WIND WAKER WEDNESDAY: SPECIAL THURSDAY EDITION

— Okay, it's Wed- it's Wednesday. Wind Waker then Thur- Thursday. Let's go! Last week I talked such a big talk. Well, I know this is such a short stream, but next week we'll be streaming all day, okay? I promise. And then Wednesday came and I had a big rehearsal in the morning that I totally forgot about. — When did I get back? It's just like, "Shoot. I missed out on my streaming time. " — [clears throat] — Well, I'm not waiting a whole week for Wind Waker Wednesday. That would be insane. So, we're doing it live today, Thursday. Special Thursday edition. A special Thursday edition for all you out there on Windfall Island. Um it's hard to hear me. So, let's what? Crank me? Should I turn up? Get turned up? Do do do. I'm in the yellow there. That should be nice and loud. Okay. Let me know if my audio needs fixing. Um today we're doing Windfall Island. And we're I had a um a transcription of this that I made a long time ago and I was going to pull it in and then just edit it, but I thought I'd just start from scratch cuz the transcription it wasn't a full score transcription. And I don't know. I just didn't look. I feel like it would be easier to just do it from scratch than to than to go over it again. So, cuz it was very old. Uh so, let's let's start let's start. Let's just go. What is that? There's a shaker. Uh-oh, we're to have to go into all instruments here. There's a tambourine. It's some sort of low hand drum. It's like a low hand drum and then what sounds like a tambourine with no um no jingles. Like here, go back to the beginning. Boop boop. Like what is that? They don't sound like congas. It's uh I have absolutely no idea. I would put hand drums, but I don't see hand drum as an option. Cuz hand drum is kind of a I guess there are drums that you play with sticks, so that's not a hand drum. Okay, never mind. I take it all back. Hand drum is a great thing. Orchestral unpitched percussion? Yeah, like those big Irish drums. I don't know what you call those. Um Maybe what I'll do is I'll do side drum? No, that's something else.

Maybe I'll do a tenor drum and a tom-tom. I don't want five lines though. I guess I could do bass drum. It's going to sound bad. What about down here? Melodic toms, that's probably a full staff. I just want one line. Uh I'll just put bass drum and then we'll rename them to hand drums. Okay, so then what are we looking at here? So is this harpsichord, too? I think it is. Yeah, like a bassoon or something in there, for sure. Boop boop. Boop boop. Bodhrán, okay. Did I spell that wrong or does Sibelius not have it? I don't think Sibelius has it. Bould- dron, no. Bouldron, no, okay. There's a mystery H somewhere in that word. Oh, and a flute. Was that a flute or a recorder? Hold on here. Okay, it sounds like a It might be an ocarina, actually. I don't know. I'll start with flute and I'll change it if I if you guys yell at me enough. Uh so, it's mostly percussion. Actually, that's kind of fun. I So, when I made a video on the Link's Awakening remake a long time ago and I made a big point because I was talking about how it rearranges uh the original soundtrack for um Okay, you guys think ocarina, too? Okay, I'm going to change it to ocarina. Uh I was making a big stink about not stink, but like the point of the video was how they arranged the um original Game Boy soundtrack for wind quintet. And like not, you know, not typical wind quintet. I think it was actually a wind sextet, but it was like bass clarinet and bassoon and flute and oboe and clarinet and then recorder. And I made this big, like, "Whoa, weird that recorder's the top voice. " Uh but then it turns out the they released like an official soundtrack a year later after I made this video with the credits and it was uh an ocarina, not a recorder. I was like, "Oh! " The video would have been so much better if I'd caught that and been like, "How cool that he plays an ocarina in the game and the soundtrack puts ensemble. " Like, great. Um but c'est la vie. You got to live with your mistakes. Uh okay, so now let's see here. Boom. We're in the key of A. Uh do do do do do Okay. Oh yeah, and then I'm going to high hand drum low hand drum May No. Oh, whatever. This is fine. low HD Okay, that's not ideal, but Uh do do do do do do do do do do do do do — You think it's a ocarina, but it's really a you know recorder played underwater or something. Uh Let's see here. I'm just going to get the groove first. Okay, so the low one is doing a little heartbeat. Boom. Boom boom. And then the high one is doing boom pa boom pa And then the tambourine doesn't come in right away, right? Let's see. Okay, so the shaker is doing one two and chit chit chit and then Okay. So when the melody comes in after two bars, let's see. Yeah. Tambourine's going cha cha cha It's a nice little groove. Boom.

