I had sent Tom a couple links of different arrangements of this tune, but he had yet to click on any of them when I presented this sheet music arrangement to him, so this is the first time he has heard the tune, much less seen the music.

You can download my piano arrangement here:

http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/music/hoald.pdf

Stay tuned for a video of Tom building up on the Super Mario Land Birabuto Kingdom theme, which was recorded the same day. (But, darn the luck, I decided not to record when he sight-read the Yoshi Valley / Moo-Moo Farm theme from Mario Kart almost flawlessly… Maybe we can save that one for a video of him actually playing something he’s played before — what a novel concept!)

Anyway, I think three different YouTubers had asked if I could have Tom play this tune. None knew of any existing sheet music scores, so I made my own arrangement based on several recordings. The tune is from the Nintento role-playing series “Mother” (Japanese title) / “EarthBound” (English title), where it is called simply “Buy Somethin’, Will Ya!” It was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka.

Since he hadn’t played the tune before, Tom takes it at a slow tempo all the way through the first time, rather than speeding up throughout the tune as I indicate on the sheet music, then plays it faster all the way through the second time around to make up for it. He has a bit of difficulty with the second section, so we’ll have to take another crack at making a video of this to get a flawless performance in. He liked the tune, though, and wondered if the Raspberry Jam Band might like this as much as they do “K.K. Ragtime”… so who knows what the future may hold?

Duration : 0:4:30

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