. And then can we fit four? That looks pretty bad. I don't think we can fit four. Maybe we should do uh landscape for this one. How does that feel? It feels kind of crowded the other way now. Is there no winning? There might not be any winning. Yeah, I think I just got to do like two. Well, yeah, whatever. Annoying, but what are you gonna do? Two bars per page. Okay. Uh Here's where we get blinging bling bling bling. Whoa. Just snipe that. Let's see. Uh, oops. Whoops. There we go. So, we're gonna do like this. Uh, what are the two notes? There's like a grace note before every note. H. Am I crazy? What's going on here? Yeah. Uh, blinging bling. I don't know why I did that. Uh, that's funny. It like copies it to the next the same part of the triplet in the next beat. Ah, but I don't want that. As soon as triplets get involved, Sibelius gets very weird. Let's see here. Oh, this is too fast a little bit. Uh, let's see. I think the default tempo is 100, so it's probably like 90 four. Let's see if that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Bling, ding, ding, ding. Just everything up a half step. Oh, I guess this one needs a grace note, too, doesn't it? I really cannot fit more than two bars on a staff here. I'm even going to do auto breaks. Auto brakes every two bars. Just commit. Okay, let's see here. So

why is it not decrescendo interesting okay I need to do it like this I guess then it's pointing at the hidden pianisimo Mark. Oh, there is a doink. You're right. Cornel Cornelia. Corneliaris. Cornelar da. Sorry for butchering your username. Okay, hold on. Where am I now? I got distracted. There's a doink. I heard it. What should we put that as? Kind of sounds like a jimbe or something. I'm so not a I just said I was a percussionist two seconds ago. I don't know anything about percussion. Um let's see. Where's the Okay, so the Jbe is doing like a Okay, this is not going to show up in Sibilia sounds. It's all going to sound the same, but whatever. Boom. This is the jambe loop. That's the two bar loop. And you can Okay. Okay. There's a lot going on here. Um, I don't think I need this bottom rim line. I think I'm just going to take it off. Uh, let's get what the snare is doing. Uh, the flute popped out of me. — [groaning] — It ends on that note, I think. Oops. Hold on a sec. I'm getting too distracted. Let's try this. Why won't Let me change the half step interval fixed half step one. Okay. So, this right I think it Uh, something's off with this flute part. This is going to be a tough one. Let's see. Okay. No. Well, what would the chord maybe be? We have sort of like a C minor 11 with a D flat in it. Sort of. So, what the heck would this arpeggio want to be? Oh, it starts one note higher. Yeah.

Yeah. I know. All the battle music in Wind Waker is so iconic. Like even just like when you're sailing around and then a shark appears and just the little like bass riff comes in at the beginning. Man, so sick. So, this would make the most sense if it was this. That would make sense. It's sort of like an E flat minor 6 run. But is that what they actually do? Let's see. I think that is what they do. That last note is tripping me out. Yeah, I think that's good enough. That's what they do. I see. Then he kind of goes to a G natural here. Seems like No, that doesn't make any sense because the pads are doing to G flat. What note does he run up to? He does like a da da. It's three notes. So, it would make sense for it to be Oops. But it's an on the beat grace note like this makes sense if we isolate it. Why is it so slow? Maybe that is what he does. That's really weird. Uh oops. Yeah, I'll just get rid of that. Uh maybe I'll make these 30 second notes. Then it'll be fast enough. Let's see here. That sounds so bad. Why is it doing like Maybe these do need to be I could do a I could do like a six sixth note triplet like that. Maybe that would sound better even if it looks worse. I'm going to turn the volume on this jambe. creative. Is that man? Okay. Bomb. That's bees. Low bees. That's a low Okay, that might be the loop. It's a We still got two minutes left in the audio track, though, so probably not. But at the very least, that's where stuff starts repeating that I can just repeat in the score. So, I'm going to try and nail down the other elements. Did the baseline change at all? I don't think it did. Hold on. Okay. So, the snare drum is going like triplets, but uh like this. Listen for that snare. Oops. Like a little symbol or something, too. Okay. Okay. Uh, we can make this super quiet as well. my mic audio. I'm just talking really

