Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Experience or relive the intensity of Contra III’s Stage 3 with this piano arrangement of the theme Battle Runner. A musical journey between tonality and atonality, available with sheet music and MIDI files.
The music featured in this video is from Contra III: The Alien Wars (known as Super Probotector: Alien Rebels in Europe and Contra Spirits in Japan), developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1992.
This track drives Stage 3 of the game: Neo Kobe Steel Factory. It stands out for its frantic energy and its harmonic and melodic language teetering between tonality and atonality, creating an atmosphere that is both hypnotic and intense.
Transcribing this music for piano, with its relentless tempo and dense, almost provocative musical texture, was quite a bold challenge. Still, I tried to stay as true as possible to the original spirit of the piece, and I hope you’ll enjoy this arrangement.
🎼 Track title: Battle Runner
🎵 Composers: Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi & Tappi Iwase
🎹 Piano & arrangement: Gabriel Abbrugiati
📅 Video recorded on June 1st, 2025
📃 Sheet music available:
Battle Runner: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z7gIQYxtrc29MR6VdAK4uY7Iy45Jdeb9/view?usp=sharing
Battle Runner (simplified): drive.google.com/file/d/1S-SPZ0YgBlUuusRzvgg1-v89s8TOcDpD/view?usp=sharing
Mission Accomplished: drive.google.com/file/d/19hGQY5OpuJMsZ10JCNpAj_mkEWvQdPjI/view?usp=sharing
🎼 MIDI files:
Battle Runner: drive.google.com/file/d/1LU9bK3jjEx4Ud0aa-Z9AqwxSuDK5YbuG/view?usp=sharing
Battle Runner (simplified): drive.google.com/file/d/1GOSX4UhJ5dJdzlLhurOtplL-JJJzQqW2/view?usp=sharing
Mission Accomplished: drive.google.com/file/d/1vRQhMPC9tORaF_fSRZRRGFjJelbi15Dp/view?usp=sharing
Experience or relive the intensity of Contra III’s Stage 3 with this piano arrangement of the theme Battle Runner. A musical journey between tonality and atonality, available with sheet music and MIDI files.
The music featured in this video is from Contra III: The Alien Wars (known as Super Probotector: Alien Rebels in Europe and Contra Spirits in Japan), developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1992.
This track drives Stage 3 of the game: Neo Kobe Steel Factory. It stands out for its frantic energy and its harmonic and melodic language teetering between tonality and atonality, creating an atmosphere that is both hypnotic and intense.
Transcribing this music for piano, with its relentless tempo and dense, almost provocative musical texture, was quite a bold challenge. Still, I tried to stay as true as possible to the original spirit of the piece, and I hope you’ll enjoy this arrangement.
🎼 Track title: Battle Runner
🎵 Composers: Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi & Tappi Iwase
🎹 Piano & arrangement: Gabriel Abbrugiati
📅 Video recorded on June 1st, 2025
📃 Sheet music available:
Battle Runner: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z7gIQYxtrc29MR6VdAK4uY7Iy45Jdeb9/view?usp=sharing
Battle Runner (simplified): drive.google.com/file/d/1S-SPZ0YgBlUuusRzvgg1-v89s8TOcDpD/view?usp=sharing
Mission Accomplished: drive.google.com/file/d/19hGQY5OpuJMsZ10JCNpAj_mkEWvQdPjI/view?usp=sharing
🎼 MIDI files:
Battle Runner: drive.google.com/file/d/1LU9bK3jjEx4Ud0aa-Z9AqwxSuDK5YbuG/view?usp=sharing
Battle Runner (simplified): drive.google.com/file/d/1GOSX4UhJ5dJdzlLhurOtplL-JJJzQqW2/view?usp=sharing
Mission Accomplished: drive.google.com/file/d/1vRQhMPC9tORaF_fSRZRRGFjJelbi15Dp/view?usp=sharing
