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Excel Excel
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
142 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-19 21:16:59
June 19 2010 20:53 GMT
#1
We all know how difficult the danmaku-type Touhou games are:
[image loading]

...But the game comes with another challenge: trying to play its soundtracks on an instrument. Some MIDI arrangements are shown below:

(Try playing both at the same time with MIDI muted and viewing the sheet music while listening to the original song.)

+ Show Spoiler +
Original Soundtrack:

MIDI & Sheet Music:


+ Show Spoiler +
Original Soundtrack:

MIDI & Sheet Music:


+ Show Spoiler +
Original Music:

MIDI & Sheet Music:


+ Show Spoiler +
Original Music:

MIDI & Sheet Music:


This is all I have to say:

[image loading]

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"SCREW OBSERVERS MUST HAVE MOAR ARBITERS!!!11one1" - Famous last words
Thratur
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada917 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-19 21:07:24
June 19 2010 20:58 GMT
#2
Are you trying to play it? Do you have any result yet? This seems incredibly hard!
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
June 19 2010 20:58 GMT
#3
That music sheet asplodes my mind...
maga33
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States247 Posts
June 19 2010 21:17 GMT
#4
I can play border of life lol. It took a week of practice.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 19 2010 21:17 GMT
#5
Haha. Not really that atypical since the inception of electronic music, but it's funny to see the music sheet. It's so busy it's actually kind of irritating, but still impressive since the guy did it all himself.
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Excel Excel
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
142 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-19 21:19:25
June 19 2010 21:18 GMT
#6
On June 20 2010 05:58 Thratur wrote:
Are you trying to play it? Do you have any result yet? This seems incredibly hard!


I can't; I'm not really an expert pianist ;\ some of them don't even seem possible to play, namely this one:


"SCREW OBSERVERS MUST HAVE MOAR ARBITERS!!!11one1" - Famous last words
ZoW
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3983 Posts
June 19 2010 21:24 GMT
#7


the courage to be a lazy bum
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-19 21:49:22
June 19 2010 21:42 GMT
#8
[image loading]


This guy does a bunch of them and does them well.


[image loading]


This guy goes above and beyond the call.
blagoonga123
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2068 Posts
June 19 2010 21:49 GMT
#9
pettan pettan tsurupettan!
FOOL! Pain is my friend! Now let me introduce you to it!
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16987 Posts
June 19 2010 22:10 GMT
#10
On June 20 2010 06:18 Excel Excel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2010 05:58 Thratur wrote:
Are you trying to play it? Do you have any result yet? This seems incredibly hard!


I can't; I'm not really an expert pianist ;\ some of them don't even seem possible to play, namely this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp60ymUZ_CE


This is very possible to play. You're probably just impressed by the sheet music. If you were to double the note length denominations on the page, you'll find that it's very straight forward. It only looks difficult because the score looks like an absolute mess.
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d3_crescentia
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4054 Posts
June 19 2010 22:23 GMT
#11
On June 20 2010 06:18 Excel Excel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2010 05:58 Thratur wrote:
Are you trying to play it? Do you have any result yet? This seems incredibly hard!


I can't; I'm not really an expert pianist ;\ some of them don't even seem possible to play, namely this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp60ymUZ_CE

it only looks intimidating because the measures are all squeezed together like that, but certainly not impossible... you'd just have to go about practice starting at a very, very slow tempo and build up
once, not long ago, there was a moon here
hoborg
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States430 Posts
June 19 2010 22:47 GMT
#12
On June 20 2010 06:42 Athos wrote:
[image loading]


This guy goes above and beyond the call.


Ahaha, that was very good, but I think it could have done without the violin.

