This Fairy Fountain Theme will be the death of me

[spitllama]

So should a harp strum be a glissando, individual notes, or a rolled chord?

EDIT: This song has been completed. Check mine or fingerz' submissions thread

[Bespinben]

If you want to be REALLY precise with the transcription, you could write out the EXACT timing of the notes in the rolled chord in a hidden staff and mute the staff with the proper notation for that moment, but that's a lot of work.

[spitllama]

Ok I definitely don't know how to do any of that... but at the same time I want the playback to sound accurate. The biggest issue right now is after figuring out the notes for each strum and putting them into a rolled chord, the last note doesn't hold for the full value like in the original. It turns into 1-2-3-4-5-6-1-2-3-4-5-6 where each number represents a note of the rolled chord, instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6........ 1-2-3-4-5-6..... etc (where 6 is held). I think that's what you meant by getting the exact timing for each note right?

They only strum for the beginning. What is this hidden staff nonsense thing?

[Bespinben]

You probably can't do it if you don't have full Finale. Think of it as a third piano that doesn't show up in the score but still plays back, which can be useful, for example, for writing out trills in a specific way.

[spitllama]

I have full Finale 2011

[Bespinben]

Why don't you put this in a shared folder so I can work on it too maybe? Pwease :3

If you do that, then maybe I could show you step by step what I'm talking about.

[Bespinben]

Actually, instead doing all that funky stuff, you could just put a rolled chord articulation on the note and change the tempo momentarily for that note so that way human playback strums it slowly.

[spitllama]

Would that still lengthen the duration of the last note of the rolled chord?

[Bespinben]

What I described above would lengthen the time between each individual note in the rolled chord. The duration of the last note of the chord is determined by what note you put (quarter, half, whole)

[spitllama]

Ah you have been most helpful dear Bespinben. So tell me, how does one change the tempo momentarily?

[Bespinben]

You would create a custom expression with the expression tool and define it to whatever tempo you wanted. Just make sure you hide the expression when you're done, because nobody wants to see a bunch of 110s, 70s, and 92s all over the place. Also make sure to NOT create the expression under tempo marks, because for some reason, if you do that, the expression is only applicable to the beginning of a measure and not in the middle of the measure like you want.

If you look at my most recent arrangement of the "Title Screen" from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 1, I have several invisible tempo markings to control the ritards in a manner more akin to the OST.

[spitllama]

Got it. Thank you very much.

[spitllama]

Ok, so despite help from Maestro, I am still too dumb to figure out some of these glissando strums. I think this is the hardest thing I have ever had to do and I am getting really pissed off lol.

Would anyone like to take a look? I would REALLY appreciate it.

[Bespinben]

I would LOVE to take a look. Please, let me see.

[spitllama]

Great I'll PM you