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Showtime (Piano Refrain) Showtime (Piano Refrain)

Showtime (Piano Refrain) Showtime (Piano Refrain)

Artwork by Homestuck ← Rest A While Previous cover art by this artist → Harlequin Next cover art by this artist

By Kevin Regamey ← Knives and Ivory Previous track by this artist.
Released 10/24/2011.
Duration: 2:20.

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Also released on Homestuck Vol. 1about 2 years, 2 months earlier.

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The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, Homestuck Vol. 1.

Kevin Regamey ✑ via early commentary collection

To be honest, I've fallen off the MSPA train pretty hard. This has undoubtedly been the busiest year (or two) of my life, and I am only now returning to reacquaint myself with what the heck is up.

Malcolm wrote the chiptune version of Showtime first. I heard it, dug it, and created a piano arrangement just for the hell of it. Like Malcolm has said - earlier on, we didn't necessarily know what we were writing for, so we just wrote whatever spoke to us. I had posted a "Work in progress" version to the music boards, and I received some positive feedback. Positive enough for me to elaborate it into a full piece. As luck would have it, Andrew was finishing up the first playable page of Homestuck just as I posted the full version. As such, I was lucky enough to have the honour of first musical appearance in Homestuck, but most of the credit should certainly go to Malcolm - for defining John musically at such an early stage of the game, and for being the sole inspiration behind this track.

Oh, side note: My midi keyboard was misbehaving when I wrote this, so every note of the piece was clicked into a sequencer. D:

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