Halloween Playlist (Songs I know)

So now that Professor Johnson, Organ Donor AKA The Mad Organist is born..... Time to plan for next years playlist.

To be considered songs have to meet one of these criteria:

• Must be associated with Halloween 
• Must be spooky or dealing with death, funerals, monsters, vampires etc...
• Must be best known as a song played on the organ

  As I see it there are three categories of songs to play on the organ for Halloween..

1. I already know
2. I have the means to learn
3. I am still searching for a way to learn

Lets check out category 1, I already know:
  Haunted Mansion Foyer Music
  The Shining
  Dark Shadows
  Tales From The Crypt
  Phantom of the Opera

Not a bad list to begin with.

Now let's check out category 2, have the means to learn. First I'll define "means to learn". First off I can't read sheet music. 

One way I have learned these songs is through "How to play ****" postings on YouTube. These are basically someone playing the song on a piano or organ with a camera pointed down on their hands. 

Here is what I looked at to learn my Category 1 songs:

How to Play Haunted Mansion  

[How to play] Haunted Mansion

How to play The Shining

Tales From The Crypt (scary part at the end) 

Phantom of the Opera (EASY VERSION)

Phantom of the opera
EAE GFF DGD E
EAE GFF DGD E
ACE DDD GDE
EAG FED CBA G#
FF EE

How to play Phantom of the Opera [Piano Hero] 

Another way I have learned is to find a midi file of the song I want, then play it through Synthesia.

Synthesia on YouTube

Synthesia, Piano for Everyone Website 

A great source for MIDI files is Omar's Haunted Trail.

Here is the MIDI for Dark Shadows I used to learn that song:

Dark Shadows-1.mid  

Next time, my Category 2 songs. That's it for tonight from 1313 El Potro.