Ghosts 'n Goblins - 魔界村 - theme sight-read by Tom Brier, piano - ピアノ

The melody of this 1985 Capcom coin-op videogame theme always has been ragtime, but the left-hand part in the game was arpeggiated. Last year, I received an arrangement from YouTube's "MrTrent" with a march bass and some extra little bits thrown in which turned the theme into a true rag.

I finally got around to giving Tom a copy of it during this ragtime party last weekend.

The theme was composed by Ayako Mori (森 安也子). The game Ghosts 'n Goblins was titled 魔界村 ("Makaimura") in the original Japanese.

The sheet music that Tom is reading can be downloaded here: http://www.keeper1st.com/music/gandg1.pdf
...and just now I notice that I put a wrong note in the 13th measure. Ah well. It's obvious that it's wrong though, so shouldn't be a problem.

Category:

Gaming

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• videogame
• music
• piano
• capcom
• 森安也子
• ピアノ
• sightread
• sightreading
• ragtime
• rag
• カプコン

[ron15001]

haha nice work, feels like this could have been played in a 1880's old west saloon as well.

[Keeper1st]

@ron15001 No it doesn't. Ragtime wasn't around in the 1880s. Even if you extend "old west" into the early 1900s when ragtime was around, you wouldn't have heard it in what we think of as a "western" saloon. That would be like hearing Tupac in a modern-day western saloon full of cowboy types.

[Davixo75]

could give me the chords please? friend

[Keeper1st]

@Davixo75 The sheet music can be downloaded from the description. If you don't read music, the chords used throughout the main two strains are just Am, E7, A7, Dm, and B7. I'm sure you can figure out which are used when. Of course the melody in the first few bars of the main theme uses a chromatic descending figure starting on A, so most of those notes are non-chord tones.

[candiduscorvus]

What I love is that you have this excellent friend who obviously enjoys playing whatever offbeat music you put in front of him, and everyone just gathers around to hear him make magic out of it.

[Keeper1st]

@candiduscorvus You should have seen everybody leaning over the back of an upright piano as he played during the West Coast Ragtime Festival afterglow party Sunday night! I do have some video from that party which will be posted in time.

[zeroglare]

A free replay to you in a smart way... 0:05

[kescores]

Dat fat GUY LAUGHING IS FUCKING AWESOME!!! I CAN'T NOT LAUGH WITH HIM, THIS MUSIC IS AWESOME

[prudiemcprude]

I chuckled so hard when he started playing, a little unsure at first and then by the next bar he launched full speed into the sequence & started improv as well. I love how his eyes never leave the script and yet he hits the right notes, this is insane'

[75egcg]

@candiduscorvus That is not somebody's mere friend. That is Tom Brier.

[axyskilet]

this is healing all my wounds....

[kullenberg]

This made my day. Thank you, master Tom!

[Xanek]

Any chance you could get him to play on a midi keyboard or something similar to produce a midi version of his ragtime music?