My piano performances on Flash Flash Revolution
Posted on: September 12, 2006If you've played Dance Dance Revolution, then you may find comfort in exercising your fingers over a game of Flash Flash Revolution. Alex wrote in to let me know he found out some of my piano recordings of video game music, under the name of "aspergian", were turned into FFR stages by Busurk_Lurk: "Flashman", "Tetris (Piano Version)", and "The Games We Played".
I haven't gone through the levels yet but, it's nice to know they're being finger-danced to out there.
And of course you can download all 17 minutes of the epic videogame megamix medley, "The Games We Played", in MP3. Epic not because it's long, but because it's fun. Courteous thankyous to blip.tv for hostage.
What video games did you use to play?
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February 27th, 2007 at 10:12 AM PST
I heard your piano pieces through playing FFR and I loved all the movements to The Games We Played, I play piano myself and I absolutely love it. I really really wish you had made sheet music, everything was so beautiful, I didn't realize I could just download the music until I found this site, before I just played The Games We Played over and over again =) Now that I've found this site, I can't wait to listen to the other music you've composed =)
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 PM PST
@Caitlin: Thank-you for listening, I hope you enjoy my other works too! I've gotten requests for sheet music frequently. The main problems with that for me are: (1) I don't write conventional notation (I have a working knowledge but it doesn't suit me), (2) not enough time, and (3) I'm still hoping someone else with mad transcription skillz will do it. I'd be more than happy to boost their name — I know at 17+ min., it's a veritable challenge!
April 1st, 2007 at 4:04 AM PDT
You play beautifully.
What games were the tunes from? Most of it is recognizable, but I don't recall a lot of them. Like…the intro.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:43 AM PDT
@Charlie: Thanxies! You're just in luck, have a look at this expanded post: "The Games We Played on Flash Flash Revolution" for a complete listing.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:36 PM PDT
omfg ur to good i love ur song i think u practise a lot to do this
April 11th, 2007 at 10:42 AM PDT
Hey Torley, thanks for stoppin' by my LJ and commenting. I'm glad that you're starting to compose again. I really enjoy your music. It's so pretty! I think that it was awesome of you to take time to comment on fans' of yours' pages. I can't wait to listen to more of your music =D. BTW, I know your ethnic background, but where do you live now? I'm Korean originally but live in the states. Well, take care for now!
~Ben
April 15th, 2007 at 7:00 AM PDT
@Korias|Ben: I'm in Canada! Likewise, thanx for coming by here! You take care too! =D
April 27th, 2007 at 8:58 PM PDT
I love this song! I can't get enough of it on FFR.
I have just one question. How can you download it to save on your computer?
April 29th, 2007 at 9:55 AM PDT
@Fooby: Try http://blip.tv/file/get/Torley-TheGamesWePlayed908.mp3
and thank-you!
=^.^=
May 30th, 2007 at 11:05 PM PDT
Well… I'm a large ear playing fan myself. I promise you I will learn this song! And it will sound better xD!
Only joking, it will never sound as good as this! Damn. It's like the best song ever! (When I get my cast off) I will send you my progress
Cheers!
And Thanks for the inspiration.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:06 PM PDT
i just want to say how great of a piece this is. i showed it to my piano teacher and he said he could write the music for me if i wanted it. if he does i would be happy to send it to you so you can distribute it as you like. thanks alot.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:35 PM PDT
I've gotta say, I was a partial fan of FFR a while ago, like months and months, but what kept me coming back was the challenge of some of their classical songs and the arcade tunes. I recently returned out of boredom and to my surprise, what did I find but this gem, divided into 5 parts. It is truly and amazingly beautiful, and I can't even begin to imagine the amount of effort that went into making such a masterpiece.
I am humbled before your piano-playing skills. I thank you profoundly for giving me both a treat for the ears and a challenge for the fingers.
July 1st, 2007 at 3:54 PM PDT
@Adam, Eric, and Kenichi, thank you SO much for sharing! I'm happy you like "The Games We Played" so much; my roots inspiration, of course, is accredited to the original video game composers whose tuneage I've reinterpreted.
AFAIK no one has done a full score transcription for "TGWP", so if anyone, piano teacher or otherwise, wants to have a go, please do and let me know.
This piece was a pleasure to play and it was very cathartic to express my passion for so many entertaining classics.
You're all most graciously welcome. <|8-)
July 7th, 2007 at 9:06 PM PDT
well…..I beat all 5 games to play on FFR, quite the challange due to all ur trills, the single notes were pretty easy because most of them were at a pace I can hit. The Writer of the SimFiles did a heck of a job writing all those left and chords into notes…those chords drove me nuts, but i beat em anyway, just dropping by to say great job and wundering if ur in any conservatory. Me? I'm in the Royal American Conservatory, just four more years, and 8 exams later I can be a certified piano teacher, but sports has me otherwise, anyhow just dropping by.