quiet. I can turn it up. Yeah, but I cannot turn up the music audio or the sibelius audio. So, if we get out of balance, then we just get out of balance. That's all there is to it. Uh, I'm going to make this a double bar line. Okay, let's see here. Where are we? Does he does the bass trombone go up to a G flat there? Or am I imagining that? It definitely doesn't go up here. So, it probably doesn't go up here either. I'm just imagining it because other instruments are going up a half step. When you get to the horns, make sure to write rip above the rips. I will. Thank you, Spinda. Why is the high hat so quiet? Okay. Of course, now it's way too loud. Um, Matsoforte, does that solve my problem? Kind of. Okay. Oh, what a weird tune. Okay, what am I missing here? Uh Okay. And then here's where the pads change. Uh oh, but I missed the horn rips. Right, right, right. Let's see here. So, it's again 1 2 3 This is an interesting one too where it's like is it in 128 and the bass is just doing like a dupal lines straight duples or is it in 44 and everything except the bass is playing triplets. I don't know. [clears throat] I think he ends on this F, right? Let's see here. Close. Um Huh? What's the middle note of that horn rip? And the bottom note for that matter. The bass starts swinging when the snare comes in. No, it does not. That's just an illusion created by everything else swinging. Is it a trionee? Yeah, it is and I will write rip. Uh, okay. So, let's hear this. And then okay. What is that? A B flat. What the heck? Okay. Is it just moving up a major

third? Let's see. Let's just move it up a major third and see if it is right. Uh what is this? D I think that's right. Okay. Oh, yeah. What is that? That's a brass. There's like a new brass pad coming in on this bar here. What would that be? It's I mean it's generic brass pad. So maybe I could just put generic brass staff, but like it's definitely a different instrument than this solo horn. It has a different sound, like a different patch, whatever. Different sample. So I should put it on a different staff, I think. Brass. It's quiet, so I'll make it quiet. H, but it just plays one note and then dies. Let's see. Maybe I should just put this on the whole side. What's the bottom note? Is there a bottom note or is it just these two? Uh, keep the percussion going. Does the baseline change? I don't think so. No, it doesn't change. Um. Oh no. What was making that noise? That clanging noise? Was it the jee? Whatever. Uh, let's see. I think it was just those two notes. Okay. So, the Murbo goes up. The choir pad. There are new choir pads that I'll have to try and hear. amidst everything else going on. Oh, and that uh there's like a little symbol. It doesn't really sound like a symbol. It kind of sounds like a I don't know what like what the heck is that? Bells. It's not like a windchime. There's something going on there. Like what the heck is a tambourine that you're just like these are the things that keep me up at night. I'm I am going to put a tambourine, I think. Did that ever happen before? We're only 20 seconds into the piece. Oh my goodness. This is going to be a long one. Oh yeah, there.

Oh, okay. Okay. Hold on here. Okay. Hopefully it is a 30 second loop because if there's more later I'm going to cry cry. Um Uh, okay. Hold on. I'm getting distracted. Uh, okay. So, I'm here. Oh, yeah. I need these choir pads. I think that's all I need. Let's see. So the B on top I'm pretty sure. What's that? No. Don't let me forget it. E. So F d E. Uh, then there's the middle note. That's probably an A. Oh, cuz that's what these brass random brass patch pads are doing. Yeah. Is it down to an A and G there? Is it like this? Does this sound right? It does kind of sound right. Let's see. Uh, it kind of sounds like it goes back to the way the old one ends, too. Let's see. I think so. Okay. So, let's try and hear this top like major seconds. It's so hard to hear the clusters. We will talk about these chords in a second. Don't worry because they're very interesting. I'm trying to decide if they go. So quiet. Like B and A to B flat and A flat to A and G. Or do they go B and A to A and G to A and G. Let's see. That doesn't sound right. But then it sounds like something moves in the top two voices between these two notes. So hold on here. That could be a semmit tone. Let's see. Not that. Maybe it's like this. Definitely not that. Huh? What happens then? I don't think this is just an E flat major triad. Like something moves. Let's see.

