The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Age Of Oppression & Ancient Stones 

Two handed increased to master!

i used to be a pianist like you, then i took an arrow in the hand

Age of oppresion. You must be a stormcloak for requesting that! This song goes out to the true sons and daughters of skyrim.

0:04 Age Of Oppression 3:20 Ancient Stones

When Ancient Stones started, I was immediately transported to Riverwood! By the time the video ended, my pockets were full of lavender and blue mountain flowers, and I had an Iron helmet on! This is amazing, sir. Marvelously done.

That part at the end... I swear the way that piano part creeps up on you as your walking around in Skyrim gets me every-time... You are the best bard of the game by far

I wish there was sheet music for this... It would be so cool to be able to play this.

These songs remind me so much of the time when I heard them the first time, when I started playing Skyrim… Everything was so new and mystic, it was just a whole new world… now, after 1000 hours of gaming, that magic is lost… :(

Absoluteley amazing Mark!! What a great arrangement and what a great piece of music! Fantastic performance!!

Your age of oppression was brilliant but the ancient stones! Oooohh! That was wonderful. Great job! ;D

Age of Oppression? You're a Stormcloak comrade! Hail Talos.

U won my heart!! Ancient stones was amazin dude.. if u played it any bettr.. i wudve gt tears in my eyes.. :)

My man, the moment you started playing it took me years back to when I played Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow, the music had a similar style, but your interpretation of one of the best soundtracks of our time just blew me away. Job well done! bravo!

Time to play some Skyrim!

Dude, I have a playlist in my phone only with your songs. Simply amazing. I wish play like this some day. :D

Sitting on my lawn staring up at a starlit nightsky and this piece fits superbly.

watching this with work for belethor, at the general store going through my head

Hey Mark. Big fan. Really enjoy all your music! Keep it up!

Shimmering beauty and tactile elegance.

I have been playing piano for 11 years and I have to say I couldn't hope to come close to how beautifully you play. You have an astounding natural ability that I have never seen, you are phenomenal.

Great arrangement. Love getting the tingle when you hear truly great music.

Yes man, I totally agree with you. There aren't any decent covers of that song on RU-vid.

*"We drink to our youth, to the days come and gone, for the age of oppression is now nearly done. We'll drive out the Empire from this land that we own. With our blood and our steel we will take back our home. All hail to Ulfric, you are the high king. In your great honor we drink and we sing. We're the children of Skyrim and we fight all our lives, and when Sovrngard beckons, everyone of us dies. But this land is ours and we'll see it wiped clean of the scourge that has soiled our hopes and our dreams."*

Great performance! Also, the P-155 sounds beautiful here.

tu musica siempre me llena de alegria y me hace soñar...... gracias

thanks for watching everyone and for your great comments :)

I think this may be the most beautiful and inspiring thing I've ever heard

learning the notes is fairly easy for me as its not too advanced, so only a matter of hours to do that, if not minutes, depending on the difficulty/complexity overall. For example Ancient Stones took about 5 minutes to learn the notes and get to performance standard, the other part too longer to get to a performance standard but maybe just about a few days at most, the hard part for me is recording the music as I must practice the piece so much as to not make mistakes which is very tricky

This is really quite lovely. Thank you for sharing!

Yay! welcome back, we have missed your playing!

lol at 2:16 is sounds like he's about to play the X files theme xD. Anyway great video, u have more talent in one finger than I do in the arrow in my knee... :))

I started playing it yeah recently, bit too addictive though, its a real mind f**k thinking about the endless possibilities there are in the game on the whole, I literally dont know which way to turn in it, far too much choice for my liking :)

You should do the bard-song "Tale of the Tongues", easily the best song of the bunch. I remember after I defeated Alduin, I headed back to town to sell my stuff and stopped by the tavern, and I heard the bard playing this song, it was the first time I heard it and so I was like "woo! I unlocked a song!", before I knew it I stood there for about 3 whole minutes listening to the bard singing the song, and I was just absolutely riveted. Sometimes, immersion works.

love how summer gives you time to learn new piano songs :)

the main motif of that piece is used several times throughout this medley, but not the whole piece because it didnt work with the rest of the arrangement.

I give you my standing applause for that ancient stones cover sir

Wonderful talent, really enjoy listening to this and other songs. Thanks for sharing.

Welcome back, Mark! Nice piece again as usual, ＜3 skyrim!

your music makes me want to become a better person

Dude, the end of this medley (the Ancient Stones part) is absolutely stunning. It's perfect.

You are God!! Wonderful!! I want to hear it, again and again

Excellent!! You have golden fingers!!

