{"id":4158,"date":"2011-11-15T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2016-07-17T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:45:31","slug":"super-mario-the-czerny-studies-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/super-mario-the-czerny-studies-of-our-time-4158\/","title":{"rendered":"New Super Mario Piano Sheet Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Super Mario &#8211; The Czerny Studies of Our Time?<\/h2>\n<p>Are there any pianists out there who have never played studies by Czerny as part of their training? Probably not many. It is a fact that the technical and stylistic formulas necessary for playing the masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers can be developed by playing Czerny&#8217;s studies.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, a controversial issue, since many teachers argue that valuable practice time should not be wasted on such mechanical and artistically dry pieces when the same results can be achieved by practicing real music.<\/p>\n<p>From another point of view, we do not only play music from the classical period these days. If you want to equip yourself with sufficient technical and musical skills to play, for example, Fanfares, one of the more frequently played \u00e9tudes by Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti, old Czerny may not be exactly what you need.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fanfares from Studies Book 1 by Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/ligeti-fanfares-sample.jpg\" title=\"Ligeti Study: Fanfares - piano sheet music\" width=\"100%\"  \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Fanfares&quot; from Studies Book 1 by Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The main problems in the \u00e9tude are:<br \/>\n1. Playing quick series of double-notes of various intervals in irregular patterns,<br \/>\n2. Synchronizing the irregular \u201cmelody\u201d with a syncopated accompaniment,<br \/>\n3. Delivering a constant stream of eighth notes in such syncopated patterns for 11 pages without losing focus and \u201cfalling off the rope\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Czerny, a better preparatory exercise for this piece could be the well-known Overworld Main Theme from the video game Super Mario Bros, composed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koji_Kondo\" target=\"web\"> Koji Kondo<\/a>. It contains the first two of the above-mentioned problems but in a more accessible format, while the third issue (focus\/sustained attention) could possibly be practiced by playing the actual video game, aiming to go all the way through and beat Bowser without making a single mistake.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Overworld Main Theme from the legendary video game Super Mario Bros.\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/mario-sample.jpg\" title=\"Super mario - piano sheet music\" width=\"100%\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Overworld Main Theme from the legendary video game Super Mario Bros.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>\nThe New Super Mario Series by Alfred Music Publishing<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/mario-for-piano.jpg\" title=\"Mario Piano Music\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" \/>Last week, Alfred Music Publishing released officially licensed piano scores for the popular Super Mario Bros.\u2122 video game series. This collection of 34 pieces contains the instantly recognizable melodies beloved by generations of gamers around the world, and is available in two versions: original transcriptions and easy piano arrangements.<br \/>\nFrom Koji Kondo\u2019s iconic Super Mario \u201cGround\u201d background music to the new Super Mario Wii\u2122 themes, the dozens of pieces in these books represent two and a half decades of Nintendo video game favorites. <\/p>\n<p>The easy piano arrangements are simplified to make them enjoyable for novice pianists, although the rhythmic complexity as well as the often un-pianistic melodic patterns makes them quite a challenge even for the intermediate level pianist. The \u201cIntermediate-Advanced Piano Solos\u201d book features note-by-note transcriptions for solo piano performance. Many of these are technically demanding, which makes them suitable exercises for both \u201cserious\u201d contemporary music as well as for various pop music styles. <\/p>\n<p>Samples pages of the sheet music:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfred.com\/samplepages\/00-38633.pdf\" target=\"web\">Easy piano: Ground, Underwater, Battle and Desert background music<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfred.com\/samplepages\/00-38600.pdf#page=3\" target=\"web\">Original arrangement: Ground background music<\/a><br \/>\nRead more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfred.com\/Nintendo\" target=\"web\">Alfred Music Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Mariopiano.com<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/mariopiano-website.jpg\" title=\"Mario Piano Scores\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>Another source of Super Mario piano scores is the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariopiano.com\/\" target=\"web\">mariopiano.com<\/a> which offers &#8220;didactic arrangements&#8221; of all themes and sound effects from the original Super Mario Bros (1985).<br \/>\nThese are also note-by-note transcriptions of the original 8-bit NES music where the didactic merits are in the form of well-crafted fingerings and that all pieces are notated in <em>alla breve<\/em> in order to facilitate rhythmic reading.<\/p>\n<p>Examples: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariopiano.com\/Mario-Sheet-Music-Overworld-Main-Theme.pdf\" target=\"web\">Overworld Main Theme<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariopiano.com\/Mario-Sheet-Music-Underwater-Theme.pdf\" target=\"web\">Underwater Theme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and from Mariomayhem.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariomayhem.com\/downloads\/sheet_music\/super_mario_brothers_complete\/smb1_complete.pdf\" target=\"web\">Super Mario Brothers for the piano<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s now look 100 years ahead. Will this be the typical opening phrase of a lesson with the 22th century piano teacher?<br \/>\n<em>\u201cLet\u2019s begin with the scales and then I would like to hear your Mario Studies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario &#8211; The Czerny Studies of Our Time? Are there any pianists out there who have never played studies by Czerny as part of their training? Probably not many. It is a fact that the technical and stylistic formulas necessary for playing the masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers can be developed by playing Czerny&#8217;s studies. 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