Boom. Oops. Come on. Mhm. Cha. Cha cha Okay. Cha cha I feel like uh doing percussion noises makes me feel like the uh Arrested Development family when they're trying to do chicken noises, you know? Coo coo coo cha. None of them can do it right. That's a good show. Okay. Okay, so the harpsichord, left hand is doing a little boom boom boom boom boom boom There's something very charming about this groove. It's the same as Outside Island, right? Boom boom boom boom boom boom beep boop boop beep boop boom coo cha The little interlocking, these two drums interlock, you know? Boom cha doom cha cha. You got a nice like two and four or uh you know It's a drum beat. Boom chick boom boom, you know? Uh Oh, yeah. Okay. So, what's the top What's the right hand of the harpsichord doing? That's what else we need. Mhm. Boom. Mhm. Dee dee doo. Boom. Dee dee dee doo. I see. So, it starts with the chord here. Probably just like A major. And on these beats, he's landing on D C sharp D, but there's stuff in the middle, too. Do do do do Like that? Bom bi dom. Is there more going on, or is that it? Yeah, I think that's it. Well, I'm not loving that bass drum sound. — Okay. Let's get the tempo right. How's everyone doing? What's everyone uh How's everyone's Wednesday going? What's Thursday going? Um It's almost the weekend. But, it's not close enough to start celebrating. Like 120? I don't know. It's some sort of normal tempo, you know. Ooh, that's way too fast. So, it's like what then? 108? A little bit slow. 112? It's Wednesday, dudes. Hey, job interview, eh? That's exciting, Spinda. Um hope you get it. Uh it is grooving now. Let's go. go. 3-day weekend. Is it a 3-day weekend? I'm Canadian, so my last weekend was a 3-day weekend. Um It's the Wind Waker. It's thin-thicker Thursday, everybody. Let's rock. Um Beep boom. And do do do. This is such a great game. I love Wind Waker. The uh the um Windfall Island is hilarious. Great name for an island. And there's so many Like, are there Compare this village, this whatever island, to any of the like the Hyrule like uh Twilight Princess Hyrule Castle Town or whatever. Boring. There's no one there. There's like two people there. Ocarina of Time the town boring. You know. It was the first one to do it, so whatever. But first 3D Zelda, at least. The uh Majora's Mask, not boring. Lots of cool people, obviously. Okay. But like the number of funny little

people in this island, and they all have their own personality, you know? They all have like a weird thing about them. Like the guy who is in a bad mood until you show him a picture of the moon. Like, that's so funny. What? The gossiping moms, so good. Beep beep, boom. Okay, my camera's right in the way of my score here. Now, here's a question. Do I write it like this or do I dot the quarter note? Cuz it kind of sounds like beep, boom, boom. Like there's space. It's being played by a harpsichord, so you can't hold the note anyway. Sivellos thinks you can hold the note. Beep. Boo, ba, boom. Mhm. Boom. Boom, so I don't even I don't need to listen to it to transcribe. The melody at least. Um. — [clears throat] — Thank you. Uh, who the photographer guy? And then he's got a crush on one of the gossiping moms. Like that's fun. Yeah, they like have relationships. I feel like there's a lot of Zelda towns where everyone stands in the place to stand in and then you go and talk to them and they have their thing that they tell you. But this is one of the only ones that I can think of. Like in Skyward Sword, did people interact in the village? Not really. Maybe. I'm trying to think now. If I like and the uh the photographer like side quest where you're trying to get the Picto Box or the colored Picto Box and uh he like makes you go and spy on all the townspeople and so you get to see like the guy who walks around actually like sneaks a glance at the the girl with the orange dress. You're like scandal. So good. The storage lady would develop a crush on you if you keep visiting her in Skyward Sword. That's hilarious. I didn't know that. Oh, wait. Let me get this person first cuz that's easier, frankly. Hold on here. Uh, see, he really he comes off for the offbeat. Bom. Bom bom. So, it should be like this. Like this is technically accurate, but it looks really bad, right? Woah. What the heck was that? Mhm. Bom bom. But, I could do bom bom, you know. Like this. But, that's not really right, is it? It's really this. I don't know. I don't know what to do. I have been writing a bunch of charts for different jazz gigs. Um and the I've been getting a lot of mixed signals from different musicians as far as like, I would rather there's no key signature. definitely a key signature. Like, don't ever put a C flat in my chart. Like, oh, I'll definitely put a C flat if that's the proper, you know, if that's theoretically correct. So, I'm like, okay. Everyone's got their own preference. I guess just do what I like then if everyone's going to disagree anyway. Bom bom bom bom. Boom boom Like this looks terrible though. Oh well. Trying to get a good Sibelius playback on this one, I've decided. Um There's pumpkin drama in Skyward Sword. I remember there was the pump like the rusty pumpkin or whatever it was called, the bar. Yeah, there was something there. I didn't play Skyward Sword that much. Like I played I beat it, but I only beat it once and I got halfway through it again a couple times, but I never beat it again. Um The brewery used to date the

