RWBY: Smile - Orchestral Metal Remix
30A symphonic metal cover of Ilia Amitola's theme.
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Another one that I transcribed by ear. Doing so, I struggled a but with timings of the melody, with some of the notes landing in what felt like illogical places that had me going "that can't be right". After I got it down, however, it didn't really need all that much correcting. I also struggled with the 1st chorus during the quiet part because of the tempo changes, as well as the harmony on "let them know bitter" line. I ended up just winging it on both. The result is probably incorrect, but it sounds good to me, so that'll do just fine.
Things were a lot more straight-forward for the second half. For changes, I expanded on the strings, adding further violin parts after the verse, and inversely, adding celli during the verse. I experimented adding further stuff here and there, but decided against it in the end, finding that got too busy. The guitars were mostly left unchanged this time, with the biggest change being in the pre-chorus. Similarly, the drums also just received minor changes, mostly just adding some blast beats.
Time spent working on the track: 27 hours.
Credits:
Composed by Jeff Williams.
Artwork used in thumbnail:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/cfpv1s/ilia_haleyfall/
Video made with FL Studio ZGameEditor Visualizer plugin
Effect author credits:
Electric - nimitz Twitter: @stormoid Adapted from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldlXRS
WormHoleEclipse, Blooming, TextDraw - Jph Wacheski http://jph_wacheski.itch.io/
Polar - Kjell, Dubswitcher
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