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Choral Chambers Choir Arrangement!

Hi everyone,

Last year I became the conductor of the university choir here in Twente, and for this coming semester I thought it'd be fun to sing one of my Silksong arrangements with them. So I wrote my Choral Chambers choir arrangement down and wanted to share it with you all as well!

If you sing in a choir that's not afraid to do some parts with 8 voices - or if you'd like to sing along with the video - it can come in handy!

Thank you for your continued support :D .

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Happy 2026!

Hi everyone,

A little late, but still: happy 2026 to you all! 2025 was a great year for games and I'm happy with the output on my channel, even if it was stifled by my broken elbow. I'm so thankful to have all of your support going into the new year.

This week I've mostly recovered from the flu, and have been tidying up professional odds and ends that remained from last year. I had multiple projects on the burner for the YouTube channel, including the choi...

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Original Folky Composition + Ramblings!

Hey everyone!

December is always a weird month over here in Cheeseland with concerts - the final stretch pre-Christmas is approaching now. I'm glad to say that I'm mostly back up and running, I have been conducting, doing some piano gigs and back at composing for Cloudheim and Guild Saga again.

The elbow is still stiff but it feels like there's more things I can do than I can't do. It's mainly the weird feeling in the arm at the moment, and serious lifting is st...

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Silksong Fourth Chorus Choir!

Hi everyone,

Have been doing composing work again the past ~1.5 weeks so YouTube is a little more slow again, but I'm still doing Silksong choir stuff to round out the album! Sending a thus far unreleased on along for you all as a goodie ;) .

Thank you for your continued support!

Cheers,

Tim

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Rounding Out The Silksong Choir Covers

Hi everyone!

Greetings from Elbowland. My therapist is happy with how my arm is recovering, and I am too. I'm able to do many things again to a certain extent, including most of my instrument playing! Don't think it's hardcore piano arranging time yet though - officially I still have to wait 1,5 weeks before I can seriously start building muscle again and my arm isn't yet as mobile as it should be - so until that time I'll be finishing up my Silksong choir covers!

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MIDI Patron Bonus: Silksong Raw Performances!

Hi lovely people,

I've been receiving requests for ways to learn my Silksong piano improvisations. Which is why I've added the raw performance MIDIs for my Silksong piano recordings to the MIDI archive.

Hope this is of use to you, have fun!

Cheers,

Tim

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EARLY ACCESS: Silksong Bellhart Choir

Continuing the choir train with the lovely Bellhart!

Thank you all so much for your continued support.

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Arm and channel update!

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MIDI Archive incl. LOTS of Silksong!

...and the MIDI files for extra learning convenience!

Cheers,

Tim

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PDF Archive inc. LOTS of Silksong!

September 2025 was one crazy productive YouTubing month - 9 Silksong Arrangements! Here's all my arrangements in one ZIP for your sheet musicing pleasure.

Thanks so much for your continued support!

Cheers,

Tim

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MIDI Archive incl. Great ? Block Ruins, Silksong, Bellhart & Shellwood

... and the MIDI files. Thank you so much for your continued support!

Cheers,

Tim

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PDF Archive incl. Great ? Block Ruins, Silksong, Bellhart & Shellwood

Haven't had this productive a week in a long time. This is the tasty new PDF archive with all gazillion arrangements and the recent batch!

Thank you so much for your support.

Cheers,

Tim

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EARLY ACCESS: Great ? Block Ruins!

Hi dear Patrons!

So in the lead-up to Silksong's release I'd been continuing my work on the amazing Mario Kart World OST. The next video is done, but I want to forge the Silksong iron while it's hot and upload a Silksong track this week, so I'll sit on the Great ? Block Ruins video for the time being. Of course my lovely Patrons get to share in the secrecy.

Like the other Mario Kart World tracks it's very fun to play and I hope you agree!

Cheers,

Tim

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WIP - Great ? Block Ruins

Hi everyone!

