From 1747c6532823c8909149f31cfedfcfe3a18d4feb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:29:55 -0300 Subject: under the hat 2 --- album/one-year-older.yaml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'album/one-year-older.yaml') diff --git a/album/one-year-older.yaml b/album/one-year-older.yaml index 0b2acc31..f3b77de1 100644 --- a/album/one-year-older.yaml +++ b/album/one-year-older.yaml @@ -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: @@ -593,6 +597,40 @@ 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. + + Erik Scheele: ([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 + + Quasar Nebula: (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 trollcopsjammin.mp3. + - 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.
+ > What a stupid idea that was
+ > \*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: -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5