Thank you! Was sat for ages trying to place the reference. Was so much in a jazz muso mindset that I totally missed the best reference source material: memes.
When you think about it, there was really no other option. I was actually thinking he should do that before he started the clip, and ten seconds later, there it was.
Is bar 4 (including upbeat) of the soli a foreshadowing of the reference? I almost thought that that was the entire reference on first listen (would've been very subtle) before I heard the actual thing
It blew me away too! I’ve been listening to them for like 3 years now after my friend got a random video of Casiopea’s self titled album got recommended to him while we were in class together. I’ve been absolutely hooked since. Seeing this *seemingly* obscure band get put in a video like this blows me away. Im very happy for them to get more recognition
@@WyattJBowie as far as i know, casiopea is one of the bigger names in jazz fusion! at least, online, 'cause i hear their name brought up a pleasantly surprising amount of times. i also specifically like how the track inspired 8-bit was _space road_ which i found very cute.
If memory serves, it was the Chrono Trigger video about non-functional harmony, specifically the section talking about Secrets of the Forest? (That last part, I'm not sure of.)
Hearing the Casiopea lick reminded me of a few jams by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, like Vix 9, that make me wonder if Bela and the gang were also inspired.
My college teachers always said "good artists innovate, great artists steal" Probably a quote stolen from someone else, stolen from someone else, stolen from someone else....
Haha yeah, I should have said in Koji Kondo style - kidding of course ;-). I would love to hear what kind of video game compositions 8 bit would come up with though! Love this album
So happy to see you mention Casiopea! They actually only play that solo in live versions of Space Road after 1982 of which there are many uploaded on youtube
I was just getting halfway through transcribing the cool unison line and you go and release this video with sheet music and all lmao. I love the entire album and this song in particular has been on repeat since it came out. You did a great job arranging all of these iconic songs! (also, turns out I had gotten the harmony way wrong lmao)
I can't believe this is coming out of Winnipeg! Love seeing my home town representation, especially love seeing folk who are in circles i frequent when I return to visit.
appropriate that you took inspiration from Space Road for your arrangement of Rainbow Road great tune, one of my favorite off the album and i'm super pumped to get a peek into your thought process. great video!
Loved your album! What an age we're living to get professional level jazz arrangements of classic video game tunes. Gone are the days when the only source were midis on VGMusic :D
I love seeing 12 bar blues done in such a unique style! My mind was blown watching Steely Dan do basically the same thing 8bit did in taking blues and switching up chords to make it a unique, personalized sound. This is the standard that all musicians should be reaching. Great job dude!
Rainbow Road was begging for a jazz composition and you did it fabulously. So cool to see the behind the scenes. That rendition of moon river is wild btw.
Recipe for for a Jazzy Rainbow Road: 2 parts 8-bit Music Theory 1 part inspiration 2 scoops of "borrowed" funk Mix with Winnipeg Jazz musicians Serve hot with an album on the side
The rainbow road track is one of my favorites on the album (but the whole thing is just so dope from start to finish). An awesome take on an already fantastic soundtrack!
Not gonna lie, as a sax player I've never understood this kind of jazz music. What I do understand is how hard that sheet music at 9:30 is. That saxophonist is insane! Those runs are killer.
This was one of my favourite games as a kid. And this was one of my favourite tracks both in the course and musical sense which still holds true today even with all the other Mario Kart games out there now. I commented when your albums dropped about how I'd love to have your arranging skills and to see how you do it. Therefore I'm so, so glad you made this. To see a glimpse of the brain behind the brilliance :) I do compositions myself (not as often as I'd like to these days sadly), and I've always had the trouble of having so many ideas but I could never weave them together fluently and logically onto the page, they just all swirled around in my head. At school, everyone was classically trained in my class whereas I started classical and then also took jazz lessons as well for saxophone (the jazz side I took to that like a duck to water). I struggled greatly trying to understand harmony as classical music is all they ever talked about (I understand that this is the easiest way according to every teacher as they say it is the root of musical theory and harmony, but I could never properly mesh with it). The teachers said that the human ear loves repetition and therefore I should stop being so expressive and should stick to basic classical chords to draw from when composing, that I should stop developing the melody and have clean basic structure as the number one priority with no flourishes or anything else to shake it up. I was pushed into this box and it was stifling. Now that I'm finished with education, I've been watching your videos and learning a lot from them. I have this jazz theory book as thick as my arm and am making good progress each day, and it is just far easier to understand than from the classical angle. The analyses, along with all your videos, are truly invaluable to me. I hope you know just how much of a positive impact you make for folks like myself :). Keep up the good work my man, and congrats again on an astoundingly stellar album. I look forward to seeing what comes next ^-^.