It's been an active YouTube week - it's been a lot of fun to make those drum shorts and the views are surprisingly decent. Expect more of that!

I want to keep paying my respects to the incredible Mario Kart World soundtrack so have started work on the Great ? Block Ruins. Next week is Silksong week, so I'm not 100% when to upload this. Maybe early in the week, and do Silksong later in the week.

It's cool to have multiple options of cool arranging work!

Tha...

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Wii Rainbow Road audio!

Don't tell anyone, but here's the (almost final) audio for the upcoming Mario Kart World - Wii Rainbow Road arrangement! 🤩

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WIP Wii Rainbow Road!

Hi everyone,

Back in the saddle, arranging Mario Kart World's fantastic take on Wii Rainbow Road! Basic outline has been arranged, time to flesh it out.

Hope you're having a great summer (if applicable)!

Cheers,

Tim

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Back From Vacation!

Hi lovely Patrons,

I've just returned from two weeks in France with the fam! There's a horde of things waiting for me - one of the most important, of course, being re-rehearsing and recording Crown City (curious if some of you can already play it since I shared the MIDI and PDF before I went away ;) )! Also, finishing the quick-turnaround composing gig that threw a wrench in my pre-vacation planning.

After Crown City I'll pivot to something from t...

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MIDI Archive incl. NEW Crown City & Faraway Oasis

... and the MIDI files! Many thanks as always.

Cheers,

Tim

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PDF Archive incl. NEW Crown City & Faraway Oasis

Hey everyone!

I wanted to do something on the channel this week, but I was fortunate enough to get a cool composing contract with a deadline so didn't have time to record or stream unfortunately. But the sheet music's done, so y'all get to play Crown City before I do ;). Enjoy!

Also included: the recent Faraway Oasis.

Cheers!

Tim

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WIP - Mario Kart World: Crown City!

More Mario Kart! Hope to get this out this week, if not I'll do a livestream on Thursday :).

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WIP Mario Kart World - Faraway Oasis

This is such a jam! Hope to finish, record and edit this for Friday.

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MIDI Archive incl. Mario Kart World!

And the MIDI files - thank you all so much!

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PDF Archive incl. Mario Kart World

Thanks so much for your continued support!

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WIP2 Mario Kart World Title Theme

Will be using this during recording, currently rehearsing and hope to have something up on Thursday or Friday :). Definitely an interesting challenge, such a quick swing piece!

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WIP Mario Kart World Title Theme

Basic top- and bassline are arranged, time to flesh it out!

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Personal update - hope to pick up the pace again soon...

Hi everyone, small personal update about what's been going on here in Cheeseland.

Thank you all so much for your support! <3

Cheers,

Tim

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WIP - Construct Factory / Mineru's Theme Orchestral!

Hi everyone!

Last week, after I asked for some suggestions for HH4 orchestral stuff, I started noodling and something appeared super quickly: it's my favourite new piece of music from TotK - Construct Factory / Mineru's Theme!

Your suggestions haven't been forgotten and I'll circle back to those for the next one. ☺️

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Demon Dragon Done! - and Future Plans.

Hi everyone,

As you might've seen, the crazy layered Demon Dragon orchestral arrangement is on YouTube and doing quite well! In the meantime I've finished some game composing work, and now that that's out of the way and Switch 2 is around the corner I'm looking forward to diving back into the channel some more again.

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Update: Working on Demon Dragon Orchestral...

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since the Metroid Prime 4 arrangement, so I thought it'd be nice to let you know about what I'm planning for the channel.

The Symphonic Folky tracks that I've been doing for a while now - Colgera, Vah Naboris, Revali and Mipha - are doing quite well on the channel and have been a blast to compose, so I've turned that into Hyrule Highlands IV! Eagle-eyed supporters might've seen in the Mipha video that I've been using...

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MIDI Archive incl. Metroid Prime 4

... and the MIDI files!

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