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No.38

Genre	   :  WIND ORCHESTRA
Title	   :  Trooping the Colour
Music	   :  mots
BMS/PMS&BGA:  mots
(charts cooperation   :  C4)
Play Level :  [5keys]
              BEGINNER 仚x1
              NORMAL 仚x3
              HYPER  仚x6
              ANOTHER 仚x9
              [7keys]
              BEGINNER 仚x1
              NORMAL 仚x4
              HYPER  仚x7
              ANOTHER 仚x10
              (HOOLIGAN 仚x0)
              (MIND THE GAP 仚x0)
              [9keys PMS]
              BEGINNER 仚x7
              5 BUTTON 仚x15
              NORMAL 仚x21
              HYPER  仚x38
              ANOTHER  仚x45
              
Size       :  127MB
Play Time  :  2:31

First Update : 20-05-13
Last Update  : 20-06-07
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Comments:
(20-06-07)
Added 7 keys extra charts.  These are some joke charts so please do not consider these charts
for evaluation.  If you want more stimulation than ANOTHER charts, you may extract the extra_charts.zip
and place the extracted files in the same folder as other files and play.

There are 2 charts.
- HOOLIGAN
  As for ANOTHER charts, except for the scratch notes, I kept not to place 3 or more notes at the
  same timing for ANOTHER charts, but as for this chart, 3 or more charts are placed at same timing
  and density is much higher than ANOTHER.
- MIND THE GAP
  The song itself is changed.  Probably the density of chart is a bit higher than HOOLIGAN.

Both play level is set as 0 as I could not measure the play level.
Bemuse extended definition is used, there is some performance if played by players such as 
beatoraja which can interpret the definition.


(20-06-05)
- Fixed the mistake of 7keys ANOTHER chart. (Timpani sound was duplicated at some part)
- Fixed DIFFICULTY settings for 5keys and 7keys ANOTHER chart. (3 -> 4)
- Added ANOTHER chart of 9keys PMS.

(20-06-03)
Changed the genre name to "Katakana" character in Japanese for PMS charts.

(20-05-31)

[Table of Contents]
-Beginning
-Special Thanks
-About the Music
-About BMS Creation
丂丒General Creation
  丒Music Composition
丂丒BGA Creation
丂丒Charts Creation
丂丒Sound Creation/Mixing
-BMS Creation Environment

-About Redistribution
-Credits
-Closure
-Contact Information


[Beginning]

Hello this is mots, 

From 2000 to 2002, as a BMS creator, I was creating and publishing copy-based BMS mainly (some original).
After about 17 years, I resumed to create BMS again secretly and meticulously from November 2019. 

This time, I've created a song to participate in the BMS event "Jisho-Mumei BMS-Sakka ga mono mousu!
 17th "(So-called "Mumei-sen 17th", which means "Self-proclaming unknown BMS creator speaks out! 17th").

This is for me the 38th work including PMS, but this will be the 5th work after the resumption of the 
BMS creation activity from Nov 2019 (excluding the revision and re-updating of the past works).
It seems that I've been creating many songs in the past, but actually most of the works are copy-based
BMS(and also half of them are sound set based...), so if just counted the original music, then it will
be the 4th work for me (if counted the re-master version as 1 work).

In terms of eligibility for this "Mumei-sen", I did not participate in any of the BMS events between 
2000-2002.  I didn't even post my works much on BMS review sites also, so I think my name was also 
unknown in the past.
As for BMS events, the only works I posted in the BMS events are the 2 BMS works that I posted at 
"For Long time BMS players" event which was held some months ago, so should not conflict to the 
eligibility condition "Less than 3 BMS works posted to past BMS events."
(Note: Actually, I posted one song at the S9B2020 event in April, but it's a PMS event and NOT a BMS event,
 so should be fine, right?  This is my convenient interpretation...)   


