Portal 2 Final Boss Medley for two pianos | arr. FiveNineSquared

[@graciepaws]

"Suddenly, ragtime!"

[@xeanderman6688]

when does it say?

[@graciepaws]

@@xeanderman6688 in the sheet music, just look closely

[@totallyrandompersob1664]

1:45 sounds good

[@FScotsman4472]

and now, the aperture: science innovators vaudeville performers!

[@erinclark1369]

I cant decide if this arrangement would be called 'Your Precious Plan' or 'Bombs For Throwing at the Moon'

[@FiveNineSquared]

I titled the files “Bombs For Throwing At Your Precious Moon” actually

[@tristenarctician6910]

Four part Moons for throwing at your precious bombs

[@PstrywBerryVids]

@@tristenarctician6910 Part 5! Booby trap the p r e c i o u s m o o n

[@doppelgangervortex]

Best comment thread ever 😂

[@utkuc.]

bombs for throwing at the moon

[@jadey180]

I never realized how well this song would go on a piano!

[@sdsys]

Ive always been upset. Id always only seen covers of Reconstructing More Science, Cara Mia Addio, Want You Gone and sometimes Turret Wife Serenade. As my favourite game and first hyperfixation, I was upset noone paid attention to the REST of the ost. Until I found both this and your arrangement of I Am Not A Moron. Finally, someone had done these songs justice. And I'm in love with how you've arranged them

[@FiveNineSquared]

My goal with arrangements is to not repeat what others've already done before, for precisely this reason. Thanks!

[@Azzabajam]

Theres also an orchestral cover of the ost

[@kR-qj7rw]

main them and variations are amazing portal 2 has so much good music and its always those 3 that get covers

[@Danbearpig]

“Suddenly, ragtime!” Haha, that was awesome.

[@SomeDemoMain]

_PART SIX! NUKE BLACK MESA!_ Also, 7:10 in particular hit me in the face.

[@glados4282]

Good plan.

[@BarrieStirling2353]

that would be part six, as the booby trapped stalemate button was part five. wheatley announces this himself.

[@no...u]

PART 7! More Test subjects... I'm just getting tired of this awful itch...

[@Narref38]

part 8: creating a franken cube core turret

[@alexcooper5894]

@@glados4282 PART 7! DELETE BLACK MESA FROM EXISTANCE!!!!!!!!!!

[@Fox_Squash]

1:45 best part

[@TheMagicat]

Yes.

[@mramazingpinecone4153]

I love it 2, but I am attached to 5:10

[@GamingwithPortals]

best part Portal 3: the cowboy bar fight

[@dmynerd78]

Revenge is best served on two pianos! Dangit now I want to play Portal 2 again... Also thanks for all the interesting facts in the description! I never realized how those songs used the same motif

[@FiveNineSquared]

Portal 2 is one of those games I keep replaying annually. Sometimes I boot up some random workshop tests to try out. After recording this I also wanted to replay the entire game again haha Mike Morasky’s writing for the OST actually goes very deep. He uses leitmotifs very subtly sometimes and each one carries some sort of importance (take for instance the way he wrote “Music of the Spheres”-the music heard when entering 1950s Aperture, and contrasted it with “Music of the Spheres 2”-heard in 1980s Aperture. The former uses more organic instruments, while the latter uses synths heavily. This can show how Aperture had shifted from being a prestigious human-run company to a lower-budget robot operated company). I had to do some research to get some of the info I wrote in the description tbh

[@BeMoreBroadway]

Despite not playing the game for years, I can recite every line from the final battle, just from listening to this song. 💕

[@minefan7]

3:21 after arranging bots build bots, I feel like these notes patterns are very similar to ones found in that piece. Overall bombs for throwing and your precious moon seem to recall the most motifs

[@FiveNineSquared]

That section wasn't part of the original music by the way. You're correct that I referenced Bots Build Bots for it though.

[@Noz0miVA]

Hearing this on the piano really helps you define the different parts from each other, and hear how over time the two parts start fighting against each other to resemble Wheatley fighting back against the central mainframe.

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks! Though I did exaggerate this a lot (I added a few lines that weren't there originally to add interest).

[@DustyyPineTree]

My god, I can't describe how much I love this piece! I also really enjoyed reading your analysis, I can't help but get hyped up about stuff like this. Great work!

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks! It was also quite fun analysing the music and speculating what the motifs meant in context.

[@eclipsedsun3707]

Yo, 6:18 matches so well with the video! Honestly, I didn’t get the ragtime at first, but it adds so much to what can be considered Wheatley’s themes. This is so good and epic, expanding on melodies you can just barely hear in the original. Thank you so much for this masterpiece!

