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diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml index 0b2acc31..6ca2aac0 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older.yaml +++ b/album/one-year-older.yaml @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Commentary: |- I knew that the album would be about John, so Jit and I agreed on this image of Dad Egbert celebrating John’s 13th birthday, and passing him this symbolic cake with the heir of breath symbol. I was really hoping to be able to write the album title on the cake itself but it kind of got pushed off onto the cake board, where it is barely visible in the thumbnail. Whoops! - <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20120818235214/https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older)) + <i>Homestuck:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/one-year-older)) Composition and arrangement by [[artist:erik-scheele|Erik "Jit" Scheele]] @@ -568,13 +568,17 @@ Additional Names: Under The Hat (Bonus) Annotation: >- [composer's release](https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus) +- Name: >- + trollcopsjammin.mp3 + Annotation: >- + [Tumblr filename](https://www.tumblr.com/jitmakesstuff/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered) Duration: 3:27 URLs: - https://erikscheele.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hat-bonus - https://youtu.be/tBfUV056rjo Referenced Tracks: -- track:under-the-hat-lofam +- Trollcops Sheet Music Files: - Title: Piano score by Erik Scheele (original composer) Files: @@ -583,6 +587,9 @@ MIDI Project Files: - Title: MIDI by i300 Files: - 'Under the Hat - i300.mid' +- Title: MIDI by Twix Stix (from Sburbmon) + Files: + - 'Under the Hat - Twix Stix.mid' Commentary: |- <i>Erik Scheele:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -593,6 +600,40 @@ Commentary: |- Of course, not being able to play something magnificently and to the best form of the genre didn't really stop me from playing around with this piece. So I did. I also think it would fit in during the first Intermission, with all the under-the-hat chicanery and stabbings that went on. + + <i>Erik Scheele:</i> ([Tumblr](https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com/post/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered), 5/27/2011) + + And now, more piano recordings. + + So I discovered that the Under the Hat (aka Trollcops) changes can get an incredible jive to them. But this one other time, that’s in the recording here, I played around with it. + + In other words, it’s played plain, then with an improvised solo (that has some sucky bits), then through again with a little reprise. + + Hope you enjoooooy + + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 8/13/2025) + + This version from One Year Older was first released [on Tumblr](https://jitmakesstuff.tumblr.com/post/5889719815/and-now-more-piano-recordings-so-i-discovered) in May 2011. (The download is dead, but it's preserved [in the sound test](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_1Hl0I-KsI). It's actually the same recording!) + + Although the release of [[album:alterniabound]] and this Tumblr recording are only about two months apart, and the Tumblr commentary above is written some amount of time in retrospect, we still figure that [[track:trollcops]] precedes this piano improv/arrangement. Voila the reasoning: + + - This track is contextualized with "Under the Hat (aka Trollcops) changes can get an incredible jive to them." + - This track's filename (as posted on Tumblr) is <code class="filename">trollcopsjammin.mp3</code>. + - The booklet commentary for Trollcops makes it pretty clear that the mellotron saved that track, probably during when it was being arranged. + + We're confident they're referencing each other one way or the other; besides the structure, the improv/solo sections have particular common material. But since the timeframe is ambiguous and our reasoning above is a bit shenanigans, "which came first?" could still go either way. + + As for the "chiptune version" which Scheele refers to in the booklet commentary for *this* release, August 2012, on One Year Older? Totally a mystery! We've seen no sign of that one anywhere, online. + + And one more Tumblr post [from August 2011](https://www.tumblr.com/jitmakesstuff/8392340269/and-then-one-time-i-improvised-around-on-piano): + + > And then one time I improvised around on piano with Trollcops. And thought it was good enough to like, post around and such.<br> + > What a stupid idea that was<br> + > \*laugh track\* + > + > (although in all honesty this is probably some of the better solo improvising I've done and managed to catch on recording) + + It might have been a reupload of this same recording, though we can't tell because the SoundCloud upload, "under-the-hat-stuff", has gone missing. If it was a reupload (the original was just via Dropbox) then it maybe makes sense that it was removed in favor of the proper album release on Bandcamp, but that's speculation. --- Track: Mother (Piano) Additional Names: |