If I Fell by The Beatles - Reworked and Reharmonised for 7-Voice Choir

[Guy Shahar]

As promised to a few of you, here, finally, is my reworking of this 60-year old early Beatles song.

[David]

for me, this is your most interesting piece to date with some deliciously queasy harmonies throughout. Just one question about the score -- in some places (especially just near the end) there are chords in the individual lines and I'm wondering whether that means that extra singers would be envisaged for that or am I overthinking this and it's not planned for live performance in the first place?

[Guy Shahar]

Thank you very much David. I'm afraid of the score issue is a limitation of my ability to notate.  I got cubase to create the score but could only quantize to eighth notes . If I quantised to 16th notes everything went out of alignment. So where you see two notes together as one eighth note they are actually successive 16th notes.   The last bar is a mess because everything was slowed down in that bar and so multiple notes that were very close to each other in the piano roll were represented as simultaneous in the score. I know it's not great but it was the best that I could do in terms of the score… 

[David]

Ah, i'm with you Guy. Sounds a bit like my first attempts to compose with Cubase many years ago. Playing in live and producing a readable score is not the easiest which is why I soon abandoned the idea of recording live in the first place. Using step input guarantees a correct score which is my approach, though even with "humanising" the input and marking in tempo changes, the result can be a bit metronomic. Of course there are those who produce two completely different works - one for notation (usually in dedicated notation software) and one in a DAW but for me this is overkill.

 

[Guy Shahar]

Indeed (and also beyond my current ability…)