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks! I timed the explosion to hit right at that spot, but in the video editor, not in-game. It's not very impressive haha

[@eclipsedsun3707]

@@FiveNineSquared I still think it’s genius : ) Honestly, I listen to this more than the original, it’s so good! ^_^

[@Gunanter]

"This is the part where I kill you." *Objective: Survive*

[@mramazingpinecone4153]

Haha I luv the halo reach reference

[@Jayhem_]

The inclusion of parts of Bots Build Bots (my favorite ost) at 3:22 makes this piece perfect. Well done!

[@snowiedriz]

This needs more hella views

[@Jevil-Gun]

I wonder how strong the control core body must be to be able to withstand 6 explosions with massive corrosion and decay splitting the 6 in half.

[@feather314]

This is a work of art. I can’t believe more people haven’t seen this.

[@mramazingpinecone4153]

The share button is underated

[@sansational15]

Poor Wheatley, he was such a cute little guy and then the euphoria and all that stuff corrupted him and he turned into a monster.

[@nile6076]

I keep wanting to learn piano to play this but every time I reach the end I'm reminded of how difficult it would really be

[@nile6076]

screw it. i'm gonna learn piano

[@darthwisetheplagueis5869]

@@nile6076 did you

[@tubgold]

@@nile6076did you (x2)

[@nile6076]

@@tubgold not yet.. I've been learning lots of music theory though!

[@ruoya6556]

This is amazing! Well done!!

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks!

[@beanlad5373]

dunno if you'll ever see this, but this is really really good. great job. I especially love the Your Precious Moon part, but this is just a great song. thanks so much for making it, honestly!

[@Adam-lz3nw]

Fantastic!

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thank you!

[@erinclark1369]

10/10 you did an amazing job on this

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks!

[@mramazingpinecone4153]

More like 999999999999999999 etc./10

[@hugovankeulen5115]

I might be really late, but I love how you inserted the light motif into the part at 7:24 it's something you don't hear in the original score and it adds so much

[@wugglebuggle2592]

I got goosebumps at The Exile

[@Sensible06]

I like piano covers. This was my favourite part of the game. Finding this was like finding the holy grail.

[@hansonkerman7286]

Check it out! I’m a bloody musical genius now! _alright, so that’s a G… what are these little dots and arrows? ah, whatever_ (plays the worst fucking music you've ever heard) I have no idea what I’m playing! But I can find out! Oh, right, bombs-

[@cupofspiders5830]

Bombs For Throwing At You on piano?! How and why does this sound good? :D I always thought was waaa-aaaa-aaay too chaotic to perform on anything like piano. Somehow, though, you managed to sacrifice a bit of the chaos in for absolute amazingness holy what Also, this sounds a lot like some Undertale song. Bonetrousle, with a hint of that ironically jazzy tone that I always associate with Undertale, maybe some Megalo Strike Back? perhaps some Pokémon R/G/B/Y Champion theme?

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks! Tbf most of this will probably involve a lot of chaos on the piano if you actually played it, so not much has been lost :P Considering most of my early arranging experience was literally only stuff from Undertale, I wouldn't doubt some of that sneaked into this.

[@crazy_genetic2136]

Just awesome , dude , i really GLaD somebody actually made piano sheets of this kind of hardness , my thousands of thanks to you !

[@quantumblauthor7300]

*How the hell did you manage to fit the laser dance motif in there wtf*

[@sportingslippers3256]

This is amazingly put together!

[@johne.4884]

I gotta say my favorite part is the music where he says “You didn’t think you were the only one did you?” That was where you realize that it wasn’t the power that made him evil, he was always evil, and you were just the only one of his victims who survived.

[@broccolipurseos4920]

thats actually an interesting interpretation, but I don't think that's what he meant. AFAIK, here was originally gonna be more focus on the other humans Wheatley tried to save. This line was a reference to that.

[@Gxaps]

This thing is honestly such a legendary arrangement

[@prismaux5168]

Amazing! The excellently written transcription paired with a beautiful presentation makes this a beautiful video! The notes send chills down my spine. They are just that great!

[@prismaux5168]

Listening to this again I finally read the description... very good analysis! If you're still interested in doing the longer analysis, it would be great seeing it! I realize this is a 3 and half year old video though, so no problem if you don't do it.

[@Twasforthevine]

Thanks now every time i play tf2 and am in a epic battle ,i will play this in my head

[@hansonkerman7286]

i desperately need a full mix of that ragtime interlude

[@stormy1303]

This is literally so cool

[@rayandadventures7035]

I got to admit this this dude has some skills

[@realbird231]

the best part is how beautiful it sounds on piano

[@captaintoad-ef6zt]

Brilliant piece!

[@actuallobster1775]

Holy hell that is amazing. I didn't think making a piano version of this song was possible, let alone such an amazingly composed one. You are incredible!!! Thank you so much for this!!!

[@actuallobster1775]

No but seriously, I absolutely adore what you did to this track. I keep coming back to it.

