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Title: DS's Performance Submissions (12/31/16 "Melee Opening")
Post by: DS on May 23, 2016, 09:25:44 AM
Can this be a thing again? Plz?

Here's my first submission:

[Wii] Super Mario Galaxy 2 - "World 3" by mariolegofan
https://youtu.be/YWcl5YBWUrg
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: Zeila on May 23, 2016, 12:42:43 PM
It is (http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=8342.0). Coincidentally, it's also going to be Super Mario Galaxy (1 though)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on May 24, 2016, 07:10:11 AM
OK technically the sheet music for this hasn't been approved yet, but when it does (as it's done and I'm just waiting here...)

[WiiU] Star Fox Zero - "Staff Credits 2" by David Sylvester
https://youtu.be/1DAWfksHRsM
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: Onionleaf on May 25, 2016, 03:05:22 AM
These are super! Love the "crisp" quality of the sound, and great choice of music too. :)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on May 27, 2016, 07:10:43 PM
Bump as my Star Fox Zero arrangement got accepted today (yesssss)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: JDMEK5 on May 27, 2016, 09:21:51 PM
I'm actually supremely impressed with your sound quality. Is the audio a direct feed or is it open air through a mic of some kind?
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on May 28, 2016, 03:41:06 AM
Quote from: JDMEK5 on May 27, 2016, 09:21:51 PMIs the audio a direct feed or is it open air through a mic of some kind?
I feed the MIDI as I'm recording to the computer and Logic Pro X, and from there I use the the Grandeur from Kontakt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIDsImfF2w as my piano sample. Also, if a few notes are wrong here and there, I could always cheat by fixing up the MIDI a little (I especially had to do that in the SMG vid as if you can see at the 36 second mark, I hit an D# instead of a C#, but that's easy enough to fix :P), as long as it's nothing too drastic.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: JDMEK5 on May 28, 2016, 05:43:00 PM
Ah I see. Lol careful people don't start calling you a cheater by "digitally remastering" your work :P

I guess I'm just trying to say that not everyone takes to the altering-of-a-performance-by-digital-means-after-the-fact too well from what I've seen before on the interwebs.
But I mean, as long as you're not trying to like make money or anything then all is fair in love and war. That's an impressive program though. I wish I could use logic but I don't have a Mac. X(
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on May 28, 2016, 06:07:56 PM
I mean, I don't try to change it up too much tho, my philosophy is to come up with/learn an arrangement, make sure I can legitimately play it, and if I screw up one or two things in the recording I can live with myself to fix them as I know I can still play it. I wouldn't just make a recording of me hitting random notes and then correcting them to make it look like I'm playing Tschaikovsky's piano concerto no. 1 :P

As far as the software goes, my school is so darn rich they have their own recording studio with recording rooms, drum practice room, dual monitors with double flatscreen TVs overhead, Logic, Reason, Pro Tools, Komplete 10, dat keyboard tho... I basically live in there afterschool
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: JDMEK5 on May 28, 2016, 06:55:12 PM
Quote from: DS on May 28, 2016, 06:07:56 PMI mean, I don't try to change it up too much tho, my philosophy is to come up with/learn an arrangement, make sure I can legitimately play it, and if I screw up one or two things in the recording I can live with myself to fix them as I know I can still play it. I wouldn't just make a recording of me hitting random notes and then correcting them to make it look like I'm playing Tschaikovsky's piano concerto no. 1 :P
Haha for sure. I personally would vouch for the legitimacy of that.

Quote from: DS on May 28, 2016, 06:07:56 PMAs far as the software goes, my school is so darn rich they have their own recording studio with recording rooms, drum practice room, dual monitors with double flatscreen TVs overhead, Logic, Reason, Pro Tools, Komplete 10, dat keyboard tho... I basically live in there afterschool
Holy crap; where's your school? I'm enrolling there now. Idc that I'm in uni I'm going there.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 01, 2016, 02:30:10 PM
Quote from: JDMEK5 on May 28, 2016, 06:55:12 PMHoly crap; where's your school? I'm enrolling there now. Idc that I'm in uni I'm going there.
You know, generically rich high school on generic shoreline of generic New England in generic beach community, nothing special... oh and then like every computer in our school is a Mac and we bought $30,000 worth of Dell laptops for English classes, but that's no big deal :P

