Bsbloom Customs – Update: 9/26/20 Soul Sacrifice
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Good practice and RBN rules dictate that pro notes should be different from preceding and following non pro notes, even if it means fudging the sound.
Done. Experts have spoken, and both said change the yellow toms to something like blue toms.
New version is up and in the data base.
Great! Now its good! Except one thing … you forget to change old blue notes from v1 to something else
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” />Those moments are:
00:3201:2501:4301:49 – 01:5101:5902:09Got them from Phase Shift practice mode, might be a bit desynced for ReaperRB.Again, I’ll wait and let the experts chime in, but, something has to give. The drummer uses all three RB cymbals, there are occasional crash cymbals (G), occasional ride cymbals (
, and lots of high-hats (Y). I have to use some color for the toms. One argument for using a low tom (G) is that the drummer occasionally hits the ride cymbal in the exact spot where he hits a tom in other similar measures. So, maybe …
I’ll ask around.
I checked with AJFOne, and he says to leave it as a blue tom. So be it.
He also made a few small corrections to the drums, and I added those to the chart.
This month features only one artist – the amazing Ennio Morricone. Morricone is a classical composer, who has written hundreds of songs, and hundreds of film scores. The man is 87 years old, and still writing music. He recently penned the score for Tarantino’s Hateful Eight.
I’ve chosen eight songs from six of his film scores. First, some background: Morricone had been writing songs for a decade or so, and had done a few forgettable film scores. In 1962, a singer, Peter Tevis, decided to do a cover of an old Woody Guthrie song, about workers in the dust bowl era, called Pastures of Plenty. He hired the young Ennio to rework the music, and Morricone added strange sounds and instruments, like gunshots, whistles, whip-cracking noises, and a new electric guitar sound to accompany the acoustic guitar work. He also used a choir singing “With the wind” as background.
Soon after that, a film director, Sergio Leone, asked Morricone to write the score for a western, a so-called Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars, that he was planning. He loved the Tevis sound, and Morricone took the backing track for that song as his new film theme, possibly changing the choir chant from “With the wind” to “We can fight.” (Sources argue a lot about this – some insist that the words are still “with the wind”, others claim that there were two soundtrack albums released, one featuring “with the wind” the other singing “we can fight.” Still others claim that all the lyrics on all of these songs are just gibberish. I had to make a choice charting these, and went with “We can fight.”)
The film starred a young, relatively unknown actor, Clint Eastwood, playing a cowboy drifter known today as The Man with no Name. Still, the early script called this character Manco, and one of the possibly gibberish sections sounds to me like, “Go, go, Manco.” That’s how I charted the lyrics.
Usually film composers take the nearly completed movie and write music to fit the scenes. Here, though, much of the music was written before filming began. That is really weird, and Leone actually timed some of his scenes to fit the music.
The film was released in the US in 1967, and was a huge financial success, but didn’t go over so well with the critics. One London film critic wrote, “A Fistful of Dollars looks awful, has a flat dead soundtrack, and is totally devoid of human feeling.”
That flat dead soundtrack sold like crazy, and with its success, entrepreneurs and copy-cats jumped in, trying to make a few bucks. The film studio released two alternate soundtracks with singers (and dreadful lyrics), one by Peter Tevis, the other by Little Anthony and the Imperials. Henry Mancini did a cover of several Morricone songs in the album The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini (1968). That same year, Hugo Montenegro also released similar covers, in an album called Music from A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. These covers, though poor and relatively lifeless compared to the originals, took off. Even today, you are more likely to hear one of these cover tunes, and not the original music.
When I searched for MIDIs for these songs, I could only find Montenegro’s version of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I finally found a decent MIDI of the original at MIDI-Hits, but even that was wrongly attributed to Henry Mancini! Three years ago, C3 released a custom for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and I downloaded it as soon as I found this site. Sadly, it was the Hugo Montenegro version.
My song choices span these movies:
A Fistful of Dollars, 1964, directed by Sergio Leone.
For a Few Dollars More, 1965, Sergio Leone.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 1966. Sergio Leone.
Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968. Sergio Leone.
The Sicilian Clan, 1969. Henry Verneuil.
Maddalena, 1971. Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
From A Fistful:
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZjvbSC9_M
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/a-fistful-of-dollars-main-r11607
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjB8P-rZG-4
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/a-fistful-of-dollars-end-t-r11608
From A Few Dollars More:
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXQltR7vUQ
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/for-a-few-dollars-more-r11609
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJopL220kuE
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/the-vice-of-killing-r11610
From The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1PfrmCGFnk
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/the-good-the-bad-and-the-r11611
From Once Upon a Time in the West:
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrzukPzGqow
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/the-man-with-the-harmonica-r11612
From The Sicilian Clan:
Sorry about the “Expert Only”. Don’t know why that showed up – it has all difficulties.
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L848TFFHI5E
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/the-sicilian-clan-r11613
And lastly, from Maddalena,
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0
Download: http://pksage.com/ccc/IPS/index.php?/page/index.html/_/chi-mai-r11614
Two of these songs are real must-haves. Obviously, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – his most famous composition. But the best of the lot is certainly Chi Mai.
It appeared in a second movie, 1981’s The Professional. It was also used as a TV theme song for two British shows, An Englishman’s Castle, which debuted in 1978, and 1981’s The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. That TV exposure made this song very popular, and it actually climbed to #2 on the UK charts.
The song is truly beautiful, and features a haunting and stunning drum set – if you play drums, you really have to try this song. It is very easy, but so cool.
Whoa. Incredible set of themes to celebrate Morricone. Thanks so much for sharing. Can’t wait to play these.
How close did “Esctasy of Gold” come to making this set?
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif” />(I always thought Morricone’s theme to “The Untouchables” was the spiritual successor to “Man with Harmonica”)
A great choice for a pack, he is my favorite composer of all time and his compositions of haunting beautiful soundtracks is endless. Thank you.
Samjjones asked,
How close did “Esctasy of Gold” come to making this set?
Well … When I first tried customs, I made guitar-only stabs at the opening and closing from GBU, and from Man With the Harmonica. The finale was long, but included Ecstacy. These weren’t very good, and the works cry out for more than one instrument. But, I couldn’t find any decent source material for Ecstacy on this go-around.
I also downloaded the Metallica Ecstacy (which may still be in the legacy database). That was charted by Tlitd31, for guitar only. It didn’t even have overdrive, though I opened it and added that. That’s a good chart, and I’d love to see it finished. Need a better drum charter for that one, though. Any volunteers?
Great work
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Samjjones asked,
Well … When I first tried customs, I made guitar-only stabs at the opening and closing from GBU, and from Man With the Harmonica. The finale was long, but included Ecstacy. These weren’t very good, and the works cry out for more than one instrument. But, I couldn’t find any decent source material for Ecstacy on this go-around.
I also downloaded the Metallica Ecstacy (which may still be in the legacy database). That was charted by Tlitd31, for guitar only. It didn’t even have overdrive, though I opened it and added that. That’s a good chart, and I’d love to see it finished. Need a better drum charter for that one, though. Any volunteers?
And I was about to write it made me want to chart Ecstasy of gold. Don’t have much spare time now unfortunately but I could help, whether you decide to chart the original or the Metallica version (I don’t have it, but I guess that’s the one on the tribute to Morricone record, right ?)
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