The Wii Theme Music is Unironically Really Good.
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Well hey hi I'm back for a new year had some nice time off hope you don't mind ok let's go new year new me or whatever. Wii.
Happy new year, good sir.
hiiii
Wish there was a new Wii
Ello
Good to see u again :'D
I transcribed the Wii Sports theme to do an arrangement of it a few years ago and was BLOWN AWAY by how harmonically intricate it was while having such a great melody... Totaka-san is one of the GOATS for sure.
I just commented this lol
i was just gonna mention you and you already mentioned yourself lol, both your wii channel and wii sports themes really transform the piece into something crazy, something...... insane. thank you carlos
I love you carlos
I love your arrangement of the wii music!
Carlos watching Charles. Amazing.
“this is unironically really good!”
*yeah why else do you think we listen to it for 10 hours straight*
Yes
Yeah. The implication that "10 hours of Mii Channel" videos were somehow "ironic" was the low point of this video.
Yes
Exactly
People will do many things for the meme.
Composers at Nintendo are classically trained geniuses. They're masters of their craft.
You’re a genius too
yepyep they’re so skilled
also woah famous person-
Wish we could say the same for the business side
R.i.p og SML
Why dont just buy a wii?
What do we call the music at 0:00
Fun fact, Totakeke in Animal Crossing is named in honor of this musician, Totaka, because his contribution was massive
How dare they undermine K. K. Sliders greatest hits with some of this peasants music! Unbelieveable!
Nugget shut up man
@@wawacat6568 All gigachads know that the Wii music and the Animal Crossing music are both absolutely and equally god tier, only the average fan would separate their classes.
@@joelcomer jesus joal it was a joke,chill
@Rin Onishi My comment was also a joke 💀
"So, what's your favorite jazz music?"
*Mi soundtrack starts playing*
Mi, a name, I call myself...
*Mii (😅)
You missed an i
Hey. Im 16 and i doing my own song. please check it!
@@Marikonie this is a really bad and annoying way of promoting your work.
Many people consider this spam, and will just hate you instead of liking your content.
Mentioning your age probably won't help you much here on youtube either.
With what you've got here, you would most likely be more successful with promoting on something like TikTok.
My #1 goal is to get people to a better place and/or help them when I can.
I hope you do good, and can get some proper way to promote yourself.
Feel free to contact me if you want more/other advice on marketing, social media or others.
FYI: i am in no way a professional, but i do like to learn a lot and have multiple cases of experience in the field, and now I'm here to share that knowledge.
Yeah, I’m gonna need you to upload a full video of that cover of the Wii Shop theme.
Bitzel!!!
💯
Frrrr
YES! It sounded so good.
fr 😭
wii music always feels like you never not knew it. it’s so familiar for no reason.
I really feel like it's inspired by one of the classical music pieces we know but don't remember the name of
I found an organ arrangement of the wii sports resort theme, man it sounds so good, but it’s so hard to play.
Actually, the character "K.K.Slider" from the Animal Crossing franchise is based off of Kazumi Totaka himself.
(K.K.Slider's name in the Japanese version is "Totakeke"→"Totaka K")
If there's anything Nintendo has done right over the years, it's hiring amazing composers.
And mario
and lawyers too
Also games. Great games.
Lets not forget their 19th century attitude towards emulation, pro play and copyright striking
They really don't miss. They actually make it too good.
I demand a video on what's the best video game music of all time and why it's Chrono Trigger.
That's a funny way to spell "Celeste"
LegalEagle has never heard of Xenoblade Chronicles :o
That's a funny way to spell "Doom Eternal"
I sustain this motion!
@@insaneintherainmusic didn’t know people spelled Pokémon Gold that way
4:12 Ah, yes. "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", otherwise known as "Wii Sports Theme". One of Bach's greatest.
Ah, I knew that bar reminded me of something!
Wooooaaaah
I was about to comment something similar 😃
THANK YOU i knew it was inspired by classical music that i didnt know the name of
Your rendition of the Wii sports theme literally sounds like something they would play at a wedding when the bride walks down the aisle.
I love when composers pop off to just an absolutely unnecessary degree. No one was demanding banging Wii shop music, but they gave it to us anyway. Legends
Well, I'm gonna take a stand and demand some banging eShop music on the Switch. The current music is practically non-existent.
@@japzone periodd
All of those things made the wii the success it was I think. Music is all your parents and grandparents hear when you’re playing games.
