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Twilight, Travel, and Treats

Reflections of a Twihard on all things twilight, travel, and treats.

You all know I love Carter Burwell's Twilight songs because they are so friendly for us amateur pianists.

Here's the latest theme from Breaking Dawn Part 2 - Plus Que Ma Propre Vie


Obviously that one's full orchestra but it has Renesmee's lullaby in the beginning.

I like the song mostly because I like watching Edward play the piano.



Thankfully, there's a great piano cover done by Mercuzio who has provided free sheet music (if you take two seconds to register at the free site sonicbands) so if you're looking for sheet music for either Renesmee's lullaby or Plus Que Ma Propre Vie you're in luck.
Just register at the Sonicbands site and then in the search type in Carter Burwell and you should see Plus Que Ma Propre Vie is the third song down the list. Tip - just in case the site's in Italian the "change language to English" button is bottom left.


Will be adding it to the other piano music links listed...

I found this free sheet music from the Twilight soundtrack - it's just an excerpt but still cool.

Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine


http://new-pianomusic.blogspot.ca/2012/02/blog-post_292.html
http://freemusicnotes.blogspot.ca/2009/12/iron-and-wine-flightless-bird-american.html

Also in case you were looking for Clair de Lune
(By the way I love this video below with Clair de Lune in the background with clips interspersed)



Free sheet music:
easy - http://makingmusicfun.net/pdf/sheet_music/clair-de-lune-piano.pdf
original - http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/7/75/IMSLP00513-Debussy_-_Suite_Bergamasque_-_3_-_Clair_de_Lune.pdf

I'll be adding these to the Sheet Music page. Check out the other sheet music so far.

So in hunting down free Hunger Games soundtrack music I came across this wonderful blog called My-Pianolicious which is a huge repository of free sheet music.

Here are some links to free Breaking Dawn soundtrack sheet music.

Turning Page by Sleeping at Last


Free sheet music: http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=75195388&access_key=key-11btlgoyye5r9f0egd15&page=1&viewMode=list"margin:

A Thousand Years by Christina Perri


easy http://writtenmelodies.blogspot.ca/2011/09/blog-post_08.html
Medium http://new-pianomusic.blogspot.ca/2012/02/blog-post_4319.html
harder http://piano-midi.blogspot.ca/2012/01/blog-post_8591.html

It Will Rain by Bruno Mars


easy http://popularmusicnotes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/blog-post_25.html
easy http://new-pianomusic.blogspot.ca/2012/02/blog-post_8201.html
http://pop-musicnotes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/blog-post_2997.html
Vocal/Piano http://pop-musicnotes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/blog-post_3888.html

By the way my favourite gift to myself the whole year is paying for the Breaking Dawn Piano Score pack below

Breaking Dawn Piano Solo Pack by Carter Burwell

Features

The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies (Movie Intro and Wedding Prep)


What You See in the Mirror (Bella's bedroom scene - Edward's bad days)


A Nova Vida (Brazil honeymoon song)


The Threshold (Edward carrying Bella into honeymoon suite)


Bella Reborn (Bella change sequence) - My Favourite Song!!


It is easy to play but totally makes me appreciate having Carter Burwell back for the final movies.

Pay at either http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Twilight-Breaking-Dawn-Part-1-Piano-Solo-Pack/19735545
or
http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorchVPE.asp?ppn=SC0216417

I'll be posting tomorrow more Twilight piano sheet music for free.

Here's the new Sheet Music page I created to keep track for this blog.

Here is free sheet music I found for The Hunger Games score and soundtrack.

Eyes Open by Taylor Swift


Free sheet music: http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=88445060&access_key=key-2akj9agzh8onben6w5qk&page=1&viewMode=list"margin:

Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift


Free sheet music
- easy http://piano-midi.blogspot.ca/2011/12/blog-post_1795.html (note this one is quite simple and a couple of the chords need tweaking)
- moderate http://uploading.com/files/a2ba97f8/Taylor%2BSwift%2Bft%2BThe%2BCivil%2BWars%2B-%2BSafe%2B%2526%2BSound.pdf/ (there's a 45 sec wait time to download)

Tomorrow Will Be Kinder


Free sheet music: http://pop-partituras.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_8866.html

Rue's Whistle


Free sheet music:
http://pop-partituras.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_9913.html

Rue's Farewell


Free sheet music:
http://sebastianwolff.info/download/hunger-games/Rues%20Farewell.pdf

Come Away to the Water
Free sheet music: http://pop-pianohits.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_5765.html

Deep Shadow


http://sebastianwolff.info/news/2012/01/hunger-games-trailer-sheet-music/
Alternate sheet music: http://pop-pianohits.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_1824.html

Katniss Afoot

Free sheet music: http://sebastianwolff.info/news/2012/04/the-hunger-games-score-katniss-afoot-sheet-music/

One Engine

Free sheet music: http://zheetmusic.blogspot.ca/2012/04/decemberists-one-engine.html

The Train

Free sheet music: http://sebastianwolff.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/The-Train.png

Reaping Day

Free sheet music: http://pop-partituras.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blog-post_7262.html

Horn of Plenty

Free sheet music: http://sebastianwolff.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Horn-Of-Plenty_0001.png

I've added these to the new Sheet Music page for the blog.

