More Classical Music

[TC_Halogen]

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This is the BIGGEST problem with fantasie impromptu. It's one of my favorite Chopin pieces, but you'd have to completely ignore the polyrhythm to make a halfway decent file, which is the entire point of the piece in the first place. I think people have been trying to chart it for a few years, I've never seen a good one. Like I said before, most of the best classical songs just can't be condensed 4 keys, while maintaining a quality file.

I'm actually working on this chart now myself - the performance I have is very accent heavy in some spots so the polyrhythms aren't entirely audible in every area, which makes the file someone tolerable.

[igotrhythm]

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Not to mention that fast polyrhythms tend to make people rage. All depends on your target difficulty, really.

[who_cares973]

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i challenge you to an impromptu off aj!!!!! i'll be stepping the song as well

[TC_Halogen]

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i challenge you to an impromptu off aj!!!!! i'll be stepping the song as well

I quit.

[nois-or-e]

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Well that was aniti-climactic

[LJRoX]

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I'm actually working on this chart now myself - the performance I have is very accent heavy in some spots so the polyrhythms aren't entirely audible in every area, which makes the file someone tolerable.

Hopefully it's not an impromptu where the pianist decides to play tempo rubato in the slower parts loool.
But I can't wait
It sounds better with it however.

[MarioNintendo]

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But I can't wait

I quit.

Tough luck, LJ

[GLL]

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I'm a bit concerned about what qualifies as "classical". Individual performances are unique based on the performer's interpretation. For the most part, making a tempo perfect classical song would sound cold and mechanical and uninteresting. I want to know if a dance remix (other other type of cover) of a classical song would still be considered "classical".

The best example I can think of is Kakume from DDR. It's very close to the original Revolutionary Etude by Chopin but in a dance style. Other examples include "V" (Vivaldi's Winter), End of the Century (Ode to Joy), Speed Over Beethoven (Fur Elise), and Beethoven's Virus from Pump it Up (Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique, third movement).

Just suppose a producer here wants to do a kickass instrumental dance remix of some classical music for the site. I also have a friend who remixed Moonlight Sonata in a hip hop style, although he's probably taken too many liberties with the original already, but I could definitely pull out some crazy awesome classical music remixes if I really wanted to.

Midi's are great, but then you have to convert it to audio, which means finding convincing samples and putting it through pro audio software. Since midi is just "arrangement data" of music that's an arrangement already in public domain, I don't see any copyright issues using classical midi's if you're replacing the samples. The exception would be if live performers actually recorded midi performances using midi controllers (in which case the tempo probably wouldn't be usable to step artists anyway).

[Xandertrax]

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Copyright on classical remixes?

Short answer: No. Copyright issues, I'm pretty sure FFR ran into some big problems with Beethoven Virus. People can reuse the tune of classical pieces, since those are in public domain, but once their creative process has touched it and finalized it, it's their product. So not public domain, unfortunately.