Since the beginning of The Piano Guys, ''Lord of the Rings'' has been our most requested work. As we reach one million subscribers we thought it fitting to dedicate this arrangement to our ''subs.'' This was an intimidating project -- encompassing the power and the beauty of the many musical themes throughout the movies; capturing the emotion and the ''epic'' nature of the story; and all with a few cellos, a piano, and a couple Canon 5D Mark IIs. We normally write our tunes during intense compositional binges -- the bulk of our songs have been written within the period of a few days. This one was different. It was a drawn-out process during which we studied the music of The Lord of Rings, contemplated what themes to incorporate, how they could tell the story by flowing from one to the other. We also spent a lot of time finding new ways to imitate instruments from various sections of the orchestra using Steve's cellos -- from the brass section through the woodwind section to the percuss
