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The challenge though would be to have meaningful lyrics. Sure, you could use the natural divisions in the game as natural divisions in the opera, but what would you sing about? Some repetition in lyrics is fine, but an entire opera with Link singing about the various enemies he's hacking with his sword and boomerang and other things wouldn't go over that well, and since OoT is largely action-driven, instead of plot-driven, there wouldn't be much else to sing about unless the songs focused on the less important parts of the game, things like Link's interactions with the various people around Hyrule. OoT would work much better, in my opinion, as an orchestral suite or done in the format of one of the many other site projects (i.e. pick a style or set of styles and have different people contribute), or even as a "Music inspired by OoT" spinoff with all original music composed/arranged to fit certain scenes/dungeons/interactions in OoT.

Why would you want to do this anyway? The only way I know of doing it is to browse to the exact song you want to play, and play it. The iPod will not playing anything once the song is done since you've effectively created a one-song working playlist. If the song is repeated when you use this method, you probably have one of the repeat modes set on in the settings.

You don't have to end with a I chord in root position to have a strong cadence. Imperfect authentic cadences (either vii in first inversion to I or V I where either the tonic isn't the highest voice in I or one or both of V or I are inverted) are only slightly less weak than perfect authentic cadences (V to I where both are in root position and the tonic is the highest voice in I).

What I mean is that, from all I've heard and learned in theory, I don't remember anyone saying that one cadence was stronger than the other, and saying that one is stronger than the other is a matter of opinion. Of course, I could be wrong.

I don't know that either is stronger than the other; I think it's a matter of preference, whether you want the 7th in the V chord or not, what function that note serves in the V7 chord, how it resolves, what leads up to it, and so on.

Other than the fact that the chicken doesn't have a breadcrumb and parmesan cheese (and maybe some oregano, if you like) coating, Zircon basically described chicken parmigiana on a bun. As chicken parm is one of my favourite dishes, I approve. I shall have to make this sometime after Christmas (as I'll be out of town over Christmas visiting my wife's and my parents).

I'm guessing you weren't around when the gates of Ahn'Qiraj were opened on your server.

I do hear the original in your mix, but I think you could stand to bring it out a bit more. The original is built around a small number of melody riffs played sparsely over the 6/8 background. You've done a great job of capturing and playing around with the backround, but I'm almost never hearing the melody. If I heard the track without knowing what it was and you didn't have the opening section there, I wouldn't be able to identify it as bombing run, mainly because the chord progression in the original version is somewhat generic sounding. I like the section you do on the V chord (A, I think? There's background noise here that's messing with my relative pitch); it has a bit more melody than the rest of the piece. Really, all I think you need is to add some melodies that are a lot closer to the original song.

The first (or maybe second? Is the prelude first?) track on the OST is called Opening/Bombing Run. The Bombing Run music is never played again, and it plays from when Cloud jumps off the train to when he and Barret get into the first Mako reactor.

Probably what's happening is one of the alt-keys on your keyboard is stuck. Have you tried using someone else's keyboard on your computer? Or maybe one of the alt keys somehow got inverted and if you press it down, it will act like it's up.

For jazz: Check out Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian (played mainly with Benny Goodman's orchestra) and Freddy Green (played mainly with Count Basie's orchestra). That'll give you a broad picture of jazz guitar. As for transcriptions and so on, I'm not a guitarist, so you're on your own there. Pat Metheny has released a book containing a lot of his original compositions, but it's more of a piano score; there's no guitar notation in it. If you're a good enough guitarist and want to play Pat's stuff, it's a good place to look, but expect to figure a lot out on your own.

You can't just have mastered a job; you need to also have completed part of a chain of sidequests involving the master smith, who rewards you with a card indicating your mastery of a job as well as a unique piece of equipment for that class.

I got my button last night. The button itself is great. I also appreciate the art on the back of the envelope. I don't have a scanner so I can't put it online, but it was a couple stick people illustrating the pronunciation of my name (Can-toss). That was funny enough, but it was cool to see Pixietricks paying attention to a relatively unimportant comment (made after they mispronounced my name on the episode talking about the winners of the video game music promotion contest) from a relatively new OCR member. It was just another reminder that Zircon and Pixietricks are doing this for a community of people they care about, unlike most other podcasts that are informative but detatched from the listeners. Kudos!

