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Alright, I'll give this description a shot.

I started recording the video on December 24. I didn't get anything from the hours of retakes that day, so I continued the morning of December 25. Got the first part of the medley recorded by then. Since I kept on slipping on the second part of the medley, I decided to record the rest on December 26, and complete the medley I did.

After the recording which took freakin' 18 hours of my life (50% missed notes, 50% gliches from the program in my computer that records the audio for Synthogy Ivory), I started editing the video in Sony Vegas. The raw files were VERY different from the one you're seeing in the video. Since I got the recording near noon, the room was bright so I did a little adjusting in the lighting and brightness (though never bothered with color correction, hence the part 1 and part 2 have slightly different video hue).

Anyway, I included the original and clean version of the Ryuuseigun Medley and panned it to the upper left. Did some masking of the edges of the medley video and feathered it out for the smooth sides. I also adjusted the speed of each (most, I should say) song in the Clean Ver. of Ryuuseigun to match the piano video.

As I've said, my room had the blinds and a bit of the window open so it was very bright. I adjusted the lighting of the original piano video and LAYERED the same piano video on top so that I can mask out the keyboard. This made the keyboard have a brighter lighting than its surroundings, which I darkened. It seemed to have a glow effect since I feathered out the edges of the copied layer, which is a nice touch.

Now moving on to the actual arrangement, I transcribed it myself. I used a midi as a guide for easier transcribing. (Is this the right term? I think the verb 'to transcribe' is more with the writing than the actual arragement of a song/piece).

Relating to arragement and transcribing, on the second part of this Ryuuseigun Medley, I excluded 029 (Joint), 031(The Happy Escapism Song), 035 (Sennen Gensokyo), 037 (Makka na Chikai), 039 (Yuuki vs. Iji), and 040 (You are the Prince of Tennis), for the sake of the ease of arranging/transcribing (etc.). Also, the layered parts wasn't really clear in the midi file so it was very hard for me to learn it. BLAME THE ACTUAL MEDLEY... *eherm*. I sincerely apologize for those people who wanted the song to be in the video.

Overall, I'm really satisfied with the video and how it turned out in the end. It was a tough arrangement/transcription (what-the-hell-ever the appropriate term is) for me to play. A few errors, but really glad how the end product looked like. The ones that was really, REALLY hard for me to play were #009 and #011 on Part I, and A LOT of things in Part II like #023 (especially when my left hand started jumping). Though the ending is surprisingly not that hard.

Another note, the beginning of #043 (Kero Destiny), I had a bit of a pedalling problem. It's probably Synthogy Ivory failing to recieve the midi data from the piano. loolol, I'm not going to rerecord the second part just because of that glitch so I left it be. But a part of my heart is aching because I can't stand certain imperfections (I'm a tiny bit of a perfectionist. See the grammar and spelling? lol).

Oh, and last thing, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO ASK FOR IT LOOLLOLOL. I used the midi file to look at the sheet music, and made and made my own arrangement of it (memorized for performance). Another version of sheet music can be found in this video:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=fC37Ig-qF3M&fmt=18

Here's where I end my revised and a bit more descriptive description (lolol). I hope you enjoy this video made by my blood, sweat, and tears.

*If you have any comments, suggestions, criticisms, or notice an error in the names of the songs, write a comment down below or PM me (hopefully I wont assume that it's another sheet music PM and ignore it. I get SO MUCH of those a day. PLEASE USE SEARCH FIRST BEFORE ASKING FOR SHEET MUSIC. I included a video in the description already. =/) Whew, that's a long last note.

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