[S0E66] The True Gift of Gifting

[barbeque]

Claiming this one since it seems nobody else is working on the holiday special songs. I have audio/video, will post that once finished/playable.

WIP lyrics, including syllables, except for the CAPSLOCK parts ("really" and some Pinkie Pie non-singing stuff):

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I want+ed to get you
Some+thing oh, so rare
A gift to show I care
But noth+ing can com+pare

To you, that's easy to see
But I got stressed and o+ver+thought
Un+til the day was shot
And it was all for naught
But now it's clear to me

I'm not gif+ted at gift+ing
It's REALLY pret+ty sad
I tried to show I care
But it turned out bad

I'm not gift+ed at gift+ing
So all that's left to say
Is that I REALLY hope my gift+ing
Did+n't ru+in your hol+i+day


Oh, Spike
A song is a love+ly pres+ent
I want+ed to get you the best gift ev+er
I just could+n't fig+ure out what it was

Ooh! Ooh!
The gift+-giv+er taught me that
Eh, what was it?
The best gift is more pre+cious than gold
But it can+not be sold
PINKIEPLS1
PINKIEPLS2
It can nev+er be bought
Yet is ea+si+ly sought

What's so fun+ny?

It's a rid+dle
And the an+swer is
Friend+ship


The most mag+i+cal gift
That I can re+call
It could+'ve been big or small
Or even noth+ing at all

It does+n't mat+ter, you see
If it's from my friends on whom I de+pend
No mat+ter what you spend
It will be per+fect to me

The true gift of gift+ing
Is what it means in+side
We can show we care
Spread+ing love far and wide

The true gift of gift+ing
Is to+tal+ly free
And you're the best there is at giv+in' it
With the friend+ship that you give to me


We've all been friends for+ev+er
And look how far we've come
how far we've come
The hol+i+day brings us close
And now it's time for fun
it's now be+gun


The great+est gift you give to me
Is more pre+cious than gold


Ah+-ah+-ah+-ah


Nev+er end+ed, always mend+ed
And it can't be bought or sold


The true gift of gift+ing
Is what it means in+side
We can show we care
Spread+ing love far and wide

The true gift of gift+ing
Is to+tal+ly free
And you're the best there is at giv+in' it
With the friend+ship that you give to me

And so it worked out
And a les+son was learned
There's no need to ob+sess
Gift+-giv+ing is sim+ple
As long as you re+call
friend+ship is the best gift of all


[barbeque]

It's by no means finished, but I'm posting this now because I very likely will not have any more time to work on it until 2019.
If nobody else has claimed it by then, I'll continue working on it (if that happens I'll make a reply first) but hopefully things are now in such a state that someone that actually has some time can do the final adjustments in less time than recreating the entire thing from scratch.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GWOgCTPitg2srX6Jb4A8vwDF3XIZw7RI

NB: the above link is NOT a finished song! At least the following issues still remain:
- There's a lot of very short notes in this song (for example: 'the' or 'of'). General pitch checking aside, check these especially.
- Feel free to replace the artwork. The cropped background is currently in a non-optimal resolution.
- Check extract.sh if you need the AC-3 audio to make an instrumental version or something, but beware of syncing issues (the wav-hack is in there for a reason).
- You will probably want to recode the video (or just extract it yourself from the original and encode that)
- You will probably want to do something about the mp3 volume (or the lack thereof, lol)
- Golden notes: there are some, but feel free to adjust

Other than that, fun song! There's some nice octave jumps in there.

Below is the contents of notes.txt

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#TITLE:The True Gift of Gifting
#ARTIST:My Little Pony
#LANGUAGE:English
#EDITION:My Little Pony
#GENRE:Pony
#YEAR:2018
#CREATOR:barbeque
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#BACKGROUND:background.png
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