"Remembrance" | Arranged For Solo Piano :)

The melody sounds fascinating, melancholy, and mysterious. In some areas, it almost sounds similar to Yanni, especially around bar 51. 

Very nice! One thing you could do is raise the velocity in the RH slightly to make the melody shine a bit more, but as always, beautifully done. 🙂

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99,

I agree with @Thatguy v2.0 for the right hand volume, it can be louder. Having listened to the orchestrated version, I love this version as well. Usually I don't like any piano transcription of orchestral pieces but this one is a piano piece in its own right. For me I think you can change the left accompaniment a bit as well for a 7 minute piece, but this one is nitpicky. Thx for your arrangement!

Henry

9 hours ago, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Very nice! One thing you could do is raise the velocity in the RH slightly to make the melody shine a bit more, but as always, beautifully done. 🙂

 

You know, Peter mentioned that, and that is something I did in this update 😅 as it sits, listening to the playback, Personally I don’t see how much louder the right hand could be without it overpowering the left 
 

since I’m using musescore with VSTs, there isn’t any settings for velocity on each note like there would be if I were using SF3 or SF2 sound fonts. So what I did was copy/paste the piano part on a new grand staff, selected all left hand notes removed “pedal lines” from the selection filter, silenced them by unchecking “Play” in properties. Then I isolated Piano 1 and piano 2 to their own part tab, and adjusted the timbre / Reverb / Tightness in the Spitfire LABS windows, and added MuseFX EQ To the master track in muse mixer. 

Edited April 5, 2025Apr 5 by UncleRed99

2 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99,

I agree with @Thatguy v2.0 for the right hand volume, it can be louder. Having listened to the orchestrated version, I love this version as well. Usually I don't like any piano transcription of orchestral pieces but this one is a piano piece in its own right. For me I think you can change the left accompaniment a bit as well for a 7 minute piece, but this one is nitpicky. Thx for your arrangement!

Henry

 

Okay now two people are saying it so I must be crazy 😂😂😂 

also I’m glad that I was able to create something that worked both with a strings orchestra accompaniment and without that you were able to enjoy 🙂 

9 hours ago, UncleRed99 said:

since I’m using musescore with VSTs, there isn’t any settings for velocity on each note like there would be if I were using SF3 or SF2 sound fonts. So what I did was copy/paste the piano part on a new grand staff, selected all left hand notes removed “pedal lines” from the selection filter, silenced them by unchecking “Play” in properties. Then I isolated Piano 1 and piano 2 to their own part tab, and adjusted the timbre / Reverb / Tightness in the Spitfire LABS windows, and added MuseFX EQ To the master track in muse mixer. 

Oh I didn't realize you were using notation software for all of this. I use Sibelius, and am unfamiliar with musescore, but can you use dynamic markers for different staves? A performer would know to bring out the RH, but in Sibelius you can write mf for the treble and p for the LH for example. Maybe something like that could work? You might have to make adjustments during the piece if that's the case, but what the score looks like for computer performance versus what it would like for a pianist might be different. 

On 4/5/2025 at 4:22 PM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Oh I didn't realize you were using notation software for all of this. I use Sibelius, and am unfamiliar with musescore, but can you use dynamic markers for different staves? A performer would know to bring out the RH, but in Sibelius you can write mf for the treble and p for the LH for example. Maybe something like that could work? You might have to make adjustments during the piece if that's the case, but what the score looks like for computer performance versus what it would like for a pianist might be different. 

 

Yes, I could tell musescore to only apply dynamics to the staff they're attached to, however, this would mean going back through the whole piece to add dynamics to both staves of the piano xD 

But yes, I use only Musescore to write music. Not so familiar with anything else, and the Muse Sound Engine is quite complex as it is. I believe it serves its purpose very well 🙂 Especially since I included the use of Spitfire LABS VST3 sounds on top of muse. 

I've also heard a lot about sibelius. How is that program? I understand it's a paid software. Muse provides their notation program for free, with a very solid team of devs on Github who are actively listening daily to the users. My old band director and I still talk time to time. He swears by Sibelius. lol Just wondering if it might be worth it to switch but I'm currently enjoying Musescore well enough... Only caveat I've noticed is larger orchestra scores tend to freeze quite frequently when making edits. How does Sib. respond to that? 

Eh I would stick with musescore, it's pretty much the same but I'm just used to Sibelius. The experienced users of musescore seem to be able to create great mockups and scores, I wouldn't pay for something else. I do like the offline composing option, but other than that it's nothing different

10 hours ago, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Eh I would stick with musescore, it's pretty much the same but I'm just used to Sibelius. The experienced users of musescore seem to be able to create great mockups and scores, I wouldn't pay for something else. I do like the offline composing option, but other than that it's nothing different

 

MuseScore doesn't need internet either! Unless you're using a third party sound library like I do. I pay for LABS sounds. They have an offline mode that works for 30 days at the time though, so can still go offline and use it on the go 🙂