![Rogueport: Paper Mario & the Thousand Year Door [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene @SabIrene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uj--yn1iHmY/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's my jazz tenor saxophone fusion cover of Rogueport from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door! I'm Sab and I love jazz and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
I've wanted to do this tune since 2014 and I'm glad I finally did it. I was supposed to do a collaboration with someone, but we need a bit more time for it, so Rogueport was born.
The interesting thing about this cover was that I did everything minus final mixing and rendering in 60 hours. I wrote the arrangement, sent it to insaneintherain to do drums, programmed bass, did all the vocal parts, saxophone parts, and piano parts in just 60 hours. And the preliminary mixing and video editing.
I had to cram in the cover before I went off to school and I'm glad I did because this first week has been so flipping hectic. I've had so much stuff going and it's been pretty crazy.
I really love the style of the original and Carlos did a great job preserving it, but also making it more lively! The choir layers may become a regular part of covers now! They add a nice texture and tone. I love the ambiance they give in that modal piano section.
Modal stuff is so challenging, but it's really growing on me and really challenging me when it comes to improvisation.
This was a really fun tune to play overall and hopefully more Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door in the future! It's one of my favorite games and I love the music from it so much!
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Here's my jazz tenor saxophone fusion cover of Rogueport from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door! I'm Sab and I love jazz and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
I've wanted to do this tune since 2014 and I'm glad I finally did it. I was supposed to do a collaboration with someone, but we need a bit more time for it, so Rogueport was born.
The interesting thing about this cover was that I did everything minus final mixing and rendering in 60 hours. I wrote the arrangement, sent it to insaneintherain to do drums, programmed bass, did all the vocal parts, saxophone parts, and piano parts in just 60 hours. And the preliminary mixing and video editing.
I had to cram in the cover before I went off to school and I'm glad I did because this first week has been so flipping hectic. I've had so much stuff going and it's been pretty crazy.
I really love the style of the original and Carlos did a great job preserving it, but also making it more lively! The choir layers may become a regular part of covers now! They add a nice texture and tone. I love the ambiance they give in that modal piano section.
Modal stuff is so challenging, but it's really growing on me and really challenging me when it comes to improvisation.
This was a really fun tune to play overall and hopefully more Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door in the future! It's one of my favorite games and I love the music from it so much!
BUY MY CHRONO TRIGGER ALBUM, ADVENTURES THROUGH TIME HERE!
iTunes: goo.gl/rcvisN
Spotify: goo.gl/PbZ33q
Amazon:goo.gl/ZwY12M
Google Play: goo.gl/rorH6U
Support me on Patreon! patreon.com/sabirene
Where to find me:
Facebook: facebook.com/sabirenemusic
Twitter: twitter.com/sab_irene
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker
YouTube: youtube.com/user/sabrinascotti28
![Rogueport: Paper Mario & the Thousand Year Door [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uj--yn1iHmY/mqdefault.jpg "Rogueport: Paper Mario & the Thousand Year Door [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene
Heres my jazz tenor saxophone fusion cover of Rogueport from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door! Im Sab and I love jazz and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
Ive wanted to do this tune since 2014 and Im glad I finally did it. I was supposed to do a collaboration with someone, but we need a bit more time for it, so Rogueport was born.
The interesting thing about this cover was that I did everything minus final mixing and rendering in 60 hours. I wrote the arrangement, sent it to insaneintherain to do drums, programmed bass, did all the vocal parts, saxophone parts, and piano parts in just 60 hours. And the preliminary mixing and video editing.
I had to cram in the cover before I went off to school and Im glad I did because this first week has been so flipping hectic. Ive had so much stuff going and its been pretty crazy.
I really love the style of the original and Carlos did a great job preserving it, but also making it more lively! The choir layers may become a regular part of covers now! They add a nice texture and tone. I love the ambiance they give in that modal piano section.
Modal stuff is so challenging, but its really growing on me and really challenging me when it comes to improvisation.
This was a really fun tune to play overall and hopefully more Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door in the future! Its one of my favorite games and I love the music from it so much!
