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I am pretty sure that "To Poison Island" is just "The Factory" from the OST.
Oh yeah, you're right. They swapped the tracks' order ("The Factory" should be after "Gearing up" or after "Poison Garden") but "To Poison Island" and "The Factory" are the same length.
Nice observation... You mean the first time of the whole saga, after 50 years? Maybe you're right, I can't find counterexamples at the moment ;)
The Spy Who Loved Me's gunbarrel music did it first. I don't know if there are other examples.
Edit: Of course I know. The gunbarrel music of For Your Eyes Only.
Oh yes of course, thank you.
Let's say Skyfall is the first time the vamp is played on guitar without the riff following it ;)
I'm kinda glad it carried through into the NTTD score, it just feels right.
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Thank you for sharing this. Love your artwork and am very much looking forward to hearing your new arrangement of the NTTD soundtrack :)
Can someone enlighten me what "the vamp" is, please?
It's the repeated four notes at the very start of the Bond Theme :
In general, a vamp is "a repeating musical figure or accompaniment" (thanks Wikipedia). I guess you could also call it the "Bond bassline".
It was probably one of the very important contribution of Barry to Norman's theme.
Vamp - the four-note tune, usually played on strings, which lies beneath pretty much the whole theme (the bit you hear as Bond is walking in the gunbarrel!)
Riff - the main twangy melody, usually played on guitar (played as Bond turns and shoots in the gunbarrel)
Bebop 1 - the big brass, jazzy swing upbeat part of the tune which often plays as some outrageous action is taking place
Bebop 2 - which is the second part of this, but to be honest I'm not quite sure how that's defined as two parts
Bridge - the connecting bit at the end of the bebop, which I would say is the brassy alternating phrases which lead to the big Bond fanfare notes before the vamp starts again.
Coda - is that the twangy guitar end note?
I would also say there's the:
Fanfare - the opening big striking notes to most gunbarrel sequences
I think the Coda also includes the rising notes before the final guitar chord :)
And the "Fanfare" is part of the Bridge, I guess, but extracting it to place it right at the start of the gunbarrel in FRWL was a genius move. What a powerful opening.
Oh of course, that went out of my head for some reason. So basically the post-gunshot part to the gunbarrel that Arnold and Hamlisch used.
Yeah, you're right, it is part of the bridge structurally, but I guess I kind of pluck it out on its own because of that gunbarrel usage really and it often gets used on its own elsewhere. You're right it is genius, but then I guess Barry was one! :)
What do you think they mean by bebop parts 1 and 2? Where's the divide? I found the court case report: you can see the definitions at the start:
http://www.jollinger.com/barry/lawsuit.htm
Here's what they say:
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Could bebop 2 be what you're referring to as the bridge, and the bridge be the fanfare?
Here's how it's defined a bit further into that:
1-4 The Vamp - 2 repeated bars
5-10 Guitar riff -2 bars repeated twice
11-12 last two bars of riff- striking semitone descent
13-20 Repeat of Riff - but with a slight trombone variation (only on recording)
21-24 Repeat of vamp
25-28 Bebop1 4 bar phrase
29-32 bebop 1 repeat of 25-28 except last two notes are different
33-40 bebop 1 repeat o 25-32
41-42 bebop 2 - beginning of riff in modified form. i.e. melody is related to the riff
43-44 41-42 repeated
45-46 Central climax to bebop2
47-48 vamp
49-56 Riff
57-60 ends with the coda which is related to 25-28
So yeah, bebop 2 is what we were thinking is the bridge, and then apparently the 'bridge' doesn't appear! :D
As said above, incredible artwork here. Simple but really, really effective. Eagerly anticipating the expanded OST release!
I understand perfectly. Not everything has to be a google search, especially for these kind of very specific subjects... ;)
Can someone recommend a decent free software to convert cda files to mov and I’ll finally upload the NTTD tracks you asked for.