View Full Version : Zelda Piano Video and Earthworm Jim Piano Video
VGPianist
04-06-2005, 11:52 PM
Hey,
In July of 2004 a video of me playing Super Mario songs on the piano was put on the main page of Ebaum's World.
Today I recorded a medley of Zelda songs on the piano as well as performed "Banjo Race" from Earthworm Jim.
Zelda movie (http://home.comcast.net/~jdmafia/zeldamovie.wmv)
Earthworm Jim movie (http://home.comcast.net/~the.bat.man/earthwormjim.wmv)
I hope everybody enjoys my performances of video game music!! :)
-Video Game Pianist
(formerly known as The Blindfolded Pianist)
Highlander
04-07-2005, 12:02 AM
:eek: OMG, you're the man. I loved your Mario piano playing, I was blown away by it, hell you even did it blindfolded for crying out loud. and now you've paid tribute to my favorite video game ever, Legend of Zelda, You rock!!! :bang: keep up the kickass Nintendo piano playing.
simonlebon89
04-07-2005, 01:25 AM
hearing it on the video game is rad
but listening to it being played on a piano makes it sound so pretty and listenable
really good, man
giveer
04-07-2005, 01:41 AM
Hot Mary Jane... That's amazing.... I wish I could do something half that talented, half as well.... Good job man.. wowzers.
ChronoTrigga
04-07-2005, 02:02 AM
VGPianist....I wiould suck you off if you did some Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy.
wocked
04-07-2005, 02:05 AM
One Winged Angel would sound kickass on piano.
HellsFire06
04-07-2005, 06:46 AM
Piano on... :bang:
John$on|.fAcTa.
04-07-2005, 08:41 AM
I'm about to flame you, but i want you to know its just because i'm jealous of your piano playing abilities....OMG what a retard...
EDIT i can play the FF7 theme and a couple song from FF2. they're actually pretty easy to play, nothing like that earthworm jim business...OMFG!!
JarOfFlies
04-07-2005, 08:57 AM
Hey,
In July of 2004 a video of me playing Super Mario songs on the piano was put on the main page of Ebaum's World.
Today I recorded a medley of Zelda songs on the piano as well as performed "Banjo Race" from Earthworm Jim.
Zelda movie (http://home.comcast.net/~jdmafia/zeldamovie.wmv)
Earthworm Jim movie (http://home.comcast.net/~the.bat.man/earthwormjim.wmv)
I hope everybody enjoys my performances of video game music!! :)
-Video Game Pianist
(formerly known as The Blindfolded Pianist)
You sir, are a legend. That was amazing!
PlanT FooD
04-07-2005, 10:22 AM
liked your old name better, but nice work!
Torico
04-07-2005, 10:17 PM
Awesome, anyone got a link to the Mario ones? :bang:
musiq
04-07-2005, 11:14 PM
Very nice, good work man. I'll get the video out there too if you want. :)
dygbth
04-07-2005, 11:33 PM
Pretty good, but its pretty much straight covers of the game music.
Not a video but similar to this, check out this 17 minute long video game music piano solo done by Torley Wong. Covers 22 clasic games and most styles of piano music.
http://vgmix.com/download?1138
modestdarkness
04-08-2005, 12:16 AM
...That was amazing. You are like my idol haha. Do you take any requests? If you do, you should learn some Pokemon songs. I know I know pokemon sucks, but i remember playing that game and humming the PokeCenter song and the battle song. Yah I know I'm a loser. haha. I'm pretty sure that you can rock those songs like crazy though if u try.
Moonshyne
04-08-2005, 02:41 AM
Great technique, do you play classical?
I still dont understand why all of you are amazed when you see someone blindfolded playing, it makes no sense what so ever.
Bidwell
04-08-2005, 04:14 AM
It's good to see someone w/ so much talent who also has a sense of humor about himself.
And when you played "A Whole New World," from Aladdin, I almost went gay for you. (Although with me, that's not much of a leap.) If you'd play it just for me, there's no telling where the night might take us. :rolleyes: (Pretend that's a sexy shy face, not a sarcastic one.)
Edit: Oooh! Oooh! You should play the theme from The X-Files like Peter did on Family Guy. For me? :rolleyes: (Again w/ the pretending.)
Trogdor O Riley
04-08-2005, 11:26 AM
wow, thats amazing talent, it really is.
man, brings me back to the good ol' nintendo64 zelda days! :)
im truly amazed :bang:
OnlinePro.
04-08-2005, 12:02 PM
All i have to say is man ur the best!
talisker
04-08-2005, 12:50 PM
*stands up and claps*
BRAVO!!
MORE!!!!
:bang: :bang: :bow:
JarOfFlies
04-08-2005, 02:08 PM
Can you play an anything from Final Fantasy? 8, if you can! :bang:
Ashhhhhh
04-08-2005, 02:17 PM
No offense intended, but this clip is a perfect example of why the Chinese (and other Northeast Asians) are going to whip the ass of the USA.
My two cents.
P.S. I'm jealous.
chomusclavus
07-11-2005, 10:25 AM
Can you record playing Pokemon songs for us, or for me at least? That would be so awesome!
Btw, I'll get a piano keyboard soon so I can start playing the video game music myself. Where do you get the songsheets to play all that?
Also, what school was that filmed at and why were you there at night?
No offense intended, but this clip is a perfect example of why the Chinese (and other Northeast Asians) are going to whip the 455 out of the USA.
My two cents.
P.S. I'm jealous.
I'm half-Korean (while one half of that half comes from North Korea TTYTT.) and you know what I think? My thoughts exactly!
sithal
07-11-2005, 10:49 AM
The Earthworm Jim movie link doesn't work! Someone please rehost it. The zelda thing kicked so much ass! :bang:
Folks this is Mozart reincarnated!
