Hey guys, as much as I love my gaming, be it handheld or home console, I do have another serious passion in my life... playing guitar. I've been playing for nearly eight years now and rarely go a day without writing stuff or just jamming along to something. Anyway, I know there are loads of videos uploaded to Youtube featuring people playing the theme to Super Mario Bros in some form, so one Sunday afternoon a few month back I decided to try my own hand at it. I wanted to make it a bit more specific to me as a guitarist so as you'll see, it's the Mario theme with a 'little more OTT'. I'm a big fan of the 80's rock music scene so maybe you'll hear that influence (maybe not). Anyway, sorry for babbling on (I get like that a lot). Any opinions, good and bad of course, are very much appreciated. Just a side not... the overall sound quality seemed to suffer a little once I'd uploaded it to Youtube:
Somehow an underscore got in the URL so it's not showing up. I got to the video though, that's pretty badass... I'd vote it for Super Mario Galaxy 2 closing credits. BTW I'll take an MP3 if you've got one
That ... actually wasn't terrible. At all. You can shred and you know your instrument well. Good jorb.
Thanks a lot. It sounds kind of weird but up until recently I always held off 'shredding' as much as possible. I'm not sure about anywhere else but here in the UK at the minute it's all Indie music so whenever I had a gig with my old band (left them about a year ago) and I broke out into a crazy solo, people would just look at you weird then remind you it's not the eighties anymore. I do it a lot more though these days, and more people seem to appreciate it
Tell me about it, I've been refusing to pay attention to music channels/radio/the charts for about 7 years now. Gimme Megadeth over Owl City any day.
Yeah, indie's getting somewhat popular here, but Grizzly Bear is never gonna take over any of the Disney bots. You're freakin' dirty at guitar, though. It's ridiculous. I'm still going through my first Melbay book and it could not possibly be any more boring, but this is motivation.
Haha... absolutely true I actually had a debate with a customer at work the other day who was claiming that Kasabian were the greatest band we've produced since the early 70's... oh how I disagree. And believe it or not, I actually had an argument with a male member of staff over who was better between Guns N Roses (old school, not a big fan of 'Chinese...') and Beyonce...... f**king BEYONCE!!!
To be honest, I'm probably not the best example. I've never had a particularly long attention span when it comes to anything theory based. I had all the books and stuff back when I first started learning, but like you said, I just found it too boring. I tought myself the same way I think a lot of people do these days... just listening to songs over and over, attempting it myself and screwing up over and over until I got it
0:39 to 0:55 and 2:23 to 2:39 the best part IMHO, the theme was very clear. But the remix in general was too... don't know, loudly, dirty
Yes, thats where I have to hold my hands up. I have a severe love of 80's Sleaze Rock, so the whole 'dirty guitar' is a part of my style.
For some reason I just pictured you as Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future during his shred solo at the dance that left everyone with their mouths agape. I'm not much of a guitar person myself and don't listen to a whole lot of rock (at least, nothing newer than the 80s) but I can appreciate skill, and you have some. I kind of wouldn't mind learning myself, but I don't write enough music in which guitar would be appropriate. Still, there have been times when I've been working on something with some bite where I could really have used some nasty licks -- something I envision coming up again for some future game music at some point. (Nothing planned mind you but I just know it's going to happen; I always manage to write myself into situations where my vision exceeds my skills.)
Yeah, that guy is super talented. Have you seen his version of the Chocobo Theme from Final Fantasy? Love it.
I actually liked this remix quite alot, it sounds that you know your instrument very well, something that can't be said for me, and I'm supposed to be a musician *sigh*, big kudos, this made me really hyped for my work today!
