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[Occoris]

Got a message request for a PDF version of Dwarven Prelude recently. If anyone else wants it, you can grab it here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?yn4r9a6d5ftzbja

[Reudh]

Sounds good, Occoris!

[hermes]

Hey does anyone know if this is on Youtube?  Occoris, would/could you put it there?

I've made a youtube playlist of covers of the DF theme to listen to while playing (like electronic, orchestral etc) but this track is amazing and it'd be great to have it there along with others.

[Clatch]

WOW, how awesome is this?  Thanks!

[JimmyBobJr]

ITS TURNS OUT EARS CAN ORGASM.

This is truly amazing; i have always loved piano music, and now i can love Piano Dwarf Fortress music.
Im modding this into my game the next chance i get, man.

Man, now i wish i knew how to play piano.

...

Hey, how do you play piano? =D

[Cobbler89]

By the way, did I read correctly that these were composed in Finale? (I'm going to get my hands on everything you've made shortly, and then I'll just know. But for the moment I'm listening to all them Gemclod tracks just for the hey.) If so, anybody interested in building on the arrangement, printing it out, etc. could probably google "finale notepad"... Really good program as music composition software goes, by the way -- maybe not as high quality as some stuff out there, but as far as I know the best thing you can get free/cheap if you want classical composition methods instead of those funny-lookin' midi dots.

Also: this is epic, in a dark, melancholy way. Like Dwarf Fortress. Kudos!!

Also also: guys... Soundsense. Just sayin'.

ETA: Tree Killer reminds me so much of the old Dragon Warrior/Quest games I will need to listen to it a few times so I can enjoy it without the urge to crack up in fits of laughter. XDDD

It's weird, but it makes me feel at home here somehow. I mean I've always loved the forums since I discovered DF (even if half the people here are crazier than I am -- which is saying something, since I've been known to look at things and say "I could simulate that based on the mathematical patterns, with variables and options for the variations!"), but this... Nostalgia. Gentle music, happy, sad. Everyone gathering around the pianist in the evening. This is pretty durned special for what's essentially a large, loose fan club of a particularly insane computer game.

Sirocco has organized a party around the *synthesized wood piano*.

ETA2: Megaupload is telling me the feds nailed them. Is this stuff on the DFFD?

[Occoris]

I've no real interest in making YouTube videos for the arrangements, if anyone else wants to use it then be my guest. I'll see what I can do about reuploading the files when the Christmas season is over.

[Xolroc]

Now that Megaupload has been shut down, are there any alternate sites to get the midis from?

Edit: sorry for the necro post; this is frankly just too amazing to not insist on a midi.

[Occoris]

I'll be damned if I didn't forget to reupload those links. Sorry, everyone. Here's a dropbox link to a .rar file containing the midis for Dwarf Fortress and Dwarven Prelude plus PDFs of the sheet music:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hu4gmf13ihgcfjl/Gemclod.rar

If anyone wants anything else, feel free to drop me a message or post in this thread (though I'll admittedly be less likely to forget if you message me).

[BoogieMan]

Very nice! Thanks for creating and posting this.

[DarkAnt]

Wow, this is fantastic. I hope you had at least as much fun working on this as I did listening to it

[Anjovi]

I just wanted to see if the melodies played are based off of chords. It's hard to explain but I'm in the process of learning guitar and I'm finding it alot easier to just find the chords and just get the rest by ear as opposed to looking at tabs.

I was play the first part and caught:
- some sort B chord (it's the shape of b major but with some tweaks can't quite pin point them)
- an augmented A chord followed by an regular A chord
- A tweaked A minor
- A tweaked E major

I suppose I'm more interested in dissecting the style to better understand it as opposed to just memorizing the tune.

This probably just sounds like a bunch of rambling but I figure it couldn't hurt..hehe

[PatriotSaint]

Looks like I found my new theme-song. Well, not that I had one before, but this is perfect. 

[Urist McScoopbeard]

the theme on piano sounds like a whole story composed into a song. Impressive, sir.

[Fleebus]

I... I wish this music never stopped...