Yeah, this is so hard. That could be it actually. the um this minor second is pretty pointy, but in the context of everything else. Yeah. It's like how are you supposed to tell if that's right or not? Can I? Yeah. I don't know if we're going to have a definitive get on that one. Man, I'm so annoyed. I wish I could just hear it because it could be this still. That sounds good. But then that doesn't sound good moving to this one. Like it seems like it should change more going to that one. You know what I should be doing is putting little hair pins under all these Because maybe that's making it sound like it's changing more than it does the swell, you know. Uh, it doesn't seem right. Uh, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much are you impressed by these YouTube videos where people listen to a song for two minutes and start playing it? Uh, I don't know. I guess I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but that's not very hard to depending on the song. If you're like Mozart and you go to see the symphony and then you go home and start playing what they played, like that's super impressive. That's a 10. If someone puts on uh you know, like a some Sabrina Carpenter or something and then you can hear the chords and play along, that's not impressive or whatever. That's impressive. But I know how to do that. So, it's not, you know what I mean? I'm not impressed. I'm like, "Okay, cool. " Uh, I shouldn't say I know how to do that. That sounds very conceited. Hello, Sammy D. Welcome here. I think I might do this. No, that's definitely not right, though. Ah, I'm dying here. What if it's like this? That's definitely not right. Oh no, come back music. Oh no, I accidentally lost my There we go. Oh, are you saving my life right now, Brandon Schwab? Is that right? That's not right. What does the top note do?

Oh no, my head's covering the notes I'm working on. Sorry, I didn't realize that. Um, there we go. I'll add the bass in, too. So, it's not that, but it's But I never thought about that. These might not be a minor or second apart. Let's see. Let's see. I think there's a B flat on top. It might be this. That does sound kind of right. That's going to be right enough, I'm afraid. Okay, so what are we missing then? Um, hold on. Okay. Ends with these G's. Uh, that's a curveball here. Hold on. Yeah. Uh, that's funny. Okay. Um, this is going to bug me forever. Yeah. Okay. Oh, this is offset. Uh, but it's the first run to an F, right? We like this. Okay. Is this right? Let's follow along. Three. Yeah. No, it's different. Lands on a G. Okay. Bump the whole thing up a whole step and see see if this is right. Uh, what is this? So, it's probably this. Let's see if the interval structure is the same. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Okay. Oh, but then the weird tambourine. Where's the weird tambourine come in? I think that lands on beat one of at some point. Yeah. Okay. Let's see if this all repeats. Oh, yeah. No, there's different stuff happens. Ah, okay. That's fine. That's good. We're doing it. We're doing it, guys. We're doing good. Uh, we don't need this piano in here. We don't need the top string staff in here, I don't think. So, I'm going to bump up the staff size to six. Okay. And then where did Okay, here's B. B is 30 seconds in. Uh, but hopefully it's just like a little thing here and there that's different. And hopefully I don't succumb to madness. Uh, okay. Let's see. It does make me think of Mr. Krabs Walking, too. That's a funny comment. I like that. Uh