BUY MY CHRONO TRIGGER ALBUM, ADVENTURES THROUGH TIME HERE!
iTunes: http://www.goo.gl/rcvisN
Spotify: https://goo.gl/PbZ33q
Amazon:https://goo.gl/ZwY12M
Google Play: https://goo.gl/rorH6U
Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/sabirene
Where to find me:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabirenemusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sab_irene
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/sabrinascotti28")
![Route 225: Pokémon D/P/Pt [Jazz Combo] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VBrxcW6N9nA/mqdefault.jpg "Route 225: Pokémon D/P/Pt [Jazz Combo] | Sab Irene
Route 225: Pokémon D/P/Pt [Jazz Combo] | Sab Irene")
![Waterblight Ganon: Zelda Breath of the Wild [Saxophone Cover] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WZMzUk6JmGc/mqdefault.jpg "Waterblight Ganon: Zelda Breath of the Wild [Saxophone Cover] | Sab Irene
Heres my video game saxophone cover of Waterblight Ganon from Zelda Breath of the Wild! Im Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
This cover was so much fun to put together. Breath of the Wild is one of my favorite games and OST is so freaking amazing!
Waterblight Ganon is one of my favorites even though it took me about 11 tries or so to beat Waterblight Ganon and it was my first Divine Beast in the game.
Ive wanted to do this cover for awhile, but always thought it was too difficult and I also didnt really know how to approach this cover.
One day a few weeks ago I decided I was just gonna do it, and Im really glad I did! This has to be one of my favorite covers on the channel! And the soprano playing shocked me since Ive only been playing soprano sax about 3 months and I mostly play it for my saxophone quartet.
This cover was fairly straightforward to arrange and record. I did most of the recording in one day somehow, but the real challenge was mixing this because there were so many layers that overlapped.
I really wanted to capture elements of the original, but make it my own. The song kind of sits on one chord, so a solo wasnt looking to optimal, so I figured it would be cool to have an extended choir part that had elements of Ganons Theme used throughout the Zelda series, even using the theme itself at the end.
I hope you enjoy this Waterblight Ganon saxophone cover!
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iTunes: http://www.goo.gl/rcvisN
Spotify: https://goo.gl/PbZ33q
Amazon:https://goo.gl/ZwY12M
Google Play: https://goo.gl/rorH6U
Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/sabirene
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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/sabrinascotti28")
![Grey Shade of Blue: Vocal [Original] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YAoB_O7DLKo/mqdefault.jpg "Grey Shade of Blue: Vocal [Original] | Sab Irene
Heres my video game vocal composition, Grey Shade of Blue! Im Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make compositions that combine two of my favorite things!
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COMING SOON!
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Another composition done down to the wire! Last week I was working on something completely different, but realized I needed more time for it. And I thought about what to do next. I realized I’ve never really written a vocal tune about myself in all my years of composing and writing after talking with a student about their songwriting. Most lyrical tracks I write are about nature and how I feel about it, but not myself or how I feel in general. I think it’s an easy thing to avoid because it can feel incredibly scary to be vulnerable or just feel too cliche writing about certain emotions and experiences.
One thing I feel like everyone has felt, especially myself, is feeling grey. Where the world kind of washes over you and people or things that you make you feel any positive emotion, do nothing for you in this state. To me, it’s like a form of sadness or depression, but there’s a numbness to it. And it sucks, when you feel grey and can’t really pinpoint why and you don’t know how to get out of it. That’s what this song really speaks to. To capture the essence of this grey feeling and this longing to break out of it.
I wanted to keep it very simple and exposed, as expressing your emotions can be very personal and raw. The mix was definitely a challenge because there were so few layers. I had to think about how to make the the piano and vocals feel very full, but without being too boomy or too loud in general. It becomes a very delicate balance, and one I’ll continue to work on as time goes on. There was a lot of automating FX for each section since my voice and the piano needed to function in such different ways.
As for the video, I wanted to do various angles of the vocals to give more variation as it’s just voice and piano. I didn’t want to do plain black and white for this since the track is called Grey Shade of Blue. So I finally got to try a technique I’ve seen a lot of over the years, but never tried myself, which was a color accent! I have a blue dress that was the perfect shade to compliment the otherwise monochromatic palette of the video.
A huge thank you to KevinKrust for his help tightening up the lyrics and the mix!
