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    Default Playing VG Music on your own

    After seeing that video of a Japanese guy playing Super Mario Bros. music on the piano, I thought I'd make this thread up.
    What game tunes can you play while just messing around with the keyboard or any instrument from boredom, even when you mess up alot and it's not your best?

    I could play:
    Zanac (stage 1, I can play this with a science)
    Star Force -The Japanese arrangement on the Famicom which I like better than Tecmo's English NES version. The melody is simple just holding out 3rds while the bass has the most action)
    Altered Beast (stage 1 human form, beast form)
    I once also attempted to play the intro of Strider for NES. Turned out a little sloppy

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    Don't play keyboard, but I got down most of the PSX lunar intro on guitar
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    I'd really like to learn how to make teh pause, coin, ect noises myself, so i could play them and see responses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cryomancer
    I'd really like to learn how to make teh pause, coin, ect noises myself, so i could play them and see responses.
    The coin sound is easy on a guitar.

    It's a harmonic on the fifth fret of the B string followed quickly by a harmonic on the fifth fret of the E string.

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    Eh, probably anything you want, guitar style.

    I used to play the 1st stage song from Sol Deace for my cousin. He loved fast arpeggios on guitar.

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    The only "instrument" I play is the stereo. I do, however, have a tendency to da-da-da certain VG music. The Zelda theme and the music from the Tron coin-op are a couple of my favorites, much to the chagrin of Mrs. Pantechnicon .

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    I can play the old Zelda 1 intro on guitar and piano. I'm can play most of the SMB theme on guitar as well as the second part of the level 1 theme from Rygar. Oh, and my favorite piece to stumble through is the Prologue from Final Fantasy. I love that piece so much.

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    I can play little bits of some Zelda tunes on guitar. I also used to play some of the tunes from Ice Hockey (NES). The other day I was messing around with the bass and I figured out some music from the original Earthworm Jim. But now I can't remember how it quite went. Can anyone share some mp3s?

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    Does it have to be good?

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    Whenever I hear a good song, I usually print out the sheet music for it and play around with it a bit on the piano. However, the ones I can play from memory are the theme from Bubble Bobble, the theme from Elevator Action, and Magical Sound Shower (er...some of it, anyways). Oh yeah, and the Underwater music from Super Mario Bros. as well.
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