i want to see a rock band do a piece where they don't use anything like their usual instruments. no guitar, violin instead. no snare drums, just taiko. no keyboard, but harpsichord. no vocals, just, uh, woodwinds i guess?

what kind of music would you get out of that, i wonder?
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that's basically how we got nobuo uematsu i guess

he's self-taught, was in a prog rock band at at least one point, and when making music for NES games had to basically toss out any hope of using guitars or drums in favor of simple square waves and noise
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@Felthry This is basically exactly what I think of when I consider that kind of thing. Lots of early games tried to synthesize guitar and stuff, but in here I can just hear the main line as an attempt at synthesized vocals, and I wonder what the words would have been if they were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04T-pUYN1bA

@Facet and then you get this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psahbJJCPuU

probably the most technically impressive thing ever done with the SNES, beating out star fox even

(give it a minute, the vocals come in about a minute or two in after a lengthy intro)
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