"Okay, You Two" Teaser
It’s the first day of NaCreSoMo, and I actually have very little to show for it. I spent some time flailing around various GarageBand projects and not making very much progress, so I’ll give you this little teaser of one of them.
Those who’ve played through Doki Doki Literature Club will recognize this as the opening to “Okay, Everyone!”, the fourth track on the soundtrack. And those who’ve been watching my Soundcloud will know that I already posted two songs “in the style of Doki Doki Literature Club”.
(The Papyrus artwork for “SSLC” was commissioned from my friend Mimi the Alpaca. I love it.)
So what’s going on? Honestly, this started out as an independent idea from my mashup-obsessed brain for “Spaghetti Spaghetti Literature Club”: a medley of songs from Undertale in the style of the DDLC title theme. But as I was working on it, I got the idea for “Sa-you-nara”, which took a theme from Higurashi: When They Cry in the style of a different song from DDLC.
There’s a saying in programming that there are really only three numbers: “0”, “1”, and “many”. So once I’d done these two arrangements, I really had to do something for all of the songs from DDLC…or at least all of the songs from the first act, since I didn’t quite finish the game. I’m calling this project “Doki Doki Arrangement Club”.
So this is the start of the arrangement in-the-style-of track 4, “Okay, Everyone!”. I’m not giving away what song I’m using just yet, but maybe some of you will recognize it from the screenshot below.
Oh, and I spent a fair amount of time figuring out how to get GarageBand to do pizzicato strings (plucked instead of bowed). It turns out the easiest way is to use GarageBand on iOS (which makes it very easily), then open the iOS project with the Mac GarageBand and copy the notes into your project. Ugh. Somehow they’re special in a way I haven’t figured out.
(And then it turns out I kind of wasted the effort, because the original “Okay, Everyone!” has a muted guitar there rather than plucked orchestral strings. I have no idea how to get the muted guitar sound like that in GarageBand, so I may just decide to do something different, since no one will care anyway.)
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