Don't you love how Fifty is so good with his hands?

In case any of you wanted to try playing the piano sheet music for the songs listed in the books:

Chapter 8 in 50Shades Book 1/Chapter 16 in MotU
Marcello's Oboe Concerto transcribed by Bach
Hear it here


Free sheet music:
very easy - http://www.freesheetpianomusic.com/content/3_medium_level/PDF/MARCELLO-BACH-Adagio.pdf
normal UPDATED - http://musescore.com/user/35348/scores/53267

Chapter 26 in 50Shades Book 1/Chapter 51 in MotU
Chopin's Opus 28, number 4, in E minor
Hear it here

Free sheet music:
http://www.take-a-piano-sheet-music-break.com/support-files/chopin_f_prelude_op28_n04_suffocation_piano.pdf
Have fun!

I'm putting these onto a Sheet Music Page for this blog including Twilight and Hunger Games music as well.

I've also included it in the Fifty Shades of Grey Master page up top.

In re-reading Master of the Universe for this quiz and for the MotU Tribute site I made a note of the piano music that Edward plays for Bella.
There are links to the songs on the tribute site under soundtrack with a link to iTunes. Thanks to Hoot for her hard work getting the playlist set up for everyone. In fact, that woman is a force of nature putting that whole site together :)
On there are links to the free sheet music but here they are again in case you missed them. Just a note that there are actually only two songs ever mentioned by name that Edward plays on the piano.

Chapter 51
Chopin's Opus 28, number 4, in E minor
http://everynote.com/goods.1/Chop_P_PrelEMi_28_4.pdf

Chapter 16
Marcello's Oboe Concerto transcribed by Bach
very easy - http://www.freesheetpianomusic.com/content/3_medium_level/PDF/MARCELLO-BACH-Adagio.pdf
regular piano - http://www2.free-scores.com/PUBLIC/divers/marcello_oboe_concerto.pdf

Happy playing!

It's been over a month since my last Twilight post. Appalling actually considering I used to post on an almost daily basis. But going away to Europe and escaping from most my blog surfing/tweeting routine was a good thing - I think. Let's see - reconnected with husband, got to scout Twilight sites in real life like Volterra and Montepulciano, caught up on some awesome fanfic (see Swirl & Daisy and How to Save a Life), ate some kick ass food - okay, yes officially worth having the Twilight section of my blog collect a little dust.

But now I officially cannot contain myself from doing a Twilight post. There have just been too many things to talk about in recent days. More travel posts will have to wait.

*blowing dust off*



Eclipse

First of all, the triple header was totally the way to go. I had never seen Twilight on the big screen before - forgive me for being a relative Twilight newbie. It was awesome to laugh at all the cheesy moments that I'd previously cringed at.
New Moon was even better now that I'd actually been to Montepulciano. I'll have to wait until that travel post to talk about tracing the path that Alice takes, etc. Let's just say I will keep re-watching the Italy parts and feel warm and fuzzy forever.

My Eclipse thoughts? I'm not giving you a full review. Lord knows there are enough out there.
Yes I liked it.
I was f*cking pissed off for my good friend AG whose daughter was supposed to be in the movie. We will have to watch for her sweetie in the outtakes. I keep reminding myself about Rob's Vanity Fair scene being cut and that he didn't know it until he was watching it in the theatre for the first time. At least AG got to meet KStew and her daughter will always have that memory of working with them and holding KStew's hand.
I only cringed at their hair three times in total, although once Edward's sideburns did make me visibly shudder.
Carlisle's hairline was too low.
Alice's eye makeup was beautiful.
Edward's hair was a bit too flat for me. I'm not wanting Twilight bouffant but just not smushed.
Riley was fuckhawt as a vampire and I never thought I'd think that so it took me by surprise. His regular everyday headshots don't look like anything special.
Bryce, Nikki, and Jackson all did a good job.
Seeing the Third Wife scene was good because I just kept skimming the Quileute legends part so having to sit through it was important.
The stunts and fight scenes were up to snuff.
Dakota's acting was very flat. I know that's how she is supposed to be - detached and dead inside but it was too bleh.

I loved the proposal scene and yes the leg hitch was too short but I didn't care. There is enough fanfic fueled lemony goodness in my head that I don't need that from them. Honestly my mental Master of the Universe lemons will eclipse anything they do clothed on the big screen.
They cut my favourite scene from the whole series - after he gives her the ring and then really admits that he loves seeing it on her hand and she is knocked breathless by how happy he is. For some reason when he whispers "You have no idea" in her ear I get goosebumps and my knees go weak. Someone about him being that happy about having her as his wife and for Edward to breathe huskily in her ear is just, uh, beyond hot.
The last scene was anticlimactic for me. It was cute and everything with the meadow but just felt a bit blah.

