Honestly, this is a brilliant arrangement. Very pianistic. I was going to arrange this piece as well, but I really don't think I can improve on this. Bravo. I might arrange it anyway, but knowing this arrangement is already out there as a nearly perfect transcription, I'll take quite a bit more artistic license with mine and take it in more of a Philip Keveren direction. Anyway, thanks for this ... I'll definitely be performing it, and I look forward to all of your Star Wars arrangements!
I've been working on this arrangement off-and-on for years. One of these days...I'm going to play it. When I started it, it was waaaaay beyond my skill level. Every year, I close the gap a bit more.
Thank you, leibniz154, for this excellent and highly pianistic transcription (and performance) of a movie classic, and for making it freely available for downloading by the general public. This is what the internet should be about, not anonymous trolling!
Lovely. Thank you. The allusion to Debussy's improvisations is something I heard, but I'm no scholar of music nor composition. But to my ear, your arrangement conformed to his description of his method to inspiration: “following the law of pleasure of the ear”.
Hey everyone! I actually filmed myself playing this arrangement. Here's the link to my performance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zY8XEWo6hI4.html If you want to give it a listen, it might provide you with a little more humanity than the computer piano featured here. I studied not only this arrangement, but also the original song to make some decisions on the emotion and dynamics of the piece. Huge thanks to leibniz154 for providing this wonderful arrangement at no cost! It truly gave me a lot of joy during these hard times.
Out of your Star Wars transcriptions this is definately the best one. It is closest to the original and is not so strongly simplified as some of the other pieces you did. However in the first transition in bar 17 the second set of triplets in the left hand should change to g-sharp, g and f because you need the leading tone for the next bar to be as prominent as possible. Just listen to the bar in the orignal version once more over here and you'll notice that your transcription is missing the important harmonic shift. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UDZa6SdnAgo.htmlm23s Also in the following statement of the theme the accompaniment could use a bit more closenes to the orignal harmonies. You don't need to mimic the tremolo of the strings but it would really improve to another level if you just followed the string lines more closely.
Wow this shit is heavy. Heard a modified voice cover that was amazing and thought this would be "easily" translated into that guitar fingerpicking version i wast able to find. That is soooooo not gonna happen :D The chromatics!
Hey Leibniz154, I've just found your channel and I really appreciate the work you put in these arrangements. Is there any chance that I could buy some of them? I've tried to contact you privately but I can't find the option in RU-vid app. Let me know and feel free to reply through my account.
