Blaster Master Medley in Mario Paint Composer (part 1 of 2)
62Part 2 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4pCcujm1kw
Listen and respond! This is my biggest work since my Tetris Medley; my progress on it spanned over a couple weeks, and I only worked on a bit at a time. I'm not sure how much clock time it actually took me to complete it, but I'd guess it was about 10-12 hours.
Blaster Master is an awesome NES game that has so much kick ass music I just decided to do all of it. Title screen to credits, but I didn't do the game over screen or boss music.
I do all my Mario Paint transcriptions by ear. I try as much as I can to use the original soundset to maintain the Mario Paint sound we all love so much.
Just a couple notes on the tunes from worlds 7 & 8; Mario Paint Composer has this issue with the tempo at higher speeds. As you raise the tempo, you'll go through a range of BPMs (from about 1400bpm to 1463bpm, for example; it happens at many different ranges, too) that will all play back at the same speed; then if you go up one more bpm (to 1464, in this case) there's a big increase in playback speed. The world 7 & 8 tunes turned into these incidents. 1463 is way slower than 1464, and the world 7 music is somewhere in between. It sounded dragged when it was slower, and I wanted to make sure to uphold the feel of the music, which is extremely upbeat - so I decided to go with the 1464.
With world 8, the tempo is 2858. I originally wanted to try to avoid any "dickspeed" songs, using super high tempos... The problem with world 8 music is that volume dynamics are *all* it has; it's a pretty boring song otherwise. I need the high speed to get instruments at different volumes because I can't fudge through it the way I did with other tunes, such as world 6.
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