“Kara Remembers“ from Bear’s BSG Songbook

This video represents my third contribution to Bear McCreary’s new YouTube Channel, (), and a hopeful contender in his summer competition for creative uses of the Battlestar Galactica Songbook, ( As far as I know, it is currently the only complete, isolated piano recording of Bear’s pivotal musical reveal in the Season 4.5 episode “Someone to Watch Over Me.“ The obstacle, of course, to recording a piece for four hands is that it requires two, devoted Battlestar fans, each with some proficiency in piano, to be in the same place, at the same time, for an extended period. My solution -- in true, Battlestar style -- was to summon an evolved, Cylon copy of myself to handle Slick’s virtuosic accompaniment. Aligning the multiple audio and video tracks for the final composite was a little tricky, but I’m fairly happy with the results, (although those with keen eyes may notice an extra octave I inserted into the pian