What Are The Themes Of One Piece
Adelaida Frodge
This time I'd like to take a look at the Straw Hats' musical themes. Mind that some characters have several themes associated with them, so I just stuck with those explicitly named after them in the OST. So, without further ado, here is my rating for the Straw Hats' themes (man, my transitioning skills suffered BAD from my lack of writing. Cheesus!):
Zoro's is the only theme on this list that I do not like. It may be the trumpets or the minor scale, idk. I generally like dramatic pieces but this one just causes me a feeling of annoyance. Zoro's battle themes are better. It does fit his character rather well, though.
Apparently, Usopp has two themes: The first being the one from the second set of Eyecatchers, which sounds more adventurous, with strings and flutes and whatnot. And the second one being the Karaoke version of "Usopp Drop", which is some weird but funky mix of "Negima" OST and a shopping mall elevator. I think I prefer the first one.
Luffy's theme is the one usually playing at the beginning and end of the arc. The beginning has this "off to new adventures" feel to it. And the second part gets more hectic, which really does sound like Luffy.
This is a rather cute piece. It has a very cheerful beginning and gets more melancholic towards the end. Strangely, it ends with Usopp's Eyecatcher theme. Personally, I think Nami should have a more "shopping mall kind of theme". But that's just me.
This one is also quite adorable. It's just so Chopper. It has this tiptoeing sound effect. Now, I do like Nami's theme better than the first part of this one. But I put it higher on my list mainly because of the second part: Tragic Past BGM! Also, I'M NOT CRYING YOU BASTARD THERE'S JUST THIS ONION LYING AROUND!!
This one as well as the following two were a rather tough choice because they are all pretty awesome in their own right. However, I chose to put Robin on fourth place because the theme is fairly repetitive. It's super sexy nonetheless.
DAMN this guy and his smooth jazz theme! Damn him to Okama hell! Oh, I love this one. It's the most fitting theme music of them all. On a side note, I also love Sanji's battle theme (which he has to share with Usopp, I believe).
SUUUUPEEEERRR!!!! Okay, this one was a surprise, even for me. But Franky's theme is my unchallenged winner. Guess it's because I'm into upbeat music. And while it IS a tad repetitive, to me, it never gets old. This and laser beam nipples is the reason why we need more Franky fights.
I have been playing around with the piano and composing for the first time something by playing it myself first and writing it down on paper later. I am not good at playing piano so there are many mistakes and I had to record parts separately and mix them later, so there are a few issues with the sound when different sections are mixed. Also, my digital piano is not super expensive so I am sorry about the sound quality.
However, I always get lost when turning themes or ideas into pieces and have trouble composing pieces with a natural and well-designed form that flows well. For example, in this piece I had the theme ending in a Half cadence in bar 8. If we call this theme "A", I though on doing the following:
In the case of this piece, in the end I wrote a development section in the parallel minor and, even though I like the beginning very much, I soon started not knowing where to go and end up finishing with a rushed arpeggiated generic HC for coming back to the main theme.
I feel form and making the music flow naturally is one of my weakest points when composing. Do you have any advice or suggestion about how to go about it for improving? Also, what are your methods for turning themes and ideas into full pieces? How do you go about deciding on things such writing a contrasting/development section, transitions, designing the form, introductions, codas, etc.?
I think this is a quaint little barcarolle! The theme really works and is beautifully simple. I think every note you wrote here is essential and related to the main theme. It is so good that there's no shame in repeating it - Beethoven does the same thing in the Fur Elise. Also, your arpeggiation of the dominant chord happens very naturally and arises from the melody. As for how to vary your melody - you already made a quite successful variation in the parallel minor! Other ideas might be to change the tempo and meter to give the same material a totally different feel. Also - check out this topic:
After reading your comment I learned to appreciate the B section a little better and tried only to make it a little longer instead of changing it almost completely, which was my original plan. I guess the only thing I can do for feeling more comfortable and less self-conscious about the contrasting, development, and variation sections is only to keep on practicing until they come up to me more naturally and learn to trust more my musical decisions.
I checked the link and I really liked your idea of varying themes and musical ideas only a little (making it stay almost the same) but doing it in a recursive way so, in the end, it results in a totally different musical idea. I will try to use that as a practice for developing pieces in the future.
Could it be considered a Barcarolle? I though Barcarolles were mostly in compound meters but I do not know much about the style. My piece is in common time, even though I cannot imagine it without the exact same rubato that I played it with (so sometimes I am even wondering whether I actually notated the tempo incorrectly).
I ask about it because I will post the piece soon as a completed piece in the forum when I solve some audio issues but I have not idea how I could call it. I normally like to call pieces by the style it is in "Minuet in Fmaj, Waltz in Fmaj, etc...". In this case I am not sure what it is and I do not want to call it "Binary form piano piece in Fmaj" ? Do you have any idea in which style/form this piece could be fit? Would Barcarolle be appropriate?
I am not familiar enough with naming conventions about the barcarolle. I just threw that name out there because I thought that Beethoven's Fur Elise was a barcarolle and I considered your piece similar enough to it to warrant a comparison.
I just checked the "Fur Elise" and it is a Bagatelle, not a Barcarolle. It seems we both got mixed-up ?. And you are actually right, Bagatelles are normally short piano pieces light and melodic in character so it will suit this piece perfectly! I will probably name it Bagatelle then.
Thank you so much for the compliments on my playing! I am still learning so my skills are not too good, and I had to record everything in three different sections which I had to mix later ? But I find knowing piano helps so much for composing faster and, of course, it sounds much more beautiful that with Sibelius and Noteperformer. I will try hard to keep on learning even though it is harder than I expected :S.
When the new Next Experience UI came out with San Diego, everything about how to theme an instance changed. I have always liked making my instances look like "mine" or the company I worked for, so I was very interested in seeing what I could do with the new UI. This article is going to be the first in a series where I try to document all the things I know or have figured out about how to theme ServiceNow.
Go watch the Live Coding Happy Hour talking about Overriding the Next UI Theme Things have changed since then and I know much more than I did then. If you are entirely new to dealing with Themes, this is likely the clearest place to start.
Don't mix and match Theme Builder and manually editing themes. Anything you do outside of Theme Builder will not show up in Theme Builder and any changes you make in Theme Builder will overwrite what you did outside it.
The Base object is meant to hold values that are expanded into multiple numbered variables (no, I have not found anywhere that the variables that go here are documented). On the high end neutrals end up with 24 values, on the low end some only have 3-4.
This means that when looking at a theme if there is something you want to change you may be working against a number of things. A color is controlled by a variable that is set to the value of another variable that is a variant of a defined color.
If we parse all of this out. We have CSS that says the background-color should be the RGB value stored in the variable --now-unified-nav_header--background-color unless that doesn't exist. In which case use the RGB value stored in --now-color_chrome--brand-10. If that also doesn't exist use RGB(21,32,32).
Since --now-unified-nav_header--background-color does exist we should use that color, which is set to be the same as --now-color_chrome--brand-10 in our theme (there is no need for the CSS fallback and the theme definition to match).
If we look in our theme (I am using the default Next Experience theme in this example) we will not find a color that --now-color_chrome--brand-10 is defined as. What we do have is that the Base color --now-color_chrome--brand is set to 48,47,75 and that we want to use the #10 variant of that color.
If you want to change everything that is using any --now-color_chrome--brand colors, change --now-color_chrome--brand in base (even though that will mean you wont know exactly what #10 will look like in advance).
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