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A 'Virtual' Band I play in on Lord of the Rings Online - Youtube video
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dragonsnfrogs at bctonline.com
I know there are so many in this group that are actual professional musicians. I, however, am not. I am a 'virtual' musician, but I do get great enjoyment out of it. This is how we have a concert AND keep socially distanced at the same time. The Lonely Mountain Band on the Landroval server of Lord of the Rings Online hosted a classical music concert. Here is a Youtube video that someone recorded. My hobbit is Brioney, the 2nd one from the left (front row of course). We get midi files and then using 'maestro' software developed specifically for LOTRO we assign instruments to the tracks using the instruments we have available in the game. 2 types of lutes, 2 types of harps, Theorbo, clarinet, flute, horn, bagpipe, pibgorn, 3 types of bassoons, 5 types of fiddles 2, types of cowbells, and drums (and yes I did rewrite lyrics to the 12 days of Christmas [Yulefest in middle earth] and gave the band members instruments instead of maids milking and such). This is our half-hour playlist of classical pieces :
The Bizet, Tartini, and Anderson pieces were ones I arranged the instruments for.
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On Monday, December 28, 2020, 04:13:15 PM EST, dragonsnfrogs at bctonline.com <dragonsnfrogs@...> wrote:
I know there are so many in this group that are actual professional musicians. I, however, am not. I am a 'virtual' musician, but I do get great enjoyment out of it. This is how we have a concert AND keep socially distanced at the same time. The Lonely Mountain Band on the Landroval server of Lord of the Rings Online hosted a classical music concert. Here is a Youtube video that someone recorded. My hobbit is Brioney, the 2nd one from the left (front row of course). We get midi files and then using 'maestro' software developed specifically for LOTRO we assign instruments to the tracks using the instruments we have available in the game. 2 types of lutes, 2 types of harps, Theorbo, clarinet, flute, horn, bagpipe, pibgorn, 3 types of bassoons, 5 types of fiddles 2, types of cowbells, and drums (and yes I did rewrite lyrics to the 12 days of Christmas [Yulefest in middle earth] and gave the band members instruments instead of maids milking and such). This is our half-hour playlist of classical pieces :
The Bizet, Tartini, and Anderson pieces were ones I arranged the instruments for.
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Was the midi of Serenata taken from a George Pollen midi of the same name? George was a master midi creator when midi sequencing was still relatively new.. I have many of his sequences. Serenata had lyrics too (sung by artists like Nat King Cole). By the way, I enjoyed watching the video.
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dragonsnfrogs at bctonline.com
It is the very same midi file by George Pollen! I didn't realize there were lyrics to it...though a lot of us 'bards' in the game tend to write our own lyrics for music that in now way resembles the original. Others do 'adapt' the original lyrics to suit middle earth. We don't actually sing in game, but there is a 'plug-in' that allows us to send the lyrics, line by line, to the chat channel so people can see the lyrics as we're playing the music. Karen
From: "Bob Eldridge" <bobeld1@...> To: "MIDKAR" <MIDKAR@groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 4:28:17 AM Subject: ADV: Re: [MIDKAR] A 'Virtual' Band I play in on Lord of the Rings Online - Youtube video Was the midi of Serenata taken from a George Pollen midi of the same name? George was a master midi creator when midi sequencing was still relatively new.. I have many of his sequences. Serenata had lyrics too (sung by artists like Nat King Cole). By the way, I enjoyed watching the video.
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Sorry - did not see your response till today. NIce to see George's work live on. Thanks
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