Steben
08-23-2007, 06:15 AM
This is something I'm whipping up for the Auburn University trombone section. At every home football game we have a chance to, we hold a "trombone show" in the school amphitheater. Basically, it's just a chance for us to warm up and play a few school tunes before our real performances in the football stadium.
However, this year we're actually gonna have a few original tunes to play for the show. And, while no one in my section knows about it yet, I've got an arrangement of my own that I'm working on. Yeah, it's the Super Mario theme we know and love.
http://www.auburn.edu/~clontsc/smb.mp3 <- this is an MP3 recording of the Finale score.
The first 40 seconds or so is a nearly exact transcript of the Mario theme (transposed to b-flat), with repeated parts taken out, and the baseline brought up an octave so it's, y'know, playable on trombone. That's really just there to get drunk people's attention. The fun begins at 0:40, where I've actually written some original stuff.
FYI, at 1:14, a first trombone plays the first measure alone, to which a second trombone replies with the second measure, and then the whole section comes back in on the third measure.
The stuff from 1:20 on is just filler for the moment. That's the basic melody I want to cover at the end of the piece, but I'll do something more interesting with it later.
What do you guys think? I hope to get an actual recording of this. It should be easier to swing than, say, my Katamari on the Rocks arrangement, since I only need my own section to perform it. This could even be done by a trombone quintet. Also, it's a lot more recognizable than Katamari Damacy, so I can get some support to get it recorded a lot easier, I hope.
I'll probably post the score and parts to this piece once it's finished on my website.
However, this year we're actually gonna have a few original tunes to play for the show. And, while no one in my section knows about it yet, I've got an arrangement of my own that I'm working on. Yeah, it's the Super Mario theme we know and love.
http://www.auburn.edu/~clontsc/smb.mp3 <- this is an MP3 recording of the Finale score.
The first 40 seconds or so is a nearly exact transcript of the Mario theme (transposed to b-flat), with repeated parts taken out, and the baseline brought up an octave so it's, y'know, playable on trombone. That's really just there to get drunk people's attention. The fun begins at 0:40, where I've actually written some original stuff.
FYI, at 1:14, a first trombone plays the first measure alone, to which a second trombone replies with the second measure, and then the whole section comes back in on the third measure.
The stuff from 1:20 on is just filler for the moment. That's the basic melody I want to cover at the end of the piece, but I'll do something more interesting with it later.
What do you guys think? I hope to get an actual recording of this. It should be easier to swing than, say, my Katamari on the Rocks arrangement, since I only need my own section to perform it. This could even be done by a trombone quintet. Also, it's a lot more recognizable than Katamari Damacy, so I can get some support to get it recorded a lot easier, I hope.
I'll probably post the score and parts to this piece once it's finished on my website.