I should hide the dynamic marking here to make it look nicer because this is not actually going to be played by real people, so they don't need to know how loud to play it. Uh, [groaning] I tried doing amateur composing using mobile music notation apps. I don't have the patience. I need a computer. Yeah, I cannot imagine like mobile music notation being very good. Even if I don't have the like number pad like this part of the keyboard, I'm like I can't work like this. Uh like trying to do this stuff on a laptop makes me want to pull my hair out. So, um at that point it's like just use pen and paper, you know. Uh okay, let's see. Okay. Where does Okay. Where does it diverge from the pattern? Oh, wait a second. Is that piccolo in the wrong place? Okay, let's check the piccolo rhythm cuz I think it's starting on the wrong beat sometimes. That's right. Dup four. One. Aha. You got got. That's funny. So, it's displaced by a beat every time. That's fun. Okay. And here's where it diverges. Should I make that G flat or F#? This guy's doing F#s. Although this probably should be G flats. So we don't have A sharps in our music. Oops. Okay. Even two measures per page, it's still getting pretty cluttered. That's pretty funny. Horn trone. I like to use the phrase it's like doing X while wearing mittens whenever I'm expected to do anything without a keyboard and mouse. That's Yeah, completely. Except for like uh what's a contrary example? Drawing stuff on an iPad is easier than using a mouse. That's a pretty specific example, though. I started a professional Instagram profile for game music analysis because of your videos. No way. Oh, that's awesome. I hope it's going well. I hope you're having a good time. Um, what's the Instagram profile? I'll look it up. Oops. So, it should be a G flat. Let's see. No rip here. That's high. There's trumpets. Maybe I'll turn this brass staff into trumpets. And then I don't have a whole staff for one bar of the piece. Trumpets, man. Trumpet B flat. There we go. Or you know what I'll do? Trumpet. Not no key. Okay. All instruments is not working for me. Drum bit B flat. Put that there. And then it's in the right spot. And then I take this, put this here, and then delete this. And then remove it. Now we are talking. Let's go. The horn pit strikes again. Uh, okay. Wait, where the heck am I? There's where we are. Copy paste that. No piccolo run here. The trumpets coming here. Oops. Uh

Uh, okay. Let's see here. Yeah. Uh, I think the choir pads changed there, too, actually. Okay, let's see. They definitely do change. Okay, let's just double check everything. Bass doesn't change. Yeah. Oh, what does the Mima do? Does the Mima change? No, Doesn't change. Okay, so that's good. Uh, but the choir pads do change. The trumpets are doing like a Oh, the bass does change there. Right. Hold on. Let's listen to the bass. Uh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. here. Uh, it goes down a half step. It did change. Does it do that? And I missed that. Okay, hold on. Cuz the bass trombones back here drop down to a low B. So it makes it would make sense for the bass to drop down a half step on the second half and I might just have not caught it. I don't think they do. do change, which is really weird cuz the bassrum bones definitely playing a B. That doesn't make sense that they wouldn't change. No, they must change. Maybe it's like they don't the whole pattern doesn't change but just the C's drop down to a B like B C sharp like that. Maybe that's what happens. Let's see. It's so low that it's hard to tell. That kind of sounds right. I think it change like I think this bar is like this and then it goes like this. But here it feels like there's a shift to C naturals, you know. Maybe I'm totally crazy.

No, I think I'm crazy. It's just like this the whole time, I'm pretty sure. Oh jeez. Okay. Yeah. Wow. What what a annoying thing to realize is happening. Uh okay. So then the second time through, if this isn't the L point, I'm really going to sob. Now there's a different Let's see. Boom. Okay, cool. So, I think this is right. And am I missing anything? Are there any other parts that I haven't caught? Oh, the choir pads. There's more. Okay. But there's no choir pads in the next part, so that's something. Do I ever use Doro? No, I haven't. Um, I would like to try it, but I also am so used to Sibilius that I don't really see a point in switching. Um, right now, do you find when you're doing transcription alone that you still say all this out loud? No. I had to really think to be able to talk and do this at the same time. Um, it's like I want to I'm still very bad at it. I'm sure there's a lot of screen time that's just me sitting here like this, which is not good TV, you know. But, uh, I'm trying to get better at talking while I do this so that you guys can tell what's going on. Um, okay. Let's see if we can intuit it these choir pads coming up. Here we go. I'm hearing that Is it that low though? I mean, you're the best transcription screen streamer I've ever seen. I've never seen another streamer do transcription. Yeah, I I am I have no competition to worry about, so that's nice. Um, there's a lot of guys who are better than me who could be doing a better job, but I have no clue. I don't I don't really watch streamers to be honest, so I don't know if there are any transcription streamers or if I've struck on something. Uh, it's the best Wind Waker Wednesday this week. Shucks. Yeah. On tap market. That's kind of the whole channel. When I started, there was not that much, if any, music theory on the internet. Definitely not in the sort of like um video essay style. And I know cuz I was looking for it. I was hungry for it. It's like I want to watch nerdy music theory video essays. If no one's going to make them, then I'll make them. — Yeah. That was an octave up. It's probably that.

