2012-09-04, 11:06 AM
As an outside voice with some classical training(probably not as much as you guys and not on piano, but I regress), Andross was right on some points, and Retalion was right on some others. Like Andross said, the simplified version of the piece shown was completely unnecessary. It gets rid of polyphony in the left hand, but there's polyphony in the right hand too. If somebody has the ability to play the right hand, adding the left hand would be trivial for both versions. The "stratosphere" parts are not a problem at all. If the melody goes to C6, the part better go to C6. Also, I disagree about them being in the stratosphere in the first place, F5 isn't all that high and the Henesys theme tends to hang around there.
Retalion is right in that you can't just drop things an octave or two without completely changing the way it sounds. There's a reason why tubas always play the roots and 5ths of chords. Anything else just sounds bad when it's played that low. There is also a big difference in sound between two similar keys. C major sounds considerably different from both Db major and G major.
For both of you, the word you were looking for is arranging, not transcribing.
Retalion is right in that you can't just drop things an octave or two without completely changing the way it sounds. There's a reason why tubas always play the roots and 5ths of chords. Anything else just sounds bad when it's played that low. There is also a big difference in sound between two similar keys. C major sounds considerably different from both Db major and G major.
For both of you, the word you were looking for is arranging, not transcribing.