Amadeus
07-11-2005, 01:19 PM
Alright, I will say that you are a very good pianist, but as a fellow piano player who arranged most of the songs you've played myself, I have to say:
Your technique isn't exactly perfect (Neither is mine, but one thing you did wrong, is when you pressed down the same key multiple times, you use 3 2 1, 3 2 1, not 2 2 2, 2 2 2.
In my opinion, the main Zelda theme sounded very sloppy in places. Mind you, it's good, i'm not saying it's not, but the tempo was very unstable, and the octaves in the bass region overpowered the melody in places. try playing the accompaniment an octave higher, or playing mf, not FF.
Everything else was pretty good, but I play the "Game Over - Continue?" melody an octave higher than you do. I really loved the dungeon theme. :)
You are a good pianist, but other than the dungeon theme, you need to work on those songs a bit.
Also, I don't know who was holding the camera, but I got nauseated when the camera kept twisting, and spinning upside down. . .huagh! What's wrong with pointing a camera at you without twisting it all over the place?
Maybe if I can get some good strings players, i'll post a video up here of some strings arrangements of stuff like this; The Zelda theme sounds awesome on cellos, and brass.
-Blutonium-
07-11-2005, 01:50 PM
Awesome man, Zelda...the only franchise that beats Metal Gear Solid :bang:
Speaking of Metal Gear, do the main theme of Sons of Liberty :rolleyes:
Chubaka
07-11-2005, 02:46 PM
Alright, I will say that you are a very good pianist, but as a fellow piano player who arranged most of the songs you've played myself, I have to say:
Your technique isn't exactly perfect (Neither is mine, but one thing you did wrong, is when you pressed down the same key multiple times, you use 3 2 1, 3 2 1, not 2 2 2, 2 2 2.
In my opinion, the main Zelda theme sounded very sloppy in places. Mind you, it's good, i'm not saying it's not, but the tempo was very unstable, and the octaves in the bass region overpowered the melody in places. try playing the accompaniment an octave higher, or playing mf, not FF.
Everything else was pretty good, but I play the "Game Over - Continue?" melody an octave higher than you do. I really loved the dungeon theme. :)
You are a good pianist, but other than the dungeon theme, you need to work on those songs a bit.
Also, I don't know who was holding the camera, but I got nauseated when the camera kept twisting, and spinning upside down. . .huagh! What's wrong with pointing a camera at you without twisting it all over the place?
Maybe if I can get some good strings players, i'll post a video up here of some strings arrangements of stuff like this; The Zelda theme sounds awesome on cellos, and brass.
These are the kind of people that like to pick at everything, I really don't like them...
Converge
07-11-2005, 03:29 PM
no fair he is asian
A One Winged Angel or the FF7 world theme remix, "A World of Piano" would be delightful.
By the way, excellent job with the Zelda theme, I've never seen that sheet music so I'm assuming you 'sparked it up' yourself?
Making me want a digital camera so I can play you guys some Final Fantasy (know just about every song from FF1-7, a little bit of 8 and 10) 'till the Video Game Pianist does himself, which I'm sure'd be more spectacular.
Slug Moses
07-11-2005, 04:18 PM
Awesome! Great! Amazing! Killer Zelda medly. Gave me goosebumps.
I'd like to hear some MegamanX or Metroid tunes... you are awesome man.
Skwirut
07-12-2005, 12:32 AM
Awesome performance. Though, let's here some of the well-tempered clavier, or Beethoven’s Emperor, or some Liszt. I mean, come on man, in the grand scheme of things, what you play in that video is a warm up routine for the real stuff. Show us what you’re really made of.
Carbon
07-12-2005, 04:30 AM
awsome.. good work.. earthworm jim song's is down tho :(
mulletproofB
07-12-2005, 05:32 AM
Yeah I can't access the Earthworm Jim file.
chomusclavus
07-12-2005, 02:09 PM
Once I get myself a piano keyboard and the songsheet to Zelda's music, I'll keep playing it over and over again for many hours to perfect playing it.
After all, isn't the Zelda song meant to be played over and over again infinitely?
Btw, does anyone know the words to that Overworld theme?
chomusclavus
07-12-2005, 02:10 PM
Oh, and if a horde of space colonists establishes the land of Hyrule on another planet, makes that Overworld theme the "national anthem", and even makes the place look like Hyrule (after Terraforming the planet, of course), will copyright laws still apply even outside of Earth??
chomusclavus
07-14-2005, 05:54 AM
Does anyone know the lyrics to the Zelda Light Overworld theme? I think that song is very upbeat, but now if I only knew the words, that be t3h ub3rn355.
Flesh Warlord
07-14-2005, 09:27 AM
Yes, this is awsome, I've watched the mario video many times... I dont play piano but I love watching people play it.
Also, is there a special trick to downloading the earthworm jim one? I cant seem to get it either.
Samian
07-14-2005, 09:49 AM
Nah I think the links gone. I tried looking on drunken delight too, but they only have the zelda one. Cool site though. (am I allowed to say that?)
I learned a few of the mario ones and Axel F. before that stupid crazy frog went and wrecked it for me. As a piano player, the novelty of playing the song from a video or a theme tune you know wears off after about 20 minutes, so I find it a bit unbearable to spend a lot of time on them. The mario ones especially just get irratating to listen to after a while. I also realised that the only reason I was doing it was to impress a bunch of people who don't give a shit about the piano, so I can't be assed to learn any more of them. I mean if these tunes weren't attached to these old school games, do you really think anyone would care? They're not that amazing as pieces of music.
Has anyone else heard Christopher Riley's piano transcriptions of Radiohead songs? At the very least they're interesting. His version of 'bulletproof' rocks ass.