It's training day for Steven and Connie for them to fuse as Stevonnie but gets distracted when Connie's problem gets in the way, Garnet decides to help them out to overcome their terrible encounters. “Mindful Education” premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.
8. Luv u dad (and Garnet) - Steven Universe s2 Soundtrack
9. Oh No! - MARINA
10. Steven & Connie - Steven Universe Future Soundtrack
I'm gonna tag uhhhhhhh...
@sn0wgr4ve & @o0bxmb-guardner0o !!
Music Tag Game
I was tagged by @arthur-kilgore to put my playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs! I don't really use Spotify, so I'm pulling from my own music library!
Stand By Meme by Neil Cicierega
Conversation by Catfish & the Bottlemen
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Malia J
How to Rest by The Crane Wives
Solar Power by Lorde
Cemetery Drive by My Chemical Romance
Tomorrow Comes Today by Gorillaz
Razorblade by Blue October
Angel Blue by Green Day
San Cristobal by Mal Blum
I'm tagging @callapilla @geddyleeofficial @piddgeon and any of my mutuals that want to participate! ^^
Steven shoots a documentary film of both Sadie and the Cool Kids as they received their first gig for their new band out of town thanks to Greg being their manager, but Sadie worries that her mother, Barbara, could get in the way. “The Big Show” premiered on this day, 5 Years Ago.
Arranging the Music for “It’s Over, Isn’t It?”
I had the great pleasure of arranging and performing “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” for the episode Mr. Greg. This was my first time being involved at the early stages of a lyrical song! Since the song was focused on Pearl’s emotions–and I compose and perform all of Pearl’s piano parts–Rebecca and I collaborated to create an expressive instrumental track for Deedee Magno Hall to sing over. Rebecca first sent me her ukelele demo, and I drafted a piano accompaniment based on it, creating the main piano riff (measures 18-21 of the sheet music above). We passed my piano recording back and forth to solidify the musicality and tempo changes, so the song would breathe “naturally”.
After I recorded the piano part, we encountered a problem: the song was too long for the episode! To make it fit into our time constraints, we sped the piano recording up and had Deedee record Pearl’s vocals over it. She knocked it out of the park and gave a stunning performance!
But that led to another problem: the sped up piano arrangement now sounded way too aggressive. The song reached me again a few months later, for the composition/scoring phase of Mr. Greg. I decided to draft a new piano arrangement and re-recorded “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” along to Deedee’s vocals, with more restraint and space between chords to heighten Pearl’s loneliness. To give more pain and tension to the music, I gave the chords some darker colors and unresolved notes. I collaborated with Rebecca and storyboard artist Joe Johnston to decide what parts of the first arrangement to keep.
To represent Rose’s lingering presence, I added strings to the arrangement, performed beautifully by Jeff Ball. For those of you keeping score, this is Rose’s motivic instrument! I wrote them in 4-part string quartet style, so that this song could easily be performed by a string quartet, pianist, and vocalist.
Notes on the Sheet Music
Recently, Deedee and I performed “It’s Over, Isn’t It?” at San Diego Comic-Con! These are the sheets that I used on stage. It’s almost exactly what I played in the episode.
In measure 56, I didn’t feel like writing the entire arpeggio that I played (too many notes)–so where it says, “A MAJOR ARP”, you can just squeeze as many A major arpeggios in there as you feel like!
The two “D”s that I wrote are something that Deedee and I worked out for the performance, where I would follow her voice during the opening and ending, and she would follow my tempo throughout the rest. “D” for Deedee!
Hope you enjoyed Mr. Greg and this song! You can listen to the final arrangement in the episode here.
Relieved that Steven is recovering from the swelling, Greg decides to take his son around for a trip to explore how he gained the “Universe” name, leading them to pay a visit to Greg’s childhood home. “Mr. Universe” premiered on this day, 3 Years Ago.
After the events of “The Return”, Steven team up with a new ally, rather allies, in hopes to save the Crystal Gems and turn the ship around back to Earth, only to learn that Steven’s new allies have a trick up their sleeves. The Season 1 finale, “Jail Break”, premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.
When one of the members of the Ruby Squad, Navy, fell from Space and crash land on Earth, Steven decides to make some room by sending her to the barn with Lapis and Peridot but Lapis sense something is off about all of this with her new barn-mate. “Room for Ruby” premiered on this day, 6 Years Ago.