insaneintherainmusic | Pokémon DPPt: Snowpoint City Jazz Arrangement || insaneintherainmusic @insaneintherainmusic | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
This song's already so cool that there's almost Snowpoint of me making a jazz cover of it... Insaneintherainmusic's jazz cover / remix of Snowpoint City from Pokémon DPPt.
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Looks like I'm back to covering Gen 4 music, folks! This is a track that I've loved for quite a long time, but never really had a great idea for how to arrange it. I don't recall any particular "a-ha!" moment that inspired me to produce this video... but I'm so glad I did! I think this is one of my best mixes yet, and it's also my first video to feature me ACTUALLY playing the drumkit!
I've featured myself "playing" drum parts before in my videos, including Ghost Battle & Ashley's Theme. However, in those videos, I was basically just miming the parts on the kit for the sake of video footage. This drumkit (which is a Yamaha DTX522 that belonged to my friend Aldous) originally did not come with a module that supported USB to MIDI connectivity. I borrowed this kit from Aldous a year ago or so, and was disheartened by the fact that it didn't support this. Fast forward to about 2 weeks before releasing this video, and I ended up purchasing this kit from him, as well as a new drum module with USB to MIDI connectivity, and bam - drum parts. I'm so excited to further integrate this into my videos, and I'm so glad that I can FINALLY get some visual representation for the drum parts here! For those wondering, I've had quite a bit of experience on drumset before acquiring this one, so don't be fooled into thinking I learned to play drumset that easily - it's a complex instrument!
Regarding the arrangement, I was inspired by the likes of Snarky Puppy's "Culcha Vulcha" and Bill Laurance's record "Aftersun" to create a fusion-y, harmonically dense arrangement of this song. This was partially brought upon by the fact that I wasn't able to bring my electric bass home from college for winter break... so I decided to go with keybass on this one! I'm extremely happy with the sound palette that's presented in this cover, ranging from really cluster-y saxophone voicings to that synth solo. 4:11 features some constant structure harmony derived from some of the melody notes of the original tune.
Hope you guys enjoy this one!
♫ "Snowpoint City" from "Pokémon DPPt" composed by Hitomi Sato
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This song's already so cool that there's almost Snowpoint of me making a jazz cover of it... Insaneintherainmusic's jazz cover / remix of Snowpoint City from Pokémon DPPt.
🎵 Stream this track • • • album.link/us/i/1437905682
🎮 Watch more Pokémon covers • • • youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG5z-46tZguJBt0wl6fvX4r_63w2BsQE6
🎷 Subscribe • • • bit.ly/insanesubscribe
❤ Support my music on Patreon • • • bit.ly/supportinsane
🎼 Sheet Music • • • bit.ly/3mLR42J
Looks like I'm back to covering Gen 4 music, folks! This is a track that I've loved for quite a long time, but never really had a great idea for how to arrange it. I don't recall any particular "a-ha!" moment that inspired me to produce this video... but I'm so glad I did! I think this is one of my best mixes yet, and it's also my first video to feature me ACTUALLY playing the drumkit!
I've featured myself "playing" drum parts before in my videos, including Ghost Battle & Ashley's Theme. However, in those videos, I was basically just miming the parts on the kit for the sake of video footage. This drumkit (which is a Yamaha DTX522 that belonged to my friend Aldous) originally did not come with a module that supported USB to MIDI connectivity. I borrowed this kit from Aldous a year ago or so, and was disheartened by the fact that it didn't support this. Fast forward to about 2 weeks before releasing this video, and I ended up purchasing this kit from him, as well as a new drum module with USB to MIDI connectivity, and bam - drum parts. I'm so excited to further integrate this into my videos, and I'm so glad that I can FINALLY get some visual representation for the drum parts here! For those wondering, I've had quite a bit of experience on drumset before acquiring this one, so don't be fooled into thinking I learned to play drumset that easily - it's a complex instrument!
Regarding the arrangement, I was inspired by the likes of Snarky Puppy's "Culcha Vulcha" and Bill Laurance's record "Aftersun" to create a fusion-y, harmonically dense arrangement of this song. This was partially brought upon by the fact that I wasn't able to bring my electric bass home from college for winter break... so I decided to go with keybass on this one! I'm extremely happy with the sound palette that's presented in this cover, ranging from really cluster-y saxophone voicings to that synth solo. 4:11 features some constant structure harmony derived from some of the melody notes of the original tune.
Hope you guys enjoy this one!
♫ "Snowpoint City" from "Pokémon DPPt" composed by Hitomi Sato
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![Prelude to the Champion (Champion Cynthia) [Part II] Jazz Metal Arrangement (feat. TRG Musicians)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EifTshRh5zY/hqdefault.jpg "Prelude to the Champion (Champion Cynthia) [Part II] Jazz Metal Arrangement (feat. TRG Musicians)
To fight the Champion, youll probably want a team of 6 strong Pokémon. To play the Champions music... youll probably want a team of 6 amazing musicians, and thats exactly what this arrangement is!
Vocals - @adrisaurus
Alto Sax - @Sab Irene
Lead Guitar - @FamilyJules
Rhythm Guitar - @ToxicxEternity
Drums - @The8BitDrummer
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As I said in the video to Part I of Prelude to the Champion, Cynthia is my all-time favorite Pokémon Champion! She’s both mysterious, and a complete bad-ass - Part I was the mysterious and introspective depiction of Cynthia, so Part II is the bad-ass part! Cynthia is probably the most difficult Pokémon champion to face off against - lots of people mention their “PTSD” fighting Cynthia, and have horrific memories of her Garchomp, so I thought I’d reignite some of those feelings with this particular arrangement!
I initially arranged this crazy piece of music to perform with the Sinnoh Fusion Ensemble at PAX this year. I knew that Jules, Adri, and Sab would be in town for PAX, so I thought it’d be fun to write a piece of music that’s more in the vein of progressive metal, a style of music that I’m liking more and more and getting more knowledgable about! We debuted it live at PAX in February, and finally got together to record a YouTube version of the arrangement! This piece of music is ridiculously difficult to play, so I’m very fortunate to have friends who are willing to tolerate my insane part-writing, haha!
I’ve always liked how prog metal albums sometimes have tracks that flow into one each other on albums - sort of like how Beethoven’s 5th 3rd movement flows right into the 4th movement - that’s such a cool concept to me! I knew that I wanted to do something similar with the arrangement of Prelude to the Champion. Initially, I had planned to put both of these recordings in the same video, but I soon realized that the styles of music presented here are so drastically different that I don’t think it would have made sense to combine both pieces into one video - at least! On the eventual Year of Sinnoh album, these songs will be separate tracks, but the audio will flow together seamlessly 🙂 I took a lot of influence from Dream Theater’s “Dance of Eternity” when writing this part, especially with some of the synth parts and time signature changes. One of the absolute silliest parts of this arrangement is at 1:08 - which is written in 21/8 time. Before you read that and freak out, let me explain - 21/8 is just 7/4 in triplets. In the same way that we use 12/8 to make reading groups of triplets in 4/4 easier, we can use 21/8 to make groups of triplets in 7/4 easier. 21/8 just looks really complicated, but it isn’t that bad, haha.
I want to thank all my wonderful musician friends who appear in this video once more for pulling off this ridiculous collab and arrangement with me! Especially in times like these, I’m very lucky to have all of them in my life :)
♫ Champion Cynthia from Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum composed by Go Ichinose
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