How can I improve this version of La foule?

[Jaime_Dergut]

Hello everybody,

since last week, I have been interested in learned the version of La foule that I heard on youtube so I made my own music sheet of Musescore.

It is only the right side now but I still want it so share with the community here and let me know what you all think and how can we improve it to sound prettier.

Here is the pdf version. I would like to sound as close as possible to the version that Cassandra Boisserie was playing. Link of her video here.

I'm not done with it yet on the right side. I still haven't figured how she plays part of the intro and other segments that she adds with further ornamentation, but I don't want to overcomplicate myself too much.

Please, let me know your thoughts and advice.

I would really appreciate it since it will help me to learn more about how to write my own music sheets properly.

Thanks for your attention.

Regards,

Jaime

 

[oldbayan]

Why not make "your" arrangement? The song has been made famous by Edith Piaf in the French world, accompanied by piano and orchestra; this music is originally a Peruvian waltz as you probably know. The musette accordion is a big component in the French version and everyone I have heard playing add their own ornementations. Just a thought.

 

[losthobos]

Jonny Kerry had a nice tutorial on YouTube few years back...not sure if still there but worth a peek if it is

 

[JeffJetton]

Hi Jaime! If you attach your MuseScore file, I could add some stuff to it for you. Easier than me trying to describe changes to it in text.

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

Why not make "your" arrangement?

I just like the french version by Cassie better.

Besides, what do I know about making my own arrangements? Ha!

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

Jonny Kerry had a nice tutorial on YouTube few years back...not sure if still there but worth a peek if it is

That's the same tutorial i've been following that closes resembles what Cassie was playing, although I didn't like it at all because he doesn't explains every note or timing for the ornamentation he uses.

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

Hi Jaime! If you attach your MuseScore file, I could add some stuff to it for you. Easier than me trying to describe changes to it in text.

Thanks Jeff, here is the MS file.

 

[oldbayan]

I just like the french version by Cassie better.

Besides, what do I know about making my own arrangements? Ha!

You can play the tune the way you feel it!

 

[losthobos]

You can play the tune the way you feel it!

Best advice ever.....

 

[Pipemajor]

Jonny Kerry had a nice tutorial on YouTube few years back...not sure if still there but worth a peek if it is

Still there and very informative

 

[JeffJetton]

Okay, I fiddled around with it up through the first A section. Your pitches are pretty spot-on. It was mostly the rhythms that needed some adjusting, plus a few embellishments thrown in that she's doing.

The eighth notes in the intro section are sound slightly swung to me. She straightens them out in the rest of the piece. Her riff in measure 11 is a bit rhythmically vague--almost like she's dropping an eighth-note triplet from the measure--but what I've got notated there should get you close.

A lot of the tricks she's throwing in are fairly common and super-useful. You can use them in all sorts of songs you want to gussy up. Mostly those triplet figures: Arpeggios (meas. 11), adjacent notes above and below (meas. 14 and 28 and in all eighth-note form in meas. 13), and repeated single notes (starting at meas. 24). Good stuff!

I notated the bass part like she plays it, but I would recommend trying two changes: Start those B7 and D7 chords with the alternate bass first, then the root (the "flip-flop five chord" as I call it). In other words, swap around left hand meas. 6 & 7, then meas. 17 & 18, etc. Second, maybe try a bass arpeggio fill under that RH figure in measure 11: E, B, G, E single bass notes.

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

Okay, I fiddled around with it up through the first A section. Your pitches are pretty spot-on. It was mostly the rhythms that needed some adjusting, plus a few embellishments thrown in that she's doing.

The eighth notes in the intro section are sound slightly swung to me. She straightens them out in the rest of the piece. Her riff in measure 11 is a bit rhythmically vague--almost like she's dropping an eighth-note triplet from the measure--but what I've got notated there should get you close.

A lot of the tricks she's throwing in are fairly common and super-useful. You can use them in all sorts of songs you want to gussy up. Mostly those triplet figures: Arpeggios (meas. 11), adjacent notes above and below (meas. 14 and 28 and in all eighth-note form in meas. 13), and repeated single notes (starting at meas. 24). Good stuff!

I notated the bass part like she plays it, but I would recommend trying two changes: Start those B7 and D7 chords with the alternate bass first, then the root (the "flip-flop five chord" as I call it). In other words, swap around left hand meas. 6 & 7, then meas. 17 & 18, etc. Second, maybe try a bass arpeggio fill under that RH figure in measure 11: E, B, G, E single bass notes.

Jeff, I am very grateful for your help here and thank you very much for dedicating some of your time and trouble in helping me out with this. I would try your notations and see how it goes.

It is very nice to learn these tricks.

 

[Jaime_Dergut]

@JeffJetton I got a new version of it. With all parts included but I think I messed up the tempo on it and it is kind of crazy now.
If you don't mind. Could you please take a look and let me know what you think?

I'm also adding a pdf version for everybody else to see.

I feel I'm very close now!