Video Game Medley | My entry for insaneintherainmusic's contest

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Channel: Cantavanda · 2016 · Music

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Hello everyone! It's me Cantavanda here bringing you something completely different. Already a long while I've been planning to upload self-played music you my YouTube channel. I wanted to start with classical piano playing, in a few weeks, but a youtuber that I like, insaneintherainmusic, announced a one-week contest last Saturday (09/07/2016), a video game jazz arrangements contest. I can't let a chance like that slip, so this is my entry. I made a medley out of different video game tracks, mostly jazz, but there's a bit of classical in it.

As stated earlier, participants were given one week time to work on their entries, but I was busy from Saturday to Thursday, so I could only start Wednesday 14/07/2016. The arrangement was started Wednesday, I worked 4 hours on that day, I finished the arrangement Thursday, after working 10 hours that day, I recorded, mixed and filmed everything Friday, which took the whole day, and edited/uploaded the video on Saturday, which took 5 hours. Because of all that rushing, there are still things that could be improved, and even some (hard to hear) mistakes, but this is all I could do in such a short time.

So, see this video as my musical debut on youtube! What can you expect in da future? Classical piano, video game/anime piano, J-Pop/J-Rock/Visual Kei, and Western pop covers (vocals+instrumentals), and some more things... (that I haven't planned yet...)

insaneintherainmusic's contest: https://youtu.be/5OZtddfWXTs

Tracklist:

00:08  - Approaching Cynthia / Encounter! Cynthia
Game: Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
Composer: Junichi Masuda / 増田順
Video game footage used: https://youtu.be/W609NJs9h-o

00:38 - Route 228
Game: Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
Composer: Hitomi Sato / 佐藤仁美
Video game footage used: https://youtu.be/wvwUDWgDJJE

02:21 - Dance of Pales
Game: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night / 悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲
Composer: Michiru Yamane / 山根ミチル
Video game footage used: https://youtu.be/Eeli2V6GPiM

03:39 - garden
Game: beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY
Composer: Jun Wakita / 脇田潤 / wac
Video game footage used: https://youtu.be/8gUTMOeNYC4

Software:
Music notation software: Musescore 2
DAW: Cubase 5
I used to record the piano: Audacity

VST:
Addictive Keys
Superior Drummer 2
East West Hollywood Brass
East West Hollywood Strings
East West Hollywood Woodwinds
East West Hollywood Orchestral Percussion
8Dio Adagio Strings
TWEAKBENCH Peach (chiptune/8-bit)

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