What issues were you having with the music tut? Maybe we can help you understand it better if you are serious about learning music hacking. As for doing the song via MML, looking and listening to it from some midis, there's a lot going on it would be nigh impossible to get it to sound as it should due to that limitations of the sound engine, it would have to be greatly watered down.
We are born, live, die and then do the same thing over again.