[@FiveNineSquared]

Glad you liked it so much haha

[@kittlesgames6808]

suuuuuudenly raaaaaaaagtiiiiime

[@FiveNineSquared]

It didn't occur to me why a lot of people specifically pointed out this line from the score until you wrote it out like that LOL And it's funny because I've replayed the musical countless times and I didn't make the link still. I didn't even intend for the reference there!

[@kittlesgames6808]

Robang59² oh lol

[@diegosatori5718]

Damn nice arrangement

[@Danbero]

Are you going to make more Portal 2 arrangements? I used yours to make an orchestra with them. But Im also working on own arrangements like one of my personal favorites "don't do it" "I saw a deer today". But im curious if you are going to make new ones. I really like how you use different leitmotifs that are heard trough out the game and how you build different play styles and chords into it and not only try to get the notes right. You straight up turn into an arrangment.

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thank you for the compliments! Well, I’m not _not_ open to doing portal stuff, but for now I don’t really have anything from it I’m planning to arrange.

[@Danbero]

@@FiveNineSquared I mean since you build reconstructing sience and cara mia into bombs for throwing at you, you could if you're open to it, arrange them by chance. Maybe you could help me a little if that is ok for you?

[@FiveNineSquared]

I think there’s quite a lot of sheets for both of those pieces you mentioned actually. Specifically Cara Mia. I’ll think about doing an arrangement of Reconstructing Science.

[@Danbero]

@@FiveNineSquared That would be really awesome, what would be also really cool if you ever do a piece to "the part where he kills you", just if you feel like doing that. I might do one to that

[@tubgold]

mint pie

[@mrboxhed5214]

This sounds really good, wish I could read it

[@Shytzedaka]

Very nice.

[@HasanAkdogan]

Brilliant arrangement.

[@UpsideDownCycle]

Phase 3 has hints of bots build bots in it that I never heard in game

[@GunmannYT]

2020's ending song

[@Pnezyx2056]

I'M WAITING FOR MORE OF PORTAL 2 STUFF

[@96calvin]

This is nostalgic

[@WangleLine]

This is amazing, thanks!

[@shakewell42]

This song being this happy is so cursed

[@CountryBalls-p6x]

(core 1) SPACE I WANNA GO TO SPACE. (Wheatley) WE ARE NOT GOING TO SPACE. tracks: bombs for throwing at you.

[@Azzy2935]

hehehe, heard the music million times , but this one is much more soothing and gentle. 🌸🌸💖💜

[@bearreyes1837]

The hijacking part has a letimotif of YOUR PRECIOUS MOON On part 2 of the letimotif of the piano.

[@BankerPaul]

Very interesting.

[@brandonjsobot]

So cool

[@orionbarnes1733]

Four Part Pian(o)

[@Caliper_Click]

PART FIVE ! UNLEASH "PRECIOUS MOON" !

[@ReyHunter]

Yes

[@CyberController-]

Welcome *TO MY LAIR*

[@tubgold]

peak

[@rhysbaker2595]

weirdly, some parts of this remind me of U.N. Owen was Her from that one Touhou game

[@tubgold]

I doubt you do any more portal songs.. but if you were to do one again you should do: Don’t do it.

[@Emm1lyn]

Can you give download of Piano version of Your Precious Moon?

[@ijnh9336]

5:57

[@mramazingpinecone4153]

I wish you could put portals on wheatley s shields

[@КоннорКиберЛайф]

2:07

[@tristenarctician6910]

Jazzy

[@whooshdooshporpalar1371]

how do you recognize the notes? did they make a sheet for this?

[@FiveNineSquared]

By ear! It isn't that hard once you've gotten a lot of practice. Nah, they never made official sheet music (unfortunately), but it's because the soundtrack isn't orchestrated for any sort of ensem.

[@КоннорКиберЛайф]

-2:07

[@corndog_clubb]

You forgot the 3D printer noises

[@FiveNineSquared]

Well you need to install the 3D printer module onto your keyboard first

[@КоннорКиберЛайф]

2.07

[@MartinPurathur]

Noice

[@valoch3187]

I love this so much! Video seems to be really out-of-sync tho.

[@FiveNineSquared]

Thanks! The OST version of the track is actually different from the one that plays in-game, because the music changes depending on what stage of the fight you're in. So for example the first part actually loops until Wheatley finishes his monologue. It wasn't possible to sync some parts nicely because the playthrough I recorded was either too short or too long for the specific part of the music.

[@valoch3187]

@@FiveNineSquared Yep, I do understand why it is out of sync, there's no your fault in this. Also, this sounds even better if you replace second (I think it was second one) piano with organ imo.

[@FiveNineSquared]

True, it would make more of a distinction between the two players I guess. You can still try to play this with an organ and piano combo though!

[@sammylammy996]

kinda reminds me of touhou a little bit

[@peculiar10293]

100th like

[@RealityContractor]

This has aged...poorly.