cartography fish. Oh, yeah, that's right. The bar that's like a coffee shop. Um That's funny. I forgot about that. And there's the guy in there who gets spooked easy if you like knock plates off the table and break them, he's like — Oh, man, I love this game. Ordon Village was cool. There's definitely good vibes in Ordon Village. Got the sense of like oh yeah, this is a these people are trying to hack it in the wilderness kind of not hack in the wilderness, but you know, village life, you got to sense of village life. Um Do I hear the song of time on a pickup? That's a great question. That's boom boom boom boom boom, right? I'm thinking of the right one. Um I mean, it's in D minor. So, I should put it in D minor. — What was that? See, my thing is I always hear the first note as on B1. Like any like the iPhone ringtone, any of these uh um any of these hotly contested songs. My I My ear just like takes the first note as B1 unless you know unless really proven otherwise. So, like beam bom bom beam ba bom bom. But, it makes sense if you're going beam bom do re do do do re do whatever it is. Um But, I don't know. It's more interesting if this if it starts on B1, you know. Bom bom bom bom. So, I'm sure Mozart would hear this as a pickup, but in 2026 I'm hearing it as B1. Um I can't transcribe the credits twice. See, this is the thing is I was like I should wait till I'm done the whole soundtrack to do a video on the credits. That would be appropriate. But, I don't want to wait that long. And it was a patron request. A patron requested. Like, what am I supposed to do? Oh, no. I'm doing this — Twist my rubber arm. I'm doing this for the patronies. Um Yeah, big uh big thanks to patron Valerie for the request. That was a fun video. I have a new video out. Check it out. It's about Wind Waker. If you're here, you'll probably dig it. It's about the Wind Waker credits music. And uh and kind of explaining the idea of oblique motion. Okay, wait. Hold on here. Okay, this harp score part's getting way more complicated than it was before. So, I'm hearing like it obviously moves with the chords. Um it doesn't have spoilers, no. I don't think so. No. I definitely say like Wind Waker has the best ending. Is there footage of the ending? There probably is. I don't remember. My video editor handles the video editing. And I never you know, Wind Waker spoilers are not on my radar. There's not much to spoil. It kind of ends exactly how you expect it to end, you know. — But I you know, no. I don't I think it'd be fine. Whatever. Um Uh I mean, yes. Back to the to go back to the Song of Time. It does start with a 5 1, so it's like yeah, of course. I It makes sense why you would hear the 1 as B1. But uh Yeah, let's do it. Let's make some orchestrations together. I'm going slow today, I can tell. I like my ear doesn't want to hear anything. So, okay. A couple of these are chords and most of them are single notes, but there's also the left hand is kind of jumping around. Um

