insaneintherainmusic | Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64) Jazz Arrangement @insaneintherainmusic | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Can any video game music cover artist do Dire, Dire Docks too many times? I don't think so! Oh also, I got a soprano sax.
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I love Dire, Dire Docks! In my first year of making music videos, I recorded a piano and soprano sax version of Dire, Dire Docks, using a soprano sax that I borrowed from a friend at my high school. I also arranged a version of Dire, Dire Docks for the Mulitplayer II Charity Album that I participated in back in 2016. If my new trend is making a cover of Dire, Dire Docks every 4 or 5 years, I guess that means I'm due for another one come 2025 - 2026 :)
Since then, I've never had the chance to play soprano sax... until now! I decided to complete my saxophone family (the 4 most common ones, at least) with a soprano sax! This is a Yamaha Custom Z, and oh my goodness, does it play well. Pretty much all saxes have intonation issues (soprano sax especially), but this one manages to play pretty well! Really looking forward to using it more in the future, possibly for some sax quartet stuff!
Dire, Dire Docks is such a beautiful melody. It's one of my go-to melodies when I sit down at a new piano I haven't played before, just because the melody is so great, and the harmony has just the right amount of lushness to it! I took it up a notch with this arrangement, adding a decent bit of reharm and meter changes, nothing too crazy, though! The duet combination of soprano sax and flugelhorn was a really interesting one to try (somewhat inspired by Quincy Jone's big band tune "Grace"), and I think it worked out super well in this mix! I am also SUPER happy with the piano and drum sounds in this mix - I used some mics I already had in some different ways on the piano and the drum overheads, and MAN they added so much! This is definitely one of my favorite-sounding arrangements I've produced, for sure!
Hope you enjoy! As a reminder, I'm still uploading every other week from now on. This gives me more time to work on outside business (of which I have a good amount of currently), and work towards cool opportunities for the channel... one of which you'll see in the next video!
♫ "Dire, Dire Docks" composed by Koji Kondo
Mix by @JuliaHenderson
Video Edit by Pete Giltette twitter.com/djSteamyPete
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Can any video game music cover artist do Dire, Dire Docks too many times? I don't think so! Oh also, I got a soprano sax.
Stream this track • • • song.link/us/i/1560886511
Sheet Music • • • bit.ly/3GS8AdH
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insaneintherainmusic Signature SYOS Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece (Use discount code "INSANESYOS" for $10 off!) • • •syos.co/en/artists/carlos-eiene
I love Dire, Dire Docks! In my first year of making music videos, I recorded a piano and soprano sax version of Dire, Dire Docks, using a soprano sax that I borrowed from a friend at my high school. I also arranged a version of Dire, Dire Docks for the Mulitplayer II Charity Album that I participated in back in 2016. If my new trend is making a cover of Dire, Dire Docks every 4 or 5 years, I guess that means I'm due for another one come 2025 - 2026 :)
Since then, I've never had the chance to play soprano sax... until now! I decided to complete my saxophone family (the 4 most common ones, at least) with a soprano sax! This is a Yamaha Custom Z, and oh my goodness, does it play well. Pretty much all saxes have intonation issues (soprano sax especially), but this one manages to play pretty well! Really looking forward to using it more in the future, possibly for some sax quartet stuff!
Dire, Dire Docks is such a beautiful melody. It's one of my go-to melodies when I sit down at a new piano I haven't played before, just because the melody is so great, and the harmony has just the right amount of lushness to it! I took it up a notch with this arrangement, adding a decent bit of reharm and meter changes, nothing too crazy, though! The duet combination of soprano sax and flugelhorn was a really interesting one to try (somewhat inspired by Quincy Jone's big band tune "Grace"), and I think it worked out super well in this mix! I am also SUPER happy with the piano and drum sounds in this mix - I used some mics I already had in some different ways on the piano and the drum overheads, and MAN they added so much! This is definitely one of my favorite-sounding arrangements I've produced, for sure!
Hope you enjoy! As a reminder, I'm still uploading every other week from now on. This gives me more time to work on outside business (of which I have a good amount of currently), and work towards cool opportunities for the channel... one of which you'll see in the next video!
♫ "Dire, Dire Docks" composed by Koji Kondo
Mix by @JuliaHenderson
Video Edit by Pete Giltette twitter.com/djSteamyPete
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![Route 113 Jazz Cover (Pokémon Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald) [2021 Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NzS4FC9Ofzk/hqdefault.jpg "Route 113 Jazz Cover (Pokémon Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald) [2021 Version]
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Ive spent a whole year and some change covering Gen 4 Pokémon music... so why not spend a little bit of time with Gen 3? For those of you who dont know, I released an album WAY back in 2014 called Back To Your Littleroots. It was my first ever video game music arrangement album, and started my trend of creating Pokémon-themed video game arrangement albums! I think it goes without saying that my music-making abilities in 2014 were WAY different than what theyve turned into today in 2021, so I thought itd be fun to revisit one of my favorite tunes from Gen 3, and see how my interpretation of it has changed... 7 years later. In the grand scheme of things, 7 years isnt a lot of time, but for me, it feels like forever. I was in high school when I covered this for the first time!
With live music returning to a fuller extent across the United States, I recently had the opportunity to see Herbie Hancock perform here in Seattle, and seeing that show really reminded me just how much I love jazz and his particular style of music! I like music from a lot of different styles, of course, but theres something special about small jazz ensembles going at it and playing a tune together, and that inspired me to arrange this song in this way. There are times when the musical situation calls for a full expanded orchestration, and I think this is not one of those situations, so it was nice to just record some sax, piano, bass, and drums for this. I really dig how groups like the Yellowjackets use synthesizers along the typical piano sound - the long intro in this arrangement wouldnt be nearly as cool without that fluffy pad behind the piano sound :)
Hope you all enjoy this! Will probably be uploading some Deltarune covers soon after this one - Ive had a lot of stuff going on lately, but I feel like Im moving in a positive direction, and thats always a good thing :)
♫ Route 113 composed by Go Ichinose
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