VGM Guitar Arrangements

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I wanted to share a project of mine I've been working on and off for about 8 months. I've created 72 guitar arrangements as of the creation of this post. I expect to make more arrangements, albeit less frequently than before. These are fingerstyle arrangements, meant to be played on your own. The difficulty varies, but some of them are quite challenging to play at the correct tempo.

You can view and download the PDFs on Dropbox here

There are also video transcriptions^* of all of the arrangements here


* The video transcriptions initially started out as MIDI imported from Guitar Pro. After I switched to Sibelius (on the 27th arrangement, if you're curious), I also started experimenting with the instrumentation. I'm not sure what to call them - 'remixes' feels disproportionate to the amount of time I spent on them (usually an hour for each). Some of them I'm not too fond of, but I think their quality has improved over time.

I'm not proud of the visual quality of the notation of my early arrangements either, especially when I was using Guitar Pro. There are incorrect beam groupings, overlapping notes, etc. - just a mess, usually caused by fixating too much on the tablature when creating it. The PDFs are numbered so that the earliest arrangements are first.

Some of the arrangements I varied significantly from the source, like the Lavender Town one, but for most of them I decided to closely emulate the originals, with occasional slight variations and embellishments.

Here's a list of my progress so far (5/23/23):

   1. Main Plaza (Night) (Nintendo Land) - Ryo Nagamatsu
   2. Lavender Town (Pokémon Red & Blue) - Junichi Masuda
   3. Loading the Game (Isabelle) (Animal Crossing/ New Leaf) - Kazumi Totaka
   4. Main Theme (Papers Please) - Lucas Pope
   5. Death (Papers Please) - Lucas Pope
   6. Patch Castle (Kirby's Epic Yarn) - Tomoya Tomita
   7. Main Theme (Mario Kart 64) - Kenta Nagata
   8. A Requiem (Castlevania II/ Simon's Quest) - Kenichi Matsubara
   9. Stage Builder (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) - Nobuo Uematsu
  10. Grass Land (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) - Ryo Nagamatsu
  11. Age, Regret, Retribution (Phoenix Wright/ Ace Attorney) - Masakazu Sugimori
  12. Reminiscence/ Light and Shadow (Phoenix Wright/ Ace Attorney) - Masakazu Sugimori
  13. Investigation/ Opening (2001) (Phoenix Wright/ Ace Attorney) - Masakazu Sugimori
  14. Sunrise & Onett (Earthbound) - Hirokazu Tanaka
  15. Buy Somethin' Will Ya! (Earthbound) - Hirokazu Tanaka
  16. At the Bottom of Night (Chrono Trigger) - Yasunori Mitsuda
  17. Sad Song (Super Mario RPG) - Yoko Shimomura
  18. StreetPass Mii Plaza (Nintendo 3DS)
  19. Mii Maker (Nintendo 3DS)
  20. Daisy Circuit (Mario Kart Wii) - Asuka Hayazaki
  21. Dry Hands (Minecraft) - Daniel Rosenfeld
  22. Bergentrückung (Undertale) - Toby Fox
  23. Reminiscence/ Forgotten Legend (Apollo Justice/ Ace Attorney) - Toshihiko Horiyama
  24. Helper's Rest (Kirby Super Star Ultra) - Jun Ishikawa
  25. Sheik (The Legend of Zelda/ Ocarina of Time) - Koji Kondo
  26. There She Is (Portal 2) - Mike Morasky
  27. Scars Etched by Flame (Ace Attorney/ Justice For All) - Naoto Tanaka
  28. Character Select (Super Mario Bros. 2) - Koji Kondo
  29. Donut Plains (Super Mario World) - Koji Kondo
  30. Astral Observatory (The Legend of Zelda/ Majora's Mask) - Koji Kondo
  31. Ashley's Song (WarioWare/ Touched) - Masaru Tajima
  32. Elegant and Excellent (The Great Ace Attorney) - Yasumasa Kitagawa
  33. Title Theme (Animal Crossing/ City Folk) - Kazumi Totaka
  34. Detective Itonokogiri (Phoenix Wright/ Ace Attorney) - Masakazu Sugimori
  35. Littleroot Town (Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire) - Gō Ichinose
  36. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (Pokémon Diamond & Pearl) - Junichi Masuda
  37. Boy Meets Girl (Twoson) (Earthbound) - Hirokazu Tanaka
  38. Dungeon (The Legend of Zelda) - Koji Kondo
  39. Hyrule Castle Courtyard (The Legend of Zelda/ Ocarina of Time) - Koji Kondo
  40. Lava Landing - Temper Temple (Kirby's Epic Yarn) - Tomoya Tomita
  41. Drew Studio (Apollo Justice/ Ace Attorney) - Toshihiko Horiyama
  42. Menu BIOS (SNES Classic Edition)
  43. Title Screen (The Legend of Zelda/ Majora's Mask) - Koji Kondo
  44. Athletic Theme (New Super Mario Bros.) - Koji Kondo
  45. Objection (2004) (Ace Attorney/ Trials and Tribulations) - Noriyuki Iwadare
  46. Water Land (Super Mario Bros. 3) - Koji Kondo
  47. Creative Exercise (Mario Paint) - Ryoji Yoshitomi
  48. Lon Lon Ranch (The Legend of Zelda/ Ocarina of Time) - Koji Kondo
  49. Eterna City (Night) (Pokémon Diamond & Pearl) - Gō Ichinose
  50. Meeting Place (PokéPark Wii/ Pikachu's Adventure) - Kenichi Koyano
  51. Main Street (Animal Crossing/ New Leaf) - Kazumi Totaka
  52. Puzzle Swap (Nintendo 3DS)
  53. Afternoon on the Island (Tomodachi Life) - Daisuke Matsuoka
  54. Title Screen (Kirby's Dream Land) - Jun Ishikawa
  55. Rocket Jump Waltz (Team Fortress 2) - Mike Morasky
  56. Village (SimCity) - Soyo Oka
  57. Flower Garden (Super Mario World 2/ Yoshi's Island) - Koji Kondo
  58. The Scenery of Dusky Bridge (Ace Attorney/ Trials and Tribulations) - Noriyuki Iwadare
  59. KG-8 Incident (Ace Attorney Investigations/ Miles Edgeworth) - Noriyuki Iwadare
  60. Treasure Hunter! Monolith (Danganronpa V3/ Killing Harmony) - Masafumi Takada
  61. Closing Argument (The Great Ace Attorney) - Yasumasa Kitagawa
  62. Ending (Mega Man 2) - Takashi Tateishi
  63. You've Come Far, Ness (Earthbound) - Hirokazu Tanaka
  64. Unfounded Revenge! (Mother 3) - Shogo Sakai
  65. Twinkle Elementary (Mother) - Keiichi Suzuki
  66. Bein' Friends (Mother) - Keiichi Suzuki
  67. Kay Faraday (Ace Attorney Investigations/ Miles Edgeworth) - Noriyuki Iwadare
  68. Blooming Flower In The New World (The Great Ace Attorney) - Yasumasa Kitagawa
  69. Results (Pac-Man Championship Edition) - Junko Ozawa
  70. Welcome to Dangan Island (Danganronpa 2/ Goodbye Despair) - Masafumi Takada
  71. Ikoroshia (Danganronpa 2/ Goodbye Despair) - Masafumi Takada
  72. Beautiful Ruin (Danganronpa 2/ Goodbye Despair) - Masafumi Takada

Hope you enjoy!

[Zeila]

This is some really neat stuff! I don't play guitar so a lot of them look very intricate and difficult to play (particularly Ikoroshia), but they're nice to listen to. Thanks for sharing!