The Dazzlings - Let's Have a Battle (of the Bands) sheet music transcription

♪ Are you afraid of failing the audition? ♪
Since becoming a colorful horse-watcher, I've largely kept up with its complementary canon and fan-made media firehose. When I first heard of the second official movie, Rainbow Rocks, I honestly wasn't thrilled of the news given my impression from the previous showing. That was until Hasbro released their first in-movie trailer for it [1], which immediately about-faced my faltering interest, maybe not for the story as a whole, but for the villains in the then-upcoming story.
Apparently I'm quite susceptible to a siren's song, or as I've realized, ballads in minor scale containing a female voice and key changes [2]. The pull must be strong, considering I just finished [3] a few months prior and was already excited to begin this. So after I finally pinned down the parts to transcribe, I woke up ol' Sibelius just after the Harvest Moon in September and began planting noteheads. This time, however, I had zero references as to what any of the notes were; no sheet music, not even a fan-made cover. Rather, I didn't look, I wanted the challenge of doing the whole thing without assistance. Thus, other than the lyrics, everything on the staves came purely from the space between my ears. Still kinda giddy that I pulled out a five-voice harmony from an iPod, a laptop, and 3+ year old gaming rig.
Everything notated here is what I heard on the album/MV version of the song (the movie one sounded different, and not as attractive). Since I still resist having to pore through the infinite library of electronica for the right timbre, I decided to replace the keyboard with the closest analogue I knew, a violin. The process hasn't changed for making these though: high quality source file, hi-fi sound system, center-cancel, equalizer tweaks, lots of patience, and maintaining that feeling of forward progress. The nice thing about this type of project is that I can work on it anywhere without pulling out drawing tablets or lightboxes or any other obnoxiously specialized tools [4].
So the process for making the music came to me straight away. The process of making a video of it, not so much. I had to tap into my IT troubleshooting skills over the final few days working out how to get a desktop screenshot video to play nice with Adobe Premiere, or even Windows Movie Maker. Must be a Windows 8 thing, I didn't have this problem before. I eventually found the solution to be thus:
1) Use CamStudio v2.0 (not the latest v2.7.2) to capture the video
a) as an .AVI
b) with the default codec
c) at 30 fps (not 200 fps as is default)
2) Use Windows Movie Maker to re-render the .AVI
a) into .WMV
b) custom set to the same resolution as original
c) at 24190 kbps
d) with no audio
3) Load the resulting .WMV into Adobe Premiere
a) sync audio
b) render via H.264 into .MP4
c) profit
I'm not terribly pleased with the really generic opening title screen. In fact it looks rather amateur, maybe I should've just stuck with a simple fade in-out like Windows Movie Maker does. I'm open to suggestions on this one. And if you know how to get Premiere to do rotations and multiply timing by less than whole percentage points, please let me know.
Anyway, that's the scoop behind the music. Hope you enjoy!
Dear Sunset Shimmer:
Complete Music Sheet - [www.mediafire.com/?p39m06745c...]
Instrumental - [www.mediafire.com/?igb1zo4eqo...]
MIDI - [www.mediafire.com/?vgp4tv2nrg...]
[1] MLP EG Rainbow Rocks Sneak Peek #1 [ • Equestria Girls - Rain... ]
[2] My other current favorite songs include:
허각; 정은지 - 헤어질걸 알기에 [ • HUH GAK FT EUNJI [A PI... ] and
大塚 愛 - Planetarium [ • Video ]
There are plans for these.
[3] MLP:FiM - You, You At Least (그대는 그대만은) [ • MLP:FiM - You, You At ... ]
[4] [www.mediafire.com/view/df80f4d...] Yes that was me doing laundry in the midst of transcription.
A: Not necessarily, I feel like I half-assed the guitar and tom-tom parts and still did a decent job.
// Preemptive Legal Defense // (you know, just in case)
The original song is copyrighted by Hasbro. Under US Copyright Law, I publish this work with an argument for Fair Use due to the following:
This work is an advancement of the arts by creating what does not yet exist (a full song transcription), and transforming the original work by creating a new, educationally-valuable insight (the hopefully accurate musical notation of the original song);
This work is non-commercial in nature and is not designed for any financial profit;
There exist no free alternative to the original work to reference from;
Possible copyright infringements by other artistic recreations of the original work have generally not been pursued; and
This work is not expected to adversely affect the potential market for the original work

[@majo-chan350]

Adagio:Mezzo Soprano Aria:Alto Sonata: Soprano Correct?

[@kaizermalubayold1068]

No sonata and aria have the opposite tone when they are singing so yeah

[@23xrunner]

You are officially my hero for doing this. When I watched this movie for the first time, I got chills listening to this song, especially the chorus. I wanted to know what was happening there as it was a melody I've never heard before. Again, thank you for this!

[@Glamikuns]

Thank you for making this exist

[@laartje24]

Thank you for writing it out. It was very helpful.

[@RareRootie]

Thank you so much for this you are a big help! However I am a lil confused so in the beginning the one who sings low after adagio sings -ahh-ahh- i thought it was sonata who would come after saying -ohh-ohh- lower. Basically what i'm asking is who is singing the high notes and who is singing the low?

[@rezer249]

The music like they are the boss

[@cameoshadowness7757]

This is really nice.. is it possible for you to make more songs like this?

[@eduardoroblesmagana9572]

Parece cristiano

[@user-is9iv6tb9i]

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