prophetik music ⚖️ Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Sheet music for reference: 10 years ago my first OcRemix was posted - it was a piano solo arrangement of the love theme from Earthbound - I thought I'd mark the occasion by submitting an arrangement of the love theme from Earthbound's sequel! It's another personal favourite and something I'm glad I finally got around to covering. The source usage is pretty straight forward - I'll consider the original material to be made up of 2 sections, and A theme (starting from 0:00 in the source) and B theme (starting from 0:50). My remix has a short introduction, with the A theme coming in at about 0:30 (bar 8 in the score). It's a fairly straightforward, unembellished statement of the theme, but set over a bed of quiet descending triplets in the left hand (I'm sort of emulating the start of Mahler's famous adagietto here). There are some minor reharmonizations and twists on the melody here, which transitions to the B theme at bar 16. The texture is a bit thicker here with chords in the right hand and a busier 16th note rhythm in the left, with some ornamental high notes filling the spaces between the melody. It builds back up to the a repeat of the A theme in bar 20. After this climax, it breaks down for a couple measures with some soft 4/6 polyrhythms that continue to weave in and around the repeat of the B theme. After revisiting the original setting of the A theme briefly from bar 33, the piece ends with a quiet arpeggio. Also a small note, in terms of the mix you might notice some low end fuzz and some warbling - there is a vinyl filter on the track that can be removed if it's an issue. Games & Sources Mother 3 - Love Theme
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 (edited) track has at least 4.5db of overhead, probably more if compression is used. opening chords are beautifully voiced. the G# there is certainly a choice. i really like the playing with time that you're doing around the 20s mark, but it becomes tough to hang your hat on a rhythm initially as it's too out of time. i like the 3v2 idea though and when you're more specific about the timing (like closer to the 1:00 mark) it's a lot easier to understand what's going on in the left hand. bar 16 feels really nice after the uncertainty of the opening section. that left hand voicing at bar 19 in beat two sounds weird even with the break you put in with the pedal - i think the G# and D next to each other with no E until halfway through the broken chord makes it hard to catch the chord structure initially. bar 20 though is worth the price of admission - that's straight out of an Uematsu FF piano arrangement, just beautiful. and repeating it at a lower dynamic really gives two perspectives on the same section, i really like that. at 27, nice job in the performance emphasizing the sustains over the noodles getting cooked underneath. we get a recap at 33, some really nice descending elements for a bit, and a heavily embellished broken chord to finish it. this is a beautiful arrangement! full of character, just like the original. there's a few points where academically i see what you did that don't quite sound right to me, but overall i love the concept and perspective. and the performance is very moving with a lot of patience. excellent job. YES Edited January 16 by prophetik music
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Including the sheet was nice to read along with the performance, not necessary but nice to have, thank you. This is incredibly lovely! There's a ton of expression in this and emotion pours out of it. The rubato and playing with time really contribute to an incredible feeling of anticipation. I know you called this unembellished, and I know what you mean that it's traditionally unembellished, but for this community it's a good amount of embellishment. The original shines through while you add your own spices to the arrangement. I particularly liked how you handled measure 11 beat 3 and 4 as a suspension and let that be slightly resolved despite landing on A7 and then you give us a resolution on the downbeat of mm12 to D in first inversion. Resolved but still moving forward because it's in first inversion. That was so tasteful. If possible, I'd like this to get boosted up because there is a lot of space available for it to be louder, but if not possible it's not the end of the world. All it would take is applying some compression to make up the space, and you would not lose the strong dynamic range you've created with the performance. I really enjoyed this, and both arrangement and performance are great. YES
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted March 24 Posted March 24 The keyboard's tone was noticeably thin, but it certainly gets by. Funked up note at :50 (too high), but recovered quickly enough that I'll just mark it as a speedbump and move on. Nice original ornamentation throughout to compliment the arranged melody. Cool original writing from 2:35 (though another off-note at 2:50). Nice genteel aproach from 3:18 until the finish for a softer touch that made you pay attention. Somehow, that last bass-y note turned off-key around 4:24 and then hung around fading out, ah well. Sure, a few lil' splotches that should have been ironed out, but otherwise lovely for the Mothers! Thank you for finally bringing Mother 3 to OCR, Sebastian, we appreciate it! :-) YES
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