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Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 15, 2008, 08:38:37 PM

Hey, I'm starting up this topic where I'll be posting audio and video (maybe video, we'll see :p) clips of me attempting to play random songs on the keyboard. :lol:

I'm going to start this off with the intro to the Nightwish song, Amaranth:

Nightwish - Amaranth (opening) (http://search3.idrive.com/driveway/jsp/dway_download.jsp?id=w2a7x0h6i5)

I can kind of play the whole song with the right hand but not with the left hand yet. :p
If you're curious though, here's what happens when I try to play the full song. :lol
(I'm playing a keyboard arrangement I wrote. I wrote this with the intention that it is the accompaniment to a flute playing the lead part.  When playing the right hand by itself here, I play some of the lead stuff in this recording, just because...)
Amaranth full, attempted to play :p (http://search3.idrive.com/driveway/jsp/dway_download.jsp?id=l4e2e2v8j1)

If anyone is interested in a PDF of the sheet music I wrote up, I'm willing to share it.
More songs coming eventually! :p

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Amaranthine on July 15, 2008, 08:49:27 PM

BRAVO! *applause*

I personally am not TOO much of a fan of this song. I love the lyrics though :)

Well, I'll love to hear more when you have the time :)

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 15, 2008, 08:52:48 PM

I find that not a lot of Nightwish songs transfer really well to a solo keyboard arrangement, mainly because of trying to figure out what the heck to do with the left hand. :lol:

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Amaranthine on July 15, 2008, 08:54:57 PM

Oh well, I thought it was very good :) I understand what you mean since Nightwish are always so dynamic, but still I thought it was good.

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 15, 2008, 08:56:36 PM

Haha thanks. :)  I'll see if maybe I can do Cadence of Her Last Breath sometime.  I did Amaranth because I had already done the sheet music for it previously.  Any other would require me to sit down and figure out sheet music. :p

I'd like to do Fantasmic if I could but I just can't see a nice way to convert that into a solo piano thing! :p
not to mention, the keyboard part in Fantasmic originally is pretty brutal.  :lol

I'm finally able to play the opening keyboard part from Gethsemane though (well...kinda), so that makes me happy! :D
It's easier than it sounds but it's still pretty damn hard. :p

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 15, 2008, 09:06:57 PM

Gethsemane opening, right hand keyboard part:
http://search3.idrive.com/driveway/jsp/dwa...p?id=b9z0j3m3y3 (http://search3.idrive.com/driveway/jsp/dway_download.jsp?id=b9z0j3m3y3)
Basically got it, anyway. :p

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Amaranthine on July 15, 2008, 10:23:23 PM

The last one sounded a bit like Nightwish's song "Beauty and the Beast" at the least the beginning part of it.

I never of that song, "Gethsemane".

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 16, 2008, 12:16:49 AM

It's an older one but I enjoy it. :)

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Kor on July 16, 2008, 12:45:23 AM

That is good playing, you play well.

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 16, 2008, 02:06:29 AM

Thanks Kor. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it! :wow

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Kor on July 16, 2008, 03:56:40 AM

do you do that often?

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: Mumbling on July 16, 2008, 07:08:15 AM

Nice :^.^:  :yes

Title: Me playing random songs :P
Post by: action9000 on July 18, 2008, 01:56:08 AM

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Nice  

Heehee, glad ya liked it. :)

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do you do that often?

I have been arranging music less often lately, mainly due to it taking a long time.  I more often just enjoy playing simpler versions of songs that I can basically figure out and play while listening to the actual song.  That takes less effort and I'm lazy! :p

Of course, the songs like Amaranth here are more rewarding because I have it physically written down and the result is kind of worth listening to.  I do enjoy playing along with songs for fun though. :) I just find it entertaining and relaxing; a break from working on stuff. B)