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Link to Music
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Link to Writings (To be added)


So I figured that I should have one of these as I have a little bit of talent in each of these subjects. And I didn't want to make a thread for each one of these things, since I love organization. I guess I'll try to update this daily. Wait a second, that's a dead lie. Maybe semiweekly. Biweekly. Triweekly? Semimonthly, maybe. Or maybe even bi-tri-week-hourly. Or maybe even not at all when I eventually let this die out.

I'll try to archive most of the content here once I get past a page or 2 of posts. You can criticize all you'd like, but for requests I only take a few of. So to kick this thing off, let's have some filler! I present to you my first remix!

And now for the thing I wanted to post first, but couldn't resist having a joke post for. The serious Christmas drawing I've been working on for weeks! And since your birthday is like the day after, happy birthday to you, Cat!

I like that drawing quite a bit, and thanks!

I'm back so soon? Hey now~ I got a little bored just sitting around being sick all day so I decided to redo the oh-so popular Christmas song, Jingle Bells!

I've been listening to a lot of Beatles lately (obviously) and thinking about how to improve on the percussion when it hit me. I was inspired by Richard Starkey, more well known as Ringo Starr, also known as the greatest drummer in the world (really.) So I threw together a short, random tune based on the percussion from a Beatles song that I think has amazing drums. (I GAVE IN AND USE DPCM SAMPLES. I JUST NEEDED THAT KICK.)

I remember one time I told Cat I would try to draw a Charizard. And I did. Then I ripped it up, burned it, and threw the ashes away because it was just so hideous and I swore I'd never try that ever again. But I knew I had to, and with determination I pulled off a sketch! Once!

It's been like 3 weeks since the drum song. And like I said, I HAVE compiled the others into one huge video. Same as last time, writing a song around the drums I stole from the originals, but this time they're short little tunes (since I was veeeeery lazy.) I did 5 of their songs (well technically 6, but the last one was more faithful to the original than the others) from the beginning, middle, and end of their career.

I'm kind of obsessed with guitars right now. Specifically bass guitars. So I had a strange dream where I was in my dream band (that plays almost nothing but covers of The Beatles) except instead of a human, I was a Turtwig. And my bass looked like one, too. So I decided I wasn't gonna let that subconscious creativity go to waste, and I quickly made this!

Dude, I could KILL for a scanner.

I really like the sound of this last one. It sounds very much like an actual rock song played on guitar, and the drums fit it quite nicely. You certainly are great at Famitracker, no doubt about that. I like how you simulated the different toms with the DPCM pitch/speed setting.

As for the Ringo compilation, my thoughts were, "Ooh, this one is pretty goo--wait, it's already over? Hmm, this one is pretty nice t--aww."

To Cat- Aw thanks, you're really too kind, but that sure helps motivate me. About the compilation, I did say they were like little jingles, but I'm extending a couple.

There are a lot of games from my childhood that have much nostalgic value, but nothing gives great memories like the SpongeBob game "Battle for Bikini Bottom." While most games based off of shows and movies had weak production and little actual entertainment value, this one had an adventure system similar to Super Mario 64, lots of humor, references from almost every episode up to 2003, and amazing music.

Look at the first post. The joke one. That was like my first song I created in FamiTracker, or first FULL song anyway. So many failure jingles... It's been a little over half a year (I thought February was 6 months after July. Am I stupid?) since I started, and I thought I should make some sort of... halfiversary of my progress. But this song was still pretty difficult to do and I'm never going to try it again, not even in another 6 months.

Hm, I've never heard the first one, but it sounds pretty decent, as does Roxie's gym. I'm somewhat tempted to try remixing Roxie's gym now.

BEHOLD THE MOST AMAZING THING IN EXISTENCE!

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody~! ♥ While I normally treat this as a minor holiday seeing as how I don't usually care about love, this year I decided to dedicate it to my friends. 2013 is my super peppy positive year, after all. So for those amazing people I know, I drew pictures~!