Such a beautiful music:) You know how to choose your pieces:)

Beautiful song. I recently bought a piano and see you playing songs like this and others makes me practice harder. I hope comes a day when I can play like you.

If you mean the Hanon exercises then that has all the technique lessons you need I think, Chopin etudes are good also for developing good technique and musicality. The Hanon is very difficult though towards the latter parts of the book and gets highly advanced/skilled.

Ancient Stones is my favourite song of the whole soundtrack. Thanks.

This is amazing... Also I'm super envious of this talent...

Your playing is incredible, keep the videos coming :)

hey I just wanted to say that your music is absolutely beautiful and you should keep doing what your doing because I literally could listen to this for hours on end so good job

Your version of these lesser known yet beautiful themes is excellent !

Awesome! You play so lovely!

Start by learning a song that doesn't have a very complex left-hand. The first song I learnt was "When the Saints". It only uses single noted chords C, F and G. It's quite simple.

its in G sharp minor/A flat Minor, its pretty much all black keys, hence why he wrote it in that key. B major/C flat is the relative, and the B is natural of course, but the C is flattened, B obviously, A and G are flattened, hang on...its 7 flats all together, or 5 sharps, yes.

The feelings are exaclty the same than when listening to the soundtrack, that's really awesome.. It feels a lot deeper too

EPIC ! Pure perfection !

Beautiful dude, keep up the good work

Absolutely beautiful!

Ancient Stones sounds so amazing. Could listen to it over and over again.

yamaha p-155 this one is, the best one is probably one of the more expensive ones, like the roland V-piano or yamaha CP-1, modelled, rather than sampled pianos.

Damn..his fingers r like magic! Loved it! :)

very sensitive, wonderfullly performed!

Your are so skilled! Great playing! Keep it on this way! :)

I shit in my fucking life, this is fucking EPIC! LOVE THIS PART 2:00

Awesome! Worthy of Skyrim

this is the yamaha p-155 and its very good value for money, sounds just as good as far more expensive pianos I have owned, still pondering on whether to buy roland hp507 as well so I have 2 pianos, the p-155 was only meant for gigging purposes. Its almost impossible to say which brand of piano is better, yamaha sounds great for certain pieces/styles of music, and roland does also, but they sound very different, yamaha is brighter, roland more mellow and with more pronounced bass

I am learning loads of new stuff all the time, everyday I learn something new.... my mind is like a sponge full of notes of music that I want to paint onto the piano....whatever that means lol

You sir, have the magic touch when it comes to music!! Keep going!!

Wow. Absolutely fantastic Mark! In every single way, worth the wait. :D

You know, every 3 or 4 weeks I come back to see if you've uploaded a new video. I listen to it, feel inspired and sit there for the next hour clicking the repeat button. You've made my day so many times. Thank You

Love all your work thank you so much for these beautiful piano covers

Completely blown away.

You earned a sub. great job. You are a inspiration to me and all of your subs.

really really really good : ) ancient stone is so epic

Every day I come here. Best cover ever

Beautiful stuff man!

You deserve more views mate. Seriously.

Bellissimo brano.Bravo. Mario.

Each time I listen the second part, I think "How wonderfull could be a Trine's Song played by this guy..." . I really hope hear one from you, someday. I love your work.

Even though I don't play Skyrim, I find the melody very beautiful and very pleasing to hear... Nice work!

The end of the age of oppression sounded like pirates of the caribbean.

Ummm, you are a god, the way you play this is beyond lovely, technically very-very sound, like wow. That intro/section 1, was beautiful! Errr, music sheets; would that be a possibility? Just wondering.

Wonderfull playing :)

Amazing... Speechless

I've found that thinking of a story works really well when trying to come up with a melody of my own. Just think of a story you want to tell and then think of the music that either goes with it or even tells the story itself in a sense. I'm not very good at composing music, but this way I've had many ideas for melodies, it works really well :)

ULFRIC THE EPIC

Amazing as usual Mark :)

24 people can't comprehend the dream they may have had of even playing this beautifully ;) Amazing

best ancient stones piano cover, subscribed

YOU ARE AWESOME! you have given me motivation to take piano lessons.

You make some of the most amazing covers I have ever heard

Best version of Ancient stones! well played!

Listening to this just made my night. :)

just 160000 views and so much skyrim lovers

Amazing as always.

Very Good!!!

I love this! I wish many people could see your amazing talent! Keep up the amazing work!

Those are some fantastic songs and plus, you're a fantastic piano player. :)

simply amazing

Awesome!

Skyrim; epic the first few minutes of playing (if you've already played before) because of the epic soundtrack and good graphics then you get bored going into a cave every mission. *sigh* I still come crawling back to play after not playing for a year. :P