A new format for my piano tutorials!

I'm currently experimenting with a new format for delivering my piano tutorials. The picture above is a mock up of how it might look like. It would feature a clean interface with a top down view of the piano/keyboard and it will show what keys to play in what order.

If this new format is popular I will replace my old videos with this format (including the Halo Tutorials). Since the process of making tutorials with the new format is more streamlined, I can also post up other tutorials (Metal Gear Solid, Perfect Dark and other user requested tracks)

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Halo 3 "Unforgotten" Piano Tutorial

I have been getting a whole lot of requests for the "Unforgotten" theme and I finally got around to making the tutorials. There are two parts to this tutorial, the first video shows the strings section and the second shows the piano section. If you enjoy the tutorials, I would appreciate Link backs and Diggs.

"Unforgotten" - Piano Tutorial (Part 1)

Here it is, Part two of the "Unforgotten" Piano Tutorial. It's pretty long actually, around 8 minutes, so decided to split it up in to 6 different sections. This will make it easier to learn, you can take it section by section. It might look like there is a lot of stuff to learn, but most of the songs just repeats itself in different octaves, so it's not that hard to learn it.

"Unforgotten" - Piano Tutorial (Part 2)

Playing the piano by ear

It took me a while to learn how to play the piano by ear. But once I learned it was really cool because all of the sudden I can learn to play stuff without using sheet music (including the Halo theme from E3). You may have noticed that half the comments posted on my youtube video are different variations of "plz plz e-mail the sheet music to me" lol.

I learned to play by ear the hard way, through trial and error. This took a couple of years to develop, the more I practiced the better I got. I would listen to a song and then encode on to FL studio, just for fun, but it helped my hone my listening skills (this helped me with my remixes too). If you are interested in learning to play by ear then this a good way to start. You can download a trial version of FL Studio and mess around with it, it's really fun program to use.

Halo 3 - 'Unforgotten' Remix

If you watched my 'Unforgotten' Tutorial on revver you probably noticed the music at the end of the video. Yepp, that music came from the yet to be released ' Unforgotten' Remix. The Halo series has an awesome soundtrack, and it gives me a lot of of material to do remixes.

The first thing that greeted me when I popped the Halo 3 disk into my Xbox 360 was the three red rings of death! (lol, no I'm just kidding). Actually it was the menu music and it immediately set the tone for Halo 3, I knew it was going to be EPIC. After beating the game I took some time off to learn to play 'Unforgotten' by ear (which explains why there are some mistakes on the youtube video).

I have been getting a whole bunch of requests on youtube to make MP3 file of the remix. Good news! I'm working on one and it's almost done. But there is a little problem... I'm not sure how to host the MP3 on my blog, if you know how to do this let me know.

I'll post the MP3 when I figure out how to host it on my blog.

UPDATE: I figured out a way to stream MP3 from my blog, but it's missing some features (ex. downloads, volume) I'm still looking for a better way to host MP3s

Welcome to my blog

How's it going? Thanks for dropping by and reading my blog. Let me introduce myself, My name is Dharshan Raj and I have randomly built up a small fan base on youtube by making remixes and tutorials. A while back I posted a tutorial on how to play Halo 3 main theme. It started to catch on with Halo fans and music fans in general and right now it has over 100,000 views (despite the crappy production quality).

I also make remixes using FL Studio, and so far I have posted up a couple of remixes. Like the tutorials the remixes were also getting good comments so I figured I write a blog as well. When I'm working on new stuff I'll blog about it. So this blog will give an inside look what I'm up to these days.