Playing Super Mario Music and Taking Requests (See Video Description)
100Timestamps of sightreading requests:
0:00 Stream start
9:42 Map Themes - Super Mario Bros 3, composed by Koji Kondo
13:50 Baka Mitai, composed by Mitsuharu Fukuyama
18:49 Piece Peace, composed by Bill Evans
22:57 Stage of Death - Xenogears, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda
26:08 Outset Island - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, composed by Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and Koji Kondo
28:50 Great Fairy Fountain - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, composed by Koji Kondo
34:07 Main Theme - The Legend of Zelda, composed by Koji Kondo
35:41 Main Theme - The Lord of the Rings, composed by Howard Shore
40:26 Main Theme - Shovel Knight, composed by Jake Kaufman and Manami Matsumae
43:24 Test Drive Scene from How to Train Your Dragon, composed by How to Train Your Dragon
Hi! Welcome to the stream! :D
In this stream, I will focus mainly on music from Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda! However, I'm open to non-Super Mario music and non-Zelda music requests :)
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If you have sheet music, it would be greatly appreciated if you could please send the sheet music to vgpstream@gmail.com. It will save time from VGP having find the sheet music on stream and thereby waste valuable streaming time. If not, VGP will look for sheet music or transcribe the music on the spot. VGP can also improvise music.
About Martin Leung aka Video Game Pianist
Creator of the Super Mario Medley video (2004)
This viral video was seen by millions around the world in the era before social media existed!
VGP is the "father" of ushering in the trend of people posting videos of themselves playing video game music on musical instruments, and has inspired many people to learn the piano. Also, he has accomplished his mission statements as Video Game Pianist, including: 1. Make classical music more popular by creating a bridge between the video game music world and the classical music world; 2. Popularize video game music; 3. Popularize the piano.
VGP has performed at Penny Arcade Expo, E3, Brasil Game Show, German Games Convention, GDC, Comic Conventions in Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, and San Francisco. From 2005-2012 he performed in select shows with Video Games Live, while he was a piano performance major at the University of Southern California (DMA, 2015), Yale University (MM, 2010), and Cleveland Institute of Music (BM, 2008)
Check out VGP's PianoChess streams on Twitch, where VGP plays piano and chess at the same time. The stream is meant to be entertaining and educational. VGP's Twitch channel is: http://www.twitch.tv/videogamepianist
Good chess and good music to all!
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***Updates***
10 January 2021 - Viewers who use iOS can use the following steps to become a channel member. Thank you to Wario9989 for the advice: You have to open up safari and access YouTube through there. Then open up the desktop version of YouTube by clicking the Aa button on your search bar. From there you will find the join button
23 November 2020 - Channel members now have access to VGP's Discord server! The server integration issue has been resolved.
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