I had meant to post this last Saturday, on “Star Wars Day” itself, but forgot in all the excitement.

I happened to have a show with the band Ska City that afternoon. Since we were playing on May 4th, we wanted to do something a little special for the sci fi fans who came out. I wrote a medley arrangement of three Star Wars themes in a ska style. It included the Imperial March, Cantina Band, and the Main Theme. I think it ended up OK. Here’s a demo I put together for the band to learn it from (most of the rhythm section prefers to learn tunes by ear, rather than sheet music, go figure).

There may be a video recording floating around of us playing it. We warmed up on it on a previous gig as well as while sound checking last Saturday. On the actual show there was a major time glitch on the last tune, so it’s not the best performance we had at it. Hopefully we’ll play some other year on May 4 so we can use this chart again. It was a lot of work just for one silly tune on one gig.