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I've been working on refining Surpassing Everything and I found this transition quite interesting.

My goal for this last section was to utilize almost all instruments in an orchestra:
string section: violins, violas, violoncellos, contra basses
ww section: concert flutes, clarinets, bassoons
brass section: trumpets, trombones, french horns
percussion: snare, cymbal, tambourine, timpani, tubular bells

I tried to place every instrument by itself with care according to what I know about them so far. Then I made the corrections to integrate it with the rest. At a certain point this turned out to be pretty tough because things got all messy as the video pretty much points out. Also, you have to be creative with the chords or otherwise you'll end up adding only fifths and octaves.

At this current stage, the original arrangement is already pretty different instrumentation-wise.

Note that it's only been one day of work since the last arrangement. At the beginning, I changed the brass a bit more to dvorak-style. Also, I haven't been studying music, neither do I actually listen to classical music a lot (I have never been to a concert nor do I have ever heard a full piece of Mozart/Bach whatsoever. Even if I did, as you can imagine full orchestral scores are somewhat costy), so my learning sources are limited to figuring out the most things by myself.