@@StijnEngels yeah, no
The music didnt really mean much in the grand scheme of thing
@@Mqstodon That kind of taking for granted the details and quality of things is very narrow-minded and ignorant of what makes something so loved and successful.
It 100% made a difference in differentiating nintendo and keeping it sucessful and in people's minds, just like their other good choices.
"The wii music is unironically good!"
Everyone: ... we know buddy.
dang it, should have been "wii" know
yes
@@jaxon3186 yes, lol 69 likes
Exactly, I keep getting this reccomend...no shit mate is always my reaction.
Wii been knew.
The way Nintendo musicians can translate a concept identity to music always fascinated me.
They can encode things like water, fear, adventure, desert, and other into a song that naturally takes you to the desired target.
The water song for Dire Docks is literally just deep water sounding music and I love it
The WII sports theme expressed on a piano 🎹 makes me really teary 🥲 for some reason.. I can only assume this is what medieval people felt well hearing church music
I absolutely love the sus chords
i can just imagine taking my child to his jazz piano lessons and he shows me his book of jazz standards and there's just music from the frikin wii on there.
Why can I hear your thumbnail
These brilliant guys do lots of VGM jazz and have produced charts for their Patreons: th-cam.com/users/TheConsoulsBandvideos
Wii music isn't jazz
Jazz is wii music
@@giocosovelasco *toad scream singing let it go*
imagine walking into a jazz club and they're playing wii music
That is my dream
I’m a jazz pianist and already actively trying to make this happen, now. 😂
No joke. I’m about to go learn these tunes thanks to Charles. He’s my hero!
@@JoshuaWillis89 please make a video if you succeed, the internet needs this
Now I know the joint is cool
@@bananapower2259 indeed, hope they do that
The wii sports cover gave me chills. I would play Wii sports with my two older cousins and my uncle a couple times a week, cementing that song in my mind. About 10 years later, my uncle only has a couple months left to live, and I’ve been savoring my last few moments with him, trying to stretch them out. Thank you for reviving the memories.
i wish you well.
Totaka is a genious. Sadly, in recent years he has mostly been a sound director/supervisor.
I wish he'd go back to composing for new games.
i think director and supervisor is a good fit for him though, it breeds new talent. So many new composers are following in his footsteps and are doing great stuff too ^^
Sorry but Animal Crossing New Horizons really needed him as a composer because most of the songs where meh
@@lamouchelhorloge855 Give the Super Marcato Bros episode on that game a listen because they might change your mind. I definitely think that that game has the best soundtrack of the series.
Man I could listen to you play the Wii Sports theme all day
same
Yeah, we’re gonna need a full album of piano covers of all of the wii music, like NOW
Hold up... the two main music channels that I watch are connected from their alternate dimensions? 0.0
I expected this video from you actually @8-bit Music Theory
Wii can all agree on that
Never met a single person who doesn’t think the Wii soundtrack is absolutely amazing
@@masterims6419 looks like someone did lol. (70 likes)
Whenever i do i meet them again in the cemetery
My girlfriend hates it. :(
@@nthnhbsn1909 I think we all know what needs to happen.
Love wii music. I have a bass play along for wii shop on YT
4:42 I love how from here, this could have perfectly transitioned to Zelda, the characteristic theme of it
I guess this means that the main quality of Wii/Mii music is the way to make otherwise standard progressions shifting and interesting
Exactly! I even thought it reminded me of zelda
7:39 GOD DAMMIT
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Amongus
if charles was a teacher he’d be the teacher who every kid in the school loves whether he teaches them or not
That's facts
Damn every school had one of those
Agreed 🤝
@@jennakeith5711FaXX
The Wii Sports theme sounds weirdly heroic. I love it
Major keys tend to sound heroic and upbeat. If I'm not mistaken, at 3:25 the key signature is the key of B major.
It sounds like a theme for champions. Especially if you switched piano for horns, winds, and brass.
People trying to lose weight will feel good about themselves lol
To my it screams anime protagonist using the power of friendship
Almost sounds quite Olympic somewhat?
“One chord made it a sus chord”
I can hear it already
OmG aMoNgUs!
Man the piano only versions of these themes are so beautiful I literally almost teared up.
That not just it! Most of the video game music is intentionally written with no clear end because as a composer you don’t know when the fight will be over, you can’t sync up a crescendo to a random critical hit on a boss you almost died to. The fight may last an eternity which is why you have to write music with no end. It’s a marvel of music and I can’t believe that so few people are talking about how the songs both can go forever and aren’t boring to listen to!
