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Audio Download: ** http://www.mediafire.com/?8d9a0v87o6cwe2j **

Video available at: ** http://youtu.be/3JRV2t226yo **

This is my cover of razorc03's beautiful "Rue's Whistle Song"
(Full Orchestra version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4jDE9nXNQ)
(Piano-only version: http://youtu.be/blIDPtP4Kjw)

If someone hadn't told me otherwise, I would've sworn that this is part of the official soundtrack for The Hunger Games. (I still think it should be, in fact!) I was very excited to play this piece, and when razorc03 and violingal13 finally teamed up to produce some sheet music, I couldn't wait to try it out. 

I happened to require the sheet music in PDF format (for playing on my iPad), so I decided to turn razorc03's png files into one nice compact PDF, and then decided that I shouldn't be the only one to have a nice PDF - so I shared them with razorc03! They were then kind enough to ask me to perform their song, and I was blown away! I was already planning on doing it, but when the original composer asks to hear you play their song, it's something special :)

So thank you very much razorc03 for composing this piece, and for asking me to play it. And thank you very much for violingal13 for putting it down on paper, because I'm useless without sheet music :D

Original Sheet Music links:

Page 1: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3186/swhistlesong0001.png
Page 2: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3105/swhistlesong0002.png

PDF: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19049468/Rue%27s%20Whistle%20Song.pdf

** I hope you enjoy it! **

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Performer's Note: You may notice that I didn't stay completely true to the sheet music as it's written. For my fellow pianists who may wish to play it the same way I did, there are only a couple of changes:

1) I filled out the right-hand chords (usually by adding the octave below, plus occasionally a fourth, fifth, or sixth). This held true from measure 1 (after the measure zero lead in - just measure one played once) until measure 38.

2) I added the bottom octave to the first note of each left-hand measure, starting on measure 8, and continuing to the end of the song.

These two minor changes increased the difficulty of the song a bit, but I felt that it was appropriate, considering the scene I had in mind when performing this: Katniss' whistling of Rue's Song near the end of the games, and remarking at the beauty and complexity of the piece as the mockingjays began singing over another, adding harmonies and melodies. I wanted to emulate the depth created by a forest of mockingjays singing together. That may have contributed to the slightly sad tone of the performance, too; it's quite difficult to remember that scene without a bit of sorrow.

That's about as much as I can say without having to include a Spoiler Alert! Hopefully that's enough for those of you who've read The Hunger Games to understand where I was coming from!

(Also: It turns out it's very difficult to simulate the sound and dynamics of a whistle while using a percussion instrument :| Oh well, I did my best! :D )

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