Oh yeah so I have another vid to post! It's the 4-handed "Final Destination" arrangement from SSB Melee by Deku Trombonist:

https://youtu.be/kzWZjtxlpLA
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: Latios212 on June 03, 2016, 08:03:21 PM
Sheesh, your video sound quality is amazing! And nice playing ;)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 04, 2016, 04:19:32 PM
So if it weren't for the fact that you can only have 2 sheets up at a time before an update, I would have posted the music for this on the site by now:

https://youtu.be/fOd77maxAKI

Oh well, just gotta be patient...
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: Bespinben on June 04, 2016, 04:37:51 PM
Oooh! Boss B my fav :D

For future reference, I'd try to cater your reverb settings to match the songs you record. Because this is such a bustling piece with lots of intricate details, flying scales, running bass ostinatos, and whatnot, I'd opt for a little less reverb so as to increase the clarity of the recording and decrease the muddiness of the overall sound. The current parameters of your reverb plugin seem more fitting for a chord-y, arpeggio-y, melody-driven piece like the Staff Credits 2 theme.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 04, 2016, 06:10:41 PM
Quote from: Bespinben on June 04, 2016, 04:37:51 PMOooh! Boss B my fav :D

IKR :D

Yeah, I was kind of thinking the same thing about the reverb. The thing is, I kind of use the same project template for all of my piano covers, which is based on this piece which needed a lot of reverb and a soft piano sound:

https://youtu.be/9CXRCKC5OAg

Basically, when I need to do a new piano cover, instead of having to copy-and-paste all my settings, I just create an identical instrument track in Logic and record the new MIDI with that instrument. For the Melee Final Destination one I tried to give it a "harder" sound, but I didn't really like the sound on that too much (seemed too harsh all the time IMO), so for this one I tried doing another epic cover but with the soft piano sound, which did make it muddy especially with two pianos going, both with different damper pedal movements :P However, I also wanted to try to imitate the weird mixing in the original song, especially at the 40 second mark where the orchestra (mainly the brass stabs) sound ridiculously space-y and the synth on top is flat-out dry.

https://youtu.be/0vIcarvtNuo?t=40s

Then again, I only had one 20-minute lunch period to get this song recorded and mixed XD
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: daj on June 04, 2016, 07:23:51 PM
Ooh! Sweet cover. I like it ;)

Pretty solid accuracy (also i saw you cheating, but that's okay), spot-on rhythm for the most part, and a really good arrangement in the pianistic sense. I've got no comments for the arrangement or performance, haha.

Though, if you're using Logic, you miiiight want to consider this magical device called a high-pass filter! :) Slap one on the first piano track (the one that plays in the higher register), cut about 400Hz down, and suddenly your second piano bass part becomes much clearer. On the subject of reverb, I think you could do with a little less too haha.

Production aside, solid arrangement, great work! :)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 04, 2016, 07:33:04 PM
Quote from: dajwxp on June 04, 2016, 07:23:51 PM...cut about 400Hz down...

Oh my gosh, I actually think I saw that somewhere on an epic orchestral production tutorial that "400 Hz is dangerous" or something like that. The main reason I didn't put too many highs into the mix is because on a spectrum analyzer you can see that Logic's default mix brings out frequencies above 20kHz that for some reason just sound 'too high' (even though technically a person shouldn't be able to hear it, maybe it's just me XD) so I've also set a high cut filter for around 1950+ kHz or something like that. Maybe it's cutting into the mix too much.

Thanks for the feedback and comment!
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: daj on June 04, 2016, 07:37:35 PM
Quote from: DS on June 04, 2016, 07:33:04 PMOh my gosh, I actually think I saw that somewhere on an epic orchestral production tutorial that "400 Hz is dangerous" or something like that. The main reason I didn't put too many highs into the mix is because on a spectrum analyzer you can see that Logic's default mix brings out frequencies above 20kHz that for some reason just sound 'too high' (even though technically a person shouldn't be able to hear it, maybe it's just me XD) so I've also set a high cut filter for around 1950+ kHz or something like that. Maybe it's cutting into the mix too much.