Music

I've been playing piano more these days - why?


My favourite song - My Love by Sia
I adore this YouTube fanmade video. You just have to watch it for your favourite Edward and Bella moments from all three films.



The sheet music can be bought from musicnotes.com for $5.95 USD. Totally worth it since the official book hasn't been even listed yet on the Hal Leonard website.

Now you know I'm totally Team Edward. But I couldn't pass up the chance to also play the piano tune Jacob's Theme - here's the YouTube video



Seriously feeling guilty every time I play it but who can turn down free Twilight sheet music?

Free Jacob's Theme piano sheet music found here


It's very simple - just like Jacob? Easy to play and you get bored very easily.

So now we've got Bella's Lullaby and Jacob's Theme - still waiting for Edward's piano theme song - it better be good people. I still think the words to "First Day of My Life" totally fit his whole tragic self-abhorrent hero theme but I need a good piano ballad to play.

Twihards Raise Over $125,000 - Using Smut to Fight Cancer

For all that participated in the Fandom Gives Back - way to go ladies - over $125,000 USD was raised to fight childhood cancer through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

For those of you who don't know Fandom Gives Back is a Twilight based charity drive and this was its second year. The basic premise was to auction off outtakes or special chapters from our favourite fanfics and then give the proceeds to charity. The auction has blossomed into autographed items (squeals that I won something - you'll have to wait for a future post when the mail comes) and massive teams being organized. Some of my favourite authors, such as Master of the Universe's Snowqueens Icedragon and Clipped Wings & Inked Armour's hunterhunting, had one big team organized by die hard fans so that as long as you contributed some amount to the charity effort you would be sent the special chapter/outtake.

I can't wait to submit these tax receipts to my accountant and have him raise his eyebrows at me. I'm glad none of them actually say "smutty twilight BDSM fanfic" on them but I'll be blushing anyways.

Lastly, thanks to Fanficzombie for inspiring my latest Twi-Mobile post. Finally, a way to read Twilighted.net fanfic on my iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (Christ do I really have that much Apple stuff? No wonder my husband says that Apple is a slow invading evil.) Anyways, go off and check it out. I try to stay away from Twilighted.net stories just because the site is difficult to navigate and I find the format hard to read. Thank God there is now a solution - the Holy Grail! Go check it out now.

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Rob's fingers inspire me
By the way all the sheet music below is listed on my Sheet Music page for this blog. I've also included Breaking Dawn, Hunger Games, etc.
This post is truncated. It was a helluva lot longer but then wordpress lost it. I am so pissed off that I could cry or scream my guts out. Regardless, this one will be short. Minimal witty monologue.
Anyways, this post is basically about twilight piano sheet music. If I hadn't discovered it my piano would still be collecting dust. All those years of lessons would be wasted just like my sisters. And, no, I don't blame her because I wasted all the chinese school lessons and she has beautiful writing.

I still picture the Yiruma music (Rivers Flows in You) as the first song I heard original twilight book Edward playing as Bella's Lullaby.

Old fan montage on Youtube


Here's the Yiruma sheet music


Click the pic: Sheet music for River Flows in You by Yiruma


Since I ended up caving in and actually liking Carter Burwell's Bella's Lullaby I had to download the sheet music for it too.

Bella's Lullaby page 1


Bella's Lullaby page 2


The official sheet music book finally came out.


Of course I had to get the Easy Piano and Piano Solo versions of Twilight: The Score just in case I was having a lazy day. I haven't been brave enough to buy the Piano/Vocal/Guitar version of the soundtrack though.

Twilight Soundtrack Piano/Vocal/Guitar


I just don't think I could do Muse or Paramore justice with my piano and singing voice on my own.

Time passed and I think my family became officially sick of twilight music a long time ago. Good thing I got to mix it up a bit when the New Moon soundtrack came out. The only instrumental to play on there was The Meadow so here's the unofficial sheet music I found (this was the best version). You'll have to scroll down to the bottom of the arrangers page for the links but it's worth it.

The Meadow: Arranged by Fouad Tadros


I'm sure my family is sick of that song now too.

But you know what? Tomorrow, I'm getting (drumroll)...

New Moon Piano Solo


Yeah for another book! I'm sure I'll be filled with angst and despair the whole time that I'm playing it. Leave it to New Moon to always make me feel so depressed I want to kill either myself or Bella (never Edward. No, never him, even though it's his stupid ass that causes the whole clusterf*ck in the first place).

I will not be getting this.

New Moon Soundtrack Piano/Vocal/Guitar


I love some of these songs, don't get me wrong. Like the Monsters song. My kids love the Monsters song and I love how all I see is Rob in slow motion every time it's playing.



But once again, there is no way I'll be able to play the songs well enough. It would just be degrading and make me miserable to try.

So for all of you who had music lessons as a child but haven't touched your piano in years, just print out the music from the links above. Sit down and try. See he's doing it, why can't you? It will make him happy.