Haha! I happened to split the drawings from my "everyone" drawing to my batch of personal requests that I sent out to people.


  

    
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This picture was inspired by a conversation I had a couple years ago after Black and White came out. Me and a friend decided to randomly pair a bunch of our favorite Pokémon with others. Not willing to part with such a quirky idea,  I decided to lay it off until I got some more art skills (should've waited another year) to slap it on something serene like this park scene and make it full-page full-color. Even though there are some problems with proportions and fine detailing I couldn't care less about, I like how it came out.



  

    
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This happening was a funny story. I had a great friend that I wanted to draw a Milotic for, and so I started some rough sketches for a friendly Valentine's Day drawing. Then someone else asked to be my Valentine, and I said "sure" cause there's no harm in it, so I did a rough sketch for her too. That led me to start asking my other good friends who were close to me until I got to 7 drawings. Then I had to stop 


  

    
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This is for my friend who asked me to be their Valentine. She loves the Legend of Zelda series to death and Minccino is one of her favorite Pokémon, so I slapped something cute together in a few minutes.



  

    
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THIS is the original idea right here, and that's why it's the only one of the requests in full color. I wanted to draw a Milotic for my friend because it's really pretty and I remember her saying she liked it, so I wanted to draw it swimming through the ocean. Excuse my lack of a varying color palette on my attempts of the difference in ocean depth.



  

    
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This super special request was made by my little Davey-poo~♥ *Giggle* (How ya like that, Suicune? I'm working on my Magypsy impression AND I added in a Titiboo giggle!) This was one of the hardest requests because the first thing I said was "What in the world am I gonna do with a Regice?" It's easy to draw, just a bunch of simple geometric shapes, but I couldn't work with the golem. So I brainstormed goofy ideas until I came up with it making a heart shaped snow angel. It IS still Winter, after all.



  

    
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This cutey was requested from one of my closest friends ever, and I call him Mac. When drawing this I noticed that it was kind of fat and it was my intention to slim it down, but then I noticed how cute it was chubby. So I kept the fat design because it's adorable~



  

    
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This thingy was requested by Cat. When he first said Typhlosion I just wanted to yell out "BUT SOMEONE ALREADY REQUESTED CYNDAQUIL, PICK ANOTHER." But I didn't want to displease, and I knew he'd instantly choose Zoroark or Floatzel, both of which I really did not feel like drawing. So then I had an idea to customize it by turning the color scheme into that of Zorlosion! Enjoy having the ONLY customized picture, Scotty.



  

    
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This one probably looks the most like the original art that I got it from, as I got this request last minute (about 2 days ago) and had to come up with the whole design yesterday. I decided to draw a huggable (somewhat) Lugia over a whirlpool altered with its psychic powers to form a heart at the center. I was actually given a choice on this one; between Blaziken and Lugia. I screamed "NO MORE FIRE TYPES" and that was that.

  

    
  

  

  



That is in fact me playing my soprano saxophone over a song I made in FamiTracker. The song is "Ask Me Why" by The Beatles (champion love song makers); my saxophone playing the vocal melody while FamiTracker does chords, percussion, and bass. I was just about to cancel this when I decided I would BE A MAN and actually finish it! But syncing the 2 parts together was torture, somehow I was able to struggle through.

Loving that Typhlosion. Thanks~!

Wow, nice SAXAMAPHONE playing!

Regice~! My favorite Pokemon before Reuniclus came along. :3 Hehe, the snow angel idea was clever.

Thanks Turt, and you're one heck of a saxaphone player! ^~^

Alright, I've had enough time off for a while. Back to experimenting before I lose my touch! This time I decided to do like the BEST song ever. Okay, well that's an overstatement, but definitely one of my favorites from my favorite game of all time. Now many people should already know the game is Mother 3, but the song that I have done is the upbeat and happy theme Ride the Green Train~! This goes out to all the COOL people!