Thanks for the feedback and comment!

Whoa, whoa! Please don't cut the highs. Eep. Apologies for the asian english.
(haha dont worry we're cool~)

I meant, cut the lows of the upper piano part starting from 400Hz going down. That should clear up your bass. The highs are fine :)

p.s. If you'd like the theory, 300-500Hz is the range where things sound like hitting cardboard boxes. Eww. While a good balance of this is necessary, your mix is muddy because there are way too many cardboard boxes being struck. If you clear out the cardboard for one part it should balance out nice~
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 06, 2016, 12:24:01 PM
Cool I did another thing:


[Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Classic Mode Results Screen (Master Hand) by the Deku Trombonist

https://youtu.be/G79v5nWf-1M

This time the mixing should sound a bit better as it's a slower song with less happening (I'm actually pretty proud of how close it sounds to the original thing).  Also, that sheet music is quite a bit off from the actual song and I had to change a few notes in the sheet to get it to sound like that, so when I get the chance I think I'mma edit it and make a replacement
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: The Deku Trombonist on June 06, 2016, 04:21:54 PM
lol I did do some pretty dumb stuff in that sheet
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: mikey on June 06, 2016, 04:32:04 PM
I'm noticing some frame skips.  Is that due to your editing or is your video device not the greatest?
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 06, 2016, 06:26:24 PM
Quote from: Deku Trombonist on June 06, 2016, 04:21:54 PMlol I did do some pretty dumb stuff in that sheet
It was nothing major, just a few wrongly-spaced or missing chords and missing arpeggios, not trying to say "Git gud" or anything XD
Quote from: NocturneOfShadow on June 06, 2016, 04:32:04 PMI'm noticing some frame skips.  Is that due to your editing or is your video device not the greatest?
On my computer the vid seems to run smoothly though... at what time marks do you notice frame skips? I literally just use my computer's webcamera and iMovie to record and edit video, and for this one I didn't do any major video editing.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: mikey on June 06, 2016, 06:32:26 PM
like :05 :10 and :15 are noticeable
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 10, 2016, 06:16:38 AM
OK, new thing (probably my best one yet):

[WiiU] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U - "Classic: Final Results" by K-NiGhT

https://youtu.be/gs59MLaNX5E
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 17, 2016, 06:38:51 AM
Cool cool here's another thing:

[GCN/Wii] The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "Midna's Desperation" (is that really the right title?)

https://youtu.be/JxfagqDHxXg
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: mikey on June 17, 2016, 08:16:01 AM
can confirm "Midna's Desperation" is correct
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: daj on June 17, 2016, 09:14:50 AM
Hey, I've tried the Midna's Desperation/Lament before! ^^ It's so tranquil and melancholic haha. Though the left hand part is awkward.

Mmm...it's not the best performance video you have. That's something I'll need to say for sure. Especially when you're recording, the one thing that you cannot afford to do is lose your pulse. And I think, especially in the last section (A minor part), you lost it quite a bit.

I understand it's the left hand, hehe. I've got small hands (too?)! And a figure like that is just urgh. But I don't think you have the best fingering for this. In the first section you did (at least for what I could see) 5-4-3-2-1-1. Consider using 2 on the last note of each set instead; it ensures that the legato is there and it's better for accuracy because you avoid the jump. In the last section you did 5-3-1-2-1-2 (or something), and I think a better fingering would be 5-x-1-3-2-1 (x: choose 3 or 2), once again for the legato and to minimise skips.

Lost your pulse a bit there, so that wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped. Also saw you almost hit a wrong chord at some point, hehe. Not your best work, but it's a mind-confounding piece that's not as simple as it looks haha. If you've got any questions feel free to drop a pm! Hope the suggestions helped :)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 17, 2016, 03:40:25 PM
Quote from: dajwxp on June 17, 2016, 09:14:50 AMThough the left hand part is awkward... a figure like that is just urgh.

