A long, long time ago I created a bunch of MIDI’s that were, in fact, transcriptions of the music from Kirby’s Dream Land, the very first Kirby game ever released. While they were made purely out of nostalgia, they did serve as my starting point as a trasncriber and semi-songwriter, teaching me how to use the program that I would use for the next several years to create and transcribe music.

However, now that I’m on a Mac, I can no longer use that program. It seems only fitting that I should take one of those MIDI’s and rearrange it in Logic Pro, my new composition software, and see what I come out with. In addition, I should write a new ending to the MIDI to set it apart from it’s older brother, and to give it the panache and style that I think it should have, being sent from a shiny new Mac. The result is something that sounds two hundred times better than the old version, due to the more precise control I have over the audio in Logic Pro, and a song that actually has a cadence as well.

So, I present the new version of Float Islands from Kirby’s Dream Land – Floatin’ Paradise.

Listen to it now,

and then compare it to the old version.

He knows how to lighten the mood. My other teaches are interesting, but he’s downright funny. If only I knew his name. I should get on that.

“The two hardest courses you’ll ever take are Freshman English and Freshman Calculus. Freshman English because if you don’t right well, then people will make fun of you behind your back, and nobody wants that, you have to learn to be a good writer, know your grammar and all that.

“And Freshman Calculus, well, I had a student once who went off and got a job working for some big company, General Motors or General Electric, something like that. When they hire people, if the person got an A in Freshman Calculus, they let them name their salary. Great deal, right? Sounds pretty good!

“He named his George.”

Priceless, right? I love learning Calc from this guy, even if I don’t understand it all yet. More practice, more work, and I’ll have everything down. Exams aren’t far off – next week, in fact!

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