No, like literally.
Busted in the middle of the video, his head wasn't actually doing any work at all. And all that giggling. Man, all that giggling.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Classic Showcase: Beethoven Songs
One of the most influential figures in the Classic and Romantic eras of Western Art music, German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) left his mark on European history with his revolutionary works. With over 30 piano sonatas, 9 symphonies, 5 concerts for piano and many other chamber music compositions and string quartets, the pianist's has an inner passion of music like no other, and he performed and composed music until the very end, when he died of liver disease.
What is most remarkable about Beethoven is the fact that during his career he became completely deaf on both ears, and yet still continued to push on! One of his most well-known works, the 'Ode to Joy' (or his 9th symphony) was produced while he was completely deaf. Though he could still compose, having a hearing loss obviously made performing in public extremely difficult for him and he gave that up soon after the Ode to Joy was performed. No one knows exactly what caused Beethoven to go deaf.
This was one of the very first song series in the Classic genre of Taiko no Tatsujin. Even back during the old days of Taiko when classic compositions have only begun emerging in this rhythm game series, Beethoven's works being used first goes to show how powerful his name is in the world of music.
What is most remarkable about Beethoven is the fact that during his career he became completely deaf on both ears, and yet still continued to push on! One of his most well-known works, the 'Ode to Joy' (or his 9th symphony) was produced while he was completely deaf. Though he could still compose, having a hearing loss obviously made performing in public extremely difficult for him and he gave that up soon after the Ode to Joy was performed. No one knows exactly what caused Beethoven to go deaf.
This was one of the very first song series in the Classic genre of Taiko no Tatsujin. Even back during the old days of Taiko when classic compositions have only begun emerging in this rhythm game series, Beethoven's works being used first goes to show how powerful his name is in the world of music.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Papa Mama Mc lyrics
Composer, lyricist: Yukiko Yamamoto (山本由貴子) (NBGI)
Vocals: Bokuya Momoko, Tarou, Sakurako (牧野桃子、太郎、桜子) (DAM) (need confirmation on pronunciation)
Original music video
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Song of the Week! 6 October 2012
As we saw a couple of months ago, Taiko no Tatsujin meets the hard-boiled world of Sega's Yakuza 5 this December through a drumming minigame using an authentic Taiko 0 cabinet. Two of the three songs made available for it (From the New World and Nijiiro Yumeiro Taikoiro) were already reviewed in this blog, but what about the third one?
Friday, October 5, 2012
Behind the Drums: Akitaka Tohyama @ AJURIKA
Akitaka Tohyama (遠山明孝) is a key player in Bandai Namco's music team responsible for the music of many prominent videogame franchises the company has made. His passion for music is undeniable; Tohyama-san began learning the piano at a very young age of 4, and started dabbling in computer synthesized music at 14. An avid lover of video game music in particular, he sent several demo tracks (his own compositions) to several video game companies when he was in the 4th year of college, after which Namco hired him. Tohyama-san has been working there ever since.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Namco Taiko Blog (October 4 2012): Popular Song Pack 8 and another arcade update
This week's update is rather light, focusing on the release of Popular Song Pack 8 for Taiko no Tatsujin Plus for iOS. As usual, there are five songs in the pack, costing 600 yen to download. The five songs are as below:
1. Manatsu no Sounds good! (真夏のＳｏｕｎｄｓ ｇｏｏｄ！)
2. Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsu Ka (ミセナイナミダハ、きっといつか)
3. Shine
4. We Go! (ウィーゴー！)
5. Let's go! Smile Precure (Ｌｅｔ’ｓ ｇｏ！スマイルプリキュア！)
All five are the latest licensed songs from Taiko 0 and are now playable on your iOS device. The pack has been up for 6 days prior to this blog posting, so get downloading!
The other update is regarding Taiko 0.5, which will have another firmware update, this time to Game Version 3.05. The update will take place on October 10th, 2012 but it won't be a major update, this is for preparing November and December's Donchare rewards in advance.
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1. Manatsu no Sounds good! (真夏のＳｏｕｎｄｓ ｇｏｏｄ！)
2. Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsu Ka (ミセナイナミダハ、きっといつか)
3. Shine
4. We Go! (ウィーゴー！)
5. Let's go! Smile Precure (Ｌｅｔ’ｓ ｇｏ！スマイルプリキュア！)
All five are the latest licensed songs from Taiko 0 and are now playable on your iOS device. The pack has been up for 6 days prior to this blog posting, so get downloading!
The other update is regarding Taiko 0.5, which will have another firmware update, this time to Game Version 3.05. The update will take place on October 10th, 2012 but it won't be a major update, this is for preparing November and December's Donchare rewards in advance.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
pikaby asks: Song repeats
"Angel Dream? Again? Seriously?"
Avid players of Taiko no Tatsujin and people who buy every console version Taiko will feel this frustration and even more so recently. Songs that you loved and played to death before on a previous version is going to also be in the very next Taiko game you buy. How does that make you feel?
A few repeats are justified; the Angel Dream example above was repeated from the first Wii Taiko in the second so Ura difficulty could be added, but then it happened again in Taiko Wii: Ketteiban. And if you own a 3DS or a PSP be prepared to see even more of that song. Far from the small songlists of yesteryear, the growing size of the number of songs in a single console Taiko basically forces Namco to have at least a few repeat songs, but are they justified? Especially if they're back-to-back repeats?
Personally I'm fine with repeats being on different consoles as it ensures people who don't have one console will be able to play their favorite songs on another, but repeats within Taiko games of the same console have never been heard of until PSP and Wii. Again, this can be attributed to the huge size of their song libraries. For the back-to-back repeat songs I actually don't play them. Yep, I don't play them, unless I really feel like it. Why play them when I can do so on the version just prior to it, unless there are some new features being added? Two to three games of cooldown is fine, if they're good songs, but isn't it a bit overkill to milk the most popular songs literally everywhere just because we voted for it in popularity polls?
How do you feel about songs that are repeatedly included in console Taiko?
Avid players of Taiko no Tatsujin and people who buy every console version Taiko will feel this frustration and even more so recently. Songs that you loved and played to death before on a previous version is going to also be in the very next Taiko game you buy. How does that make you feel?
A few repeats are justified; the Angel Dream example above was repeated from the first Wii Taiko in the second so Ura difficulty could be added, but then it happened again in Taiko Wii: Ketteiban. And if you own a 3DS or a PSP be prepared to see even more of that song. Far from the small songlists of yesteryear, the growing size of the number of songs in a single console Taiko basically forces Namco to have at least a few repeat songs, but are they justified? Especially if they're back-to-back repeats?
Personally I'm fine with repeats being on different consoles as it ensures people who don't have one console will be able to play their favorite songs on another, but repeats within Taiko games of the same console have never been heard of until PSP and Wii. Again, this can be attributed to the huge size of their song libraries. For the back-to-back repeat songs I actually don't play them. Yep, I don't play them, unless I really feel like it. Why play them when I can do so on the version just prior to it, unless there are some new features being added? Two to three games of cooldown is fine, if they're good songs, but isn't it a bit overkill to milk the most popular songs literally everywhere just because we voted for it in popularity polls?
How do you feel about songs that are repeatedly included in console Taiko?
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