LOL that was exactly what I was thinking XD If you thought this was bad as far as pulse goes, wait until you see my "Farewell Hyrule King" cover X( [EDIT: The E3 Trailer thing I did also was kinda choppy, I guess that's just a perpetual problem of mine where I need to take a few moments to think about what I'm going to play next before I do it]The reason I kept my hand in that awkward 5-4-3-2-1-1 position is because I wanted to be confident I would hit the root of the arpeggio each time as long as I kept 5 down on it, but you're right it was very, um, awkward (for lack of a better term). However, this reason is morely due to the fact that my fingers are so long that if I tried doing  5-x-1-3-2-1 then on the next arpeggio my pinky would overshoot the root note

Did you like the delay though? I couldn't quite get the right rhythm so I settled on something that seemed pretty close. I even added some stereo imaging for further sparkle :P
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: daj on June 17, 2016, 04:57:02 PM
Quote from: DS on June 17, 2016, 03:40:25 PMLOL that was exactly what I was thinking XD

Ahh, so we have both come to the realisation that, you know, this part would be infinitely easier if we had six fingers. Which we do not. Thus making that little figure not pianistic (debatable) at all. Though it's played by a piano in the real thing, so how the heck does that work?!! Urrgh. Painful decisions.

Haha, i've got so much to rant about this buuut nah. It's still a beautiful arrangement ^^

QuoteI guess that's just a perpetual problem of mine where I need to take a few moments to think about what I'm going to play next before I do it

Hmm. In a typical Singaporean piano lesson this would be slammed as unfamiliarity aaand you'd go home feeling sad that you didn't practice more. But bleh, don't we all hate practicing? :p

That being said, I think that part (the A minor bit) warranted at least some working. ^^ It's quite tough because the left hand spreads much wider. And the right hand gives you not much time to look at your left hand.

Also, this part might sting a little, apologies for that - I also noticed that you paused just a tiny bit before the high sparkles (for the lack of a better/less lazy expression) in the opening section. The pause is a little unnatural, but what I see in a kinda blanket-judgment way is over-carefulness. Your last finger's already on the D pedal point, soooo you don't really have to check to ensure that. I'm guessing that the way you naturally read this was to position your left hand, then check your right hand, then play. Which is kinda okay, but since you're speed-reading, you could have a tiny little more confidence in your left-hand positioning, especially since you made compromises to ensure your accuracy. Basically, focus on your right hand and take the liberty to play the left-hand blind. Maybe give it a shot when you have time; it's a useful skill (playing parts blind) that we as performers have to develop at some point, so yeah ^^

QuoteHowever, this reason is morely due to the fact that my fingers are so long that if I tried doing 5-x-1-3-2-1 then on the next arpeggio my pinky would overshoot the root note

"Fingers are so long"? Dang.

That being said, curl up your finger for that. Hehe. It's a standard technique - give it a spin ^^

QuoteDid you like the delay though? I couldn't quite get the right rhythm so I settled on something that seemed pretty close. I even added some stereo imaging for further sparkle :P

Errrm

I didn't notice the delay! ^^ I did like the sound though. So you did a good job :)

Can't judge the stereo effects because I didn't use earphones. Maybe I'll give it another listen soon and come back to you on that ^^

~

Hope all the comments helped! :)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 17, 2016, 06:21:32 PM
Quote from: dajwxp on June 17, 2016, 04:57:02 PMThough it's played by a piano in the real thing, so how the heck does that work?!! Urrgh. Painful decisions.

I swear it's just a MIDI that someone imported into a DAW with a decent piano sample, either that or Koji Kondo sorcery

Quote from: dajwxp on June 17, 2016, 04:57:02 PMHmm. In a typical Singaporean piano lesson this would be slammed as unfamiliarity aaand you'd go home feeling sad that you didn't practice more. But bleh, don't we all hate practicing? :p

Actually, I technically haven't had a formal piano lesson in, what, 7 years now? Your critique has been my first real piano advice from anyone for a while now, which I really appreciate ^_^
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: daj on June 18, 2016, 03:56:30 AM
Quote from: DS on June 17, 2016, 06:21:32 PMActually, I technically haven't had a formal piano lesson in, what, 7 years now? Your critique has been my first real piano advice from anyone for a while now, which I really appreciate ^_^

Ahhh. I see.

