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The Jazz Video Game Medley comes to a fiery conclusion with the its last movement, paying tribute to some of the baddest bosses and battle themes in gaming! Jazz metal, anyone?
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Hoo boy, it feels pretty crazy to say that this suite is finished! I’m still so grateful to everyone involved who helped create this awesome series of videos. I can’t wait to make more big projects like this again! I’ve certainly learned a lot about myself through completing this project, both as an arranger and a person, and I think I’ve definitely grown, which is what I’m always striving to do with my channel.
This particular movement pays tribute to numerous wonderful battle and boss themes in video game music! This was actually the first movement I arranged, with Movement I being second, and Movement II being the last! In retrospect, the various themes of each movement sort of parallel with the various triforces! Movement I was courage, Movement II wisdom, and Movement III power. To top it all off, they were color coded appropriately!
During my time at Berklee, I’ve played in various recitals and ensembles. Of these recitals was my friend Yusuf’s (drummer and timpanist in this movement) senior recital, which was an awesome jazz + metal fusion. I decided to take inspiration from the jazz metal idea, and use that idea to create a menacing, dirty big band + strings arrangement. I am super happy with how it turned out. Some of the textures here are just so much better than I could have imagined during the time of arranging, including the big brass swell before the Pokémon Battle Theme kicks in, the trumpets growling into plunger mutes, and the juxtaposition of MEGALOVANIA and Gangplank Galleon! Again, I’m so glad that I was able to have so many live musicians join me for this project, as they really brought the music to life.
Now that the Jazz Video Game Medley is complete, I have a few more things to upload that are related to it! One of these will be a single video that has all three movements stitched together, with sheet music being displayed on screen. I’ll also be releasing a behind the scenes video showing different things that went into the process of creating this! Hope you’re all looking forward to it!
BIG BAND
Alto Sax 1 (Solo): Carla Restivo
Alto Sax 2 (Solo): Kenton Dick
Tenor Sax 1: Simon Breedlove
Tenor Sax 2: Maurice Soque
Baritone Sax: Roberto Prado
Trumpet 1: Lachie Day
Trumpet 2: Richard Stanmeyer
Trumpet 3: Jeremy Alvarez
Trumpet 4: Bastien Rieser
Trombone 1: Max Acree
Trombone 2: Auden Durant
Trombone 3: Ian Lazan
Bass Trombone: Ethan Santos
Tuba: Ryan Milford
Lead Guitar (Solo): Spiro Dussias
Rhythm Guitar: Joel Kent
Piano: Jon Sullivan
Bass: Devlin McDermott
Drums: Yusuf Roshd
Timpani: Yusuf Roshd
ORCHESTRAL WOODWINDS
Flute: Kristalis Sotomayor, Tomasso Annoni
Oboe: Brittany McCorriston
Clarinet: Laura Cuartas, Chris Chun
STRINGS
Violin (Solo): Emily Gelineau
Violin I: Jody Miller*, Brian Urra, Tania Mesa, Dana Zulpyharova
Violin II: Nisa Taufik*, Claudius Agrippa, Bengisu Gokce
Viola: Cecilia Cook*, Mels Wynne, Cecilia Vacanti
Cello: SungHa Hong*, Casey Murray, Caitlin Thomas
Double Bass: Will Figler
TECH
Head Engineers: Cristobal Cruz Garcia, Gustaf Claesson, Hayden Ticehurst
Assistant Engineers: Emanuel Keller, Heeyeon Ko, Ben Fox, Tristan Maxwell Grazier, Aleksi Godard, Ivan Cheung, Alejandro Haddock, Robert Mantz, Chengcheng Tang
Booth Reader: Sabrina Scotti & Nicoletta Nomicou
Mix: Carlos Eiene
Mastering: Cristobal Cruz Garcia
Cinematography & Lighting: Peter Xiong & Mike Koch
Video Editing: Carlos Eiene
Recorded and Filmed in the Berklee College of Music’s Shames Family Scoring Studio and Production Suites
This is a non-commercial project. No revenue is generated from this video.