July 8th, 2007 at 7:49 AM PDT
@Alex: I went through the Toronto Royal Conservatory and did all my practical exams but dropped out of theory because I was getting bored and had so many more worthwhile things to do with my time (in hindsight, I haven't regretted). I do hope if your goal is to be a teacher, that you succeed.
And yeah, I totally gotta give props to Rebirth0 for doing those simfiles… he was really inspired and helped get "TGWP" to a lot more people, which of course I'm extremely thankful for.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:06 AM PDT
Thanks for TGWP its such a great song for ffr. It is truly EPIC.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:44 AM PDT
I played TGWP on FFR and I had to find you and say this. Thank you for this song, listening to it brought back some old memories. I don't think something like this could have been done any better. I'm downloading it to my computer right now
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 AM PDT
@ELRayford and Craig, you guys are welcome! Thanks for listening; and again, I give my props to Rebirth0 for the stepping.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:36 PM PDT
hey Torley, I love your music, but 1 question still leaves to be unanswered, for me at least..
Do you have the sheet music to this? if so could you email it to me?
September 20th, 2007 at 7:32 AM PDT
Denis, I can't help but notice there's a similarity between this thread and the politics I'm watching on tv now: the question has already been answered
There is no sheet music for this specific performance, but there's a list of games where the tunes come from. A lot of those do have sheet music online, for example, the Tetris tune can be found at Scribd, I'm sure you can find other games as well. Then it's a good excercise to play them and try to link them together.
For me it works like this: Torley inspires me in music, video, photography. I don't try to recreate his work, I look at it, and listen, and then take those ideas and make my own art. It is much more fun and will get you more positive feedback than simply copying one's work.
Happy pianoing!
September 20th, 2007 at 6:12 PM PDT
Thanks for helping to answer, Daed — awww! Kind words! I'm glad you can fuel your creativity off of mine — and best of hope playing the music you want to perform, Denis.
(I gotta use "Happy pianoing!" more, I like that expression. Mind if I do, Daed?)
September 21st, 2007 at 1:58 PM PDT
That's no problem of course, you enriched our vocabulary with expressions like Yayzerama and Friendly greetings (which I often use in e-mails, it's a good sign for the recipient you mean it well).
October 10th, 2007 at 11:12 PM PDT
I think it is great that someone can post such great music online…
sorry about your hearing…
October 13th, 2007 at 7:27 AM PDT
@Zach: My ears have gotten more resilient over time, I gotta keep going… and thanks for the kind comment.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:04 AM PDT
This piece is amazing, is there a lossless version (such as FLAC/APE/anything) available?
October 27th, 2007 at 11:36 AM PDT
@Epiphanyness: Whoa, what a moniker you have. Sadly no, I don't have that available for download. I did have the original .WAV somewhere, but I haven't seen it in a long time. Your interest is appreciated.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:36 PM PST
I have to say that I absolutely love your music. It's freakin' awesome. As a musician myself, I know how frustrating it can be to try and make beautiful music, but you're great at it. Keep up the good work!
January 13th, 2008 at 6:47 AM PST
@Shelby: Why thank-you!
February 20th, 2008 at 9:54 PM PST
This brought back such good memories, I thank you for that. I especially remember Bubble Bobble… classic.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:44 AM PST
@Tyler: You're welcome! I must've played Bubble Bobble for hours on end with my bro… I loved the parts where the giant fruit comes down, especially the watermelon!
August 5th, 2008 at 1:26 AM PDT
Yes, this Flash Flash Revolution thing really seems to have taken off lately. I have been noticing its popularity just by looking at my search query stats.
A few months ago, I published an FFR-related article on my blog that has attracted a surprising amount of traffic from Google. The funny part is that when I clicked through to see where my article was ranked, it was only showing up at #16 in Google, yet I was getting around 20-40 hits per day just to that one page.
About two weeks ago, Google apparently dropped the page into their supplemental index and I am no longer receiving traffic to it (with the exception of a few hits from Yahoo and MSN), but it might be interesting to see how many hits I can bring in if I actually get some backlinks to the page and bring it back up in the rankings.
(sorry for the double post - previous comment had the wrong URL text - please delete the first one)
August 10th, 2008 at 8:48 AM PDT
@Flash: Intriguing observation, and thanks for sharing it! I like your Gravatar too — Monty Python and crushing ignorance, what a combo!