No trouble at all! ^^ Doing critical listening is fun and helping another performer with his journey to awesomeness is a perfect bonus :)

If you want critiques on stuff prior to releases feel free to send some PMs! ^^
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 19, 2016, 10:53:08 AM
OK, this is a little weird, and I might be a little ticked off if this is really what I think it is:

(http://i.imgur.com/rMUvFsm.png)

So my Midna's Lament cover got a copyright notice on it, which I understand, but then I noticed that the claimant was not Nintendo, but "One or more music publishing rights collecting societies" for a song titled "Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - Midna's Lament Cover". I was like "wait, can you get a copyright notice for a cover? Or for apparently covering a cover?" So I checked the Youtube music copyright database and the only Midna's Lament cover I could find that was copyrighted was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=164QhPwET_A Now I'm like "Wait, but I did a piano thing, not the full instrumental thing that guy did, how can he file copyright?" So I'm just wondering, is this guy really the one flagging my cover? Is it legal to monetize a someone else's cover of another person's song? What the heck? I don't know why I'm mildly freaking out over a vid of mine that will hardly get any views but I just don't like the idea that some person is trying to make money off of my hard work for a song that isn't even there's.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: mikey on June 19, 2016, 10:55:53 AM
switch the title to midna's desperation
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 19, 2016, 11:00:33 AM
OK, did it
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: mikey on June 19, 2016, 11:14:50 AM
there, different names, can't possibly be copyright
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 22, 2016, 06:50:44 PM
Hopefully Cashwarrior and I will submit the sheet music for this soon: https://youtu.be/7sqpYz0e-ps
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on June 28, 2016, 10:37:34 AM
Here's an actual thing:

[N64] The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - "Song of Healing" by The Deku Trombonist

https://youtu.be/I-XV-AUd-fA
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on July 05, 2016, 01:30:07 PM
[GCN] The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - "Farewell Hyrule King" by The-Real-Link

https://youtu.be/k0w9izbJIvc
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on September 03, 2016, 05:03:12 AM
Cool so look now that I've finally gotten time in the studio during this surprisingly chill first week of school, I've gotten a few more covers down, and I'll start posting a few of the NSM ones within a week or two (sorry dajwxp, I also did Starship Mario :P but I will be doing World S soon)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: DS on September 08, 2016, 11:03:56 AM
Yeaaaah finally did a thing

[Wii] Super Mario Galaxy 2 - "Starship Mario 1" by Sebastian

Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions
Post by: Sebastian on September 08, 2016, 11:27:15 AM
Nice job!
I'm very glad you enjoy this song.
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/8/16 "World S")
Post by: Onionleaf on September 12, 2016, 03:47:11 AM
Awe, I'm sure going to have a good night's sleep after listening to your performance. ^^
(For some reason when I first started listening to it, I thought it was a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon song!)
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/21/16 "Samus' Theme")
Post by: DS on September 21, 2016, 05:36:42 AM
Yeaaaah another one

[Wii] Metroid: Other M - "Samus' Theme" by Don Valentino

https://youtu.be/kKQsAjR4isw
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/21/16 "Samus' Theme")
Post by: Latios212 on September 21, 2016, 06:40:00 AM
Terrific job, great playing! Sometimes I wish I had a cool setup like that...
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/21/16 "Samus' Theme")
Post by: E. Gadd Industries on September 24, 2016, 02:14:27 PM
Your Starship Mario performance makes me want to play SMG2 again! Great job! :D
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/27/16 ""World S")
Post by: DS on September 27, 2016, 04:58:46 AM
Finallyyyyyy did this

[Wii] Super Mario Galaxy 2 - "World S" by TheMarioPianist

https://youtu.be/xZTCIlQ6hGs
Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (9/27/16 "World S")
Post by: DS on November 22, 2016, 07:05:10 AM
LOL this sheet isn't even up yet, just wanted to play it ahead of time :P

[3DS] Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon - "Iki Town (Night)" by braixen1264

Title: Re: DS's Performance Submissions (11/22/16 "Iki Town (Night)")
Post by: DS on December 31, 2016, 03:50:16 AM
Oh yeah, I did this one a while ago...

[GC] Super Smash Bros. Melee - "Opening" by Bespinben