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So, as some of you may know, motorsport is a considerable passion of mine, sadly not as a competitor, but certainly as a motorsport historian and spectator. My main field of interest is the World Sportscar Championship between 1982 and 1992. This is a cover of the musical theme used in the season review of the 1991 season.
It was pretty hard to cover, based on how the version I have is ripped from a VHS, with no tabs (or hope of tabs), no real musical training on how to decipher notes and lots of layering of instruments. As a result, this might not be the actual same chord as the original, but all the notes are in the right place and tonally go in the right direction. The drum track was easy to make, the bass track harder, but satisfying to get right. In the background, the tom arrangement is an estimate, it's so hard to desypher the actual playing that I had to guess a little and aim to be just about right. This is the original that I had to work with
The version used in the programme is just a smidge under 40 seconds, and this is a version made to replicate that. I have a MIDI of this so I plan to expand it to a full song at some point, with plenty of ad-libed bits and bobs. But alas, I hope you enjoy this!
As far as lore... shoot I dunno. Walter and Maxi both play on this technically since the acoustic kit is doing the main bit and the Simmonds is doing the backing toms. I might come up with something... maybe.
I'm afraid I cannot honestly tell you who composed it. I wish I could, but I haven't the foggiest. The credits to the programme list all kinds of things, but not a composer or sound designer. If anyone does know, I'd love to know so I can get a whole album of it.
Cover is adapted from the booklet for the Mexico round.
It was pretty hard to cover, based on how the version I have is ripped from a VHS, with no tabs (or hope of tabs), no real musical training on how to decipher notes and lots of layering of instruments. As a result, this might not be the actual same chord as the original, but all the notes are in the right place and tonally go in the right direction. The drum track was easy to make, the bass track harder, but satisfying to get right. In the background, the tom arrangement is an estimate, it's so hard to desypher the actual playing that I had to guess a little and aim to be just about right. This is the original that I had to work with
The version used in the programme is just a smidge under 40 seconds, and this is a version made to replicate that. I have a MIDI of this so I plan to expand it to a full song at some point, with plenty of ad-libed bits and bobs. But alas, I hope you enjoy this!
As far as lore... shoot I dunno. Walter and Maxi both play on this technically since the acoustic kit is doing the main bit and the Simmonds is doing the backing toms. I might come up with something... maybe.
I'm afraid I cannot honestly tell you who composed it. I wish I could, but I haven't the foggiest. The credits to the programme list all kinds of things, but not a composer or sound designer. If anyone does know, I'd love to know so I can get a whole album of it.
Cover is adapted from the booklet for the Mexico round.
Category Music / 80s
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 1.61 MB
Listed in Folders
Thank you! It's not QUITE how I'd want it, I found another synth sound on my arsenal which fits the lead synth a little closer to the original and I messed up the hi-hats by not putting them across the toms like they are in the original and of course the congas in the background are pretty much guesswork, but otherwise I'm very happy with it.
It's certainly a very odd piece. There's another one from the review tape of Le Mans 1987 which features big brass and orchestral scores which I'd want to tackle at some point when I get better at deciphering sounds. I still have the MIDI for this one, so I do intend to modify it a fair bit in time.
It's certainly a very odd piece. There's another one from the review tape of Le Mans 1987 which features big brass and orchestral scores which I'd want to tackle at some point when I get better at deciphering sounds. I still have the MIDI for this one, so I do intend to modify it a fair bit in time.
Thanks~ It's something I think I'll find myself doing a fair bit in future.
I currently use the demo version of FL 11. It's free, with the limitation being that, while you get all of the plugins, lots of them have these built in "drop downs" where it'll cut out a section of the sample's audio at random points. The good thing about that is, in two exports, those dropdowns are in different places, so all you have to do is export two of them and edit them together in something like Audacity. The other problem is you can't open any song you've started, like a .flp file or something. Can open MIDIs though. Means you kinda have to export whatever you do at the end of the day if you want it to be a thing.
I currently use the demo version of FL 11. It's free, with the limitation being that, while you get all of the plugins, lots of them have these built in "drop downs" where it'll cut out a section of the sample's audio at random points. The good thing about that is, in two exports, those dropdowns are in different places, so all you have to do is export two of them and edit them together in something like Audacity. The other problem is you can't open any song you've started, like a .flp file or something. Can open MIDIs though. Means you kinda have to export whatever you do at the end of the day if you want it to be a thing.
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