So, okay. Well, I mean, we can take the bassoon bassline as uh you know, what what's going on? It's going A to A over C sharp to D B minor to E to A. That's the progression. We don't need this down here. We can just have one up there, one big letter A. And uh let's take a — You guys can't give me wrong advice if you start trying to trick me. I think that's a trombone. I don't think that's harpsichord. Um I might fall for it. This is definitely a chord on beat one. Bling. Ah, I hear it. Okay. Trying to listen for this left-hand line. Does this uh Hey, Cal Davis. How's it going? Welcome to Wind Waker Horse Day. See, I don't know if I can't really hear the these offbeats, but there's so much other stuff happening on the offbeats that I don't know if that's a me problem or Let's see. I guess if I can't hear Hmm. There's Okay. — You hear the secret tritone. Okay, cuz I can hear this note fine. So, if I can't hear this one, that's probably not there. Okay. So, I'm going to actually do this and we'll see. Okay. Uh let's see. I'm going to I'm putting the roots on the beat even if I can't totally hear them cuz I just assume they're there. Why would they not be there, right? Ooh. That's interesting. Bum bum. I don't think I've heard that before. Okay, let's see how this Oh, wait. Let's check if there's any more chords that I'm missing in the right hand. I think this sounds right. This would be fun to learn on piano. B minor 7 to E, not B minor to E7. That's seven. There's no seven in the E. Uh okay, great. Now, it should be pretty straightforward from here cuz I'm betting a lot gets repeated. That's such a great move. What is it? Sorry. Uh, hello Dan Lapp. Hey there 8-bit. I've learned so much from your videos and it's helped me find out how to write music for my games. Thank you. Keep making these videos. Will do. Glad it's helped. Um Maybe we should get the Okay. Oops. Okay, I think that's what happened there, right? Let's see. Listen again. Okay. Uh This is a good um example of how the ending of your note the note length is such a huge contributor to the groove. Like if it was like bum, bum, bum, bum, you know. Bop, bop, bop. It's like the

rest hits you in the face. The cut off of these bassoon notes hits you in the face and is like so locked in with the drums. I mean, you know, on the MIDI grid, obviously, but still feels good. Maybe since it's a C diminished chord. C diminished uh to B minor 7 uh to E sus, I guess. Cuz that's an A in the melody. — Still A's on the offbeats. Uh blah. I don't know what this chord is, but it hits a chord and then it goes booda bee da. So, ending on this A. Booda. Uh so, it is sort of like an E7sus4. Going up a B minor 7 arpeggio over an E bass note. Except I need to fix this left hand, don't I? Um — That's very kind of you to say, Zane Chihuahua. I feel like it's more like uh uh trying to figure out where to hang a painting, you know? Like, is it over here? Look back. No, it's a little crooked, you know? Um Uh what's the left hand doing? Oh, it's just Uh so, I could put this like this. Split it across both hands. Now, let's see. Is it a D over E? It kind of sounds like it. Bom. Going to try and hear that note in that chord. Uh-huh. I definitely do hear it. Um so, I'll write this as D over E. That's more fun. Okay. Double bar line cuz we're starting a new section. Boom. This is so much easier than I thought it would be. Uh, I was right to not try and go over my old bad transcription. Yeah. It's not that. Do I put these little roll up things like it's it's a quick roll up, you know? Bling. He's not just playing it as a block. Cha. Whatever. In this instance, I won't care that the Sibelius playback is bad. — In the bassoon instance, I will care a lot. And my inconsistency is my charm. I think this is Uh, let's see here. Oh, I think I've been hearing this bar wrong. I think it's like this. Boom. Dee don't do do. Not like I've been hearing the bassoon note on this beat, but he is he the harpsichord is, yeah, doing that. Okay. Um Yeah, let's speed it up just a hair. All right, so then Oh, yeah. Boom boom. That's a five one. This is the Kakariko Village melody. Boom boom — [singing] — Um So, that's clever. One of the many clever little Wind Waker uh uh older Zelda music references. Um I saw a question in the chat that I was like, "Oh, I'll get to that in a

