I ride the sea. I follow the message of the postman. I reach Dragon Roost Island.
Eargasm.
Seriously, Wind Waker has some amazing tracks, but Dragon Roost Island is just really outstanding on it's own. I first stayed on this island over half an hour doing nothing but listening to this tune ... and blowing myself up with those bomb-plants ....
Tracking those guitar-chords and triple-tones was such a PAIN :X
Mm, this song is awesome (though the whole OST rocks, really). Tried doing this one myself early on with VRC6, and it was pretty dicey; making the guitar strumming and bass part sound "natural" is quite tough.
I will say that the DPCM drum thumping throughout is... well, a strange choice (the original doesn't have drums, IIRC, just castanets+clap). From a practical standpoint it ends up making the sweet bass riffs harder to hear because it's so heavy, and from a aesthetic standpoint I personally don't think it goes with the whole Andean/Flamenco-ish whatever-the-heck feel of the piece.
Other than that, some erroneous notes and rhythms here and there; pretty trivial fixes.
Hm, looks like you're right about the drum. For some reason, I remembered there to be some deep tone at the beginning which I thought was some kind of drum, but carefully listening to it again ... no, there isn't.
I'm going to change around samples, hopefully I can find some clean clap-samples somewhere.
About the errornous notes: I covered it off the notesheet given above and I switched up positions more than once, so there might very well be mistakes. I'll try and find them if possible.
Thanks for the tip!
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Yeah, the flute definitely deserves to be an octave higher -- but then it does start to sound less like an actual flute and more like a ... square wave....
Best part is definitely the echoing effects you have going on in patterns 0C-0F.
