Liontamer ⚖️ Posted September 29 Posted September 29 Artist Name: MkVaff Greetings! Here is another piano arrangement from my "Reflections" project that I felt was different enough to submit to OCR. I know Guile's Theme one of the most-covered tracks in all of game music, and it's such a perfect original that I avoided it for years because it almost felt too intimidating. But as I was considering piano covers I couldn't stop thinking of the theme and decided to give it a shot. In the context of my project, the arrangement and video I created pays tribute to my older brother, without whom I likely wouldn't have gone so deep down the music creation rabbit hole at such an early age. He has always been a massive source of knowledge and inspiration in my life, even though a lot of our tastes and our approaches to music are quite different. Musically, I enjoyed trying to capture the beauty and the epic feeling of the original track in a way that felt different from the original composition. It's challenging to cover anything Shimomura does and not come up woefully short, but I'm hoping that this arrangement properly pays tribute to her musical genius, and one of the greatest themes she's given us in her incredible career. Thanks for listening, and Enjoy! Games & Sources Street Fighter II Series (Original, C.E. Turbo, Super, others, etc.) Composed by Yoko Shimomura
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted September 29 Author Posted September 29 Beautiful extended original intro before shifting to the theme at :33. Excellent performance dynamics here, really adding a lot emotional weight to the theme, and definitely very reflective (per the theme of Mike's collection of arrangements here). Would love to hear MkVaff perform this on a grand piano, that would be cool, though there's also a sincere nostalgic quality to the tone of the keyboard used here. Send this one to djp; this very much felt in the vein of some of MkVaff's old-school OCR classics, if not by arrangement approach, then by simplicity and earnestness. :-) YES
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted September 29 Posted September 29 Absolutely lovely. A loose and extended improvisation intro is a nice way to ease the listener in before the proper Guile theme enters. 2:52 really liked the octave displacement here and jumping up to the higher register. Great way to signal the end is coming. Total classic, way to bring it back to some of your early days with stuff like Cutman Sonata. Excellent performance, great arrangement; MkVaff. What more can you ask for? YES
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted September 29 Posted September 29 really pretty opening. there's some beautiful turns in there. theme comes in at 0:33, and the left hand voicing here is poignant in its simplicity. i wouldn't have minded some more rich voicings in a few places initially - 0:59's progression is a little too barebones and tight alongside the melodic line. when we get more full in the voicings at 1:24, that feels really nice, and the continued movement fits the character a lot. 2:11 is nice because it starts to introduce a bit of rhythmic flexibility into the piece - until this point, everything's pretty boxy in terms of time measurement, so the change is nice. the intensity continues to ramp up through about 3:10, and then we get one last representation of the melody up high before it's done. i might not be as high on the overall arrangement as the others, but i feel the performance is excellent and certainly the arrangement itself is sound. nice work. YES
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