Barbarian Ultimate Warrior C64 piano arrangement and gameplay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Home gig #37, recorded June 26 2020. This tune is especially fun to play because of the compound meter and I like pounding the bass on this piano! The meter is simple 4/4 in the intro and ending sequence, but the primary tune uses 6+5/4, 6+3/4, 5+3/4, 5+2/4. For extra fun, try counting the beats!
The gameplay footage starts with a couple fights from side A (outdoor scenes), then several fights and the final battle from side B (dungeon scenes). Winning the game was very challenging.
Composer: Richard Joseph 1987
Arranger: Paul Nelsen 2017
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Wohooo! “CONAN! WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?”
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Wow... I must admit that I thought "that can't work" when I read the title. But you proved me very wrong and I am glad you did :D What a great version of this masterpiece! And absolutely true to the original. My hat's off to you, sir!
Edit: Oh and by the way... I love how you fit your clothes for every song.
Thanks. I didn’t think it would work either! But once started... it became a task to defy the odds. Looking at Commando next
@@RetroPianoGuy Oh my God, Commando will break the Internet... I am also waiting for Boulder Dash.... Absolute precision, elegance, and power!
@@RetroPianoGuy PLS Do Commando
Thanks, Big Boy! 🤣
Epic. Bravo!
Dude, this is awesome. This song is still stuck in my head from the 80s. I'm so glad I looked it up and found this.
RIP Richard Joseph. Great music, as always... Amazing piano arrangement, kudos! One of the best C64 themes ever made! Very complicated and outstanding.
Poledouris and Josep were genius!
I love how this game theme was influence by Basil Poledouris' work.
SO.BEAUTIFUL.
The most authentic playing of Joseph's tune ever. THANK YOU!
Amazing throwback to the Good Ole Days of video games!
This is one of the best fighting game in the history of videogames! have a tremendous music and gameplay!!! I Love barbarian forever!
This tune is stuck in my head from playing that game all those years ago. Sometimes I look up this song just to listen to it. I was pleasantly surprised to find such an excellent arrangement of this tune this time around :) Absolutely amazing.
Excellent arrangement 😊
My jaw dropped to the floor! I can't even begin to describe how awesome this is.
Almost flawless. Great job, sir, and thanks for bringing back memories of this incredible tune.
Amazing rendition thanks for the upload
You absolutely nailed it! Hats off, Mr. Nelsen!
Dónde ha estado toda mi vida este genio!?
I loved that theme, but I never had it in mind as such a complex song.
Thanks my friend for bringing back memories, great job !!!!
bro thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was 5 minutes of perfect awesome. Thank you :) :) :)
OMG! What a sound, you really hit every one you play! Great, really amazing!
Müthiş, kağıda bakmadan bu kadar karışık melodiyi akılda tutmak, muhteşem icra.
It sounds like it's 60Hz and NTSC... the tune played slightly slower on PAL machines. Could I be right that Paul Nelsen is in the US ? BTW: Amazing playing!!
Thanks! Yep I'm in USA and played the game on NTSC, but I used PAL tempo for playing piano -- at least in the beginning! .... by the end I was going a little faster for sure...
@@RetroPianoGuy I like how you differ on the tempo. It sounds spot on like the PAL version from what I can remember, until the end.
If I had to choose between this and Poledouris' song....
Great performance, Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please try Cybernoid one and two, once You will have time. Monty on the run is also very great.
This was freakin amazing, every note spot on as I remember the theme, impressive only having the piano to cover this busy theme!!
Excellent! With all the time changes that is def. a challenge! I love your version, thank you so very much!
I think you just turned the barbarian music into a real classic - that is really really really cool!!!
Wow!!! Remember playing this as a kid well intense! Little goblin coming along kicking the head lol. Great job propper brought back the feels .
Please do "Test Drive" piano arrangement!
Awesome! Thank you, sir. Really enjoying these :)
Brilliant. You play many C64 games musics, you must be a nostalgic of these games. Among my favorites musics were the classic Giana siters, The Last ninja I (all 6 levels musics + all 6 loading levels musics are great), Lazy Jones, Aztec challenge, Forbidden Forest, Outrun I, Flip Flop. Others like Super Pipeline, Bombjack, Bubble Bobble, Commando, the Last ninja II. I hope to be able to play these one day myself.
Awesome playing. Tricky rhythms all over the place... Played my eyes out over this one as a kid too!
Would love to be able to pull this one off. Sooo awesome!
fantastic performance
Formidable ! Génial !
I had goosebumps!!!!
