Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Huang's "Glorious MIDI Unicorn" was one of the videos that most inspired me to start creating MIDI art. My first thought when I saw it years ago was that I'd LOVE to play it live someday. Well, now that I have a few months of experience creating my own MIDI art and performing it live, I decided to give it a shot!
I did have to make a few changes to Andrew's original composition in order for it to be playable with 10 fingers: I had to leave out some of the notes, and also shorten the Unicorn's horn because it exceeded the range of an 88 key piano. I also played it slower than his original tempo - it's very difficult even at this tempo, and would have been almost impossible to play accurately at full speed (lots of hand leaps!).
Big thanks to Andrew for this wonderful composition and for the inspiration!
Link to Andrew Huang's original video:
youtube.com/watch?v=i3tiuGVDDkk&t=21s
Link to a playlist of my live MIDI art:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74HoQTXqecmysCYz2ET1XGdUvwOCIj9_
Support me on Patreon and get lots of goodies:
patreon.com/glasys
Technical details: performed on a Yamaha CP88 (using it's internal sound), the DAW is Cubase 11.
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Andrew Huang's "Glorious MIDI Unicorn" was one of the videos that most inspired me to start creating MIDI art. My first thought when I saw it years ago was that I'd LOVE to play it live someday. Well, now that I have a few months of experience creating my own MIDI art and performing it live, I decided to give it a shot!
I did have to make a few changes to Andrew's original composition in order for it to be playable with 10 fingers: I had to leave out some of the notes, and also shorten the Unicorn's horn because it exceeded the range of an 88 key piano. I also played it slower than his original tempo - it's very difficult even at this tempo, and would have been almost impossible to play accurately at full speed (lots of hand leaps!).
Big thanks to Andrew for this wonderful composition and for the inspiration!
Link to Andrew Huang's original video:
youtube.com/watch?v=i3tiuGVDDkk&t=21s
Link to a playlist of my live MIDI art:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74HoQTXqecmysCYz2ET1XGdUvwOCIj9_
Support me on Patreon and get lots of goodies:
patreon.com/glasys
Technical details: performed on a Yamaha CP88 (using it's internal sound), the DAW is Cubase 11.
#shorts
