Guild Wars 2

Hi there. You may remember me as the guy who did a cover of Billie Jean on the choir bells a while back. Well, I enjoyed myself so much making that, I couldn’t stop myself doing another. This time, I got a bit more adventurous:

http://youtu.be/bd3wtXJmOhQ

This is a cover of “Still Alive” from portal, using only the instruments available in GW2 (Yes, the organ too!). However, this time I allowed myself a fully chromatic scale, which I made by editing the pitch of some of the available notes. This lets me play absolutely anything on the bells and organ, which is great.

For those interested, I got through somewhere around 40 bells in the creation of this video, mostly due to recording at tonnes of locations before picking the clips I liked best. Doing these is beginning to get expensive! Recording all the parts probably took about 3-4 hours in total, spread over a period of several days. Sound + Video editing to pull everything together took…a long time. A long, long time. Way longer than Billie Jean.

Once again, thanks to Arenanet for making this possible, and also to Jonathan Coulton and Valve for creating Still Alive, a great song to work on.

That was genuinely epic and impressive!
Loved it <3

You have entirely too much free time on your hands

Ya..ya…I know…pot…kettle…black…

You’re a gentleman and a scholar. Or a gentlewoman and a scholar.

That is amazing!

Is that the underwater organ in Caledon Forest?

wow! that was awesome.

Whoa, that blew me away. Made my day =). Liked the Billie Jean vid also.

Fantastic job :-)
Really impressive

I’m completely blown away, shared the vid with my g+

Karizee.8076:

That is amazing!

Is that the underwater organ in Caledon Forest?

Yep, Caledon Forest indeed. I wanted to use the one in Ebonhawke to avoid the underwater sound effects, but it’s bugged at the moment

holy hells o0

This is amazing (my boyfriend insisted on playing it again and again and again… xD)

Very well done!

A few people have asked for a mp3 version of this, so I’ve uploaded it to soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/hecksa/still-alive-a-guild-wars-2

It should be downloadable from there, but not having used soundcloud before I can’t guarantee it. Hopefully it’s all ok. Sadly not having the video as a distraction does draw attention to the pops/crackles, but..eh…you asked for it.

It may have taken a long, long time, but I would say it was time well spent. Thanks for bringing your creativity to the game and sharing it!

Amazing! Truly amazing! I sure hope more musical instruments gets added in the game so YOU can make more of these covers!

This is truly amazing. I can’t believe you did all this using only the consumable bells, too! I just sent you an Unbreakable Choir Bell in the mail, you definitely deserve it. Thanks for sharing!

Gonna bump this, more people should see this!

I tried it aswell but my bell broke,… ;(

Amazing work, loved it !!!!

Hecksa.7140:

Sadly not having the video as a distraction does draw attention to the pops/crackles, but..eh…you asked for it.

This seems to have less of the extra bell ‘whoosh’ than Billie Jean. The noise removal thing in Audacity is pretty good for editing out stuff like that, and the high pass/low pass filters can be useful, too.

Anyway, this was indeed a triumph!

/e standing ovation

Agreed very nicely done.