Gyroman, King of the skies! (Mega Man 5 Remix by Gerald Kaye, Tekkaxe)

Wow... so a lot has happened since my last update. Getting married really keeps you busy X_X. Heh, yeah. A lot of stuff has happened on the art front, and on the life front, with the biggest of which being that on june 18th, I got married to an amazing and lovely woman named Amber. Us two planning the event took up soooo much of our time and attention. But we had a blast and are now settling into life-life. I've been staying on top of my Drawing/Music game, but unfortunately wasn't able to get things posted like I'd have liked to. Back now though, and it's good to be.

So if you guys have been following me for any amount of time, I'm sure you may have heard me mention in some form that I'd like to tackle a Gyroman remix, from Mega Man 5: my FAVORITE mega man game. Yes, 2 and 3 are amazing. But 5's music, along with it's visual style and everything, are so much cooler to me (heh, disagree? please leave a comment, but try to keep the flame-levels to a 1, or 2). And my favorite song of the who shebang? Gyroman's.

So I finally was able to do a remix of his song that I am pleased with. It's quite a bit of a challenge, ya see. With some songs, they're so well done and the way they were executed is so appealing that you are almost left at a loss for what to do to possible add to the experience. Do you just slap a kick-drum on it and up the tempo, call it a day? Or do you just turn it into a slow jam? What elements should you pull out and highlight? How far should I stray from the original arrangement? Will I lose all of those things that I love about the original? It was quite the endeavor, but I managed to make something I was satisfied with, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Composed via piano-roll and step-sequencer in FL Studio 10, my DAW of choice, and mixed/mastered there as well. The lovely animation that accompanies it was done in flash CS4. I mashed them together using Adobe Premier Pro.

Enjoy!
-GK