I've listened to the whole album on Spotify and I think it's really great! I just wish there was even more!! Hopefully you'll do a followup album at some point! :D
You are absolutely brilliant!!! Love the album and learning about your creative process. Your music is far too good to keep in your head so please keep sharing!
i got so many ear tingles listening to the instrument solos! And that weird chord concoction you made, fitting it in with the piece? ah! So nice! This was a delight to listen to! Very entertaining and wonderful! 👏
Absolutely love seeing a video of your style from the perspective of the other side of writing music, would love to see it again. And of course, was listening without video and knew Dolphin Shoals immediately lol
So Mario Kart Double Dash was the second videogame I ever played. I cannot tell you exactly how much I love this. I wish I had known about this when I met you at Magfest (where you covered smash melee, the first videogame I ever played lol).
I'm so happy to see you are close to half million.. I remember when you was about 18K followers and tough to my self, why this dude didn't get more recognition?? You deserve it man! I hope you the best and enjoy ur well deserved success bro! I love games and jazz too 😙😊
I would never ever have been able to reverse engineer your arrangement and find everyting you just described here, but I appreciate that you counted on shameless thievery and music theory more than just inspiration Inspiration i useful but never mandatory and that's one big thing I learned this year! Thanks for your work. Will definitely check out your album!
This is so awesome!!! I had no idea you had a band first off .. really cool. Secondly, your writing/arrangement of this tune is other worldly ... I love it and have been listening since.
I was just casually listening to the video picking up on the music then i just hear the Mariokart Lick out of nowhere and just pause the video for a moment to process it... Amazing vid and music though! I love it all
this is crossing wires in my brain and making it short-circuit with endorphins...on one hand, i love music (though i do get kinda lost with all the 'explanation' stuff-- i just play what Feels Good lol), so hearing all the 'behind-the-scenes' stuff for what went into a song is super interesting to me...on another hand, i like video games, so its a no-brainer that id like a lot of the music IN video games...and yet, on a Third hand (i dunno, some kinda mutation) the fact that this RainbowRoad track includes the DolphinShoals lick-- about 11:15-- is like what rapper MC Chris said during one of his albums' skits: "Everybody gets when you hear something you've heard before that's comedyyyy!"...in other words, hearing References like these is a nice little nod to the Original songs that inspired Your songs... ...all in all, i feel like this video was created specifically to tickle ALL of these triggers, and it does a good job doin it...also, "Let's Play"? great Album, even better Album Title lol
Loved this video. I'd really enjoy seeing another analysis of one of the other songs from your album. A solo analysis could be sweet also. I thoroughly enjoyed pretty much every solo on the album
Man your album is dope I love it so much ! And Im kinda sad theres no material version of it. I respect your work a lot and it's so cool to see how your write your tunes !
can't believe you threw the dolphin shoals lick in there, it adds so much for those who know, while also sounding sick af, great work man!
Thank you! Was sat for ages trying to place the reference. Was so much in a jazz muso mindset that I totally missed the best reference source material: memes.
I love that he took double dash and made it MarioKart 8
When you think about it, there was really no other option. I was actually thinking he should do that before he started the clip, and ten seconds later, there it was.
Is bar 4 (including upbeat) of the soli a foreshadowing of the reference? I almost thought that that was the entire reference on first listen (would've been very subtle) before I heard the actual thing
Seeing Casiopea's Space Road in 8 bit music theory just puts a smile on my face
It blew me away too! I’ve been listening to them for like 3 years now after my friend got a random video of Casiopea’s self titled album got recommended to him while we were in class together. I’ve been absolutely hooked since. Seeing this *seemingly* obscure band get put in a video like this blows me away. Im very happy for them to get more recognition
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@@WyattJBowie as far as i know, casiopea is one of the bigger names in jazz fusion! at least, online, 'cause i hear their name brought up a pleasantly surprising amount of times.
i also specifically like how the track inspired 8-bit was _space road_ which i found very cute.
