![]() ![]() Thankfully I've had great training in music dictation as a kid, and having perfect pitch is also a huge help for this. ![]() The first step was to write down the actual elements of the score. I based the arrangement on this version of Hans Zimmer's theme for the Superman movie, "Man Of Steel" (2013): With the better written parts, I've seen many techniques for capturing the orchestral sound on a limited piano palette - some work, some don't, but it's always a fun challenge to make your instrument sound like more than it really is. Some of the parts are well written, but many of them are pretty sparse and I'll often improvise to "fill in" the music to make it sound more orchestral. "accompanist"), I'm regularly called to play orchestra parts that have been reduced for piano to accompany solo instrumentalists. In my work as a professional collaborative pianist (aka. ![]() I came across a number of amateur pianists who made their own arrangements of various movie soundtracks, and while many were quite good, I couldn't help thinking: "Wait a minute! I do this for a living! Why don't I try coming up with my own soundtrack transcriptions?" The idea to make this arrangement came from a bit of random YouTube surfing. ![]()
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