[Special Thanks]

C4(twitter:@C4_child35)
  BMS artist participating in A-1 climax event 10th.  He (I think is he and not she...) created the 7-Key
  ANOTHER chart of this work.  I didn't really think about creating high-difficulty charts when composing
  this song, so I suppose it was difficult to create high-difficulty charts, but I would like to greatly
  thank him for creating the chart in good quality.  Also he has supervised the 5-Key ANOTHER chart.
  I would like to thank him again for supervising.
K4Y5(twitter:@K4Y5)
  BMS artist also participating in this Mumei-sen 17th.  He(again, I think is he and not she...) has
  launched a Discord server quite a while ago, and this has built connection between many of the 
  BMS artists who is going to participate in this Mumei-sen 17th and also artists who have participated
  in the past Mumei-sen events.  In the Discord server, many communication & discussion is going on 
  about TIPS of BMS creation, music composition, etc, as well as communication about the BMS creation
  progress for Mumei-sen, jokes about miscellaneous stuff, etc.  It was for me very motivating and the
  willingness have increased to create and complete the BMS for this event.
  K4Y5 san, good job and thank you for starting the Discord server! I would like to continue to join 
  this server.
tolz(twitter:@to10to10to10to)
  The winner of Mumei-sen 16th event and organizer of Mumei-sen 17th event.
  Thank you very much for organizing this event this year, as nothing have started if this event was
  not held.

[About the Music]

Trooping the Colour is the annual King's/Queen's birthday celebration held in June in the UK.
A parade will be held around Buckingham Palace in London. The origins date from the time of Charles II
in the 17th century.
It is said that this originally started from the daily exercise of the soldiers, where the soldiers were
marching under the military flags to ensure that they can recognize their own regiment's flag in time of war. 
This parade was first introduced to the king's official birthday ceremony from 1748, during the reign of 
King George II.

Speaking of official birthday, kings/queens of UK have 2 birthdays, one is their real birthday and 
the other is the official birthday which is set in June.  King George II's actual birthday was in November,
current Queen Elizabeth II's actual birthday is in April.  Though, kings'/queens' official birthday are 
set in June so that people can celebrate their birthday during the best season of UK, when nice warm 
weather and sunny day continues.
From view point of Japanese, actually, June is absolutely not a best season, since rainy day continues
and also humidity increases in Japan.  But I think weather in June is actually great in UK, from my experience
living in London for a short time.  For example, a day with a longest daytime in the year is 
in June, and in that day, 21:30 is still day time, and I think it finally starts to get dark after 22:00.
There's a word called "June Bride", but there is a theory that this commonly became known since the 
weather in June is generally nice not only in UK but also in entire Europe, so some bright mood will 
be filled among people. 
...The topic became a bit side-tracked, but I've created this song making this Trooping the Colour 
as a theme of this song.
I first thought the timing to publish this song was best since the actual Trooping the Colour and 
Mumei-sen 17th both were going to be held in June.  But actually, Trooping the Colour was cancelled this year
due to the impact of COVID-19.
The cancellation was the very first time for Queen Elizabeth II during her 68-year reign.

Actual Trooping the Colour was unfortunately cancelled, but this will be held in the Mumei-sen 17th venue!
I would appreciate if you can enjoy this celebration which came to Mumei-sen event.
This year Queen Elizabeth II turned to 94 years old, and actually my grandmother is about the same age, 
so I hope she will also live a long healthy life.
 
The genre of this song is WIND ORCHESTRA.  This is wind orchestra, which is a brass band music with only brass, 
woodwinds, and percussions.  (So this is not an orchestra song with strings.)
In the past, I've took some part in a brass band, so brass band music was something that I wanted to 
create some time, so I've challenged to create this time.  The point for composing this music piece 
was how to express force without strings.  Actually, I've imitated some parts from some reference songs,
and also there's some possibility that melodies I've created might just be some melody which I unconciously
remembered from the music I've heard sometimes in the past.  Though I'm hoping that this is actually an 
original music when the whole song is played.

The spelling of "Colour" in the title "Trooping the Colour" is in UK English as this is something related
to UK.