second. " And I can't find it now. Oh, I see it. As another arranger, what's your tips on arranging for instruments that you are unfamiliar with? I mean, you get familiar with it, I guess. So, if possible, try and get your hands on one. If not someone who plays one. I guess that's probably better, actually. Have someone that you can talk to. Like my uh my wife plays trumpet. I don't play trumpet, but I run all of my trumpet writing past her because she's not afraid to be like, "Oh, definitely I don't I wouldn't want to play that, you know. " Um Whereas a lot of musicians have a certain amount of pride, which is good, but like a certain amount of like, "No, that's fine. I could do I can handle that, you know. No, I can do it. It's my job to do it right. It's your job to like have what you want as the arranger, and then it's my job to deliver that. " Um which is, you know, admirable, but I'm always like, "No, I'm not a good arranger, though. You need to tell me if I'm writing badly, you know. " Um So, it's good to have people that you can sort of It's good to find people that you can talk to, who you can trust to say like, "No, this is not idiomatic. " Or, "Oh, here's what the problem is with this, you know, writing this thing in this way. " That's the next best thing to actually knowing the instrument yourself. And then the more you do that, the more you ask, the more you get a sense of like what the instrument can do, the particulars of the instrument. Um but also, yeah, playing one. Like I know transcribing piano I found super hard until I you know, dedicated some time spent more time playing piano. Um and sort of getting your getting my skill level up a little bit to the point where I could understand like okay. Somebody wouldn't play this. You know, they wouldn't voice a chord this way. They would probably voice it this way and then Oh yeah, and that sounds right. Okay, you're not just like shooting in the dark so much. Um — Yes, we do need a instrument called pig noises. Well, I wish I could make this squeal when you pick them up. You know, I can't do it. What am I doing? Oops, that's not right. Bom two three ba dum bom bom bom Okay. So let's see. Let's catch any of the articula- articulations that we're missing. Uh Is that staccato? I think so. La la That's funny. — And like if every offbeat wasn't staccato, this would also groove way less hard, too. It's like more lyrical. Like totally lined up with the bassoon articulation, you know? I got to remember that. It would be so cool to write like wind quintet music that grooves but isn't like Or I mean, whatever. If you guys have ever heard of the Acropolis Quintet, they're a reed quintet, so it's like bassoon and bass clarinet and alto sax and oboe. That's four instruments. There's another one, too. Maybe it's a quartet. I'm sure I'm missing one. Bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and alto sax. That's five. Okay. Um They have some cool music. And some of their music uses almost like EDM e-textures, where they'll have like bassoon and bass clarinet playing like a fifth apart, and it sounds like a sawtooth wave. Like it's really cool. Um But I mean, you know, that's cool. I'm not super into the EDM. This sort of groove appeals to me a lot more than like Um okay, let's see.

— We should do April Fools. Uh Mario Paint. That's funny. Or like if I could have Sibelius but load up, you know, off-stream, load up a just brutal sound library. Pretend like nothing's different. Yeah, I guess I don't know. I guess the bass is flute sample is not very good. It's pig noises. Uh boom Should make those grace notes maybe, but I want to be rhythmically precise. Well, that's fun. So, the chord stays on this sort of D E sus sound, but the melody gives us a four to three resolution. They're in contention. But, they're very far apart. — So, it doesn't matter. And the seventh is above the root, so it's not a minor ninth interval. So, that's key. Um Yeah, I mean, I think that's that was right. I'm not Yeah. Okay. So, we'll do another section. Boom. Boom. I also like this feels like a melody, the harpsichord part. But, then it's like not enough of a melody that like it also functions perfectly as an accompaniment part, you know? Just super strong writing. Every part of this is melodic. The bassline's melodic, the left hand's melodic, the right hand's melodic, the melody's melodic obviously. Man. Great game. Um Boom. Boom boom. Boom boom. Uh what comes next? Oh. I'm just following the score here. Oh, that's the loop. Easy peasy. Um okay, sweet. We're almost done. The groove did not change at all into the B section. Oh yeah, that's still Caccini go. That's the Caccini go B section. — Let's see how the percussion changes in this last one-off bar. Does not change. Sweet. Um Yeah, that's true. It's a one-bar loop, but the I guess just like a really nice groove. You can repeat as much as you want. It doesn't get old. I think the sounds are really pleasing, too. Like round and soft. There's no like even the shaker is kind of round. Nice. Uh where are we here? Do we use this stuff first?

— [singing] — Uh let's see. Well, there's some sort of grace note in there. Uh do do You hear this one's more lyrical. He's not going do da da, you know? Do we da di da da. It's like a nice contrast, nice pretty lyrical B section before we get back into the groove. — [singing] — Now we're getting groovy. Uh boom di do — That's a little grace note down. — [singing] — So that should be on the bass clef. What's up, Louie? Louie 67. Uh little mordent. Can't be a harpsichord part without one of these. Perfect. Okay, now we got to fill in the rest of the harpsichord and then we're done this track. Okay, so he's doing this. Same. So it's Uh the seventh thing. That's cool. Uh I do hear it resolving here. Is that what it does? Hold on. Let's take a closer listen. Am I going nuts? No, that's absolutely what it does. Okay. And the right hand does not have any chords in it, I believe. Let's double-check. Is he doing He might be doing that. Yeah, I think he's doing that really quietly. Um Ooh. I'm hearing a nice little add two chord there. Maybe that though. Yeah, that sounds better. I think that's what it is. D add two, very nice. I'm going to put some chord symbols in here. D Do we do E over D? That's the implication with this G sharp. I'm doing it. I love an implied chord change. A over C sharp, F sharp minor, B minor, E7, A. And then we can do Whoops, not that. We need to D add two. E over D. A over C sharp, F sharp minor, B minor. This is premature to be doing this cuz I haven't actually transcribed this part of the harp score part yet, but do I miss being a normal listener and not noticing every detail when listening to music? No, it's so much better.

