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Music composed for Rhythm Doctor, the hardest one-button rhythm game you will ever play.

Still in progress!
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First part of a two-part stage, which is why it lacks an outro. Supraventricular tachycardia is a condition where "you will usually feel your heart suddenly start racing and going very fast, then stop or slow down abruptly", says the NHS!

Tools: this one is another one done completely on the iPad. Started it on a 12-hour plane flight. Ended up taking about maybe 15 hours over a few days... bleh!

DAW: FL Studio Mobile HD
with KORG Gadget and Propellerhead's Figure, and SoundPrism providing additional sounds, all routed in via Audiobus.

Supraventricular Tachycardia

Music composed for Rhythm Doctor, the hardest one-button rhythm game you will ever play.

Still in progress!

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Recorded in Churchill College on a Steinway. This and Intimate are the only two so far that use live instruments. This one was a single take. I don't mean I did only one take (in fact it was rather the opposite), but that the entire piano part was a single recording. If you thought the strictness of Rhythm Doctor was hard, imagine playing a 3 minute song where every note you press needs to adhere to that strictness...

Steinway

Music composed for Rhythm Doctor, the hardest one-button rhythm game you will ever play.

Still in progress!

Lounge

Classy

Samurai Techno

Battleworn Insomniac

Intimate

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_slVPis0E

Audio recorded again with the Roland R-05 that you guys' donations paid for, thank you very much. ^^ Now that I'm done with uni I'm gonna be working on games full time, so you can expect some stuff in the next couple months!

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Heard this song I think a few years ago, and I liked it and thought this would be perfect for a cover. It's one of those slow buildup songs (see: Sometime Around Midnight by Toxic Airborne Event, Trees by INXS, and of course MCR's Welcome To The Black Parade) that lends well to making the arrangements and harmonies more and more complicated as the song progresses.

So I've been working on this arrangement for like six months now on and off throughout uni. I just really wanted to make sure I could capture the dynamics of the song, especially in the post-chorus buildup, which every other piano cover of this song I can find seems to have skimped on. There was a lot of tweaks and changes throughout the last few months to try and make the dynamic changes really come out.

The original also has a very sparse and satisfying quarter-time kick-snare, which I tried to simulate by timing the release of the pedal on beat throughout the song lol. You'll hear it as a muffled bass kick in the video. I like to think of it as the piano equivalent of fingerstyle drumming on the guitar.

For the most part I've tried to keep it as faithful to the original as possible, especially in keeping the left hand bass line going throughout the verse instead of it decomposing into generic root-fifth-root stuff. But after the buildup I added a melody of my own in the right hand as the left hand plays the original syncopated theme! Started out as a coordination challenge, but as the melody got tweaked again and again I thought it ended up actually fitting quite nicely, haha.

And finally it goes into crazy arpeggios. The fun thing about arranging is you choose the difficulty of your covers! And this section was a good challenge to say the least.

Enjoy!

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Kin Peng