Original for the uncool who've never heard this-

You know it's a good remix when you actually enjoy listening to it instead of listening to it just for critquing purposes. As I told you before, this is definitely my favorite among your remixes. ^^

The great Turtovsky is back with his greatest musical composition yet! His new ringtone!

I tried to shoot for the Megaman jumping pose. Almost hit it on the nail, right?

Oh...My...Jeebus...Are you God?

No way! That was my favorite part of it, too xD

Turt...teach me how to use Famitracker so I can make amazing stuff like this. ;-;

Happy Easter everyone! Yeah I know I'm a TAD bit late, but Turty always delivers~!

You are amazing. Way to go! : D

All this talk about X and Y makes me want to read all the info I can. But I have to avoid all the spoilers, and I'm trying so hard! In my mental breakdown, I found this and souped it up with color. A bad drawing of a fake professor I thought of!

Remind me to stop trying to draw humans.

:0 It's Reuniclus!

Being early is for losers and I'm never on time, but you can count on it that Turty will always make the deadline!

Oh jeebus, don't bring that up, Reun xD
I feel so special to have this done just for me~ I don't even know what to say, it's so good. I'm glad I have friends like y'all to appreciate me here.

That professor you drew looks great! I also love that picture of you and Eagles! I'm very impressed; keep it up! :3

All of you guys are so awesome and encouraging, I love you all~!

Now, you might notice that in the thread title that it says that I also write. But, you haven't really seen any of my writings... besides these. I haven't posted any because... I just don't know where to store them. Music is stored on YouTube, artwork in an album, but with words I draw a blank. And this is supposed to be my organized thread. But, I have been writing poetry since we've been studying MacBeth, in AP English, so after a 3-year poetry hiatus, here are two things I have written.
Note: The second one is full of touchy feelings. You can ignore it.

Poetry, as we know, is a wonderful art

Entertaining masses who gather to listen

A story, a scenery, and even a funny joke

Could all be expressed, whether simple or complex.



To write a song

Has little change

Why, one might say

"They're one and the same."



Two forms of expressive art clash

The arguments come, nothing is settled

But if they would just open their eyes

They would see the parent and its child.



Rhythm and rhyme

Beat and feeling

A hidden message

Can you not see it?



What is one evolved from another, with more open possibility.

And without a parent there is no child, lost for eternity.

Let me tell you all of the reasons why I hate you

After you threw me around and left me helpless without a clue



The way you brought me in and made me feel warm

Then tore me apart like a mindless, raging storm



The way we were happy, always cheerful and laughing

But you knew in the end, it'd be me you were smashing



You tried to right the wrongs, to forget what happened past

But I think you and I both knew that nothing would ever last



Though the tears kept falling down just like endless rain

Your rude demeanor and blank expression would always bring me pain



And no matter how hard I tried, my efforts, they just had to go *pop*

So it had to end, go to ruins, it all just had to stop



So what are the reasons why I hate you?

To be honest, my friend, I haven't go a clue.

It's taken me so long to finally do this, but it was possible thanks to Windows Vista. I present to you all a nine minute collection of songs from my Math Project I finished a few days ago!

I'm back again, and this time I'm in love with Yoko Shimomura~! Wait, scratch that. I'm ALWAYS in love with her. But that's besides the point, because I've finished yet another song from Super Mario RPG. This time it's Koopa Castle, the second visit!

Originale- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZzAv7MVeA

Ooh, not bad. There are a few parts where it sounds like two tracks are playing the same note (which causes a weird effect), but other than that it's quite a faithful cover.

You actually provided an MP3 for once instead of the horribly compressed YouTube quality? *waits for the rest to get MP3s or NSFs*

Koopa Castle (Second Time) Redux.mp3

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Koopa Castle (Second Time) Redux.mp3

Good remix i remember when i play Super mario RPG is a very good remix, im looking yours works

Aaaaand just like you requested, here's the dual mix of your 8-bit remix with the original.