You uh it's like um if you're a foodie and you start to get really into food, you're not like, "Oh, I miss when I enjoyed bad food. " — It's like, "No, it's better. You enjoy food more now. " Um because you can appreciate it. Um I always transcribe everything by ear. There've been a couple videos that I got my hands on the scores for and that is acceptable to me, but I never go off someone else's transcriptions because I don't trust anyone else. Um so I do everything by ear myself. Oh, hold on. Where am I? Okay, we're way back here. Uh any of these chords though? Should I put C sharp in that or no? Hold on. Yeah, see in this bar we get an E over D implication of the G sharp. And really it's just that that's how the Kakariko theme goes. And it's kind of set up here and then the pattern of the bassline continues. So you kind of think like you kind of feel it. It's kind of implied. But it's not really there. So maybe I should take it out for this one. Um Oh yeah, I really need to start transcribing so Oh, that's not a question. That's a comment. That's fine. I can still read comments, I guess. It's you know, yeah, my ears sucked too uh when I started doing this. Like it took it until you know, transcribing music for this channel for like a year before I started to think that I was getting better at it. Uh it takes a long time, but it's so fun. So fun to be able to just like write down what's going on in a piece of music you like. I'm not going to put the C sharp in there. — Uh Um Yeah, I guess I should take a listen to the left hand, too. Uh oh yeah. That's not there. I can put these as both as being seven chords cuz we got the B the seventh of the B minor here and E in the Oh, in the melody, yeah. Uh Oops. Get out of here. There we go. — Uh is there anything going on at beat four there? I'm kind of hearing a really quiet A there. So, well, yeah, I mean this is the thing. This G sharp is the only thing to give away that this is supposed to be an E over D and not just a D with a G sharp in the melody, but this pattern of like four, five over four, one over three, six, two, five, one is such a well-defined pattern. It's such a common movement in Japanese music in particular. That it's like if you had um you know just like a held A and you had a melody

that went like you know I don't know. You would say that this part of the bar is implying an E7. You'd go, "Oh yeah, this is A major. It's all A major chord tones. " But then these two are kind of implying an E7. You get that harmonic movement. It's totally implied by just these notes. You could even simplify it. You know, something like this would still imply you seven kind of you know. Um because the five to one is such a strong, you know, part of the vocabulary that it's really easy to like it doesn't take much to imply it because it's already in everyone's ears, you know. Same with this, if this movement is in your ears, it's hard not to hear this as an E over D. But I see what you're saying. It's not really it's not really an E over D chord. — All right, let's see what we got now. Um ba ba de de de ree. Um so I'll just kind of play this and then let's see. Um ba Uh this has got to change back to F sharp. minor Oh, maybe not. Hold on here. Hold on. Let's listen to the left hand. Oh, yeah, it totally did. I don't know what I was hearing. I it's doing this. Okay, we got there. Okay, so then the right hand is doing what? So it's a couple grace notes. Boom. Let's see. Let's see. I'm hearing like really light chord like two note chord. Something like that. Let's see. Yeah, that's right. New video out. Go check it out. Big Wind Waker Thursday. Lots of Wind Waker on this channel today. Um I did not time that. I just It all happened that way. I think it's like this. Can't hear the harpsichord. Hey, that sounds right, I think. F sharp minor 7. Uh Okay, now do I leave this as a two note chord or do I put the third in it, too? Boom. Boom. Let's listen for that movement. Boom. I don't think it's there. Da Oh I think there's something like that. Let's see. How does this sound?

