SKU: A0.956048

Do your students need practice keeping a steady beat?  This four-hand version of the huge Rocky III hit will be a hit with your students.  The secondo part is very easy and can be played as written (it's in octaves) or with one hand, either left or right.  The primo part is also in octaves and can be played with one hand or two.  Perfect for the teacher playing one part and a student playing the other part, or siblings with different abilities levels.  This very versatile arrangement is easy to learn and fun to play.

SKU: A0.983801

Depicts victory and it's aftermath on a battlefield.  Starts in celebratory mode, with trumpet-like fanfare, then fades into sadness as realization dawns that - win or lose - a lot of people on both sides have lost their lives.  This began as a flute ensemble piece;  I added clarinet and trombone to give it more depth.

SKU: A0.931293

Ari Pulkkinen (born 15 January 1982) is a Finnish video game composer, musician and sound designer. His Angry Birds theme is perhaps his most famous work.

Pulkkinen was born in Helsinki. At the age of 6 he started studying piano and composed his first song at the age of 12. He was interested in the computer music demoscene and started making music with tracker software under the name ArtZ. He won many music competitions and made his first big public album to accompany a freeware game named Starfight VI: Gatekeepers in 1999. Ari has never studied music composition academically.

In 2003 he was hired as in-house audio director to game development company Frozenbyte Inc. Where he made the original soundtracks and sound design for video games Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds: Survivor and Trine. In his spare time Ari earned diplomas in Professional Audio Design and Producing and Further Education for Producers and Leads of the Finnish Game Industry with Adulta, and Music Technology with Sibelius Academy. After quitting Frozenbyte in 2008 (though he continues to have a professional relationship with them), Ari started his own sound production company AriTunes. Since then he has made original soundtrack and sound design for over twenty projects, including video games such as Angry Birds, Dead Nation, Trine 2, Outland and Super Stardust HD. Ari releases his music through his own label AriTunes.

On 2 September 2011 in Video Game Heroes Concert, Angry Birds Theme was played by London Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the first time Ari's music was played by a full live orchestra.