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Help! / Return to Nifl sheet help
« on: June 03, 2019, 10:08:49 PM »
Hey guys,
I've had a decent amount of trouble with Return to Nifl. As usual, I apologize if posting this here violates some rule I'm not aware of—I usually hang around the discord, so I'm not very familiar with the forums.
Here's what I got so far (mscz and xml).
First: chord voicing vs. relative strength of the notes in the chord. The opening chord in the RH is F#m7, with an A on top (so second inversion)— but the F# is a lot stronger than the A, so it SOUNDS more correct to write it in first inversion. So which should I prioritize: technical accuracy, or sound accuracy?
Second: the LH is getting overwhelmed in the phrase starting in m5. How do I get it to sound above the RH? Octaves would work in theory, but they'd be kinda boring, and kinda annoying to play... Similar thing for m33-40; I'd much prefer not to resort to octaves (though here they're present in the OST), but I'm not sure how else to enrich the melody over its previous repetition.
Third: how do I maintain the momentum once the opening 16-measure figure ends? m17-24 lose the energy built up in the opening as written, without the aid of the percussion track. It'll sound even more slow if I drop some of the voices to make it playable.
And I guess it'd help a lot to check my notes (and notation, like the direction of the staves in m37—whether I need to keep them all pointing down or not to indicate that those 16ths are part of the cello phrase). In particular, the chords from m1-16, which I've listened to countless times and still am not entirely sure if they're correct, the LH phrase from m9 to m16 (are there more notes in beats 2 and 4?), and the LH figure starting in m25. (In measure 26, I actually hear A# on b1 and b3, but that makes no sense...)
Hopefully this wasn't too long. Thanks for the help!!!
I've had a decent amount of trouble with Return to Nifl. As usual, I apologize if posting this here violates some rule I'm not aware of—I usually hang around the discord, so I'm not very familiar with the forums.
Here's what I got so far (mscz and xml).
First: chord voicing vs. relative strength of the notes in the chord. The opening chord in the RH is F#m7, with an A on top (so second inversion)— but the F# is a lot stronger than the A, so it SOUNDS more correct to write it in first inversion. So which should I prioritize: technical accuracy, or sound accuracy?
Second: the LH is getting overwhelmed in the phrase starting in m5. How do I get it to sound above the RH? Octaves would work in theory, but they'd be kinda boring, and kinda annoying to play... Similar thing for m33-40; I'd much prefer not to resort to octaves (though here they're present in the OST), but I'm not sure how else to enrich the melody over its previous repetition.
Third: how do I maintain the momentum once the opening 16-measure figure ends? m17-24 lose the energy built up in the opening as written, without the aid of the percussion track. It'll sound even more slow if I drop some of the voices to make it playable.
And I guess it'd help a lot to check my notes (and notation, like the direction of the staves in m37—whether I need to keep them all pointing down or not to indicate that those 16ths are part of the cello phrase). In particular, the chords from m1-16, which I've listened to countless times and still am not entirely sure if they're correct, the LH phrase from m9 to m16 (are there more notes in beats 2 and 4?), and the LH figure starting in m25. (In measure 26, I actually hear A# on b1 and b3, but that makes no sense...)
Hopefully this wasn't too long. Thanks for the help!!!