[About BMS Creation]

丒General Creation

I think the creation period is about 2 and a half months.
I've started composing the music around from mid March, and completed the composition by late March,
and then recorded sounds / chopped sound files / created temporary charts, and at the same time I created
PMS work for S9B2020 event.  And other than the BGA (background animation), most of the works were once
completed by early April.  After 1-2 weeks, I was also able to complete creation of BGA, and realized that
most of the work is completed way back before the Mumei-sen entry starts.
But when listened to BMS songs from Mumei-sen 16th event once again, I felt some lack in my created work,
and felt something additional needs to be done to improve.  From that time, trial and error started to
improve the work.  After a month of trial and error attempt, the work became somehow satisfactory for me,
and that was around beginning of May.  But I still continued the attempt to improve the balance of the
entire sound in the whole music, also attempted some mixing to get rid of sounds being burried with 
other sounds, and realized it was near end of May.  I decided to finish the work feeling that the work 
may become worse if I kept on continuing the trial and error to improve the work.  
  

丒Music Composition

As I mentioned earlier, I resumed to create BMS from November 2019 which is after 17 years when I was
previously creating BMS in the past, and not only BMS, I have not touched DTM related stuff for 17 years.
So actually, it's been more than 18 years since I did some music compostion in the past.  In the past
I've composed about 20 songs including incomplete and unpublished songs, and most of the songs were
incomplete and didn't think much when I created, so it wasn't that I had some intuition to create songs
and all I had to do was to recall this intuition.  Acutally, music compostion was also a trial and error
activity.  But I think I've enjoyed this activity, and it was actually fun!
As I was away from DTM related stuff for a long time, there is no instrument such as synthesizer or piano
keyboard to assist music composition, so what I did was to think of a melody in my brain, and then hummed
this melody and recorded to my smartphone, and then input notes in DAW to extend my image, and so on.
As a result, my smartphone became filled with movie recording my room's wall, seasoned with my humming voice.
Recently, I failed to keep my eye on my smartphone, and realized my 4 years old son was giggling 
doing some film festival with these movies recorded in my smartphone....   
I thought, maybe next time, instead of composing music by humming, I should buy some cheap piano keyboard
to assist music composition.  Probably, I can let my son start to learn piano, then it would be a good
excuse to buy a piano keyboard.
As music was created in above method, it was kind of difficult to imagine harmony of sounds, so I think
only easy chords are used in this song.


丒BGA Creation

This was also a trial and error activity.  Actually, before creating BGA of this song, I have created
another BMS for WW event(which is planned in August), and also completed creating BGA for that BMS.
As for the BGA of the BMS of WW event, I've created BGA using free vj loops and mixed multiple loops
using Resolume.  But as for this BMS, since the theme of this is Trooping the Colour and this actually
exists, I've collected free modifiable photos and movies related to this ceremony, and put these together
as one movie work.  I attempted to mix multiple pictures and movies like I did to the BGA of the WW song,
but I've realized this way wasn't suitable this time, so I've just connected the movies and photos, and
put some effects.  Some part may look bad since the image is flickering, but this is something intentional.
Most of the photos and movies are collected from photo/movie materials sites, but some movies are
taken by myself.  The movie with soldiers trooping is all taken by myself.  This was taken when I went
to see the actual Trooping the Colour when I was living in London.
 
丒Charts Creation

As I was creating BMS in the era which 5key BMS was the main trend, personally I could not exclude
5key charts,  Also, the current trend is 7key BMS, so also created 7key charts.  In addition,
as I was motivated to create PMS after joining the S9B2020 event in April, I've also created 9key PMS.
And each have different charts with several difficulties, so there are plenty of charts.
Also, as high-difficulty charts are popular nowadays, I've asked C4-san to create a high difficulty chart,
who have been creating many charts and have good reputation on charts creation.
I didn't really think about creating high-difficulty charts when composing this song, so I suppose 
it was difficult to create high-difficulty charts, but I would like to greatly thank him for creating 
the chart in good quality.
As for all the charts, I have placed the object so that it would be natural to the music scale, and
also have carefully selected which sound to set as key sounds.  As for BEGINNER charts, I've created
the chart with less key sound, taking the rhythm of the music.
  