Okay, I think that sounds right. Like I'll take it. Let's listen to the whole thing. I do hear ghost sounds that are not really there a lot. Um sometimes it's like an overtone issue of like Oh, it sounds like the you know whatever. Like an overtone will be strong because of the orchestration, so you'll think like, is there a fifth in this chord or not? Like I can't tell. It doesn't sound right if I put a fifth in my chord, but I'm kind of hearing it kind of and um or like yeah you know that like if you were playing this harpsichord part and you're landing on this big A, like why would you not put the third on the bottom? I don't really hear bottom. Like I kind of do. I'm not hearing every individual note, but I'm hearing like this that sounds more right than this. You know? So there's a little bit like I'm sure my transcriptions are not 100% accurate. Um Oh yeah, okay, let's hear it. And do do do. It's super helpful to know how many instruments there are, you know, or how many voices there are. Like I love transcribing Super Nintendo music cuz you know there's maximum eight voices. So you can count and go, "Okay, that's definitely not in there cuz that would be a ninth voice. " Um Ooh, what is a skill that I want to get better at regarding ear training? Um There are methods to identify pitch by feeling the vibrations in your nose. That would be fun. I see — I smell a flat 13. — [snorts and gasps] — Well, it really tickles me. I'm like a bloodhound. No, no, no. Is that Try doing it in there. Boo. Boo. Um Uh Sorry. That's a really funny bit to me. Um Yeah, I mean I ear training, I would like to get faster. be able to transcribe like orchestral or, you know, like um I'm not familiar enough with a string section to be able to just tell like, "Oh, there's definitely you know, like if a whole string section orchestra is playing a unison note, they're all playing G. It sounds so rich and thick that I'm like, "Well, it can't just be a G. " You know, that's where my head is. And so then you start hearing like, "Was it like a fifth? " Or, you know, whatever, whatever. And then if you look at the score and you see like, "Oh, they're just playing a G. " It's like I would love to be more familiar with the with orchestral music and be able to tackle that stuff quicker. Um which is just a matter of practice, so it's not like a oh I wish one day I'd be able to do that. It's like I would you know, I'll work on it. But it. But um Yeah, definitely. Knowing the difference between oboe and English horn, that would be great. I'm very I'm like, you know, classical orchestration stuff is totally a second language to me where I don't really know what I'm talking about yet, but I'm getting better. I'm doing a little bit of score study, you know, lately. Um Yeah, like you know, cuz I know guitar. I can play guitar and so I know if you play like a chord on guitar, it's like okay, that's definitely the G chord like the cowboy G chord because of how it sounds. Like it sounds open and nice. Whereas if you'd never touched a guitar, you wouldn't know, you know? You'd be like, well, it's a G chord, but how is he voicing it? Whatever. It's like, oh, I play guitar, so I know he's definitely doing this. He's definitely putting his fingers there. Okay, let's listen to this and then I hate that bass drum sound, but —

— I like that D over E. — Sounds right to me. Sounds pretty good. Besides the bass drum. Yeah, I'm satisfied with that. Nice. All right. Mission accomplished. Uh, is transcribing homophony easier than polyphony? Uh, no. Polyphony's easier. Because the point of polyphony is to make every voice sound independent. So, it's way easier to pick them all out. Um, I would not feel comfortable composing in MIDI at all. Um, I really work with sheet music. Um, What scores have I been studying in terms of classical orchestration? Uh, yeah, I I'm a huge Tchaikovsky fan. I'm like Tchaikovsky number one fan. He's the best ever do it. Um, so I've done a lot of like I made a big reduction of his Romeo and Juliet. Um, that took a long time. That was a lot of my study. I've been um, I looked a little bit at Debussy um, um, prelude to the afternoon of a faun, whatever it translates to. I'm not going to try and pronounce the French. Um, he's like over my head though. I'm like, okay, I need to he's operating on a higher level than I can check out right now. The uh, Tchaikovsky I feel like I don't know. Just every decision he makes is like, of course the yeah, of course. That was absolutely the right one. So, I'm a I like romantic music. I don't like like that's my favorite kind of classical music is romantic period. Um, Saint-Saëns uh, Saint-Saëns Saint-Saëns I like. Uh, I just discovered Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony. Um, which was like blew me away. So cool, the way the organ coming in. And like orchestra with a big fat bass underneath, like big fat organ bass pads underneath. It's like, holy moly. I've never heard anything that sounds like that before. Um, I should check out Rimsky-Korsakov. I have his book. I like his book on orchestration. Uh, so I should definitely check out his stuff more. Uh, I've gotten better at MIDI by doing Clone Hero charts. That's cool. I used to love like Guitar Hero and Rock Band a lot. I had checked out when I was a teenager. I was like, how would you get a job making Rock Band charts? Cuz I feel like I'd really get at that. And then, you know, by the time I was done or whatever, in university, Guitar Hero had totally died. Um, Uh, let's see. Okay, hold on. I'm loving the questions. I'm loving the questions, you guys. It is also really helpful. Okay, I've I'm It's going too fast though. I'm missing the I'm missing stuff. I tab songs for guitar and learn by ear for my band. It definitely comes innately after a while to just kind of know how someone's voicing a chord. Yeah, oh yeah, totally totally. Um, completely agree. Uh, yes, looking up live versions and going, "Oh, he's up there. " Okay, yes. Absolutely, completely agree. Um, I've definitely done that with uh, you know, look up a live version, even like a big band chart or something. You look up like, are the trombones playing or are all the trombones down on their knees? Okay, they're not playing. Okay, perfect. Um, do I have any advice on how to study a key? Ooh, ah, see, yeah, bass and guitar are funny because the fretboard doesn't give you any way to distinguish between different keys cuz everything looks the same. Um, yeah, I don't know. How do you study a key? Processes? So, here is something I can give you. This is an exercise that I was given in my jazz school improv class. If you want to study a mode and get really familiar with it, so let's we'll say A flat Dorian. Obviously, you need to know the scale. I'll put it in bass clef since you're a bass player. And we're going to use C flats, too. We're really going to get into it. But an F natural. So, this is an A flat Dorian scale. And then you do it in thirds. So, you do whatever. Like that. And then you go backwards down in thirds. Uh So, wait. Up in thirds sounds like this.

