Mark ... do you mean you weren't actually playing that? ... could you explain more about the process? ...
thanks
I was thinking about how I did that after I posted it. I figured it out when I listened to the little nuances. It's MY style of playing. Listen close and you can hear that it's live playing and NOT a MIDI machine.
The sequence of events was figure out in my head what I wanted the arrangement to sound like. After I got that down, I played it a couple of times into, I think, my keyboard at the time and recorded the best run as a MIDI file. The first time through I laid down the basic melody and the second time I overlaid the brass on another channel. The drum breaks I scored putting down notes with the software (using channel 10?). The very fast runs (clarinet, etc) I DID have to "clean" a few of the notes up, but just a few. Those runs are not as difficult as they appear to be. Just basically scales.
The whole thing is too stiff, it's really orchestrated for a live band.
I forgot to mention WHY I did the arrangement. I was talking to the leader of a nation-wide well-known polka band that I wanted to be a part of. I thought I'd have leverage if I came up with an arrangement that he could use. Well, I never got to present it to him and....I never got to be in his band!