I think it desyncs at some specific parts, but it still sounds nice to me.

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Koopa Castle Dual Mix.mp3

Thanks, Witi! Super Mario RPG... I don't remember when was the last time I played it. I know I'm in the middle of a playthrough, but I just had it paused... But the music is something that is always familiar to me. I love it!

Suicune, your work with that was TRULY commendable. Although I could feel where it went offsync, you made it blend really well. But I can't help but blame myself for not making the tempo perfect. I will try harder!

Life is but a moment, a meaningless grain of sand.

One of my favorite songs from Mother is Flying Man. The vocal version has amazing lyrics and a general all around great tune. Very catchy. But the thing is... it was never in the first game even though all the songs in the vocal soundtrack are remixes of songs from the game (including the instrumentals.) Oddly enough, this song WAS featured in the sequel, Earthbound, as the Game Over song and as "The Jolly Flying Man." Intrigued by this, I decided to go ahead and try to make this song as if it were from Earthbound Zero.

The Original Songs

Have I really not drawn anything in a while? Let me change that my rubber duckies!

*listens to his new song* Sorry for the long wait, exams have been keeping me busy. ^_^,
I think it's quite close in comparison to the original- and judging by the way it sounds, it can be mistaken for a real song made for the NES. I don't know how you do this (especially this quickly), but phenomenal job, Turt.

Turty here with a project that's been accidentally in development since yesterday! My friend dared me to do a song in the style of Mega Man months ago, and I think I finally absorbed enough classic Mega Man music in order to do it. Unfortunately, as I tried to do it, I found myself stumped looking for a decent melody. I started mashing the keyboard when suddenly I broke one of my rules I said I'd always follow. In fact, here.

Wily Stage 1.mp3

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Wily Stage 1.mp3

Hmm, it's Mother's Day today, isn't it? Yet another minor holiday. But, since I had some free time and a little inspiration, I decided to put together a little 8-Bit jingle.

Mother's Day.mp3

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Mother's Day.mp3

You are freakin amazing at what you do. That is all.

DID YOU KNOW THAT EARTHBOUND WILL BE IN AMERICA!? Well, I knew, so I decided to celebrate! More! As a follow up from the remix of the vocal Jolly Flying Man song, here's another vocal song, but this time in the wonders of VRC6!

The Original Song

Just like Suicune used to sketch in History, I sketch when I get ideas.

Now that I'm back I can use this again as a way to boost my post count~! Yay~! Now first on my agenda... ah yes, this.

MORE TRAINER TIME!

Looks like I forgot a Wii Fit Trainer yesterday, so here's an early morning dosage!

Unfortunately it's time for the LAST of the Wii Fit Trainer I've drawn (so far.) This one is my favorite as it took me a while but I could put personality into it.

Okay, Wii Fit Trainer's nice and all... but Megaman in Smash Bros. is pretty cool too. Right? And so if y'all remember the time I tried the MM2 Wily Stage 1-2 theme, I spiced it up a bit for his long awaited arrival to the fray!

Algae is now satisfied. You can now continue your love with Wii Fit Trainer. Any guesses about future guesses?

YES SHULK MUST BE IN THE GAME

New Leaf has inspired me to create this~!

After posting the 3> picture, I just remembered a very old drawing of mine! I can't believe I found it just lying around~

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Beautiful

One last poem from me?

My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



I stumbled across a berry

Its juices like wine

Its taste so intoxicating

Indulging all the time



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



The tree of this fruit

I took on my ride

So then I could sleep easy

It forever by my side



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



A day I won't forget

I fell down with no power

Had the fruit been attacking me?

A devilish flower?



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



I found out all too late

What I crave is not of good

The juice nothing but poison

The danger I soon understood



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



I try and try to cut back

But I had taken too long

The poison pulses through my blood

The pain continues to grow strong



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep



My vision is blurry

I cough up only red

That which once I needed most

Has made me fall, feeling dead



My endless suffering

My eternal grief

I cannot go on

So I go to sleep.

