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Yay, It's me playing Wicked child (Stage 3), a more than awesome video game tune from the notorious game Castlevania for the Nes.
Composer: Kinuyo Y...
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Yay, It's me playing Wicked child (Stage 3), a more than awesome video game tune from the notorious game Castlevania for the Nes.
Composer: Kinuyo Yamashita.
I'm not exactly fond of cameras and It would be a lie to say I'm comfortable being in front of one (I don't like the way they stare), but this is one of my favorite video game compositions and I have listened, played, sung, danced, jumped and cried to it but never recorded it like this. I wanted to try something different for a change, apart from simply playing for myself or in public. I also felt an annoying underrepresentation of (good) piano videos particularly for this awesome tune, hence motivating me further. (=
Worth to note is that the song plays in the key of E instead of the original D. More precisely, I technically play the song in D, but I digitally bumped up the whole keyset two steps, pressing C will generate D, and D will generate E etc. As much as I love this song in it's original key, it just sounded...messy when recorded. By playing in one key higher, it sounds a lot clearer.
Some of you may be smart enough to realize that "hey this is not exactly how it was played in the game! wtf!". Well, as many other musicians, I tend to characterize the pieces I play, converting them to fit my own personal playing style. I have a habit of merging original tunes with my own arrangements, twists and quirks, though at the same time keeping the original feel and base chords intact.
If you can endure my randomly spasmic expressions and my disobedient tongue now and then, please enjoy my personal interpretation of this wonderful piece of video game history in any way you might find possible. (=
Yes I have long hair and I have no frickin' idea why the left wall decides to change color at 3:50. 0_o
//lopingg
**I don't have any sheets! I learned this by ear and have no plans whatsoever on writing sheets for my original arrangements in this song, so please don't bother asking. Thanks! :3 **
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I'm not kidding either. Apparently if I want to gain the true power of the Vampire Killer, I have to fight the whip's memory of Richter Belmont. An...
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I'm not kidding either. Apparently if I want to gain the true power of the Vampire Killer, I have to fight the whip's memory of Richter Belmont. And he deals heavy damage with every attack he has. It takes me a couple of tries, and many... MANY potions, but I manage to beat him in the end, to discover the true power of a whip that I'm not even sure I'm gonna use.
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Donkey and Diddy Kong come home in stitches.
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Castlevania Adventure "Death Fair" Theme (DJ Despite Remaster)
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Composer: Hidehiro Funauchi and Norio Hanzawa
Game: Castlevania: The Adventure
Platform: Game Boy
Year: 1989
作曲者：Ｈ・ふなうち, 半沢紀夫
ゲーム：ドラキュラ伝説
コンソール：ゲームボーイ
年：1...
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Composer: Hidehiro Funauchi and Norio Hanzawa
Game: Castlevania: The Adventure
Platform: Game Boy
Year: 1989
作曲者：Ｈ・ふなうち, 半沢紀夫
ゲーム：ドラキュラ伝説
コンソール：ゲームボーイ
年：1989
This is a MIDI rendering of the entire Castlevania: The Adventure soundtrack (which, with repeats doesn't even exceed 10 minutes). Not very good or rewarding gameplay wise, it does sport a very strong soundtrack. I've transcribed this for piano, but (as with many raw-transcriptions, it's not very pianistic), so I guess you can play it if you want. Most of these aren't very playable for the fledgling pianist though, with many awkward stretches, difficult voicings, insane tempi and quite complex polyrhythms. But I suppose someone else who is bothered can arrange this for 'playable piano'.
Anyway:
Start BGM 0:00
Battle of the Holy 0:05
The bass part in the original was quite boring so I adapted some of it from the "Rebirth" version, which doesn't really change much in terms of chords and harmony, except for in Bar 24 where the D# in the bass is a D-natural in the original. The alto voice is also adapted from the "Rebirth" version. Bars 18-21 are quite unplayable but that's how it sounds in the original.
Kill! Kill! Kill! 01:52
The title is "Kill! Kill! Kill!". The tempo is "Kill! Kill! Kill!". The expression marking is "With murderous intent", and "Kill!" every bar through in case you forget. Show no mercy.
Stage Clear 2:17
You can play this if you feel like congratulating yourself after having killed something.
Game Over 2:22
You are dead. Play this to celebrate. Adapted from the "Belmont's Revenge" version, which has an alto voicing.
Darkness (actually Death Fair) 2:29
Besides a minor 10th stretch and some polyrhythms, quite easy.
Death Fair (actually Darkness) 3:37
Pretty boring really, and would be quite easy too, if it wasn't for that chromatic cadenza halfway through. The fourth note in the bass of Bar 5 is either an A or a G# (I can't make it out too well). Maybe it's different with every repeat.
Revenge 4:51
That's 'with attitude'. Pretty easy stuff, and it's one of the better songs in the soundtrack, together with "Darkness" and "Battle of the Holy".
Evil Devil 6:06
Yeah, it's the fastest tempo on your metronome. There were some ridiculous scales going on in the background in bars 4 and 8 but they were too fast and this thing is difficult enough as it is. If you don't feel like tremolling your fingers off in Bars 11-14, you can play them as chords instead, I guess. I didn't like the lack of closure (thanks to the time signature), so I improvised an ending.
Gate to Hell 6:58
Should come before "Evil Devil", chronologically, but for some reason, it doesn't appear so in the soundtrack listing. You don't have to play the alto voicing in Bar 4, but it's there in the original. I really don't know why you'd want to play this in the first place though.
Also, it says 6/4 in the second bar, but it's a typo from the fussy time signature in "Evil Devil" (they're on the same page for space saving reasons). Everything's safely in 4/4.
Reprise 7:16
The "Reprise" is just repeating the first 4 bars ad infinitum with a fade in and fade out. Go knock yourself out.
Theme from "Legend of Dracula" 7:16
The voicing can get tricky, and the arpeggios a bit annoying, but it's probably the most playable in the soundtrack. The melody's quite nice also. ("Legend of Dracula" is the direct translation of "Dracula Densetsu", the Japanese name for this game. It is not a different game, and a properly contextualised translation would be "Theme from 'Castlevania: The Adventure'" but that sounds very, very stupid.)
In hindsight, I should've added more fortissimos, since the MP3 converter made everything sound like Chopin.
Thanks to SIFAssassin for pointing out the naming errors in "Death Fair" and "Darkness".
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