Simon's Theme

Based on the music from Super Castlevania IV, level 1. It took me something like 8 hours to finish the first 8 seconds of the piece, which I treated as some sort of badge of pride in how careful I'd been in the crafting. In retrospect, that was as much about inexperience in trying to create a song with a layered soundscape as anything else; this was the most technically demanding piece I'd ever tried to write and I was really learning my way. IIRC, this was about the last piece I wrote in Scream Tracker 3, and is one of several uploaded here which I later converted to Impulse Tracker format. I find many arrangements of videogame music sound far too much like the original tracks, and I was proud of coming up with something here that not only used different instrumentation and sounds from the original, but added completely new structures and melodies. I still view this track as one of my high points.