Saria's Song as a RAGTIME Jazz Piano piece!

Hi! I had the inspiration to write a piano piece based on Saria's Song yesterday, and I wanted to share it with fellow Zelda fans as well...I mixed it with Ragtime and Jazz Piano styles, with a solo section in the middle.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wdiWP9gfc



This is the description I wrote on my Youtube page:
Legend of Zelda's Saria Song as a jazz piano piece!!

Early in the morning hours I was inspired to write this piece in one sitting when I was listening to Saria's Song in my head and suddenly realized that the main melodic motif is a 3-note repeating figure, which is characteristically similar to the "ragtime riff", which creates a polyrhythmic through grouping straight 8ths in 3. After this realization a ragtime version of Saria's Song started playing in my head, and by the time I started running through a solo on the progression I knew this was something I needed to write down. Hopefully there are others who are interested in this concept as much as I was in writing it. There are a large number of solos in the middle section that are on top of the original chord progression, which is mostly original material but in line with jazz interpretations of standards (that is, almost adding more new things than retaining the old through solo sections). I tried to make sure that the original concept of it being based around the catchy Saria's Song was kept, so there is later section where the original song is quoted more bluntly and somewhat humorously. `

Nice one! That's a very good piano composition.

(This should probably either be in General Zelda or the Art section though.)

That's a very interesting composition - would you mind if we featured it as main site news? :3

Alright.

That was not only very creative, but utterly amazing. I'm going to listen to it over and over again, haha! :>

*Claps* Well done!

Wow. Very nice. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make it available as an mp3?

Lol its pretty bad ass dude

Wow, I love this. It's so fun and unique, I can't stop listening.
This is just amazing...super job!

Originally Posted by Aldhissla

Wow. Very nice. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make it available as an mp3?

I would also love it if you'd make it available so I can listen to it on the go.

It just got favorited

This is so awesome : D You're definitely a talented musician, and I very much enjoyed listening to that.

I FREAKING LOVE YOU. You have taken my greatest loves Ragtime and Zelda, and created something fapworthy. Awesome work. Do you have a downloadable file of the sheet music? I'd like to print it out and play myself. <3

Originally Posted by sugar

This is so awesome : D You're definitely a talented musician, and I very much enjoyed listening to that.

Oh and I'm not

But in all seriousness, this is amazing! Favorited mother ****a! So much better than what I can do on the piano!

This is just too good, quite catchy I might add. Could you possibly give us an mp3 link? I want this on my Ipod.

Originally Posted by Aldhissla

Wow. Very nice. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make it available as an mp3?

Originally Posted by Vynrah

I would also love it if you'd make it available so I can listen to it on the go.

Originally Posted by Z-MAN7

This is just too good, quite catchy I might add. Could you possibly give us an mp3 link? I want this on my Ipod.

Well, I happen to have the perfect present for you people... Hope you don't mind, kentokhromatic...

Download Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ujdj2yr2nnz


Have fun =3

PS: LOVE THIS SONG <3333

Originally Posted by Link

Well, I happen to have the perfect present for you people... Hope you don't mind, kentokhromatic...

Download Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ujdj2yr2nnz


Have fun =3

PS: LOVE THIS SONG <3333

Connor, can I bare your children?

This is awesome! *MP3 goes straight to my ipod* you should totally make more!

This makes me want to do a tap dance to it. The music is perfect.

Originally Posted by Cody

That's a very interesting composition - would you mind if we featured it as main site news? :3

No, not at all, please!

Re: no problem with uploading it as an mp3 online, although if you could tag it with my channel info that would be even better! I plan on making more songs/videos, and for videogame remixes I'm going to do partially based on what people seem to be interested in the most. Feel free to post requests in my channel/send me requests, because I want to share my love of videogame music.


To give you guys a bit about my background, I'm a music student who is an aspiring videogame composer, but I also play jazz piano and study classical composition. I'm also interested in older or non-Western music and want to bring it all together in videogame music composing.

Originally Posted by kentokhromatic

No, not at all, please!



To give you guys a bit about my background, I'm a music student who is an aspiring videogame composer, but I also play jazz piano and study classical composition. I'm also interested in older or non-Western music and want to bring it all together in videogame music composing.

I think you and me would be good friends if you stuck around ZU long enough since I too want to be a video game music composer.

I really enjoyed this piece, certainly an interesting take on the song. Went straight into the favorites.

Snow_Storm, that's cool! Do you have any music pieces up online somewhere by any chance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AzIZcNAAAM

Someone just did a remix of my remix in Mario Paint...which is kinda crazy and full circle.

Very nice. Makes me wish I was a better pianist. I've learned the straight forward song, but I haven't added any of my own twist on it like that. Very cool.