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The Jazz Video Game Medley comes to a fiery conclusion with the its last movement, paying tribute to some of the baddest bosses and battle themes in gaming! Jazz metal, anyone?
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Hoo boy, it feels pretty crazy to say that this suite is finished! I’m still so grateful to everyone involved who helped create this awesome series of videos. I can’t wait to make more big projects like this again! I’ve certainly learned a lot about myself through completing this project, both as an arranger and a person, and I think I’ve definitely grown, which is what I’m always striving to do with my channel.
This particular movement pays tribute to numerous wonderful battle and boss themes in video game music! This was actually the first movement I arranged, with Movement I being second, and Movement II being the last! In retrospect, the various themes of each movement sort of parallel with the various triforces! Movement I was courage, Movement II wisdom, and Movement III power. To top it all off, they were color coded appropriately!
During my time at Berklee, I’ve played in various recitals and ensembles. Of these recitals was my friend Yusuf’s (drummer and timpanist in this movement) senior recital, which was an awesome jazz + metal fusion. I decided to take inspiration from the jazz metal idea, and use that idea to create a menacing, dirty big band + strings arrangement. I am super happy with how it turned out. Some of the textures here are just so much better than I could have imagined during the time of arranging, including the big brass swell before the Pokémon Battle Theme kicks in, the trumpets growling into plunger mutes, and the juxtaposition of MEGALOVANIA and Gangplank Galleon! Again, I’m so glad that I was able to have so many live musicians join me for this project, as they really brought the music to life.
Now that the Jazz Video Game Medley is complete, I have a few more things to upload that are related to it! One of these will be a single video that has all three movements stitched together, with sheet music being displayed on screen. I’ll also be releasing a behind the scenes video showing different things that went into the process of creating this! Hope you’re all looking forward to it!
BIG BAND
Alto Sax 1 (Solo): Carla Restivo
Alto Sax 2 (Solo): Kenton Dick
Tenor Sax 1: Simon Breedlove
Tenor Sax 2: Maurice Soque
Baritone Sax: Roberto Prado
Trumpet 1: Lachie Day
Trumpet 2: Richard Stanmeyer
Trumpet 3: Jeremy Alvarez
Trumpet 4: Bastien Rieser
Trombone 1: Max Acree
Trombone 2: Auden Durant
Trombone 3: Ian Lazan
Bass Trombone: Ethan Santos
Tuba: Ryan Milford
Lead Guitar (Solo): Spiro Dussias
Rhythm Guitar: Joel Kent
Piano: Jon Sullivan
Bass: Devlin McDermott
Drums: Yusuf Roshd
Timpani: Yusuf Roshd
ORCHESTRAL WOODWINDS
Flute: Kristalis Sotomayor, Tomasso Annoni
Oboe: Brittany McCorriston
Clarinet: Laura Cuartas, Chris Chun
STRINGS
Violin (Solo): Emily Gelineau
Violin I: Jody Miller*, Brian Urra, Tania Mesa, Dana Zulpyharova
Violin II: Nisa Taufik*, Claudius Agrippa, Bengisu Gokce
Viola: Cecilia Cook*, Mels Wynne, Cecilia Vacanti
Cello: SungHa Hong*, Casey Murray, Caitlin Thomas
Double Bass: Will Figler
TECH
Head Engineers: Cristobal Cruz Garcia, Gustaf Claesson, Hayden Ticehurst
Assistant Engineers: Emanuel Keller, Heeyeon Ko, Ben Fox, Tristan Maxwell Grazier, Aleksi Godard, Ivan Cheung, Alejandro Haddock, Robert Mantz, Chengcheng Tang
Booth Reader: Sabrina Scotti & Nicoletta Nomicou
Mix: Carlos Eiene
Mastering: Cristobal Cruz Garcia
Cinematography & Lighting: Peter Xiong & Mike Koch
Video Editing: Carlos Eiene
Recorded and Filmed in the Berklee College of Music’s Shames Family Scoring Studio and Production Suites
This is a non-commercial project. No revenue is generated from this video.
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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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