Music
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!
Song: Leaving Millie
In spring 2005, Kroc shared with me a series of remarkable stories. One of the recurring characters in these stories was a girl named “Millie,” and she is the inspiration for this song…
Song: Retribution
Retribution is my favorite rock/battle theme to date. It’s a great mix of old and new RPG elements, and the whole feel and pace of it turned out better than I could have hoped for…
Music for Writers
Several months ago I had the enjoyable – and enlightening – experience of reading through some 20+ excerpts at the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (ABNA). It was very interesting to see firsthand the vast difference in raw talent among aspiring writers. Some of these people make you wonder why they’re not published already while others [...]
Song: King of the Desert
While I like the melody and structure of “King of the Desert,” the real masterpiece, however, is the countless subtle effects used throughout. The strum of the guitar, the pitch fades on the high power chords, realistic harmonics on the guitar solos (I’ve never heard a synthesized song use them correctly until this); this song is a product of a lot of carefully implemented effects. I love way it all came together…
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