丒Sound Creation/Mixing

Again, trial & error activity as usual.  When I first completed the work around beginning of April,
I was using the sound source which is included in the DAW (TTS-1 which is included in Cakewalk for Bandlab),
but I've realized that although the sounds are coordinated, the sounds are lacking some force.
So I was thinking for a while how this can be improved.
Around end of April, I've realized that EASTWEST/QUANTAM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra Gold(EWSO from below), 
which is an entry model orchestra sound source, was actually U.S.$212 as a result of the STAY AT HOME 
sale due to the impact of COVID-19. I decided to buy this, and after obtaining this new sound source,
I've once again did the recording of sounds all over again.
Also, in the previous version, I've realized that there were multiple percussion sounds with slightly
different length, and actually these differences of length were unnecessary.  So I unified the length 
and deleted the unnecessary sounds.  As a result, old and new sounds did not match 1 to 1, so all the
charts were also needed to be remade.  So I asked C4 san not to create high difficulty charts until
I complete the normal charts with new sound source.  Luckily, C4 san had not started the creation of
charts, so there wasn't much impact, but I would like to apologize to him once again for being busy.
As for the percussion sounds, in order to use the sounds from EWSO, there was a need to divide each
percussion sounds which was consolidated in 1 track in TTS-1.  This seemed a bit painstaking, and also
TTS-1 percussion sounds were not bad at all, so I decided to continue using the TTS-1 percussion sounds
by adjusting the reverbe level so that it would harmonize to EWSO sounds.  Actually, sometimes after,
I attempted to replace the percussion sounds to EWSO sounds, but the sounds slightly didn't match to the
atmosphere of this song, so I stopped the attempt of sound replacement and decided to use TTS-1 
sound for percussions once again.
EWSO sounds seemed to have great force, so I didn't do many things to these sounds.
For balance adjustment and to avoid sound cracking, volume and pan control, and some slight EQ control
is added.  As for TTS-1 percussion sounds, pseudo compression is added to earn sound pressure,
enhancement of low frequency was made to some sounds, and as a result EQ control was also necessary
to avoid sounds being buried by other sounds.
I let the sounds being kept buried for which does not have to come to the front, but kept to be careful
to highlight the sounds which should be heard.  Still there were some sounds which seemed to be buried
but actually need to be heard.  I tried some EQ control to these sounds also, but realized the
sound became a bit wierd or lost some force, so I stopped doing adjustment to these sounds.
For this area of mixing, I think I need to learn more and make improvement for future creation activity.
Control is made to avoid sound cracking at least to my playing environment, but there might stil be some 
sound cracking depending on the environment.



[BMS Creation Environment]

丒PC
丂Note PC(LAVIE)  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80GHz  RAM:16.0GB
                   OS: Windows 10 Home

丒Used Software
  Cakewalk by Bandlab (DAW)
  GoldWave (Sound mixing, sound file format change, etc)
丂Sound Engine Free乮Sound mixing乯
  Mid2BMS (BMS/PMS creation, sounds slicing)
丂FireAlpaca64 (Image modification)
丂GIMP 2.10.12 (Image modification)
丂Paint (Image modification)
丂BeeCut乮Movie creation, amendment, adding effects, inserting words乯
  Phonto (Insert words to image)
  BMx Sequence Editor 1.3.8 (BMS/PMS editing)
丂ubmplay (BMS/PMS test play)
丂mbmplay (BMS/PMS test play)
  LR2 (BMS/PMS test play)
丂beatoraja (BMS/PMS test play)
  Simamu (Sounds consolidation乯
  padie (Color reduction of images) 
  Notepad (BMS/PMS file editing)
  丒丒etc (some other softwares might also be used)

丒Sound Source
丂Cakewalk TTS-1
  EASTWEST/QUANTAM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra Gold
丂
丒Test play
丂JVC Wireless Stereo Head Set HA-SD70BT
丂Lunatic Rave 2
  beatoraja

[About Redistribution]

There's no problem to redistribute through event package.
(Though, please include this _ReadMe.txt as this has credit information.
 But maybe I don't really have to say this since ReadMe is included in the BMS archieve file
 and when redistributing, ReadMe should automatically be included.)