Great! Well done! 😃👍
Nice work. You should have a go at the Mikie title screen music. I always thought that would make for a great piano arrangement. :)
Just watching this again, and what's with those marks near the base of the keys of the piano? Did someone with very long fingernails play this piano for years? 😀
Yep I have a habit of hitting the fallboard. I’ve finally fixed it - future videos will show the refinished fallboard
Wow, this is awesome!
A long day of deadlines here. This randomly showed up in my feed. Excellent stuff, sir. A superb rendition of one of my favourite C64 tracks. Hats off.
C64 music actually works much better on a Grand Piano than with an orchestra! Well done! ❤
Definitely agree for this piece! Also for most of the others I have done :)
Thanks bic boy!
Wow! This is impressive! 😉👍
Awesome! Not sure why you picked this in particular, but im very rhankful😊
This is amazing! I’ve listened to this video several times over the last week. I love it! I don’t know how you keep it all in your head. I can’t even remember how it all goes, let alone play it. I hope you know how awesome you are!
Awesome!!!’ Please…….Forbidden Forrest and Robin of the Wood. Also Mancopter.
Richard joseph were proud....
Awesome 😎👍🎹🫶
Brilliant performance
Wow, you've even took care of the costume. :D In show of appreciation... [Subscribe] clicked. :)
Wow! A classical trained pianist would have a hard time playing this piece. All the different time signatures, and that bass line.
Amazing work!
Nicely done.....You should play all of the 8-bit games
This background looks very familiar!
wow. great work. must be really hard play
this is awesome 😍
Richard Gere plays Barbarian Theme very well ;-)
wow amazing like the original theme' so beautiful thanks.
You, sir, ROCK!
We are not worthy.
Great! Subscribed.
And yes, it's complex. I used to play this game when I was a kid; as I got older I took several classes in music theory. Now I came back to this game -- I realize this is really complex music! The meter is crazy.
Very nice !
The one guy that disliked this lost his head. *Green dude comes out and kicks it away* "ha ha ha"
This piano melody sounds like the modies of the silent movie age.
Hello Again! Enjoying this AGAIN! in 2023! !! ! !1
Awesome!
Very good
when gaming was actually great!
Nice outfit to go with the theme :-)
Retro Garb for those retro tunes as well!
Nice!
1:25 - The Peanuts entered the arena. :D
Nice 👌
Please do forbidden forest
Amazing cover...
Bravo!
Oh man, what an incredibile performance!
I love this music 🙂
Respect.
Excellent thanks!!!!
Omg!!! You are awesome.
Beautiful.
Gg, I'm on twitch as KHALFANi ... keep it up
Wow! That is all
Memories!
Super Like!
Excellent :)
amazing man!
Great!
Masterful😁
cooool!
Sick
awesome
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THEME because it inspired my gothic style of playing sooooo much, along with Orff, Polidouris, Wagner, etc.... CLASSIC!!!!
Buenisimo
How did the wear on the vertical panel above the main keys even happen?
What can I say? I’m an aggressive player and sometimes hit the fallboard inadvertently. But Good news! I finally got it repaired, so future videos will have that.
Anyone realises he plays this very very complex piece by heart and in one take! Of course, as a professional piano player is no big deal for him, I just wanted to make a mention. I can hardly follow the ryhthm...
can listen to that song for such a long time... :)
do golden axe
as a coder I kind of like the slowdown at 2:54!!! ahh.. interupt also happen in our heads! ;)
I was wondering if anybody would notice that! Nicely done. At the time my video editing skills were pretty much zero. I've fixed it now, but as you say, it's kind of interesting! So I'm leaving it as-is ....
What a great transcription to piano! Definitely gets the spirit of the original SID through. Minor gripes: the tempo is not consistent throughout the piece. Also, the left and right channels are swapped (lower octaves are usually mixed to the left, not to the right). But, as usual, your costume is spot on. 😊 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the feedback! I've been trying to hold tempo steady in my videos but I still let the adrenaline get me sometimes. That's an interesting point about the channels. You can see both microphones in the video on the right edge. Upper mic is obviously closer to the bass strings and it is on the audience-right. So the channels are audience point of view. I was told recordings should be from audience point of view, but I'm certainly interested in other opinions!
@@RetroPianoGuy Well, I just had a quick scan through some professional piano albums I have, and it's a mix (pardon the pun). Some pan it all in the middle, with the ambient mics spreading the stereo spectrum, some have bass notes more on the left, some more on the right... Also, I just found this: www.audiomasterclass.com/newsletter/how-to-pan-an-acoustic-piano So... 🤷♂️?