This is two months old.

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I almost forgot, THIS is the super ultra mega huge project that took my the entirety of July to finish. I said I was gonna do it (to myself and like 3 people) so I DID it! My tribute to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, The Super Wind Waker Medley!

Just in case this was unclear, I am a musician with an overactive imagination. And sometimes I have dreams, some so tasty that I just need to become real. So whenever I draw the Turtwig Bass, it is very real for me because I'm determined. (The Charizard Guitar was just for fun, but I'm sure someone would like one. It could shoot REAL fire!)

The last time I ever recorded myself playing the saxophone was six months ago back in February. I played the melody to my little version of The Beatles' song "Ask Me Why." That one I don't like much at all today because of all the post editing due to how little faith I had in my playing ability (I might re-record it, too.) THIS one however I played through 100% normally with no post editing besides cutting out the silence and background noise of me failing to start the recording... that was sad...

This is Fourside/Because I Love You from Earthbound on my Soprano Saxophone. I'm so not excited that I'm getting a Wii U in 9 days~! EARTHBOUND BABYYYYYY!!

Note: It's loud, for one thing. But it's also slightly choppy because I was out of breath at many parts of this because of Band Camp.

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Because I Love You (Saxophone).mp3

From 50% inspiration and 50% perspiration (Like seriously, you'd sweat a whole lot too if you lived in this state) I have just made a new sketch in only like 30 minutes!

For being a 30 minute drawing, you did quite well! For me, drawing something like that would take me hours.

Some people might say that I have a lot of fun recording myself play various instruments. They'd be right, but it'd be more fun if I had the proper recording tools and maybe some effect pedals. Money money money...

I recorded like 4 or 5 of these soprano saxophone solos just today. But because of my one post a day rule I imposed on myself, I'll spread them them out. So this is Day One: National Park.

Also, I was moving stuff around, and I noticed. This photo is an accurate wordless description of what I do all day.

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National Park (Saxophone).mp3

I love the National Park theme. Your playing style sounded like mine when I used to play a saxophone- even though it was an alto.

That's not wordless, there's words on the sheet music!

I wrote the sheet music for all of these back when I had an untrained ear. Now that I'm better at picking out notes I noticed that I had to rewrite almost all of the notes. On this one they were all flat. Day Two: Olivine Lighthouse.

But wait, there's more! This past week I've been very happy, it almost scares me how good I've been because that usually means something bad is about to happen. But I ignored it like I normally do. I had this idea in my head for months that I was unsure about until about last week when I fixed my scanner! (All by myself, I might add~)

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Olivine Lighthouse (Saxophone).mp3

Whoops, I just remembered that I forgot about my instrumental whatevering.

This makes today Day Four: Kirby Rest Area and Ripple Star. These two songs were so short yet sweet that I decided to record both in one sitting. My mom hilariously makes a cameo in this because she YELLED SO LOUD during my performance that the mic picked up her voice. I was going to silence that part out, but it's her own fault.

I wrote these all back when I was just beginning to add music into my everyday life. Before The Beatles, before FamiTracker, before all of it. I just had a piano and a clarinet. I wrote simply to feel the pleasure of being the band stand-out.

This is the last of the recordings for now and I have a lot more sheet music to review and rewrite. I might pick this up again next week on Tuesday or Thursday.

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Rest Area and Ripple Star (Saxophone).mp3

Time to catch up on songs I haven't posted in here yet.

Taking a break from messing with Roxie's Gym (I'll be back for the honey and you!) I decided to go with my 2nd favorite Gym Leader, Clay in Driftveil!

Talking with Cat is like injecting myself with poison. The ideas never stop.