I suppose OGG files and PNG files used in this work can be redistributed/modified, but please
only do this in self-responsibility.  It's much appreciated if you can let me know
when using these sounds.
As for photo images, these are created by modifing photo materials which can be redistributed and 
modified in certain condition.  When using, please go through the terms & conditions of the
original distribution web site.  (Excluding the ones of the public domain, images
are able to be modified/redistributed for non-commercial use if credit information is clearly
written.)

As for the source of images and movies, please see [Credits] written below.

If you have any request, please let me konw through my web-site, email, or twitter account. 


[Credits]

Pictures & videos from the following artists are used:
(*Some pictures & videos are taken by mots)

@Doug8888
https://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/
Waldemar Jan
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128905059@N02/
_dChris
https://www.flickr.com/photos/_dchris/
Beechwood Photography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beechwoodphotography/
Mike_fleming
https://www.flickr.com/photos/flem007_uk/
fsse8info
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fsse-info/
Nick Warner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nick777/
Johnpannell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpannell/
Rachel Clarke
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelc/
Over Doz
https://www.flickr.com/photos/overdozoverdoz/
Tjukka2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjukka2/
Bauer00007
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bauer007/
Duca Mendes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ducamendes/
Spicygreenginger
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spicygreenginger/
NIKOS karakasidis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132050254@N04/
Natasha
https://www.flickr.com/photos/natasadmk/
blnr37
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blner37/
terenehisholm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22486514@N04/  (Public Domain)
Defence Images
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defenceimages/
JimmyMac210
https://www.flickr.com/photos/silveraquarius/
Santanu Vasant
https://www.flickr.com/photos/santanuvasant/
Jess C
https://www.flickr.com/photos/slipstreamjc/
Stock footage by Videezy
http://www.videezy.com/



[Closure]
(Almost the same thing is written in the _ReadMe.txt attached to my PMS work of last PMS event.)

I did not participate in any of the BMS event when I was creating BMS in 2000-2002.
At that time, this might be my personal imagination, but BMS event was for famous well-known
BMS artists or BMS artists who had earned reputation through many review sites.
I think there were some events that only the artists who were asked to join can participate.
Actually, I was receiving impressions and comments of my BMS works from many people, 
by just posting my works at my website and advertising the works through some BMS registration sites.
I was satisfied by those imressions and comments, and didn't really have to participate in BMS events
nor to post to review sites.  As for review sites, I inadvertently posted my very 1st BMS to
old Re-Rise and got crumpled, and that became a bit trauma, so I made a decision not to post to review
sites until I develop enough ability to create BMS.  And after some experience of creating BMS,
I only posted to club stubborn once.  Actually I wanted to agressively post to review sites
when I became confident of creating BMS (and really wanted to do a revenge match to Re-Rise), but
at that timing I got addicted to some online MMO game, and also got a job in real life, so I stopped the
activity from the time when I potentially can become a known BMS creator.  Probably if I didn't get
addicted to online MMO, then I might have participated in the 1st Mumei-sen.
Last year, I resumed the activity of creating BMS from some trigger incidents, but now I am starting to 
think to do something that I missed to do in the past.  I think BMS events are more frequently held
than the past, and I think there is rather an atmosphere that anyone can join the events, so as long
as my motivation exists, I'm hoping to participate agressively to future BMS events. 

So this was mots,  Thank you for reading! 

*Actually, this was my first time translating my ReadMe in English... I first thought that I can just
translate using some translation website, but I realized some nuance will change if translated by 
website.  So actually I translated the entire ReadMe manually.  It was a big task than I thought, 
so I don't know if I will do this in future BMS works...


[Contact Information]

If you have any comments / request about this BMS or other BMS created by mots, or anything related
to my website, please contact below.

mots
URL    https://mn241013.wixsite.com/home
twitter @mn241013
e-mail mn241013@gmail.com