
Arrangement: Hard Times (Ice Cap Zone, Act 1)
Since I completed the Super Mario medley a while back, I had been wanting to do at least one Sonic the Hedgehog number, because Sonic is the franchise I know the most about from playing it the most. I finally got around to doing it, and I chose to do the song I know best from Sonic 3 & Knuckles: the song from Ice Cap Zone, Act 1. I only recently discovered how it almost sounds identical to the unreleased 80s pop song "Hard Times" by the Jetzons, which is why I have mentioned both titles in the title bar. My arrangement is based on the game's track, however.
The arrangement is for the following instruments:
Piano
Electric piano
Electric guitar
Acoustic bass
2 electric basses (playing one octave apart)
Glockenspiel
Crotales
Xylophone
4 vibraphones
5 marimbas (2 grand staff, 2 treble clef, 1 bass clef)
Timpani
Drum set
Battery percussion (snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, cymbals)
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © SEGA and the following composers:
Brad Buxer (who was also a keyboardist for the Jetzons, and co-writer of the song "Hard Times")
Cirocco Jones
Bobby Brooks
Darryl Ross
Geoff Grace
Doug Grigsby
Sachio Ogawa
Tatsuyuki Maeda
Jun Senoue
Portions of the game's soundtrack were also written by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who ultimately went uncredited; the debate behind that is still a mystery as far as I know.
Sonic the Hedgehog franchise © SEGA
Ice Cap Zone, Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24
"Hard Times" by the Jetzons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8
EDITS: Changed some measures so that the A section plays a third time instead of the B section looping forever until the first and second endings. I also added rehearsal markers to my score.
The arrangement is for the following instruments:
Piano
Electric piano
Electric guitar
Acoustic bass
2 electric basses (playing one octave apart)
Glockenspiel
Crotales
Xylophone
4 vibraphones
5 marimbas (2 grand staff, 2 treble clef, 1 bass clef)
Timpani
Drum set
Battery percussion (snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, cymbals)
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © SEGA and the following composers:
Brad Buxer (who was also a keyboardist for the Jetzons, and co-writer of the song "Hard Times")
Cirocco Jones
Bobby Brooks
Darryl Ross
Geoff Grace
Doug Grigsby
Sachio Ogawa
Tatsuyuki Maeda
Jun Senoue
Portions of the game's soundtrack were also written by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who ultimately went uncredited; the debate behind that is still a mystery as far as I know.
Sonic the Hedgehog franchise © SEGA
Ice Cap Zone, Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24
"Hard Times" by the Jetzons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8
EDITS: Changed some measures so that the A section plays a third time instead of the B section looping forever until the first and second endings. I also added rehearsal markers to my score.
Category Music / Game Music
Species Hedgehog
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 4.41 MB
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