Music
Music: A Taste of What’s to Come
Finally – after YEARS of avoidance – I have started taking the time to properly arrange and master the music available on this site. This is a rather involved process; it involves hours of soundfont hunting, instrument tweaking, checking and re-checking levels, normalizing and compressing, and any number of smaller steps in-between depending on the particular song. Because this process is so involved, I’ve failed to set aside the proper time for it, instead choosing to make my music available in various states of “almost finished.” But no longer…
On Writing
I’ve been asked by a number of people how progress is coming on my latest project, and it seems I never have a very exciting answer… until now, that is! I’ve decided to finally compile my entire sordid story here, in one central place, to save myself having to relate it multiple times. (Plus, this way I can make all my embellishments official! Haha!)
Get It While It’s Hot – the Complete TannerHelland.com Music Collection
For the first time ever, the complete TannerHelland.com music collection is now available for download. By downloading one (large) .zip file, you will have access to all 42 full-length compositions available on this website. As always, the .zip is available for free – so enjoy!
Song: Defiance – REMIXED
What better way to release some new music than this – a remix of one of my favorite rock themes. Video game battle themes have moved away from orchestral themes in recent years, opting instead to use a lot more guitars and drums…and thus we have the newly remixed Defiance. Soundfonts have been used to render the entire song and a new intro lends itself more to classic RPG boss battle themes. The end of the song has also been remixed, including more than 60 seconds of new material. This remix originally appeared in the TGP/TLA project of 2000-2001 but I’ve never released it online – until now!
Song: Aerith’s Theme – an impromptu piano solo
For those who don’t know (and how could you not?!), Aerith’s Theme comes from quite possibly the greatest game of all time: Final Fantasy VII. The theme is beautiful, and many artists have attempted to arrange it in a variety of styles. Most are terrible; a rare few turn out very nice. I hope that this intermediate-level arrangement fits the latter description…
Song: Alagaesia and Eragon – a piano tribute
In honor of Chris Paolini and his first novel, I’ve written a piano tribute to my two favorite parts of his book: the world of Alagaesia and the protagonist Eragon. This piano piece begins and ends with an Alagaesian theme while the middle section is a tribute to Eragon…
Song: Wild Waters Theme Song
Planet Source Code is one of my favorite open source programming sites on the internet. I’ve been involved with PSC since the late 90’s, and still like to drop in every now and then. I was doing this just last week when I came across “Wild Waters” (follow the PSC link above), a freeware 2d game written in VB by Trent Jackson. Trent was looking for music for the project, so I looked around and found this old (but good!) song sitting on my hard drive and offered it to Trent as a theme song for his project…
Song: Carol of the Bells (a.k.a. Ukranian Bell Carol)
Feeling the Christmas spirit? If so, download one of my favorite Christmas songs in epic video game style. Happy holidays!
Song: Familiar Roads
I wanted this piece to be a simple, catchy town theme – not the typically dull background piece associated with that style of VG music. I like the instrument mix and pace and am pretty damn happy with how it’s turned out so far…
Song: The Journey (Kroc’s Theme)
There are several noticeable differences between this and the original; I’ve tried to rewrite some of the weaker sections without changing the song too much (it is, after all, a theme song hehe). Also, the change of the lead instrument to a Spanish trumpet turned out as good as I could have hoped. Spanish trumpets are awesome!
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by Evanescence
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