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Finally someone has done it right! An awesome medley of the major OT Star Wars melodies.

Here.

Wow, that guy is pretty damn talented. Most enjoyable. Did he actually arrange the music, or just play it?

That was awesome. That guy is great on the piano.

NomAnor15 wrote: Wow, that guy is pretty damn talented. Most enjoyable. Did he actually arrange the music, or just play it?

I think he transcribed Star Wars to piano on his own. That takes some work.

It has a MIDI quality to it that reminds me of the old TIE Fighter soundtrack.

That was awesome.

wow...

I'd like to have that as mp3-file

I'd pay good money to get that arrangement as sheet music. I've seen better pianists (although he's good, and certainly better than me) but the arrangement, so faithful to the original soundtrack, is what really impresses me. I want to learn to play it now!

Aren't most orchestral scores available as piano reductions? Or are the piano scores merely a compression of the notes into two staves without any consideration to playability?

Well, condensed scores usually have a whole crapload of notes on a piano staff, or 4 voices. Piano reductions shold be OK for playability, though quality is iffy.

It reminded me of what the background music would be if Star Wars was an old-timey silent movie. Awesome performance, though.

That was his own transcription with no sheet music. He also has an amazing transcription of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue for the organ, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (in two parts) and Beethoven's 5th.

He also composed music on the spot, like a jazz musician, based on a melody someone in the audience sang. He improvised both Mozart and Chopin-styled variations on the melody.