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This tune was one of three contributions to the Sonic Paradox Remix Shorts in 2012, the others being "Above the Storm" (Sky Troops) and "Winterstruck Dawn" (Speed Highway's At Dawn crossed with Ice Cap Zone). This track was also my second attempt at a four-handed piano piece, the first being "Checkered Emerald Path" from the 2011 Sonic Stadium album.

"Havoc Harbor" was put together as a tribute to Sonic Adventure 2, on occasion of its HD rerelease in the digital marketplace last October. I chose to upload it today to honour SEGA composer and Crush 40 guitarist Jun Senoue, who scored most of SA2 along with numerous other Sonic titles, as it is his 43rd birthday.

Sonic Adventure 2 is a game that is very, very close to my heart, as it marked my foray into the Sonic franchise. From the story to the gameplay, from the cinematics to the general atmosphere... this title, while flawed in some aspects, is a masterpiece in my eyes. No other game had such a profound effect on me. 
What really drove the game home for me was the music, with the majority under Jun's name - the soundtrack is absolutely amazing! City Escape, Green Forest, Eternal Engine, freakin' Live & Learn with Johnny Gioeli... how could anyone not fall in love with SA2's music here?

I've admired Senoue as a musician ever since I was a kid. His tunes never fail to put me in a good mood and help me get through my fair share of bad days, he's proven himself to be an excellent composer game after game after game since he got on the series, and he's just an all around fantastic guy. I wish I could meet him and shake his hand and just thank him for everything he's done for the series, buuuuuuut I can't afford a trip to Summer of Sonic in order to make such a thing a reality... yet.

So, happy birthday to a fantastic guitarist and composer, and to one of my childhood heroes, Jun Senoue!

Additional shout-outs to Aptiva of Freen in Green for helping with the song title and mastering and to Elson "Darkspeeds" Wong who requested the Data Select theme from Sonic 3 & Knuckles at one point. The track also contains a riff on Kenichi Tokoi's Asteroid Coaster from Sonic Colours just because!

On a final note, the third edition of the Sonic Stadium Music Album is currently under way - and I've already got a tune ready for it, but I can't show it off just yet...~

Havoc Harbor ...for Metal Harbor

WATCH METROPOLIS MAYHEM
Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/623819
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSj7yRyPWaQ

"They Are Gone, I'll Move On..." is a piano solo featured in the Sonic Heroes music video/parody "Metropolis Mayhem", put together by the folks at Sonic Paradox! Played along with the Eggman scene during the credits, animated by KaDoYuu, this track is a short arrangement of Sonic 1's Final Zone combined with a short segment of Sonic Adventure 2's "E.G.G.M.A.N." (specifically the bit that goes "I will conquer the world with my tools!")

Metropolis Mayhem premiered at Summer of Sonic 2013 alongside the 8th and final Volume of the Sonic Shorts.

I would like to add that it was an honour to have taken part in the making of this project! I've been a huge fan of Sonic Paradox since the first Shorts, and believe me, had my younger self foreseen this, he'd scream in ecstatic joy. Seriously guys, thank you so much for inviting me (and putting up with me)! You can't even begin to imagine how happy I was to be taken aboard!

All that said, I hope to take part in the upcoming Casino Calamity music video in a similar fashion (and I'll see if I can contribute anything to the new SEGA Shorts series), because gosh dang, I wanna become more involved with Sonic Paradox since it's been a blast so far!

They Are Gone, I'll Move On …for Final Zone

"Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS.
One day, war broke out between the two races.
After a long battle, the humans were victorious.
They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell.
 
Many years later. . .

      MT. EBOTT
         201X

Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return."

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In September 2015, Toby Fox released his charming retro-inspired RPG called Undertale, telling the story of a human child who climbed Mount Ebott, a mountain that no climber has ever returned from alive. Upon stumbling into a pit within the summit, the child then finds themselves in an underground world populated by monsters, banished from the surface after a war against humans eons past. How they return from the Underground alive is entirely up to you...

"Once Upon a Time" is the first song that greets the player upon opening the game as the introduction towards the title screen plays out. It's short, it's simple, and it perfectly sets the tone for the subterranean journey the human child is about to embark.

My piano arrangement took about two hours total to arrange by ear from scratch on my keyboard, and then record through Logic Pro X. The video itself (link below!) was put together in iMovie – compared to the tools I had available in Final Cut after using it for two semesters, it's... a bit of a downgrade. D:

I might revisit the Undertale soundtrack for another piano arrangement in the future, but maybe not while I'm still kinda rusty.
This was more of a personal demo done on the fly than anything else, but you can consider this as me slowly trying to get back into the swing of things.

That being said, after three years of zero activity on this channel, I'm grateful that you all stuck around nonetheless. ;u;/ Thank you all so much for your support!

YouTube ver.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzKp9ilcVk

Once Upon A Time... ~ An UNDERTALE Piano Solo

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Ladies, gentlemen, gamers and Sonic fans alike! I present to you "Checkered Emerald Path", a Sonic the Hedgehog medley!
It takes about two people to play it. Hooray for recording stuff! xD

This medley pays specific tribute to Green Hill Zone, the World 1-1 equivalent for Sonic the Hedgehog, and its many adaptations, remakes and levels which were inspired from it. In other words, a good number of the series' "Green Hill"s are in there. "Checkered Emerald Path" was named after all of the Green Hills conceived throughout Sonic history, usually adorned with the titular checkered areas and green hills. Heard through here are:

-Neo Green Hill from Sonic Advance
-Mushroom Hill from Sonic 3 & Knuckles
-Splash Hill [Act 3] from Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1
-Emerald Hill from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
-Green Hill from Sonic Battle
-Sunset Hill from Sonic Advance 3
-Green Hill based off both the original from Sonic the Hedgehog and the Modern adaptation from Sonic Generations
-Green Hills from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit), also "You Can Do Anything/Toot Toot Sonic Warrior", Sonic CD's Japanese opening theme

Special thanks to Aptiva from Freen in Green for cleaning up the quality!

Checkered Emerald Path ...for Green Hill

Something that I owe a pal o'mine for a REALLY long time, Diyaru4500 asked me to compose a theme for his original series/franchise/whatchamacallits "Mizani". Still in the making, and now I've also got the next Sonic Stadium Music Album, the Sonic Paradox Remix Shorts, and the Letter Song for talespirit! Phew, that's a lot on my plate!

Hope it sounds good so far... Now to get that Sky Troops medley set later!

Mizani copyright belongs to Diyaru4500.
WIP/Composition be mine, so no stealing! D:<

http://diyaru4500.deviantart.com/ for additional details



Dat Tails on the piano. New official WIP stuff picture yay! Dunno who drew it though... D':

Mizani [WIP/Intro]

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And BAM! To celebrate the 50 Subscriber milestone on YouTube, new music!

This song goes out to three particular dudes: first two are Aptiva from the band Freen in Green, and Faseeh on the SSMB! Why? 

Well, thanks to them... I think you noticed just by listening to the song, have you?

CRYSTAL,
CLEAR,
STRAIGHT FROM THE PIANO,
SOUND QUALITY!
WOO!

No more shall I be tormented to use my iPhone as a recording device! No more shall it take forever to get a decent quality, or fail doing so! A joyous day for productivity and music!

The third person who I must thank is Tyler Carson, who made this video you should all listen to right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKTtNYNDk4 This gave me quite the inspirational kick I needed!

Now, when I said it was a Sky Troops arrangement... I lied. c: There is indeed truth that Sky Troops, from Shadow the Hedgehog, is the focus, but there are three other tracks which lie within! And they are...

-Collision Chaos Present JP from Sonic CD;
-Chun-nan Dragon Road Day from Sonic Unleashed;
-I Am (All of Me)/Never Turn Back (whichever, I suppose!) from Shadow the Hedgehog!

Though I've had this song done for the past week or two, I haven't thrown in Chun-nan until just recently!

In any case, don't go too far now, because this won't be the only tune you'll be hearing this week! Hell, with recording being a million times easier, you'll see a LOT more piano...

...in other news, this playlist could be about... say, 20% cooler, I find. But how to make it happen, I wonder?

Toodles!

-VizardJeffhog

Above the Storm ...for Sky Troops

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You know that feeling when you wake up to the first morning of winter? That's what I thought of when I made this. A very nice feeling, I say...

So it was towards the end of the podcast GameFuel's 100th episode, an episode which aired nothing but Ice Cap Zone remixes, and SilverSonic of RadioNintendo then said the following:

"If there's two Sonic songs I would love to hear mashed together in some remix fashion, Ice Cap Zone and 'At Dawn.'"

Sooooooooooo... TADA! What a surprise, huh?

And if you watched straight to the end, then you all likely noticed that clustercoloured poster! This is one of my submissions to the Sonic Paradox Remix Shorts, an upcoming album by the musicians down at Sonic Paradox due out on the 25th of August! 
People of all musical talents are welcome! The condition though is that your song (up to 3) has to be between 30sec-2ish minutes in length, and my previous "Above the Storm" was /really/ pushing that limit, but I guess it got in? Maybe? I think it did...

I suppose I'll try my hand at one more song and see if I can wing it into the album as well... Darkspeeds mentioned the Sonic 3 Data Select theme? I suppose I'll try my hands at that...

In other news, since when is winterstruck a word? Starting now, that's when!

Winterstruck Dawn ...for Ice Cap

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Now this is a track that definitely doesn't get enough love in the remixing field. Props to ForeverSonic of RadioSEGA for premiering this on his Random Hour show, and to EAR for the remastering!

Composed by Tomozou Endo for the 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the original ending theme plays when Sonic has not collected all of the Chaos Emeralds by the game's supposed final stage, Scrambled Egg Zone, and fails to rescue Tails as a result.

What enforces it as the game's "Bad Ending" is the heavy implication (fan/headcanon) that Tails dies. Yes, then-4 year-old Miles Prower dead. Not a happy thought right there...

So, I put together an arrangement of the tune with that specific theme in mind. The name "Shattered Departure" is inspired by the failed chance to get to the Crystal Egg Zone (the true final zone should all Chaos Emeralds be attained) and save Tails' life from Eggman's grasp. A crystal shattered into shards! As for the word "Departure"... well, take a guess.

Now, I THINK "Rumbling HWY..." for Mission Street (by the brilliant Jun Senoue) from Sonic Adventure 2 got shoe'd in there somewhere...

Shattered Departure ...for Sonic 2 Bad Ending

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Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, that's a name you should know~!
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, he's the star of the show~!

Happy 20th to the super tuff pink puff, the one and only Kirby! To celebrate this joyous occasion, I celebrate the only way I know how (to do so decently)!

I celebrate through piano!

In order to pay tribute to not only Kirby's 20th anniversary, but to the first game I've ever played in the series - Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, I whipped this medley up!

"Prelude to Nightmare" is meant to portray the events preceding the story of the game, as written below. Spoiler alert if you haven't beaten Kirby's Adventure or NiDL!

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The tyrannical and dastardly being known as Nightmare has made his presence known in the Fountain of Dreams, found in the beautifully desolate Rainbow Resort, and prepares to spread his influence to the citizens of Dream Land by corrupting their dreams into twisted nightmares! 

This unfortunate turn of events leaves King Dedede with no choice but to break apart the Star Rod, the source of the Fountain's power, in order to protect his people. Keeping one for himself, he gives a piece of the Star Rod to each of his friends so that Nightmare's influence will not spread.

Though Nightmare's evil won't reach the minds of Dream Land's citizens, there comes a terrible price to pay: by removing the Star Rod, the ability to dream has ceased to exist. Despite Dedede's temporary victory over Nightmare, not one soul on Planet Popstar will dream ever again.

However, all it takes is one dreamless night for a powerful, yet deceivingly cute, pink warrior to take the initiative...

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The medley also counts as my entry for the Kirby 20th Anniversary Biggest Fan Contest, hosted by Nintendo! Good luck to all of the other participants who entered!

And Sarah, my one and only, I dedicate this song to you!

As for me, I'm off to fluff up my pillow and get ready for a good night's sleep! 'night everyone!

~VizardJeffhog

P.S.: Also, as you /might've/ noticed, Garageband is starting to warm up to me a bit! Can't wait to crack down on instrumentation!

Prelude to Nightmare ~ Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

DOWNLOAD THE SONIC STADIUM MUSIC ADVENTURE 2012 HERE: http://projects.sonicstadium.org/music-album-2012/

"Maybe in Distance, But Never at Heart ...for Casinopolis" is my original arrangement on the Sonic Adventure stage's "Dilapidated Way" theme, composed by Jun Senoue!

The tune also borrows from "Fawful's Castle" by Yoko Shimomura (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story) and the Beta version of Leaf Forest from Sonic Advance 2 (also heard in Sonic Mega Collection), before finishing with the Bonus Stage theme from Sonic the Hedgehog for SEGA Game Gear/Master System. It starts off with two hands before splitting off into four almost three minutes in!

Special thanks to Bev "Rexy" Wooff for fixing some niggles in the audio, and to EAR for the remastering!

Maybe in Distance, But Never at Heart …for Casinopolis

Just testing out my newest MIDI cable and I LOVE IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL

A short take on the "Circumstance" opening and title screen theme from LakeFeperd's acclaimed fan game, "Sonic Before the Sequel". Both songs composed by Falk, "Circumstantial" arranged by me.

Also, now downloadable as requested.

...might do more BtS stuff.

SirJeffhog

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