Sheet music: http://www.mediafire.com/?ncow3bwcgbv8tcn

A song sung by Twilight and Spike during the first of the two Season 3 premiere episodes, "The Crystal Empire - part 1", this song was a teaser, along with another piece, the "Ballad of the Crystal Ponies", at the San Diego Comic Con 2012 fair at the Hasbro panel. After being explained her mission to save the Crystal Empire, Twilight summarises her feelings at the daunting task - in song! This is the first time Spike has been given any significant singing role, too.

(Continuation to my "Crystal Fair Song" cover description.)

This one, by contrast, was a lot more fun! I could happily have played this one a fair bit without tiring of it anytime soon. Not much to say about it, it starts off in D major while swapping occasionally to D minor, and then changes keys a couple of times throughout the second half of the piece. Replicating the bass was easier, too, though I did improvise a bit here and there. By the same token I didn't have much difficulty contrasting Spike's and Twilight's parts - in the first part I used different octaves, and in the second part I let the slight difference in keys accentuate the difference.

In terms of difficulty the piece is mostly straight forward, though the first verse ("Levitation would have been a breeze...") gave me a bit of trouble when I repeatedly kept hitting the wrong notes in the bass, haha. An easy enough problem to rectify, however. The bass was again an annoyance later on nearing the end, ("Oh I've had my share of licks..."), but was easier to master, simply being a series of descending chords.

The most difficult part, as you could probably tell (not least of all because of my blunder), were the chords in the outro - not unlike Pinkie's verse in the "Crystal Fair Song", it can be tricky to play them in quick succession, though I felt they were easier to master for some reason, even if I did mess up in this take. As with learning any difficult part of a song, start them off slowly and steadily work your speed up until both hands are almost playing them independently.

Again, as with the "Crystal Fair Song", this take is not perfect - there are a couple of slip-ups, the most obvious being the aforementioned mistake in the outro. However, my brain and family selfishly wanted to keep their sanity, so out of respect for that I once more took my "best" shot and rolled with it. I may re-record them at a later date, who knows. In the meantime, enjoy!