just for fun: musical spoofs and goofs
Sometimes music can get too stuffy.
Occasionally I like to break free from that stuffiness & create humor through music.
Below you'll find a collection of goofy things I've created, modified, and/or pianized...
Occasionally I like to break free from that stuffiness & create humor through music.
Below you'll find a collection of goofy things I've created, modified, and/or pianized...
BLOG POST: "The Comedy and Music of Hans Groiner"
- May 2015
TRANSCRIPTION: "Duet for French Horn and Chair" (PNG)
- Source video
- June 2016 | Edit: The "moving backward" direction should appear 4 measures earlier than I first placed it.
- Media mentions: LastFM | Some Belgian website
TRANSCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT: A "Little Thing" in "5/4" (PDF)
- Based on a mind-melting (and totally hilarious) Expert Village video
- I spent way too much time on this. It was actually incredibly difficult to transcribe, because what the guy plays makes such little musical/mathematical sense.
- August 2016
VIDEO: "How to Play Piano During the Winter"
- A re-upload from years past. Share it with your chilly-piano-playing friends.
- December 2016
VIDEO: Key & Peele's sketch comedy song "My Best Friend" w/ piano
- By the magic of technology, I was able to accompany Jordan Peele's hilarious song about friendship.
- August 2017 (Reddit link here)
- Media mentions: The A.V. Club | The Awesomer
VIDEO: Arrested Development's "Fire Sale" scene w/ piano
- Process: Melodyne software helped me ascertain pitches and approximate rhythms. I then took that and cleaned it up quite a bit, added harmonies that made sense to the drama of the scene, and practiced the HECK out of it. (Full disclosure: I split the video into 3 chunks, so it's 3 takes of piano, cut together for the final product.)
- October 2017 (Reddit link here)
- Sheet music PDF of my arrangement (lead sheet) *Note: It's VERY messy in appearance. The purpose of the lead sheet was to give me enough information to create the video; visual-tidiness of the sheet was not a priority on this one.
VIDEO: "Oh Hi Mark" w/ piano from 'The Room'
- 8-second video
- Extended (21-second) remix version
- If you aren't familiar with 'The Room,' you are likely pretty confused. I can't effectively explain it in the space here... (Google it!)
VIDEO: "Fred Armisen plays Blackbird" - Transcribed
- Video
- March 2018
VIDEO: Arrested Development's "Here comes John Wayne" scene w/ piano
- Video
- May 2018
VIDEO: Maria Bamford's "Anxiety Song" w/ piano
- Video
- October 2018
VIDEO: Gil Faizon (Nick Kroll) sings "The Godfather" w/ piano
- Video
- June 2019
VIDEO: "Frère Jacques" ft. Ricky Gervais
- Video
- December 2019
