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KingDando favorited a video
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I had sent Tom a couple links of different arrangements of this tune, but he had yet to click on any of them when I presented this sheet music arra...
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I had sent Tom a couple links of different arrangements of this tune, but he had yet to click on any of them when I presented this sheet music arrangement to him, so this is the first time he has heard the tune, much less seen the music.
You can download my piano arrangement here:
http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/music/ho...
Stay tuned for a video of Tom building up on the Super Mario Land Birabuto Kingdom theme, which was recorded the same day. (But, darn the luck, I decided not to record when he sight-read the Yoshi Valley / Moo-Moo Farm theme from Mario Kart almost flawlessly... Maybe we can save that one for a video of him actually playing something he's played before -- what a novel concept!)
Anyway, I think three different YouTubers had asked if I could have Tom play this tune. None knew of any existing sheet music scores, so I made my own arrangement based on several recordings. The tune is from the Nintento role-playing series "Mother" (Japanese title) / "EarthBound" (English title), where it is called simply "Buy Somethin', Will Ya!" It was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.
Since he hadn't played the tune before, Tom takes it at a slow tempo all the way through the first time, rather than speeding up throughout the tune as I indicate on the sheet music, then plays it faster all the way through the second time around to make up for it. He has a bit of difficulty with the second section, so we'll have to take another crack at making a video of this to get a flawless performance in. He liked the tune, though, and wondered if the Raspberry Jam Band might like this as much as they do "K.K. Ragtime"... so who knows what the future may hold?
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KingDando favorited a video
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Instead of making a fully-scored rag out of this, I left it in the three-note simple arrangement used by the old video game. I asked Tom to play it...
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Instead of making a fully-scored rag out of this, I left it in the three-note simple arrangement used by the old video game. I asked Tom to play it straight at first and then build up on it, to demonstrate to people who like to play these tunes how they might fill in a tune such as this. It's silly to limit yourself to the same three voices that the old synthesizer chips had. You have more fingers than that...
The score he is reading from is here: http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/music/bi...
But of course he's adding a lot to it.
He has seen the score before, briefly back in November, but had never played it until this moment.
This tune was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.
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KingDando favorited a video
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During the Friday-night party the weekend of the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, a sight-reading session broke out. You've seen a couple videos of T...
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During the Friday-night party the weekend of the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, a sight-reading session broke out. You've seen a couple videos of Tom Brier from that session, but here's one from Andrew Barrett, who's also a terrific sight-reader. He plays Larisa Migachyov's "Flying Tomato Rag" with the composer present.
There's a bit of fun when a page isn't quite turned in time, so Andrew pretends to be "stuck" until we knock him back on track!
Afterward, Andrew analyzes his playing by watching the PianoDisc system replay his performance. He did a marvelous job for a first read, I think! He's one of the best sight-readers out there.
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KingDando favorited a video
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from They might be Giants Newest album
Here Come The 123s
Nonagon
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KingDando favorited a video
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Another classic from They Might Be Giants - again the best version IMHO, augmented with more intrumentation,including a subtle synth based plucking...
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Another classic from They Might Be Giants - again the best version IMHO, augmented with more intrumentation,including a subtle synth based plucking strings and great vocal harmonies- this is from Late Night Dave in 1992 -
sorry about the quality, this was a dub like the other one.
A very sheepish gaze from behind the accordian.
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