Over the last few weeks I've been feeling a little nostalgic. It all started when I found a few sites with sheet music for Classic Nintendo video game themes. Although most of these tunes are very familiar, I always like hearing a piece before trying to learn the sheet music. Youtube came to the rescue, and really got me into learning some old classics.I drew my inspiration mainly from someone known as the videogame pianist (also known as the blindfolded pianist). I will never be able to play nearly as fast as he does, but it's fun to try. Do you recognize all the Mario themes in this:
So, I devoted the last few weeks to learning the Super Mario Brothers main theme and starting to learn the Legend of Zelda theme. This kicked off a run on playing some old games on Nesticle and seeing how quickly I could beat the original games. The original Super Mario Brothers took about two hours because I forgot where the second warp zone was...
On a related note, I stumbled upon this guy during my searches on YouTube for video game music. I never would have thought playing a flute could be this cool. I'm not going to learn how to play the flute but this is freaking awesome (check out his Inspector Gadget remix as well (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0&feature=related):