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@@doofs casiopea is one of the biggest jazz fusion bands in japan, up there with t square both in how long they’ve been around and influence
"This is why Jazz Fusion will never be mainstream again" (I forget which video you said this)
It's coming full circle isn't it...
If memory serves, it was the Chrono Trigger video about non-functional harmony, specifically the section talking about Secrets of the Forest? (That last part, I'm not sure of.)
That hand drawn album cover in the middle of the video made me chortle to a vociferous degree
yes vociferous indeed
ouch my head 🤕 too many Oxbridge words
vociferous chortle sounds like a band name
@@joost9430 a jazz fusion band tho, right?
@@tydavis.3.1 yeah probably, or some weird fusion punk
It's hard to pick a standout on your album but this one is definitely up there. Thanks for walking us through it.
Hearing the Casiopea lick reminded me of a few jams by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, like Vix 9, that make me wonder if Bela and the gang were also inspired.
11:16 Eyyy the Mario Kart lick!
Most songs benefit from a little “shameless thievery”. Nice job - sounds awesome!
Backed - there are only *so many* good ideas, it's prudent to recycle them intelligently
My college teachers always said "good artists innovate, great artists steal"
Probably a quote stolen from someone else, stolen from someone else, stolen from someone else....
Next album you’ve got to take jazz standards and turn them into a game OST ;-)
Not sure that would qualify as an /O/ST
@@bret6484 he just needs to code up an entire game for it to be the soundtrack of, no biggie!
Haha yeah, I should have said in Koji Kondo style - kidding of course ;-). I would love to hear what kind of video game compositions 8 bit would come up with though! Love this album
That's actually not half bad idea. Excellent one, in fact.
Absolutely loving the album! My only "complaint" is that I wish there were even more tracks from even more games!
THIS IS AMAZING I CANT STOP SMILING MY MARIO KART MUSIC DREAM HAS COME TRUE. Love the dolphin shoals lick
So happy to see you mention Casiopea! They actually only play that solo in live versions of Space Road after 1982 of which there are many uploaded on youtube
“All the drum bullshit” 🤣. I love this line and the drums are totally essential to this track
I was just getting halfway through transcribing the cool unison line and you go and release this video with sheet music and all lmao. I love the entire album and this song in particular has been on repeat since it came out. You did a great job arranging all of these iconic songs!
(also, turns out I had gotten the harmony way wrong lmao)
THE DOLPHIN SHOALS QUOTE YESSSSSS
I can't believe this is coming out of Winnipeg! Love seeing my home town representation, especially love seeing folk who are in circles i frequent when I return to visit.
When I heard Winnipeg I legit straight up from my seat because I can’t believe that one of my favourite TH-camrs could be down the street from me!
appropriate that you took inspiration from Space Road for your arrangement of Rainbow Road
great tune, one of my favorite off the album and i'm super pumped to get a peek into your thought process. great video!
It truly is a great, fun arrangement to play. Let's do it again!
Double Dash is one heck of a nostalgia trip for me, so adding some _jazz_ and _fusion_ feels to it was such a treat.
Great stuff as always! (:
Would love to indulge you more! Hearing you walk through your own arrangement is very cool!
The major change is "all the drum bullshit" 🤣, I love this so much! Congrats once again my dude!!!
This music theory jargon is so over my head!
Loved your album! What an age we're living to get professional level jazz arrangements of classic video game tunes. Gone are the days when the only source were midis on VGMusic :D
Ends with a 6/9 chord, nice
4:00 owh no you did not just did that.
I laughed like a dumbass when I heard it. Got me good, gotta hand you that one.
The way people make these jazz chord progressions is so impressive to me
Hearing you talk about your own music is awesome.
You sound like y'all are having a blast, so we're having one too!
Loved getting the sneak peak on this at VGMCon last month. Killer writing!!
Your rhythmic (and melodic!) transcription skills are so wild that it made me seek out your new album, amazing job!
Seeing my favorite music youtuber talk about Casiopea, my favorite band, makes me very happy.
ayyy my favourite band too!
I love seeing 12 bar blues done in such a unique style! My mind was blown watching Steely Dan do basically the same thing 8bit did in taking blues and switching up chords to make it a unique, personalized sound. This is the standard that all musicians should be reaching. Great job dude!
You know what they say: good artists borrow, great artists steal
Rainbow Road was begging for a jazz composition and you did it fabulously. So cool to see the behind the scenes. That rendition of moon river is wild btw.