First day playing the clarinet again after about a year or more. Whoo boy am I rusty. What better way to celebrate this than to record myself playing it? So here we are with Day Five: Youngtown/Paula's Prison. (EARTHBOUND, BABY~! I CAN BARELY HIDE MY EXCITEMENT!) It doesn't sound too good since I run out of air much faster on the clarinet, and it's 6 years old. Which wouldn't mean much to an adult that takes care of their instruments, but I've had this since I was 11. I'm in dire need of a fresh replacement.

...Yes, day five. I'm still continuing.

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Youngtown (Clarinet).mp3

Today was an amazingly fun day for me~ Despite the fact that I'm going to crumble into dust in 13 years because 30 is so the death age. And now with my Wii U safely in my arms I present Day Six: All That I Needed Was You. I seem to have an affinity for this song, I keep trying it in many different styles and such. It's just such a nice one~

I thought about making a birthday drawing, but I couldn't. I just didn't feel like it, and I was more in the mood for receiving. You know me~

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All That I Needed Was You (Clarinet).mp3

I've been debating on it long and hard, but now I know the answer. Otters are INDEED mammals. Oh, and I also have a very special post for today. From my new collection I give you Birthday Greetings #1!

School has been kicking me all over. This has been my first chance to write music since early August :I

Well, maybe me making a terrible remix wasn't such a bad thing after all- it gave you determination to make this and I think you did quite a good job. The ending sounded a bit weird to me at first, but I think it grew on me.

Is it bad that I like this version better than the original?

Time for another one of Turty's special "I sketched in class because I got bored!" episodes. The only downside to this is that I had to use graph paper because I forgot all my good paper at home.

I believe this is the only thing that remains unposted. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Light World Dungeon Remix.

We're back, and this time we're using that good paper! (Thaaaanks Caaat)

The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD came out like a week ago and I'm still unsure if I want it or not. But still, it got me thinking about my Wind Waker Medley and certain songs I thought stuck out. So for the next few weeks I'll be uploading some stereo remixes of songs from the super medley. First on the list is Outset Island!

How about some Sunday afternoon poetry?

From you the scent, the taste, the feel

The way we were when love was real



Of all the things I wish to say

I just would like for you to stay



The place that we would soon call home

Has blown apart, the pieces flown



Those eyes I see, so deep, intense

Yet I'm locked in a wall so dense



And soft to touch was your embrace

Now I cannot look up to face



For all I've thought and all I've dreamed

Was just a lie, one of your schemes



And here I lie, yes lost again

Just waiting out this story's end



But who could heal the heart you steal?

I wait for you to make love real

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Wind Waker Title Demo.mp3

Week two brings us to our next island, a quaint post-apocalyptic Kakariko Village. But for simplicity, let's just call it Windfall Island.

It's week three! This is quite possibly the most famous the most famous island song from Wind Waker. I know it's my favorite because of the bass~ Here's Dragon Roost Island.

The college application process is very mind numbing and time consuming. I haven't had time to work on music for a while... But now that my Early Action one is sent out I should be fine again. Here's something leftover that I finally got done.

sexy cursive writing~
It lookss better than mine(even when I try to make it look pretty).

Today feels like such a Sunday. It would be a great Day to ride my bike. That's why this is Day Seven: Ness's Bike.

I know I messed up in a few parts and that this is quite short compared to others, but I thought it would feel more authentic so I decided against fixing it. Plus, I didn't have sheet music, I did the whole thing by memory by ear by inspiration from sheet music I glanced at on Starman-net. (Horrible place, never go there.)

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I liiiiike~"

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Ness' Bike (Clarinet).mp3

I like the little "Al" key on Klefki. Haha~

The penultimate remix in my long-running (at least I think it's too long for me) Wind Waker medley spree. But I got bored with simply adding a part to the medley songs, so I spiced this one up more. Here's Hyrule Castle!

Finally done with songs from Wind Waker! Took long enough... I'm ending this run with a song that was a huge process, so huge that one look is 3 and a half minutes long. Here's the Great Sea!

Remember when I had to take pictures of every single drawing in order to upload it? Yeah... well I'm back to it right now!