Snappleman - Castlevania 3 - The Count Of Transylvania

FULL QUALITY:
http://www.kotsamanidis.com/music/08_2009_count.mp3

This is an arrangement I made for the July 2009 Dwelling of Duels competition (dod.vgmix.com). The theme was games with passwords. I took this as an opportunity to cover one of my favourite soundtracks.

This is an updated version since the one I submitted to DoD was not mixed properly (I ran out of time before the deadline... as usual...) though the only change is the mixing. As any Dream Theater fan would tell you, the title is obviously inspired by their new album, on which there's a song called "The Count of Tuscany". The animation is done using MAMplayer, and since it only works with recorded MIDI events, the guitars and some other things aren't represented. In any case, enjoy!!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Snappleman
• Castlevania
• Beginning
• Aquarius
• Dwelling
• of
• Duels
• remix
• akumajo
• Dracula
• densetsu
• Guitar
• arrangement
• nes
• famicom

[patrickmarkiewicz]

Great song. I came across an FZero X Port Town Remix that has since disappeared from the interwebs called Oldfangled Night Thunder. Did you ever do anything more with that remix?

[AndreasKotsamanidis]

@patrickmarkiewicz

haha, nice! :)

last I remember that song only made it to a little preliminary WIP on VGmix, I might have the project file somewhere but it's been about 5 or 6 years so I don't know. Now you made me want to look for it!

[narutoson666]

@AndreasKotsamanidis Do you have tabs for the guitar?

[AndreasKotsamanidis]

@narutoson666 nope sorry, I don't tab or notate anything... I probably should but I'm so lazy...

[infectionsman]

Hey Andreas! Love the song! and by the way since i am such a total gear head and all, What guitar /pickups do you use? is it the same as in project chaos? Greetings from Sweden!

[AndreasKotsamanidis]

@infectionsman

Also, the guitar is a Carvin DC127, bass is Carvin LB20.

[freezerbabies]

Sounds like something Dream Theater would write

[SpaceGhostNZ]

I hope you won the competition because I can't imagine anything better than this!

[narutoson666]

@AndreasKotsamanidis Sadness XD

[ImTheDruggernaut]

Video game music doesn't get much sexier than this.

[estupefob]

1:47 eargasm

[panchololo]

Tuscansylvania

Nice work!

[OhJustCallMeLuke]

Dreamvania?

[OhJustCallMeLuke]

@freezerbabies If you think about that, the intro sounds like something that could've been part of Metropolis pt2.

[monicamonni]

Awesome work, Andreas, I love it! Pure power.

[Charleyx10]

I love that visualizer with the staff lines. Radical cover too.