Covers/Medleys

A medley featuring video game songs with lyrics.

At the time of this video’s release, I was busy composing and recording demos for my album, but people had started complaining about not getting new videos, so I decided to do something short and simple to make them satisfied.

I really didn’t think it would get as popular as it did! I showed it to my friends before uploading it, and they said things like “well, it’s okay, I don’t think anyone will kill you if you upload it”. They were not all that enthusiastic. But people loved it, and it reached a million views before the end of the year. It made me a bit confused though, because I had spent many weeks on my other successful videos, but this one was made in less than a week. The power of video game references…

Song list:
1. Zelda WITH LYRICS
2. Forest Maze Song Rawest
3. The Theme from the Dark World
4. Tetris WITH LYRICS
5. Nigga stole My Bike!
6. Mega Man 3 Title WITH LYRICS
7. Chocobo Robo Voice
8. Kirby: Falcon Punch Remix

MP3: http://www.speedyshare.com/files/23653347/video_game_songs_with_lyrics2.mp3

Two Fredriks (but I’m really just one person) performing all your favorite TV themes in a single medley.

Lots of people had started to question my ability to make good videos, after the failure of “Vampire Bride”. So, I decided to make another medley of popular songs, like my success “32 songs in 8 minutes”. But I didn’t want to just rehash that idea, because I’ve always had the intention of only doing new  things. I don’t want to repeat myself.
So, I went with the theme “TV themes”, and tried merging two recordings into the same screen. Which apparently worked quite convincingly, because I’ve had hundreds of people asking why they haven’t heard of my twin before.

The video was a success, reaching one million views in 10 days.

Song list:
0:01 Two and a Half Men
0:22 The Simpsons
0:36 O.C
1:00 Naruto
1:11 Family Guy
1:41 Married with Children
1:57 Cheers
2:16 That 70’s Show
2:41? Big Love
2:58 Freaks and Geeks
3:18 Malcolm in the Middle
3:35 X-Files
3:55 Firefly
4:09 The Office
4:24 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4:44 Scrubs
4:54 True Blood
5:27 Charles in Charge
5:38 The Big Bang Theory
5:55 How I Met Your Mother
6:05 Mission? Impossible
6:14 Friends

A medley of 32 popular songs played on classical guitar and vocals.

This was a scary one, because so far, I had only made video game related videos, without singing. And this had its focus completely on my vocals. I had set my expectations really low, so that I wouldn’t get disappointed if people would hate it. I mean, I was proud of my arrangements and transitions, but who knew what people would think about my singing?

It didn’t really start off that great. Commenters seemed to really like it, but it didn’t get many views at all, compared to my previous video; Wind Waker Unplugged. I kind of lost interest, but after two or three weeks, it suddenly showed up on some blogs and sites, and then it just snow balled, getting more and more views each day, for years! It was crazy.
People uploaded it everywhere, and got really popular on CollegeHumor.com. My own upload had more than 7 million views when it was removed by YouTube due to a copyright claim from a fake publisher, but it was too risky to try to counter the claim, so I didn’t do anything.

So yeah, I guess you could say that this video changed my life a bit. I had no idea what to do with my life, but now I knew that I might actually be able to make a living on music, if I work hard enough.

Song list:
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Jizz in my pants (Lonely Island) – 0:19
Wannabe (Spice Girls) – 0:23
Mario Kart Love Song (Sam Hart) – 0:39
Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland) – 0:50
Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne) – 1:00
No woman no cry (Bob Marley) – 1:12
Never gonna give you up (Rick Astley) – 1:16
Harder, better, faster, stronger (Daft Punk) – 1:34
White&Nerdy (Weird Al Yankovic) – 2:03
Tribute (Tenacious D) – 2:18
Numa Numa/Dragostea din tei (O-Zone) – 2:28
Angry video game nerd (Rolfe & Justin) – 2:42
Mamma Mia (ABBA) – 3:03
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple) – 3:37
A whole new world (Disney) – 3:59
Let it Be (The Beatles) – 4:14
Eye of the tiger (Survivor) – 4:26
Leave Britney Alone (Me / Chris Crocker) – 4:45
Thunderstruck (AC/DC) – 5:02
Feel good inc. (Gorillaz) – 5:15
Metropolis (Dream Theater) – 5:30
Pokemon Theme – 5:48
Through the fire and flames (Dragonforce) – 6:00
Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday) – 6:09
Listen to your heart (Roxette) – 6:22
Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira) – 6:31
Killer Queen (Queen) – 6:38
Time is running out (Muse) – 6:55
When you say nothing at all (Ronan Keating) – 7:14
Road Trippin’ (Red Hot Chili Peppers) – 7:24
Power Rangers Theme – 7:33

Music from the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker”, performed on several acoustic instruments in a split-screen video.

This video has a kind of funny story. I inherited the accordion a few months before making this video, and got the tin whistle around the same time, but I had not been using either for anything. I was completely into rock music at that time. But, I felt that I didn’t want them just lying there, so I tried to figure out a song that could use both instruments. And I came to think about those two instruments in Wind Waker, and decided to do something with it.
I was gonna add keyboards as the arrangement at first, but felt that it would be nicer to only use acoustic/real instruments, so that’s why I had to improvise with glasses, pots and pans, to get all the sounds needed.

The video became my greatest success at the time, and was the highest rated video on YouTube for a month or two, which was amazing. (And most people approved of my vocals, which I was a bit scary, because I had not been singing “in public” before!)

Song order:
0:04 Medli’s Prayer (part of the opening theme)
0:21 Makar’s Prayer (also part of the opening theme)
0:40 Medli’s Prayer again
0:52 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer
1:04 Overworld (Ocean Theme)
1:28 Zelda’s Lullaby
1:34 Dark World (A Link to the Past)
1:44 Aryll’s Theme + Medli’s Prayer
1:56 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer + Zelda’s Lullaby
2:08 An arrangement of the original Zelda Overworld theme

Most of these songs were already included in a medley at the end of the game though. (The Staff Credits music.)

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All the songs from the video game Mega Man 9, carefully rearranged into an epic 7-minute rock/metal medley!

This is the first of my videos that actually got some attention on the web! I don’t think I expected much, but it ended up on most big and small video game sites, both in forums and as articles. It’s funny how I thought it was a huge huge success, but these days, it’s one of my least viewed videos.

Beethoven’s classic composition, rearranged for the guitar.

I was gonna say that this video started it all, but it really didn’t. I only got a couple of views per day, and I remember being really happy when it got a hundred views in one day! (These days I get 20 000 views per day for my videos, so I’ve come quite far since then.)

Anyway, I was surfing around on YouTube, I don’t remember what I was looking for, but noticed that none of the guitar versions of Für Elise were the full songs! So I decided to learn and record it, just to fill the gap, so to speak!

And yeah, the rest is history. :P

(Tabs can be found here.)