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[Snateraar]

I do apologize for the horrible quality.
Just imagine the sound is in ASCII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2uJl_MT2Q

[Trif]

The horrible recording quality is interesting. The distortions form some sort of crude beat, I kind of like it.

[Nasikabatrachus]

Aside from the audio quality, which I think has some charm of its own, I find it hard to distinguish from the original except in a few ways.

Since this is a musical thread and this is something I'm curious about, would anyone with The Book Learning in music care to elucidate the formal qualities of the default DF sound track? I recently started playing after a long absence, and have just come to realize how much I love it (and would how much I would like to hear more music with similar qualities).

[Snateraar]

Aside from the audio quality, which I think has some charm of its own, I find it hard to distinguish from the original except in a few ways.

Since this is a musical thread and this is something I'm curious about, would anyone with The Book Learning in music care to elucidate the formal qualities of the default DF sound track? I recently started playing after a long absence, and have just come to realize how much I love it (and would how much I would like to hear more music with similar qualities).

It's more of a 'For Armok's sake, I can finally play it + it's the first on Youtube' than me giving it a personal twist.

[Nasikabatrachus]

It's more of a 'For Armok's sake, I can finally play it + it's the first on Youtube' than me giving it a personal twist.

That's about what I figured. I don't play the guitar, but I hear it takes a lot of effort just to deliberately develop callouses, so I take it as an accomplishment.

[Gavakis]

If you got a better recorder, id love to see more!

[Putnam]

Aside from the audio quality, which I think has some charm of its own, I find it hard to distinguish from the original except in a few ways.

Since this is a musical thread and this is something I'm curious about, would anyone with The Book Learning in music care to elucidate the formal qualities of the default DF sound track? I recently started playing after a long absence, and have just come to realize how much I love it (and would how much I would like to hear more music with similar qualities).

Well, it's almost all arpeggiated chords; here's the first few for the in-game song (played with capo on second fret, so transpose all these two half-steps to sound correct):

F#7 b2 add13\B (yes, really)
Asus4
A
repeat

C\E

E7\B
E7sus4\B
repeat

Am (arpeggiated C6) transitions into
Amadd9 (arpeggiate Cmaj7) transitions into
G#aug (arpeggiate C)
...

there's a lot of them.

I have a few recordings lying around for it, let's see if I can dig them up...

Here's one of me with the game song.
and here's one of me with the title song.

[Snateraar]

If you got a better recorder, id love to see more!

Haha, it's the only somewhat advanced song I can play so far, been playing the guitarro for only 2 years so far and just started on the 'real deal' music
Currently practising on the DF Dwarf Mode theme, though.

It's more of a 'For Armok's sake, I can finally play it + it's the first on Youtube' than me giving it a personal twist.

That's about what I figured. I don't play the guitar, but I hear it takes a lot of effort just to deliberately develop callouses, so I take it as an accomplishment.

I do have those, and mainly thanks to this song as I'm addicted to playing it. Finish playing > Do it once more because it's a nice tune.


@Putnam: Might want to tune your guitar on those recordings, although you definitely play nice!
Also, I have no idea what you mean with all these chords, all I can do is read sheet music and play songs until they sound right or until my fingers come off.

[Putnam]

I recommend learning chords a lot! I learned them by joining a jazz band and wikipedia, but the title theme's chords are fairly easy to name: (song is played with capo on fourth fret)

Bdim7add11
Am
F#m6
E minor (all chords are based on this one for whole song)
C/E
Emin
C/E
Em...
Em add #4
Em
Em add #4
E
Emadd#4
E
Em
F#7 (not that similar to Em like the rest are)
E

Repeat these two until fadeout:
G6
Em

(G6 is Em with a root of G)

[Silicoid]

And thus begins Dwarf Fortress:The Album.