Yes, the quest items will probably be better than epics. But there will be more and better epics in the level 70 raid instances, so it won't be a problem. You mages might want to consider a build that puts 10 points in arcane and the rest in frost or fire, so that you get Arcane Concentration. A 10% chance of clearcasting does a lot to save you mana in the long run, and more mana means more damage.

Final Fantasy III: 5068-9059-1721 Mario Kart DS: 154703-283214 Clubhouse Games: 3179-1204-0544

If you don't like most DS games, sell the system or even give it away instead of destroying it. Some people are too stupid to live.

Are B, F#, G, and E notes in a melody or chords that you're playing, or both? Either way, I suggest that you're playing in B minor. You should be able, from hearing a piece, to figure out what the key it's in. You probably don't have perfect pitch, so figuring out the *exact* key of an arbitrary song you hear is probably beyond you, but you should be able to recognize which note or chord is the root note around which the rest of the piece is built. Assuming a song doesn't have any keychanges partway through (either definite or implied; sometimes a song may be written in one key but the choice of chords for a chorus or bridge makes part of the song function like it's in a second key), there will be one note or chord that will sound like "home", that will be the most resolved. If you were to cut off the song at arbitrary places, most of them will make you feel like you're missing something and that you need one more chord to resolve. For example, if you're playing in C major, if you end on any other chord besides a C, you should be able to hear a jump to a C chord after the music stops, or at very least, feel incomplete. This root chord or note is often, but not always, the first chord or note played in a song. For example, if your song is a chord progression over those four chords in order, then it's most likely that you're playing in B minor. The fact that all the other notes are in a B minor scale (which is B C# D E F# G and A, depending on the scale mode; there are several forms of minor scales. The other two would have A# instead of A or both G# and A# instead of G and A) suggests that you're playing in B minor. If the four chords were instead B F# G# and E, you would almost certainly be playing in B major. In order to figure this kind of thing out, you need to learn scales and key signatures (which notes are sharp or flat in each key) for at least major and minor scales. The reason I say B minor instead of E or G minor like other people did is because in B minor, you use the simplest combination of notes. If you count up the scale, B is 1, F# is 5, G is 6, and E is 3. If you're in G minor, F# is 7, and 7 isn't as common a note. In E minor, you'd have 1, 2, 3, and 5 for your notes, which is more common, but you'd be starting your melody on B (5), while if you're in B minor, you'd start the melody on 1. I just went with the simplest answer out of the possibilities. Keep in mind that you can pick any of the 12 unique keys for *any* melody, but some of the notes in your melody wouldn't be in the scale for some of the keys. Again, I'm ignoring them because of what's simplest. If you need to ask what key you're in, you're probably not doing something as complex as playing a melody in C# major, which makes 3 of your 4 notes not be in the scale. Hopefully this helps. You should ask yourself though why this is relevant. If you don't know anything about scales and keys, it doesn't matter what key you're playing in anyway; you'll just make up notes that sound good to you without really knowing why.

The gameplay is exactly like the NES release. The only major changes I've noticed are that you go through the second half of the altar cave solo at the start, pick up the rest of your party by the time you get to Sasoon Castle, and don't get any jobs until after you beat Djinn.

Of course. Although if people had some idea of when they were recording that segment of the show, they could hit up the server at the right time. It's really a novelty more than anything else.

Or maybe, instead of clicking random numbers to affect the rolling, we should all VOTE! Yay! Seriously though, if Zircon and Pixietricks wanted some kind of script for people to place their vote for the Russian roulette, and the die roll was weighted accordingly, I'd be happy to write one. It'd probably take 15 minutes or so, plus a few minutes to integrate it with the VGDJ site.

Show some respect here. Go brag about your relationship in your own podcast or something Congrats guys! It's kind of funny that everyone is carrying on like you'd just announced you got married or something.

*votes that pixietricks should keep her old name* Oh wait, not that kind of vote. *votes for VGDJ*

Hehe, thanks, LAOS. Those were more hypothetical questions than anything else. I do remember pixietricks mentioning on some episode, maybe the Game Music Radio interview, that she didn't like her name that much. I personally prefer pixietricks, but I'm sure I'll get used to Sola.

What's with the new name, Jill? Sola? What's it mean? Why did you change it? What was wrong with pixietricks? So. Many. Questions.

Wow, you posted the same thing twice, with 5 posts in between and 11 hours between posts. Lag much?