Let's see. Okay. Yeah. Let's see. The middle voice is the one that moves in this bar. Uh, let's see. Like this. G flat, B flat, C. That's nice. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, so what is the top note is probably C#. Uh, they're kind of following the horn trionesses B and F, G flat and C. And the outer notes are So the outer notes are going to be G and C sharp. There's no moving voice this time, which actually makes it a little harder to hear the inner note. But if the pattern holds, we're going a whole note, whole step below the top voice. Sounds right. And then we drop probably that, right? Same shape, trionee with a whole note under it, but B and F. I don't think it drops down like so low that the F would be on the bottom, but let's double check. Maybe it does. Oh, I think that's right. Am I wrong? That doesn't sound quite right. What's wrong about that? I think everything whatever. That's right enough. I'm losing steam here. Uh uh. I think watching someone who isn't instantly perfect is better. It allows us to join in and not get imposter syndrome. Good. Well, that's what I'll tell myself then. It's actually good that I'm not that good at this. Um, no. I Yeah, I feel like I had a very humble like, you know, you meet people or whatever. I've met people who you plunk down just like random notes on piano and they can pick out all the notes and name them all right away. It's kind of like, well, how do you work on that? You know, that's obviously just something you can do. I'm sure they did have to work on it, but it's like if you're a professional runner, if you're an Olympic sprinter, you had to work really hard, but you also just had the build for it. I don't think I really had the ears for transcription at first. It took I definitely took me a long time. I have a lot of bad wrong transcriptions in my history, you know. Um, who would win in a fight, Debbie C orchski? I think Tchaikovski is too sensitive of a soul. I think he would be start crying if you had to fight him. Um, but he is more dramatic. I can't imagine WC punching anybody. Maybe Chakoski would win. He'd probably win and then cry about it after. That's my guess. Uh, who is Oh, this is the first stream I've been able to catch live transcription series. Has been a blast to watch. Oh, thank you so much. Has inspired me to tackle a similar large scale project of my own. Hey, good luck with it. Um, this is definitely a good way to um make yourself do a big project is to say, "Every week I'm going to work on it. " Chip away at it a little bit. And if you can have an audience to keep you accountable, that's even better. A lot of listening to the radio and learning. Oh, I see. That's how you improve your ear. A lot of learning songs by