Sick arrangement! Y’all got chops
Recipe for for a Jazzy Rainbow Road:
2 parts 8-bit Music Theory
1 part inspiration
2 scoops of "borrowed" funk
Mix with Winnipeg Jazz musicians
Serve hot with an album on the side
The rainbow road track is one of my favorites on the album (but the whole thing is just so dope from start to finish). An awesome take on an already fantastic soundtrack!
I finally found you! I love your vids on hollow knight and Celeste and botw and I forgot to sub, and this finally popped up so yay!
I've been wanting to make my own covers of video game music but didn't know where to start. This is a great resource, thank you ❤
Musicians are the world’s greatest songs thieves. Also the dolphin shoals lick had me laughing. Fantastic work!
watched this while eating dinner. the introduction of the word "jazzy" nearly ended my whole life.
Thanks for this! It's always great to have some insights into another arranger's/composer's thought process!
Not gonna lie, as a sax player I've never understood this kind of jazz music. What I do understand is how hard that sheet music at 9:30 is. That saxophonist is insane! Those runs are killer.
Yeah, he's insane! Great solo
This was one of my favourite games as a kid. And this was one of my favourite tracks both in the course and musical sense which still holds true today even with all the other Mario Kart games out there now. I commented when your albums dropped about how I'd love to have your arranging skills and to see how you do it. Therefore I'm so, so glad you made this. To see a glimpse of the brain behind the brilliance :)
I do compositions myself (not as often as I'd like to these days sadly), and I've always had the trouble of having so many ideas but I could never weave them together fluently and logically onto the page, they just all swirled around in my head. At school, everyone was classically trained in my class whereas I started classical and then also took jazz lessons as well for saxophone (the jazz side I took to that like a duck to water). I struggled greatly trying to understand harmony as classical music is all they ever talked about (I understand that this is the easiest way according to every teacher as they say it is the root of musical theory and harmony, but I could never properly mesh with it).
The teachers said that the human ear loves repetition and therefore I should stop being so expressive and should stick to basic classical chords to draw from when composing, that I should stop developing the melody and have clean basic structure as the number one priority with no flourishes or anything else to shake it up. I was pushed into this box and it was stifling. Now that I'm finished with education, I've been watching your videos and learning a lot from them. I have this jazz theory book as thick as my arm and am making good progress each day, and it is just far easier to understand than from the classical angle. The analyses, along with all your videos, are truly invaluable to me. I hope you know just how much of a positive impact you make for folks like myself :).
Keep up the good work my man, and congrats again on an astoundingly stellar album. I look forward to seeing what comes next ^-^.
Thanks for going in depth on this one. I felt like the tracks I liked more were the ones I was less familiar with, call it expectations or nostalgia
That was my favourite track in the album, it was crazy
Love a shout-out to, and seeing products of fellow Winnipeg musicians! Phenomenal album I've been binging it since it released!
Not huge on Jazz Fusion but i'm gonna listen to the album anyway, just to get inspired and see what's possible.
"Analyzes great music"
"Analyzes his own song"
gox, your album gives me CHILLS every time and i am THRIVING on this behind-the-scenes look!
Please make one of these vids for each of the album’s tracks ah it’s so wonderful to hear you talk about your compositional craft
I've listened to the whole album on Spotify and I think it's really great! I just wish there was even more!! Hopefully you'll do a followup album at some point! :D
I love these breakdowns for arranging/composition. I'm sure a lot of people like myself find inspiration in these kind of videos!
You are absolutely brilliant!!! Love the album and learning about your creative process. Your music is far too good to keep in your head so please keep sharing!
Yo, those drum tones are absolute fire. I mean, everything about your arrangement is fire, but those toooooones!
Another great explanation that helps me enjoy things I didn't quite understand before. Thanks!
huge grin on my face the entire time I was watching this. You KILLED it my man. Loving the album.
thank you so much for this album. It is a fucking gem and I am just completely obsessed with it
Amazing work 8-bit. I’ve been giving the album a lot of spins ever since it dropped! This is definitely one of my favorite tracks.
OUGH those CHANGES! couldnt stop grinning whenever you showed us a new chord. very brecker brothers, excellent job
Oh man, hearing the N64 Rainbow Road theme makes me happy
Would looooooove it if you did more videos like this.
7:25 is giving me the intro to Josie by Steely Dan. gotta love a collection of "frankly stupid" jazz chords to get the blood pumping
Damn, that tune is killin'. Well done indeed!
