This week we have to focus on brass instruments. It was a little tricky and I feel as though I haven't quite got it right. I attempted to re-create the Clash of God's Theme from Dragonball Super.
Obviously this has a a full orchestra, which is why I may have struggled to get it to sound right. I also noted that I forgot that at 0:47 there is another melody line with a brass section, however I am planning to re-create the whole song as part of my final portfolio, so I can add this later. It may have collided with the normal melody line so I didn't go back and do it again. Once I change the main melody line to strings I can add this other melody for the brass. There are some interesting violin, wind and trumpet parts that would be excellent to do for the final hand in. As mentioned in the Garritan tutorial, he starts of with saying that because of how the valves were invented, they had to stick to certain notes. I emulated this in the bass section of the brass.
Bass section 1
Bass section 2
He also notes that the brass sections don't usually play chromatic scales, so I may have to go back and change some of it.
I also ran into a MIDI problem, where one of the trumpets would just keep playing even though the MIDI had no instructions to keep playing. I suspect it has to do with the library that I installed as it came across an error during installation but then claimed it installed fine.
Anyway, here is the final result.
