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This kind of thing is one of the reasons I wrote the text export for the latest version of Famitracker. It should make it easier to write simple tools to convert Famitracker music data into some other format (e.g. FTM to DFM).

Scales and keys aren't the same thing, and there's no natural need for a chord progression to fit a particular known scale. For the most part, scales are things that result from common harmonic/melodic practices. At least, how they came to be. Obviously you can construct any scale you want and play with it to see what kind of sounds it makes, but there's no need to pick a particular scale, a-priori.

This kind of progression would usually imply that the C major is the tonic key, I think, but it could be otherwise due to emphasis. Someone mentioned Freebird, and that's a good thing to look at for comparison, though Freebird would actually start with G minor rather than major. Blues playing often makes a lot of expression out of bending/stepping chromatically from the B-flat to natural anyway, so sometimes whether it's G minor or major mighty be a little bit moot. The Freebird solo, in this key, is strongly centred around the pentatonic notes G B-flat C D F, with a bit of A and E in there, and sometimes B-flat becomes B as I was saying.

There's other things you could do with this progression completely unrelated to blues. Also, don't be afraid to stick  one half of a chord progression in a completely different scale than the other half. You can get a lot of mileage out of trying to stay in a diatonic scale that contains all the notes in the current chord, and changing to other diatonic scales as minimally as needed to contain the chord as you go along.

Make really good music.

I think Mozart was cool, but there's nothing of his that is a big favourite of mine. There are some amazing moments in his work, like the opening to String Quartet 19, but I dunno, he never made it to my top 5, y'know?

Yes, every composer used in Classic Chips is long dead.

What do you use to play NSFs on your NES?

If it's the PowerPak, it has no automated way to continue to the next NSF track. Whether you skip back to the menu to select the next NSF or skip to the next track you still have to interact with the NES, and it's really just 3 button presses vs 1 if you've got your tracks lined up in a folder.

The reason zzo38's tool doesn't support all the expansions is because he has to use the FDS expansion memory as a hack to override the bank-switching code. This wasn't a matter of needing more time to work out the problem, this is a fundamental conflict in the hardware. Enabling FDS makes memory areas writable that normally aren't, which actually end up corrupting the NSF code/data in most NSF players. NSFPlay is an exception, as it guards against this problem in the case of multi-expansion including FDS. However, in order to get this to work on the PowerPak you would have to rewrite its NSF mapper (which has not been open-sourced, by the way, so you'd be starting from scratch).

Though, you can try it with other expansions anyway, and see if you get lucky (maybe the corrupted bytes won't end up screwing up your song). Does the tool actually prevent you from using them, or is there just a warning against other expansions? If it does prevent you, it'd be very simple to hex edit the NSF to fool the tool.

Here's the complete soundtrack recorded from my Famicom:

http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/lagr … nt_ref.zip