I'm surprised how good this sounds. The structure reminds me of 8-bit video game music. Castlevania on Crack anyone?

Why is it called "Death Waltz" when it goes in 4/4?

>> ^Ornthoron:

Why is it called "Death Waltz" when it goes in 4/4?


Its actually a fan remix of one the touhou games. A popular japanese game.

That's what makes it so hard.>> ^Ornthoron:

Why is it called "Death Waltz" when it goes in 4/4?

I want to see this on one of those player pianos with the holes-in-paper feeding...

Edit: Then again, there might be more hole than paper there near the finale.

Song's name is "UN Owen was her?", a (very) popular piece of music from the Touhou shoot'em up series. If it sounds familiar to most internet denizens, it's because it was remixed a bajillion times, most notably becoming the song behind the Ran Ran Ru / McRoll meme.

A very good piece of music, one of my fav' from the serie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jJZA-O_B78

I don't know if anyone makes that style player piano these days. Yamaha makes their Disklavier pianos. But I think if I was to invest into a nice grand piano, I would want to get a Bösendorfer CEUS system... heck just a Bösendorfer itself would be grand... Although in the CEUS system at least, I think somebody actually needs to sit down and play it first for it to be recorded.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

I want to see this on one of those player pianos with the holes-in-paper feeding...
Edit: Then again, there might be more hole than paper there near the finale.

The ending... hahahaha... Oh God.

Could Data play it?
/geek

Koji Kondo could play it.

I can't even pull this piece off:

It just kept getting better.

Give me 78 extra fingers and I can play this no problem.

I think this is one of those 3 or 4 piano pieces... with two people per piano...

This song was a fully realized, multi-instrument (digital) orchestration used in a Japanese video game. Somebody transcribed most of it to a PC and added a few changes and flourishes in the process, but left all the instrument sounds as "piano". It never was intended to be played on a piano, by one person or several.

That said, I would love to hear two or three people try to get close. It's a pretty awesome piece.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

I want to see this on one of those player pianos with the holes-in-paper feeding...
Edit: Then again, there might be more hole than paper there near the finale.


Close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gaMX_NTLRw

I thought I was going to beat this song, but I got beat on the last measure.

Well, I just have to make this joke (I have a simulacrum of it up elsewhere...).

I wouldn't be surprised if there are well over 9000 key strokes on that piece alone!

/try the veal!

You kids these days! Nobody on videosift has ever opened a MIDI of a full orchestral piece and set all the instruments to piano before? I remember how much I loved doing that with Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre