ReMix: Mega Man 2 'Dr. Wily's Wedding'
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- Game: Mega Man 2 (Capcom, 1988, NES)
- ReMixer(s): Jayson Litrio
- Composer(s): Manami Matsumae, Ogeretsu Kun, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
- Song(s): 'Dr. Wily Stage 1'
- Posted: 2003-08-18, evaluated by the judges
Jayson Litrio's only previous ReMix was way back at the end of 2001, an excellent Zelda 3 piece that coincided with the Yank's tragic bottom-of-the-9th demise at the hands of Arizona Diamondbacks. I still managed to enjoy it quite a bit regardless :) Glad to see he's submitted a sophomore mix, and I think you will be, too: this Mega Man 2 piano-centric arrangement is quite original and flowing. The author's own comments and anecdote are worth repeating: "It's raw and I'm a perfectionist. But I thought it might be interesting for you, and I did it as an experiment - for fun - I didn't want to spend the usual 4 hours on it. I just did it tonight actually, it's now 5:30am in New York. I layed it down on 30 minutes ago as I couldn't sleep. I wanted to try and make an NES tune beautiful by playing it gracefully and "live" - I didn't sequence this. Just sat at the piano and played my rendition of the tune, then added a simple improv. string track and that's about all. NES melodies, even one like this, slowed down, are quite amazing. I once played this at someone's wedding during cocktail hour! Of course, nobody knew what it was I was playing - but I sure had a smile on my face." - moral of that story being: watch who you hire for your wedding music, as you might suddenly start hearing well-arranged works of Yuukichan's Papa, Ogeretsu Kun, and Manami Ietel's as you dance with your bride or groom. If it's an ensemble and they break into "Team Gato" you KNOW something's up. While that particular ReMix would raise eyebrows, this arrangement could (and did, apparently) actually pass as more "legit" wedding tunage. Judges were consistently positive; Vigilante writes: "very sweet. one of the better piano mixes i've heard. very appealing harmonic interpretation. i wish it were longer, but it's very enjoyable. heres my first YES of the day. congratulations." - that's two large quotes, so I'll try to say a bit myself: for a live performance this is great, the improvised augmentation with strings and flute adds the perfect amount of accompaniment without ever stealing the spotlight, the whole thing flows naturally and as mentioned the harmonic revision - the real star of the ReMix - is spot-on, creative, and most importantly works, transforming the original into a totally different, but still recognizable, beast. Nice all-around. Recommended.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - bjnartowt on July 23, 2009
- animatedjay on April 9, 2009
Complete vibe change on the source, I like it. Very contemplative, very pretty. It certainly doesn’t make me think of evil dragons and such. Nice work.
- DragonAvenger on February 1, 2009
- Lucentas on December 6, 2008
- ZeroBass.Exe on November 4, 2007
I'd love to have this as my conversation music in a parlor or something. I mean sheesh.
- Monobrow on June 16, 2007
HOW DID I MANAGE TO MISS ONE!?
Seriously, beautiful piano, strings and flute as excellent side-instruments, and an arrangement so magnificent that I imaginarily punches myself for finding this masterpiece so late.
But nothing is too late, I can still download it, can´t I? Jayson, dude, one of the best pianoremixes I´ve heard, thanks again.
Jayson_Litrio wrote: I only learn and write music by ear, I do not read music; mainly because I taught myself how to play piano and never took lessons. So this is my solution for those who want it..
Then we´re in the same boat. I myself play some piano, and it´s all in my head. I can´t do much while I´m playing piano. I can´t talk, can´t look, sometimes not breath, so trying to read while playing would be nearest impossible. But who knows? Learning Song of Storms single playing was impossible at first, now I nearly master it in a easy way.
Good to hear that you have new stuff coming up. Keep on playing dude. Someday you might play at your own wedding as well.
- Bummerdude on November 17, 2005
A beautiful rendition of the Wily Stage. Im not a hardcore fan of classical piano, but this song may just change my opinion. XLNT WORK!!!
- muzikal-phoenix on August 25, 2005
- Dr. Wily on July 4, 2004
- Sockatume on April 1, 2004
Dekkon wrote: Did anyone ever manage to get a score for this song? So one could attempt to play it? I'm just wondering.. I'd really like to play it.
Seconded. I personally will look around, but others, lez go, find this stuff.
- J_Lidar2k51 on March 31, 2004
Seriously, I first hear this song a bunch a years ago and only your version keep this notes in my head against my will... it's... just... so... damn... great bro!!!!!!!
Keep the piano thing working dude! The concept of turning a beaty songs into a mellow and quiet one (or the inverse) is one concept that'll never dry out of potential.
If only I was a pretty girl, I would thank you in so many ways man! lol (Forget that last one...)
Hope my gf don't ever see this post!
- Joyzilla on March 31, 2004
Anyway this an amazing track that will remain on my playlist.
- Blaster1980 on January 27, 2004
- Dekkon on January 17, 2004
i used Finale to open to midi. Works great!.
its a little hard to read because it wasn't sequenced though.
keep up the piano mixes Jay!
- premiumg on November 21, 2003
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