This album is fire!!! Congratulations, it sounds great!
Loved the arrangements.
you should do more videos about the album, I'd love to hear all of your points of inspiration for the arrangements!
Absolutely loved this! Please more! Gonna check out the album right now! :)
i got so many ear tingles listening to the instrument solos! And that weird chord concoction you made, fitting it in with the piece? ah! So nice!
This was a delight to listen to! Very entertaining and wonderful! 👏
Absolutely loved your album ! Stellar job as usual with you ! :D
Rainbow road memories, wow! So so excellent
Man this is amazing! The whole album is. Thanks for sharing the process behind it!
Absolutely love seeing a video of your style from the perspective of the other side of writing music, would love to see it again. And of course, was listening without video and knew Dolphin Shoals immediately lol
DUUUUUUDE that unison soli section go so damn hard!
Art Blakey!! Moanin' was my big band gateway so to speak, well chosen!
So Mario Kart Double Dash was the second videogame I ever played. I cannot tell you exactly how much I love this. I wish I had known about this when I met you at Magfest (where you covered smash melee, the first videogame I ever played lol).
That guitar solo is soooo goooood
my guy got me in tears before the 1 minute mark
I'm so happy to see you are close to half million.. I remember when you was about 18K followers and tough to my self, why this dude didn't get more recognition??
You deserve it man! I hope you the best and enjoy ur well deserved success bro! I love games and jazz too 😙😊
The album is AMAZING, best jazz i´ve heard since 2010
love the dolphin shoals foreshadowing at 11:03
Album good, also that reharm at the end killed me it’s so good
When I first heard dolphin shoals I had to pause and listen again to be sure I wasn’t hallucinating
Had to go back and hear that line again. Local Winnipeg musicians? 🤯🤯🤯
holy cow this was so enjoyable, and i cant wait to listen to the album!!! killing my dude
Very much appreciated the MK lick
I never thought I’d live to see the day Audrey Hepburn featured on this channel.
Also, congrats on the album!
I would never ever have been able to reverse engineer your arrangement and find everyting you just described here, but I appreciate that you counted on shameless thievery and music theory more than just inspiration
Inspiration i useful but never mandatory and that's one big thing I learned this year! Thanks for your work. Will definitely check out your album!
This is so awesome!!! I had no idea you had a band first off .. really cool. Secondly, your writing/arrangement of this tune is other worldly ... I love it and have been listening since.
this vid was super cool, wouldn't mind seeing more explaining the rest of the tracks
I was just casually listening to the video picking up on the music then i just hear the Mariokart Lick out of nowhere and just pause the video for a moment to process it... Amazing vid and music though! I love it all
not the Dolphin Shoals quote 😭😭😭hahahaha, but seriously the whole album is amazing, incredible job to everyone. I just love all the sax parts!
You are now the 3rd person I know to have used the mariokart lick in a rainbow road arrangement lolllll
literally every1 shd get this record it costs a pittance for what the production quality on it is but thats music
this is crossing wires in my brain and making it short-circuit with endorphins...on one hand, i love music (though i do get kinda lost with all the 'explanation' stuff-- i just play what Feels Good lol), so hearing all the 'behind-the-scenes' stuff for what went into a song is super interesting to me...on another hand, i like video games, so its a no-brainer that id like a lot of the music IN video games...and yet, on a Third hand (i dunno, some kinda mutation) the fact that this RainbowRoad track includes the DolphinShoals lick-- about 11:15-- is like what rapper MC Chris said during one of his albums' skits: "Everybody gets when you hear something you've heard before that's comedyyyy!"...in other words, hearing References like these is a nice little nod to the Original songs that inspired Your songs...
...all in all, i feel like this video was created specifically to tickle ALL of these triggers, and it does a good job doin it...also, "Let's Play"? great Album, even better Album Title lol
THE BEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam PLEASE NEVER STOP
9:23 the first bar you can TELL that he was thinking of the lick
Loved this video. I'd really enjoy seeing another analysis of one of the other songs from your album. A solo analysis could be sweet also. I thoroughly enjoyed pretty much every solo on the album
Cool album. I’m diggin’ it!
You are an absolutely incredible musician. I've learned so much from you!
Man your album is dope I love it so much ! And Im kinda sad theres no material version of it. I respect your work a lot and it's so cool to see how your write your tunes !