Zappa: Outrage at Valdez [MELODY HIGHLIGHT] [original cover]
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Straighten up in that chair and pay attention. People, this is for your own good. Outrage at Valdez in all its polyrhythmic splendor with the real, actual melody notated before your very eyes. This is a reduction made from the original score with all of Zappa's articulations and phrasing intact. See all the figures the Ensemble Modern messed up (and how)!
What can I say about this elixir? Zappa the mystic conjures up a wistful lyrical melody using 'out there' tuplet figures that push and pull against a consistent 9/8 ostinato and the end result is magical.
I made this cover a few years ago in Logic Pro X using a MIDI that I created from the score itself (which is mysteriously available online). I think this is the only cover version you can find on the internet based on the score. You heard it here first.
![Moggio - Frank Zappa [SCORE and MIDI]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ouns5ROwtjs/mqdefault.jpg)
Together with "Amnerica" one of his most beautiful composition from later years. Thanx!
If you guys have any requests, please let me know. I'm in need of a bit of motivation to keep these uploads going. I'm considering doing another "melody highlight" for the end of Sinister Footwear II, another polyrhythmic melodic masterpiece. Anyway, I could use all the thoughtful direction I can get. Thanks to everyone who's liked my videos and subscribed. This is all just a labor of love. Tell your friends...
I'd love to see a transcription of "St. Etienne" or "Canard Du Jour".
How about 'Amnerika'?
@@ArenHill Oh god. I'm not sure if it's humanly possible. I've given it a go before and it was a confusing nightmare.
@@ahazybellcord I can imagine it would be pretty daunting! How about 'The Jazz Discharge Party Hats' instead?
@@ahazybellcordI know someone who did it (really did it) on solo guitar.
{Amnerika - Tory Slusher. it’s on Soundcloud}
Well done.... this is faithfully recreated, a masterpiece like no other from the late genius.
Absolutely unique and absolutely beautiful ❤️❤️
lovely, thanks.
That works beautifully. The melody really jumps out nicely this way. FZ really wrote the most wonderful melodies and hung them on a lovely lattice of interesting rhythms that really accentuate the intent of the melody.
Thank you for the comment! I totally agree with Zappa's beautiful melodies. I get similar feelings listening to While You Were Art II where the melody dances intricately between instruments. It's a great ride when you can really feel the "rhythmic dissonance" created between the melody and backgrounds.
Top shelf shit right there. Outrageously beautiful.
Danke schön! 🎶
Thank you for this video, which is of high educational value.
That was beautiful. Love the samples! Erhu is sweet
well done, young man
great transcription as always
or, more accurately, should i say, COVER
Fantastic!
Isn't it glorious?
Magnifique
Well Done!
Bravo 👏 !
It reminds of the Sinister Footwear, yeah.
This is fantastic btfw
Zappa employed a certain amount of random from improvisation in his melody structure. That explains something about his prolificness.
What?
Thank you for this! Under what name can we find the “mysteriously available” score?
Fantastic retransciption job !! I'm wondering : in pratice, which method do you use to get those intricated tuplets right ?.. I can't believe you get it only by ear, even by slowing down the recording..
Thank you for the kind words but this is not a transcription! I didn't figure this out by ear whatsoever, unlike many of my other videos. This is a reproduction of the original score from Zappa himself, where I just picked out the melody line.
The rhythms are wild aren't they? The articulations also let you see the intended "eyebrows" to add expression.
@@ahazybellcord Oh I see ! Yes indeed, the rythms are very wild, but I am used to that with the music of Zappa. Where can I find original scores by Zappa by the way ?
Man oh man these are your own samples... as a logic user what core samples did you use, would love to get into this logic aroma.
All built-in sounds, my friend! It's been a long time since I made this (or used Logic) and I'd have to look back at the project file but one of the main instruments is erhu. There's also shehnai and dulcimer in there..
A bold request but would you share the logic project with me for study? Or make a little video - see I work in sibelius w note performer for neoclassicism and its good, (not amazing sounding but good) and i record songs in logic, but i've never crossed this type of line and need to, this aroma, this approach its 'the one'@@ahazybellcord
@@matijakrunic7498 Sorry to keep you hanging. I finally found the project file but the only copy I have seems to be an early version before I worked on orchestrating it as it is here.. It's mostly various synth tones and not well mixed, a "demo" version.. It's weird because I try to keep copies of everything I work on. It's possible the newer version is on a different hard drive. I'll have to keep scrounging around. If you still want the project file in its less aromatic state, or the MIDI to try to arrange yourself with the hints I gave above, send me an email (my username at gmail) and I'll send it along in the reply.
Thank you kindly !
@@ahazybellcord
Nice! This has become one of my favorites from Yellow Shark. I used to play it on my radio show all the time. You say the score is available online? Where did you find it?
he might mean available to purchase, which is rare for real zappa scores
I think I found it on scribd. And it was the only Zappa score available there. I've gotten my hands on other Zappa scores but only physically through inter-library loan.
I would love to know where to find or legitimately purchase any of Zappa's scores. Maybe the ZFT could be petitioned to make scores available to the general public... Only in my dreams.
@@ahazybellcord Many groups doing covers of Zappa's pieces, such as the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra (in Cleveland, Ohio, USA), have had to laboriously make their own scores based on repeated close listening.
@@dbadagna Wow. And I'll bet they kindly asked the powers that be for access and were denied. Seems to be their despotic MO. Preventing people from performing the music and threatening to sue if they do... They could make good money by digitizing the scores and selling them as PDF downloads. But that would make too much sense...
@@ahazybellcord BSchott has most if not all of the orch material *for hire*, ie., rental for performance, parts and all
Is the interpretation of the Spanish orchestra in this video any better?
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Or the Insomnio orchestra (from the Netherlands)?
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Oh god. You can find my comment I left a while back on the first video... It's truly terrible. Really, really poor performance. They're simply making up the rhythms as they go along. Even the beginning, which is all simple rhythms on a 16th note grid, is bafflingly uncoordinated. It's as if the thought of the impending tuplets scared them so much they forgot how to play 8th notes in time. That first septuplet is played about half as fast as it should be and it's all downhill from there. Almost like they're reading through it for the first time... I think they must have seriously underestimated how much rehearsal time was necessary to play it even halfway decently. In other words, it stinks and I don't like it.
Insomnio is MUCH better, but still pretty sloppy in a lot of areas. It's an incredibly difficult piece for any one player to pull off, let alone an entire ensemble in concert, and you can tell they're trying... But I have the cynical sense that they're taking a faster tempo than the score indicates in order to get through the pain as quickly as possible and so that it has less potential of sounding wrong.
The Ensemble Modern performance is still the best I've heard. While some of the rhythms aren't quite right, they come very, very close. You really need a group of super-humans to get this thing right.