How to play Bowser's Castle on Piano

----I POSTED A VIDEO RESPONSE SHOWING THE FIRST BIT FOR THE LEFT HAND----
I got a couple requests to make some 'how to' videos. I decided to briefly go through a few sections from the Bowser's Castle music from Super Mario World.

I didn't go note for note through the entire piece, firstly because it's 8 pages long and secondly there are a ton of repetitions and patterns using broken triads and chords.

Hopefully anyone who watches this has a bit of music background; if you can play some triads, reach an octave and know note names, you'll probably grasp the majority of the stuff.

1- Intro when entering the castle (sweep up piano)
2- Fast repeated notes
3- The main theme; I'm showing the hard version shown on the sheets (with a few changes)

--I mention a fingering pattern for the really tough section--

Pattern 1 (C minor): 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 5 1 2 4 (going up)
4 2 1 5 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 1 (going down)

Pattern 2 (A instead of G): 2 1 2 3 1 2 4 2 4 5 1 2 3 (going up)
...exact opposite going down as are the rest

Pattern 3 (F minor): 3 2 3 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 5 (going up)

Pattern 4 (Diminished bit): 3 1 3 5 1 3 5 1 3 5 1 3 5 (going up)

Some of these are a bit subjective, but they work for me and can be played legato; no awkward jumps here, just some tough fingerwork and a crazy triad exercise!

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Message me any requests, doesn't matter what genre of music

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[DragonAlix]

Blablablablablabal....Just show us how to play the song! : D

[npelletier89]

@DragonAlix I did, and it only took 8 minutes.

[DarkMatter43]

What's a triad?

[npelletier89]

@DarkMatter43 three notes make up a triad; if I say "c minor triad" I mean "C - Eb - G"... those three notes outline a C minor chord, and make up the C minor triad. Hope that helps, sorry for the late reply.

Broken triads would mean to play: C Eb G consecutively as opposed to as a block of notes.

[Johnny123lotus]

thats cool

i´ve read you talk a lot about the sheet could someone of you send it to me would be great thx

[npelletier89]

@Johnny123lotus

Look down a few comments, I got the sheets at mariomayhem.  I can't paste the url, or send in a message, but I explained in an earlier comment where to find it.

Trust me, the sheets help ALOT :P

[npelletier89]

@WarKommander1488 n00b.

[bkh1010]

You should make a how to play piano video

[neonbowser]

Gawsh dang that triad:(

[blackshook2]

Wow nice vid that was amazing

[Y0uAlreadyKn0w100]

I don't even know the melody but I'll learn thanks for the vid

[Hans1994yout]

Hyrule field from twilight princess tutorial please!

[mr55p]

where can u find the sheet music?

[SoAceman]

hey can you do a tut on hyrule field in twilight princess?? :)

[Antphoneigh]

sheet music please (all 8 sheets preferably!)