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Offline perfect_pitch

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Looking for pieces to arrange...
on: April 09, 2015, 08:05:23 AM
After my last rant, I feel that playing the great works of Beethoven is great, but simply and inevitably almost doing the same thing as hundreds, if not thousands of other people. Those who know me are aware that sometimes I do arrangements of pieces for fun, and I think I need to really kick-start that again.

I'm looking for pieces of music (any length or difficulty) that you think could be arranged nicely for the piano... and if I like what I hear, then I shall do it. It can be any genre - Game, Movie, TV, Radio (but no Bieber of One Direction - that JUST isn't funny), Anime etc... Be creative.

I think I need to do something Unique.

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Re: Looking for pieces to arrange...
Reply #1 on: April 09, 2015, 08:34:45 AM
I'm looking for pieces of music (any length or difficulty) that you think could be arranged nicely for the piano... and if I like what I hear, then I shall do it. It can be any genre - Game, [...]

I refer to "Game".

What about arranging Rob Hubbard's masterwork " Monty on the Run" for piano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcgruWlXnQ

( Listen expecially from 4:50 on, until the end.)

Rob Hubbard was a master-musician on the Commodore C-64, he programmed preferrably most of his music which is MARVELLOUS (check out "Master of Magic", "Rasputin", and others, on YT, too) , in pure Assembler language.

Cordially, 8_octaves!

PS.: Master of Magic:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5Hjsm5NZ4

Rasputin:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahawQJ4b5GY (listen especially to 2:40 to end.)

PS.: This was in an aera, when the "PCs" of "IBM" and the "Homecomputers" of "Schneider" and "Atari" couldn't even halfways compete with the SID chip being built in in the C 64. And even TODAY some "musicians" of "games" fail, in comparison.
"Never be afraid to play before an artist.
The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreño, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)

Offline j_menz

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Re: Looking for pieces to arrange...
Reply #2 on: April 09, 2015, 11:01:30 AM
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

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Re: Looking for pieces to arrange...
Reply #3 on: April 09, 2015, 02:20:09 PM
always loved this thing. could make for a cool (but difficult) piece to both arrange and perform

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Re: Looking for pieces to arrange...
Reply #4 on: April 09, 2015, 03:13:45 PM
The Virtuous Queen of Han has a very good soundtrack, unlike most Chinese history dramas. I wrote its melodies down, but am too lazy to arrange it  ::) Too bad no where can I find the soundtrack composer  :'(
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