By Erik Scheele erikscheele Bandcamp erikscheele SoundCloud jitters20 Twitter jitmakesstuff Tumblr Jitmakesstuff YouTube erikscheele.com erikscheele.com.
Cover art by Louise L. potentialforart Tumblr.
Released 8/15/2012.
Duration: 5:03.

Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.

Download sheet music files.
Download MIDI/project files.
Read artist commentary.

Contributors:

• Robert J! Lake spellmynamewithabang Bandcamp YouTube YouTube spellbang Twitter (additional beats)

Tracks that Mother references:

• Mother (Piano) by Erik Scheele
• Skies of Skaia by Mark J. Hadley

Tracks that reference Mother:

From Official Discography:

• Negastrife by Erik Scheele

From Fandom:

• Momi (Piano) by Nicholas Nakano

Flashes & games that feature Mother:

• [S] Ella: Quick! Calm yourself with a haunting piano refrain!
• [S] NEXT.
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Print or download sheet music files:

• Piano score by Erik Scheele (original composer)

  • Mother (Piano) - Erik Scheele.pdf (35.7 kB)
• Piano score by kurama101

  • Mother (Piano) - kurama101.pdf (35.1 kB)

Download MIDI/project files:

• MIDI by i300 (piano)

  • Mother (Piano) - i300.mid (3.7 kB)

Artist commentary:

Erik Scheele: (booklet commentary)

Way back, before I was even on the team and before I thought I even belonged on the team, I recorded a simple piano refrain. First thing I'd ever recorded, too, and I want to say it was done a few months after Homestuck had started. In my head, it fit in as a possible refrain for one of the characters, and the idea always stuck in my head that it could also work as a piece for the very ending for Homestuck, a sort of "all is well" refrain. After two years, I was finally able to make something like what I was thinking and put it in the right context.

Like the Homestuck Anthem, I went with using the four kids' instruments: piano, strings, drums/percussion, and bass, and stuck mainly with those. I also got some help by Mr. Lake of Awesome Beats Inc. who was way better at beats than I am, and he made it way better too. Big props to him.

With the new universe and many new characters being explored, this piece might not work for "the end of Homestuck" anymore, but if anything, I see it as a sort of moving forward. John's journey on that one day, when he turned 13, matured both him and his friends. Like many others, he took the hero's journey, and grew as a result of it, and so this piece could very well fit him leaving his universe and going on to the next, bringing his experiences and knowledge with him, just as well as it could fit him moving past Sburb to whatever adventures lie ahead.