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Google Play: https://goo.gl/rorH6U
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🎶 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sabirene
📖 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabirenemusic
☁️ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker")
![Virbank City: Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 [Jazz Cover] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZGqE3KfzunM/mqdefault.jpg "Virbank City: Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 [Jazz Cover] | Sab Irene
Heres my video game saxophone cover of Virbank City from Pokémon Black 2 & White 2! Im Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
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https://song.link/vV0bTpc3gprbK
Ive really been enjoying playing Pokémon White 2 on stream the past month! Its one of the few main series games I havent played yet, which is really a shame. BECAUSE THE MUSIC IN THE GAME IS AWESOME! This is probably the first of many Gen 5 Pokémon cover to come in the next few months as I playthrough the game on Twitch! (which you should check out 👀 ) twitch.tv/sab_irene
For this arrangement, it started while the song was fresh in my head, and I just recorded myself jamming on it. I loved how it sounded so much, I wrote out the sheet music to my recording and made it a full cover! I started with just piano and vocals, but knew I wanted to make it a chill jazz combo vibe. A lot of the vocal layers were just added as I was bringing the arrangement to life. As for the sax soli, it was originally a vocal solo I made up, but I thought it would be fun to turn it into a sax soli!
For the video, I wanted to keep it pretty simple. Virbank City has a bit of grimey, dark aesthetic to it in the game. So I wanted to channel those colors and lighting into the video. And since the gym leader is a musician who plays in a dive bar, I thought the flannel fit the vibe too. Im having fun making the filming and video editing more personal to the specific video! Its been a lot of fun to figure out how I can transport you to the area visually!
I would say the biggest challenge was definitely the mix, but Im ultimately happy with it! More of mixing time now is spent on refining the FX I use rather than balancing the levels. I feel like Ive come a long way with my mixes. Im enjoying learning the nuances of mixing and how I can achieve specific sounds! It really is amazing!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chill jazz cover of #VirbankCity from #PokémonBlackWhite2 done by #SabIrene
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Spotify: https://goo.gl/PbZ33q
Amazon:https://goo.gl/ZwY12M
Google Play: https://goo.gl/rorH6U
👀 Where to find me:
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sab_irene
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☁️ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker")
![Terras Theme: Final Fantasy VI [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_13ZPgsxq0o/mqdefault.jpg "Terras Theme: Final Fantasy VI [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene
Terras Theme: Final Fantasy VI [Tenor Sax Cover] | Sab Irene")
![Vernal Wandering~ 🌸✨ Digital Fusion Waltz [Original] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aCTdS87-U1M/mqdefault.jpg "Vernal Wandering~ 🌸✨ Digital Fusion Waltz [Original] | Sab Irene
Vernal Wandering~ 🌸✨ Digital Fusion Waltz [Original] | Sab Irene")
![I Dont Want To Say Goodbye: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time [Vocal Cover] | Sab Irene](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aGc9bbrFUc4/mqdefault.jpg "I Dont Want To Say Goodbye: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time [Vocal Cover] | Sab Irene
Heres my video game vocal cover of I Dont Want To Say Goodbye from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time! Im Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
So this is definitely different than what I normally do haha! Pokémon Mystery Dungeon was a huge part of my childhood. I am so excited for the rerelease on Switch in just a few weeks!
I didnt finish Explorers of Time until my first or second year of college though. I started when it came out and just gave up after awhile. But I went back to it and super glad I finished it! The song made me cry quite a lot when I first heard it in game. It holds a special place in my heart.
This cover came together in about 3 days, which is surprising haha! I was playing it at the piano and just started singing what came to my head. I really took the idea and ran with it haha! I had some saxophone parts written out, but I prefer how it sounded without them.
I was largely inspired by my friend, VGR for this cover. He released a remix of this a few months back and I loved it! It was a really chill remix, but still very emotional, which is what I was going for. I was also inspired by my friend Zabrina Hay who is a phenomenal musician Ive known in Boston for awhile. She always makes such beautifully layered music really showcasing everything she can do. I cannot thank them both enough for being wonderful inspirations!
Lastly, theres been a lot of stuff going, mostly just being busy with balancing everything in my life. Student teaching, college, YouTube, private teaching, and just being a person. Sometime it sucks when I cant be there for the people I care about because of work, obligations, and distance. And even though I cant always BE THERE, the people I care about are always in my thoughts.
💜 Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/sabirene
💿 🎵 BUY MY CHRONO TRIGGER ALBUM, ADVENTURES THROUGH TIME HERE!
iTunes: http://www.goo.gl/rcvisN
Spotify: https://goo.gl/PbZ33q
Amazon:https://goo.gl/ZwY12M
Google Play: https://goo.gl/rorH6U
👀 Where to find me:
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sab_irene
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☁️ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/woodwind_waker")
