#vgm piano cover

[9823678]

Pokémon ORAS - Ending (Synthesia Piano Tutorial)

[fearano]

My piano cover of Windmill Hut / Song of Storms from The Legend of Zelda

[crispitysmuggity]

Sealed Vessel/Radiance - piano cover (by Christopher Larkin, from Hollow Knight)

I HAVE EMERGED YET AGAIN FOR THE BIG THING I MENTIONED THAT ONE TIME

as you may know, hollow knight is one of my MOST FAVORITE THINGS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER, and the soundtrack is no exception, so i’ve been looking forward to posting this for a very long time.

finally, after a month of work, i managed to get a take that sounded good. i learned sealed vessel but i couldn’t help but feel like it was incomplete, so i added radiance too.

i definitely could have done a better take, but this arrangement is seven whole minutes and my tiny little silly brain can’t handle that much work. regardless, i’m still pretty happy with how it turned out.

go live life. play hollow knight. listen to music. see ya.

[fiddledo]

The Summer of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has begun! Starting off, I've redone my Dream and Hopes WITH LYRICS from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity with my very own arrangement. I'm really happy with how this turned out. Enjoy!

[papercoelacanth]

More Totono! Dying to Go Back (戻りたい、戻れない) Composed by Hirata Hironobu From YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story

[penguinsledder]

Piano cover of Fódlan Winds by Takeru Kanazaki from Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019).

Loosely based off a piano arrangement by Catrione

Started playing FE3H a few months ago and fell down a fandom black hole. The soundtrack is just AMAZING and the Fódlan Winds battle theme is fire!!! I just had to learn how to play this.

And yes, Fear the Deer 🦌💛🏹

[alphachromeyayo]

Little cover from Steins;Gate, because I love it. El Psy Kongroo. 🍌

[zpks]

We covered Korok Forest from Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom on piano and flute!

[gyrrakavian]

White Palace - Hollow Knight | Piano Trio

[nuac]

I liked making this one

[fearano]

My piano and string synth cover of Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 28/01/2024

Me and the rest area of the melee here, singing, "Where'd you go​?​"

Season 7 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Ruby

Ripped by Kenji Furutani

Y'know, for having followed the channel since way back in 2016, it's kind of funny it took until just last year for me to see the term "rip-hop" be used, in the comments to Me and the rest area of the melee here, singing, "Where'd you go​?​". I've covered plenty of rap mashups here on the blog before, be it kirby will never have drip *spits out cereal*, Top of the Looping Steps, or Noonsummer Madness, and while the directions for all these mashups are obviously different based on the tracks used, the latter in particular - Noonsummer Madness - has really stuck with me since covering it. And I think it is specifically because it uses its two sources to specifically embrace a chill, laid-back vibe, one similar to rips like Sidelined Symphony and Yoshi's Cookie World. If we're to be technical, all rap mashups count as rip-hop, but its these emotional rips in particular that truly begin to define the term for me.

A lot of the appeal with video game music, beyond its sheer quality of composition, arrangement, and so forth, is the emotional, nostalgic ties that you form with it through the act of playing. Listening to music through albums necessitates that you form your own associations with them - either that you know about the artists behind them and what they represent, or that you're able to associate the music with important parts of your life, or simply that the music brings you back to younger times upon relistening years later. A big reason why, growing up, I always found VGM so much more appealing to listen to than what the radio suggested was because those connections were already made from playing the game - I'd associate boss music with the emotions I felt upon fighting said boss, RPG town music with the state of my party and game experience up to that point, menu music associated with just how many hours I'd sunk into the game in question - this last reason in particular is precisely why rips like Neon Wi-Fi click so well for me. Nostalgia's a very powerful tool to bring out emotions in the listener, yet the one it seems to be best at leveraging is that of sheer sentimentality: the smiles and tears we had along the way.

And that, to me, is the purest essence of Rip-Hop, and what rips like Me and the rest area of the melee here, singing, "Where'd you go​?​" truly mean to me. Relistening to video game music I'm already well acquainted with doesn't always strike me as "nostalgic" when I've been hearing it so frequently in videos or just through replaying the games, yet...there's a sort of further emotional impact that gets extracted from them through little more than the power of a good rap song mashed up with it. Where'd You Go by Fort Minor of Linkin Park fame is, like with Noonsummer Madness, not a song I hold much of any memories with - yet the simple addition of its vocals and thumping percussion contrast so beautifully with Melee's All-Star Rest Area theme.

There's a beauty to just how simple the Rest Area theme is, being driven by a sequence of only 20 notes played in bunches of three, yet coated in a heavenly backing of pianos and string. That pairing of simplicity in melody yet beautiful instrumentation sort of embodies why "rip-hop" as a rip category is able to work so beautifully - many times, you don't need to jump through the most complex hoops to bring out the most out of two songs through mashing them up. Althesame, the amount of small tweaks done to both songs to make Me and the rest area of the melee here, singing, "Where'd you go​?​" work so seamlessly are still both noticeable and very much appreciated. I haven't been aware of Kenji Furutani's contributions to the channel until just recently, but with rips like this and more under their belt, its clear to me just how much of an understanding he has of the true potential video game music holds.

[sibyl-of-space]

Well this is it: the last piece of music I'll write for grad school. Never mind that I'm going to record some VGM covers on campus in a couple weeks, that's for fun, not for a grade.

The assignment was to write a theme and variations for piano, drawing from various practices we have studied. Since it's the last thing I wrote for school I decided to lean less into the particulars of the assignment and more into writing something that was fun and that I like. And I'm glad I did, because I do like it.

Theme: spooky waltz (I love spooky waltzes)

Variation I: bluesy

Variation II: 12-tone weirdness

Variation III: modal mixture (very loosely based on Debussy but mostly just me writing chords I liked)

Variation IV: just used this as an excuse to write another fugue

I want to make a more complete version of this eventually with a fuller orchestration, but I'm still very happy with the composition so I threw a mockup together to share. And with this.... what the fuck, I'm done???

[fiddledo]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on my blog and I wanted to start off by sharing something really special that I’ve put together. 

Back in 2018, I collaborated with Jorito, subversiveasset, and ImAFutureGuitarHero to create a remix of the song “Wings” from the game, Xeonogears. Earlier this year, the song became an official OCRemix. 

I decided that one day I would want to perform this live at a con and I wanted to make my own arrangement. So, today, I’ve posted it onto my YouTube and I hope you all will enjoy. 

I’m really happy with how this turned out! 

[papercoelacanth]

My piano cover and tutorial for Blissfully Ordinary, a short cute theme from YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story!