What was the deal with the falling thing at the end?
blbl | CJ and ACE fighting!
Taku
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada2036 Posts
June 19 2010 22:55 GMT
#13


You forgot night of knights
When SC2 came for BW, I cried. Now LoL/Dota2 comes for SC2, and I laugh. \o/
JSH
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4109 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 00:07:00
June 19 2010 23:58 GMT
#14
On June 20 2010 06:17 maga33 wrote:
I can play border of life lol. It took a week of practice.


haha nice

I tried to learn it, got through the first page kind of
then kind of gave up (aka spring break over)

I had only like half year of formal piano lessons
kind of just learned to play by myself haha
Wish I could play better

Music might be crazy to play note by note but you can simplify things

I'm not talented enough at any instrument to play the songs

and yeah I love Marasy8 vids on youtube
he does a great job
The Cirno 9 song is fun



demystify feast third song in the OP
"It's called a miracle because it doesn't happen" - Just like my chances of reaching C- on ICCUP
Tyrio
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States3248 Posts
June 20 2010 03:10 GMT
#15
http://www.youtube.com/user/DMBN

has a lot of sheet music for most of the the Touhou songs. A lof of the sheets even have variable difficulty like Easy, Normal, Hard, etc.
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fanta[Rn]
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Japan2465 Posts
June 20 2010 05:28 GMT
#16
This is amazing, I love touhou music. I actually want to learn to play the piano, do you guys have any good recommendations for an entry level keyboard?

Currently I want to go with the Korg SP170, it's quite pricey though.
Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-20 17:09:52
June 20 2010 17:00 GMT
#17
Wow, I only expected another one of "Touhou music is awesome" thread but this is x1000 better. Never gave so much thought into the music's difficulty Too bad I am not so much good at playing piano, otherwise I would have definitely tried to play one... it's good thing to only carter to one's strength I suppose.

ps. + Show Spoiler +
[image loading]

What sheet is this? O.O

Obligatory Touhou love post,
Hesmyrr
"If watching the MSL finals makes you a progamer, then anyone in Korea can do it." - Ha Tae Ki
Wineandbread
Profile Joined September 2009
United States2065 Posts
June 20 2010 19:01 GMT
#18
The thing with some of the sheet music that people post is that they aren't written very well. They're fan-transcribed and people sometimes have a tendency to squeeze a bunch of notes together where it should be spread out a lot more for ease to read.

Anyone who wants to start up on playing some of this cool music should take a look at Tyrio's link.
maga33
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States247 Posts
June 20 2010 22:50 GMT
#19
http://www.youtube.com/user/kkcwkoh

Go subscribe this channel

The person mainly posts piano pieces and usually has the music sheet in the description. I usually pick something up to play after bored of playing stuff given by my piano teacher.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Vivi57
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States6599 Posts
June 21 2010 09:38 GMT
#20
wow, this is awesome

this might actually inspire me to pick up the piano again.
Flash hwaiting! Nal_rA forever!
Happy.fairytail
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States327 Posts
June 21 2010 16:27 GMT
#21
never played, but the music sounds awesome ... gonna be doing work to this.

the piano sheet music looks pretty impossible, unless you can span almost 2 octaves on both hands that and incredible third/fourth finger strength, considering how fast you have to play those sixteenth note doublestops...
Invictus
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Singapore2697 Posts
July 11 2010 15:29 GMT
#22
i think maiden's capriccio is impossible to play. i already have trouble playing flowering night(which i think is considered helluva easy compared to other touhou songs)
Lee Jaedong Fighting!
Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
July 11 2010 15:39 GMT
#23
On July 12 2010 00:29 streamofhonour wrote:
i think maiden's capriccio is impossible to play. i already have trouble playing flowering night(which i think is considered helluva easy compared to other touhou songs)

But there is this on the related videos section...
"If watching the MSL finals makes you a progamer, then anyone in Korea can do it." - Ha Tae Ki
Invictus
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Singapore2697 Posts
July 12 2010 12:50 GMT
#24
On July 12 2010 00:39 Hesmyrr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2010 00:29 streamofhonour wrote:
i think maiden's capriccio is impossible to play. i already have trouble playing flowering night(which i think is considered helluva easy compared to other touhou songs)

But there is this on the related videos section...


my mind is blown once again
Lee Jaedong Fighting!
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