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So in one of my courses, the final project is arranging a piece/song for an ensemble which consists of a guitar, a bass, a piano and drums.
While it can be a pain, at the end, part of the test is that a real ensemble is actually playing what I wrote (which I plan to record).

At the start I thought that maybe I should do something that no one would do or even think of doing, and that is arranging one of Bach's piece for this ensemble, but it could be very boring (also Bach basically wrote chords which would make it just like arranging something else in nowdays).

Then I thought that maybe I can arrange one of the OPs of Conan. It would also be much more satisfying (I guess) to arrange a song I like (nothing against Bach, but when will I ever get to express my j-rock love?)
Here comes the conflict though....there are so many I don't know what to choose.

So the general idea of this is giving one instrument (either the piano or guitar) the melody (and I can also switch between the two.) and the others would play the harmony (the piano though can play chords and melody at the same time, as most know), and let the bass play the....bass, and the drums....well....
I also don't have to make just like the way it is. I can rewrite the harmony if I want and some other stuff like changing the style of the song (for example, making it jazz-like)
I don't have full trust though in the guitarists from my college (what can I do that most of them don't read sheets so good?)

I already have the sheets for Kimi Ga Ireba, Shoudo and I can't stop my love for you. But in these cases (especially in Shoudo, if I want it to sound close to the original), all I need to do is to write the melody for the piano and that's basically it. So it can be a bit boring.
I thought maybe to try Magic (since it would be easy to get the harmony/melody out by hearing), but also I'm not sure.

So does someone has any other suggestions/ideas? (if someone also knows the chords of some of the OPs it would help)

just do the winner of the OP contest (which is aiming to be Ai Wa) imo.

Are you working with an electric or an acoustic guitar?

Akonyl wrote: just do the winner of the OP contest

lol this can be a good idea. If it doesn't end soon though, it will be problematic since I need to finish by June.

c-square wrote: Are you working with an electric or an acoustic guitar?

electric.

Forget the conan ops. Do Nanatsu no Ko. It would arrange well I think. There's already sheet music in a topic about it on the forum somewhere.

Chekhov MacGuffin wrote: Forget the conan ops. Do Nanatsu no Ko. It would arrange well I think.

Might be fun, but I will have to be careful with the drums and bass because they might ruin it. Also, I might need to ask for an acoustic guitar for this one.

Chekhov MacGuffin wrote: There's already sheet music in a topic about it on the forum somewhere.

http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?t=174.0

Remember this?  ;D
Apparently there was another rule in the task that the song must be built in a A-A-B-A form, so this pretty much meant a big NO for almost every freaking OP. I could have always tried to arrange a certain OP to fit the A-A-B-A form, but I wouldn't have been satisfied with the result (also, I don't think it could be done without ruining the song).
Then I remembered this one OP from the past which fits the form - Moonlight Densetsu (first Sailor Moon OP). So, considering Sailor Moon is one of my favorite anime, I chose this one.
To be honnest, I felt like I was being lazy, because I tried to not changed too much from the original, but seeing as how the other students' arrangements turned out, mine was the best (also I was the only one who wrote in the sheets in the computer. The others wrote with their terrible hand writing, and even I, a person who read notes for more than half of his life, had trouble to read them.
So anyway, here is the result: [in the later post]
Yes, I know. Terrible quality. Even though we sat in a room next to a freaking recording studio, the teacher still preferred to just record it on someone's phone..........AND he only wanted it on ONE take..............AND he kept forgetting that this is a recording, so he "joined in" with his voice to fix the 'along-the-way-mistakes'.
The pianist for some reason saw it fit to interpret the melody on occasions. I couldn't care much for it, if it wasn't for the fact that he supposed to be playing the melody alongside the guitar player, but oh well.

At the end, well, it was my first arrangement, so I think it was pretty well.  8)

I do remember now. Also, the file is temporaly deactivated. I'll check again in some minutes.

Maybe I've done something wrong. Just a moment.

New link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VYVYQLI9

EDIT: oh wait. It's the same link, only now it's working.

EDIT 2: or maybe not.......what am I doing wrong here?

edit 3: this link seems to work now.

You just need to wait.

I thought this is about marriage arrangement.

The file is "temporarily unavailable"? What does that mean?

Does megaupload hate me for some reason?

I could download it yesterday