ear. Yes, that's certainly true. Uh, now you technically do transcriptions professionally. That is true. YouTube is my main job. And I, you know, I feel like the draw of the my conception of the draw of my videos is the transcriptions of the music. I don't know if that's true. Like, people actually watch the videos just to see the sheet music on the screen. But when I think like I don't know if this video has enough of interest in it, I always go back to like, well, end of the day, you're seeing sheet music of a video game tune that you might like on screen. That's something that's valuable. Um, but again, I don't know if anyone else thinks that way. Let's see. Where are we here? Okay. So, we're on letter C now. Baby. Well, let's just listen to it and see. Oh, no. It does change like the bass notes changing. Oh jeez. Okay, we're like halfway through right now. Oh my goodness. Is this going to be a two-parter? I've been going for an hour and a half already. Oh. Oh, that's why this is definitely like a dynamic piece of music where certain elements will come in or not depending on what's going on in the maritime battle. I guarantee that's what's going on here. Yeah, it's like now I'm close to a shark again. So that's why trying to transcribe it. There's so much going on. Well, you know what? Is it so unsatisfying to make this a two-party? Because the next piece is called the second maritime battle. Oh, hell yeah, dude. This will be way easier to transcribe. And then next week we can have a themed maritime battle week. Okay, that's what I'm going to do cuz I have a lot of stuff I have to do today still. Uh, okay. So, sorry this is annoying, but we're we're stopping. We're doing the second half next time. Um, okay. So, where are we? We need a time stamp here. Okay, that's 50 seconds in. So, I'll make a note of that. Uh, we can listen to what we got already though. Oh, yeah. I can't see the piccolo horn. Would you believe that was an hour of work? Uh, okay. Uh, I'm here for not just the sheet music, but you pointing at particular aspects of the sheet music. Sure. Otherwise, sometimes you're just like, that sure is notes on a page without someone guiding you. That's true, actually. Uh, it can be overwhelming if you don't know what to look for. That's why a professional food critic. Uh, are you a professional food critic? You could be. I don't know anything about you really. Is it hard to write the music for your live band? Uh, no. It's hard to think of ideas. Um, trying to think of interesting ideas is the bottleneck. I think the actual like writing out charts is pretty easy or I

it's I like to do it. I'm a stickler for chart readability. So, I go through and make sure everything is nice and then I uh get complimented on my charts a lot by musicians and that always feels great. You must transcribe every possible combination and end up with a 10-minute piece. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Right. Actually, it might be easier. I should go in game, figure out what you have to do in your boat to have just the choir pads going and then be able to pick out that note that I couldn't figure out that one chord. Um, Big Squid or is it the giant rock face? Big squid, right? What's Oh, and you're bombing the uh that's true. I wonder. No, that wouldn't be it wouldn't be that yet because we haven't gotten to that point in the soundtrack track list yet. Um, like we haven't even gotten to Dragon Roost, so I don't know. Anyway, uh, so you Anyway, so you'd think that this track would be from some state that you could get into before getting to Dragon Roost, but I don't think you can fight the giant squid before you get to Dragon Roost anyway. So, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Uh, I wonder how it's actually programmed in because clearly some of the instrumentation stuff is based on certain enemies nearby. Yes, totally. I think you need another note after the 16th triplets. That's a minor third above the last note in piccolo in the run after the trill. What? It was definitely just three notes, right? Let's go back. Oh, maybe you're right. Uh, I think you are right. Let's see. Where are we here? Maybe I'll make this 30 second notes. It's kind of like awkward. I don't know if that first note is right though. Let's see. No, it definitely ends on a G. I think it might be that. Let's see. Yeah, I think that sounds right. Uh then the next one would be let's See? Yeah, that's right. The G sharp in the first one's a B flat like this. Or what G#arp? There's no G#arp in the first one. No, it's definitely going up. It's not like, you know, Yeah. Does that end on a B flat? I don't think it does. Uh, I don't want to get too bogged down here. Oh, you think this is a B flat, this G natural note, but it's not. Definitely ends on that note.

I think that is a B flat at the end of this one though. Maybe. Oh, I lost it. There we go. kind of neither one sounds right. It sounds brighter, I think. That's definitely right. A B flat in the first one like instead of the G at the end. Oh, I see. Yeah, the MBA down here is playing B flats. Oh, it it's probably this choir pad. Oh, no, that's a G flat. Never mind. I don't know. Um, I'm going to copy paste you guys here. Okay, and that'll do for now. Okay, I'm out. Uh, goodbye everybody. Thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next week for another Wind Waker Wednesday. [screaming] Bye-bye. And