Advice needed on arranging a piece, very weird situation…
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Advice needed on arranging a piece, very weird situation and more specifics are in the post body.
For context:
* I normally play pieces from the classical/romance era, and other similar eras
* I have very minimal experience with arranging, but my *playing* level is early-advanced
* I will be playing an ensemble performance very soon, in about a month (from now to performance date)
* Our song is a very heavy, rock song (think fuzzy bass, distorted guitar, grunge-y vocals)
* Our instrumentation is the standard rock instrumentation + me as a piano (I'm the outlier)
Because the band would practically be complete without me, I have no parts to play. There are no arrangements online for this instrumentation, and all of the parts in the original song are taken. None of my bandmates want to give up sections of their parts and/or split up their parts, and many of them don't want me to "double up" (play the same thing as them simultaneously). When I ask them what kind of accompaniment they expect me to arrange, the response is "whatever sounds good ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯"
This means that I have to arrange my own accompaniment piano, AND it has to be near original, AND it will be one of my first arrangements.
Any advice? I will take anything at this point, I am desperate and have lost too much sanity sitting at my piano trying to make literally anything. I'll elaborate more on the song if needed, but I'd prefer not to give the exact title in case anyone from my band sees this.
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For context:
* I normally play pieces from the classical/romance era, and other similar eras
* I have very minimal experience with arranging, but my *playing* level is early-advanced
* I will be playing an ensemble performance very soon, in about a month (from now to performance date)
* Our song is a very heavy, rock song (think fuzzy bass, distorted guitar, grunge-y vocals)
* Our instrumentation is the standard rock instrumentation + me as a piano (I'm the outlier)
Because the band would practically be complete without me, I have no parts to play. There are no arrangements online for this instrumentation, and all of the parts in the original song are taken. None of my bandmates want to give up sections of their parts and/or split up their parts, and many of them don't want me to "double up" (play the same thing as them simultaneously). When I ask them what kind of accompaniment they expect me to arrange, the response is "whatever sounds good ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯"
This means that I have to arrange my own accompaniment piano, AND it has to be near original, AND it will be one of my first arrangements.
Any advice? I will take anything at this point, I am desperate and have lost too much sanity sitting at my piano trying to make literally anything. I'll elaborate more on the song if needed, but I'd prefer not to give the exact title in case anyone from my band sees this.
#music #audio
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