And the down in thirds. Whatever, you know. And then you do the scale in fourths. Boom. Uh Like that. That's right. And you're thinking on the beat. You're thinking of moving up the scale, but after every note you're putting adding in the note a third above or a fourth above or a fifth above or a sixth above, you know. And then on bass and guitar, like on piano, you just do that and figure out how you would finger that. And bass guitar, I feel like you kind of have to try it, like you know, like if you're doing thirds um or maybe not thirds, but like fifths or sixths when you get into big intervals, then you can do them a couple different ways, too. Like finger ways. So, figuring out how to do that how that would fit under your fingers can help just like get the scale under your fingers. And then you're not thinking so much about the scale as like a pattern of notes that go from one to the next as it is like a pool of notes that you operate in, you know? Um so easy to use patterns as a crutch and not think about what note you're Yeah, absolutely. And that's like kind of fine. Like you don't really want to be thinking about what note you're playing when you're playing, right? Or do you? Like it should be I don't know. See, I'm not like a pro, you know, bass player or anything. I play drums. So it's like all of my theory brain stuff that I use, I can take my time with. But I think if you're play if you're like performing you don't really want to be thinking about the note. You kind of want to be cutting right from like the sound to your finger. But that requires enough practice that the distance between the sound in your mind and it coming out of your fingers is zero, you know? Um Yeah, think about what degree the note is I think would make more sense. Um Yeah. Okay. So, I Well, what's the next How easy is the next one? Can we do one more or no? The next one is the potion shop. No, I'm not doing this today. — I've been going for over an hour. I'm not going to try and figure out sitar. Talk about uh you know transcribing instruments you're not familiar with. Like I have no idea how to notate this. I got to take a minute to figure it out. Uh okay. Well, then that's I think we're going to call it for today. Uh where's my button? Okay. Ooh, wait. Regarding French video game music, did you listen to the Claire Obscure Expedition 33 soundtrack? I did. I even made a video about it. You should check it out. Um Yeah, I really like that game. Uh and the music is great, obviously. And it's cool that a modern I mean, it's not AAA, I guess, technically. But, it feels AAA, you know, a modern big game uh has a soundtrack that's so melodic and thematic and so about, you know, the song of these pieces. It's so nice and such a relief after, you know, 20 years of game music that is cinematic with a capital C. Um Okay. Well, I am going to go eat lunch. So, thank you guys so much for coming. This is a lot of fun. And uh Windfall Island is great. Thank you for accommodating my schedule. I will see you back here on Wednesday next week, I believe. I'm going to bank that promise without checking my schedule, and then next week we'll see. Uh yeah. Have a good day. Have a good Thursday and good weekend. God bless.