InNovember 2011, Marvel announced that Alan Silvestri, who scored Captain America: The First Avenger, would write and compose the score for The Avengers (making him the first composer to score more than one movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe). Silvestri stated, "This is actually a very unique experience [for me]. I've worked on films where there have been a number of stars and certainly worked on films where there have been characters of equal weight in terms of their level of importance and profile in the film, but this one is somewhat extreme in that regard because each of these characters has their own world and it's a very different situation. It's very challenging to look for a way to give everyone the weight and consideration they need, but at the same time the film is really about the coming together of these characters, which implies that there is this entity called the Avengers, which really has to be representative of all of them together."[2] Silvestri recorded the score with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.[3] Avengers director Joss Whedon described the score as "old school", saying "the score is very old-fashioned, which is why [Silvestri] was letter perfect for this movie because he can give you the heightened emotion, the [Hans Zimmer] school of 'I'm just feeling a lot right now!' but he can also be extraordinarily cue and character specific, which I love."[3] Silvestri reprises his themes from Captain America: The First Avenger, and introduced new ones - including the theme for Black Widow, which is "a lonely, plucked theme with an Eastern European flavor to define this character".[4] The score album was released on May 1, 2012.[5]
Simultaneously with the digital release, the album was physically released by Hollywood Records, Marvel Music, and Intrada Records.[6] Several tracks on this release are longer than on the digital album and there is one additional track, "Interrogation".
In March 2012, American alternative rock band Soundgarden announced through their official Facebook page that they had written a song to be included on the film's soundtrack, entitled "Live to Rise".[7] The song was released on April 17, 2012, as a free digital download during its first week of availability in the iTunes Store.[8] Additionally, Indian rock band Agnee released a music video for their single "Hello Andheron", which served as the theme song for the Indian release of the film.[9] The following day, Marvel released the album's full track listing, which was released by Hollywood Records on May 1, 2012.[5] A cover of AC/DC's song "Shoot to Thrill", performed by Theory of a Deadman, was originally to be included on the album, but was removed for unknown reasons.
Another in my series of impossible to find bass tabs/notation/anything! here is The New Avengers theme music it starts at around 30 seconds in. Listen to it its pretty cool and definately imposible to find any way of finding out the bass line for a non reader like me. I have tried my best at picking the bass out by ear and cant get anywhere near it. Can anyone help ?
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There was a really good cover of this tune by Snowboy and the Latin Section, you may find that on the web or itunes etc.
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Another in my series of impossible to find bass tabs/notation/anything! here is The New Avengers theme music it starts at around 30 seconds in. Listen to it its pretty cool and definately imposible to find any way of finding out the bass line for a non reader like me. I have tried my best at picking the bass out by ear and cant get anywhere near it. Can anyone help ?
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That's tuned about 40 cents flat, tune about as low as your tuner will go and still be the same note and it should sound more or less right.
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maybe it was played on a fretless bass or a double bass ?
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maybe it was played on a fretless bass or a double bass ?
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Maybe but it sounds in tune with the song, they might have all tuned to an off tuned piano, or it might have been rerecorded at a slightly lower speed, apparently that was quite common with in the old days of tape.
Almost certainly "varispeeded". A very common technique in recording studios in the 60's and 70's, and the source of enormous frustration for covers band musicians ever since. The Beatles were particularly notorious for this.
A perfect example is the song [i]Revolution[/i]. Listen to the album version (The White Album) and you get a stately pace played in A. For the single they wanted a rather rockier version which they recorded, but it didn't feel right so they speeded it up unti it [i][b]did [/b][/i]feel right. It's now in A#-and-a-half.
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Theme from jason king is better laurie johnson did this as well.
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Surely [url=" =W0T43p-xAQY"]that[/url] was by [i]Geoff Love [/i]& orchestra and very pedestrian effort compared to the [url=" =KB3F059khLE&feature=related"]Department S theme[/url] which itself was not IMHO as good as the [url=" =iPSWrGJjur8"][b]original [/b]avengers theme[/url]
it was actually Herbie flowers that played the bass on that theme as well as others like the professionals the group laurie Johnson used was the Blue mink club. he has taken part in over 500 recordings for tv etc he also wrote the tune for the novelty hit Grandad for clive dunn. talented man. he used a 1960 jazz bass.
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In the Avengers theme, you have everything going; that is everything that counts except the kitchen sink! First off, you have this fantastic fanfare; the scoring blasts its way into your being like sun coming over the horizon after 6 months of darkness in Alaska! That brass signals that something worth listening to and watching is about to begin. Then, percussion starts grooving and we are off!
I still get chills with the contrast between the brass section and those classy string lines (both texture and feel-wise) which, for me, really introduce the elegance of the characters. When the whole orchestra swings in the end credits, it really digs in and hurts so good!
Sometimes the theme is great, the show not so much and vice versa; in this case, they both deserve equal, top billing. When I listen, both Steed and Emma Peel are immortalized forever.
The more famous theme was composed by Laurie Johnson.
I love it too, and salute the skill of composing for TV that has yielded
to plugging in indie band pop songs which may not stand the test of time
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