The first thing I want to say here is - I LOVE John Williams. The majesty of his soundtracks are one of the only things upon which the entire Star Wars fandom seems to agree, and the music has always been a prominent part of each film’s emotional journey.

But because of this, a lot of fan editors, including myself, have run into an issue in which making even a minor change to a scene will completely throw off the timing of the music. In addition, broader edits which reduce the screen time of certain characters or locations sometimes result in certain musical motifs seemingly going to waste.

But if we were able to alter a film’s music without removing any of the overlying sound, then we could edit the movie and the score independently and not have to make such compromises.

This has already been done to many scenes - some having had their SFX tracks be partially released on the “Star Wars Soundboard” flash game, and others having been reconstructed from scratch by fans for one reason or another.

I’m creating this thread so that all of these edits can hopefully be found in one place, starting with everything I’ve found so far:

If you’re creating a fan edit and you decide make a “no music” version of a scene, please consider posting it here so that other fan editors won’t have to make their own if they ever decide to do the same.

Also, I spent a while looking and couldn’t find one, but if there’s already a thread like this please tell me and I’ll move there.