You just repeated his exact same point.
Ever heard of dynamic music ? Breath of the Wild and The Last of Us 2 literaly do what you're describing. I mean, in the past, music was indeed written with looping in mind, but dynamic music is quickly becoming the norm.
@@drnanard9605 its also called adaptive music.
@@drnanard9605 That has been a thing for quite a while...
@@jonnyj. have I said otherwise? Did you want to answer that to OP? I'm the one who said dynamic music already exists...
charles: "The Wii Theme Music is Unironically Really Good."
gen z: *nods in approval*
Hey. Im 16 and i doing my own song. please check it!
*video gets 0 dislikes, as it should*
I'm really happy to have grown up with this
@@Marikonie what genre?
@@Marikonie you look 50 😳
8:19 why was this so adorable
2:11 this is actually beautiful.
Imagine that you're at the most expensive and most fancy restaurant on earth with someone you care about and while you eating dinner; there's a piano just playing the Wii theme in the background. That would be the most perfect night ever!
I’d probably cry tears of joy
@@EtherealEmpr3ss Fr
Yes.
i would laugh my ass off also
@@EtherealEmpr3ss sane
“The wii theme music is unironically really good”
Everyone: yes
Hey. Im 16 and i doing my own song. please check it!
But doesn’t he mean “un-sarcastically”? I think “ironic” is used wrong most of the time... but whatevs haha
@@Marikonie no
@@taylortisaac how ironic
@@taylortisaac i thunk the ship has sailed on that one. Ironic has more than one meaning, and this is one of them
There isn’t a song that randomly pops into my head more than the Wii Shop Channel music.
what I've learned from this video is: the beginning of the wii shop theme is really funny to see played on piano.
My dad was trying to write a Latin- style piece once. After a while he showed it to me and.... it was just the mii tune.
As a writer there’s nothing worse then finding out that someone stole your work before you’ve written it lol.
@@jeremiahnoar7504 As a composer I can confirm
@@jeremiahnoar7504 how can you double check? Play it for a “what song is this?” app?
@@EtamirTheDemiDeer it’s hard to know before you finished writing. It certainly not a common thing. But every once in a blue moon you’ll hear the music on a film or commercial and realize how similar it is to what you’ve been working on.
I once wrote for a client for his college film. When I gave him my piece, You can imagine my embarrassment when he told me that i had written a “mediocre version” of the Starwars Princes Leia theme.
I didn’t end up getting that job lol.
@@jeremiahnoar7504 I'm a music student and not really interested in composing, but we had to make a small composition for class once.
Each week in one of my classes we were close to where the orchestra practiced, so we heard them all the time.
Well, I made the piece and minutes before turning it in I realized the beginning was the exact same notes the orchestra started with
I hope in a couple years when I'm old enough I will walk into a jazz bar and some absolute mad lad will be playing this on the stand
These guys literally do that (pre-COVID-19) with Wii and other VGM: th-cam.com/users/TheConsoulsBandvideos
@@cooldebt that’s sooooo cool!!!! I’m gonna watch a few of em.
A Take: Become the Mad Lad you wish to see in this world.
Wii music is a Genre, that I imagine would play in some Cafe's
the wii is my childhood console i LOVE it
4:11 this literally made me cry
That part kinda sounds similar to: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by JS Bach.
I'd love to have this play at my wedding when I walk down the aisle.
The way its written sounds an awful lot like one of the sad songs in hercules(imo) which is still one of my favorite movies
@@sawlens it does indeed
This is what they’ll be playing in nursing homes in 50 years, right?
It's also what was playing in nursing homes around 2010.
yes
I would like that
yes please
I sure hope so
The respect you have for the music and the composers is awesome. The way you build on all of it, incredible.
I would love a full version of the Wii Sports Theme, it’s so beautiful the way you interpret it! 💝
thinking about how many rich people i can trick by getting hired to play events and only playing wii music
"Trick"?
Quite a bit I'd guess
I work in the event industry, and me and a colleague created a challenge where we only use the Stan Getz - Girl From Ipanema album if the customer does not have a playlist themselves and see how long it takes before they ask us to put on something else. It works surprisingly well!
Sounds like a max fish video lmao
4:14 The Wii Sports theme has given me the chills. How the hell!?
JURRASIC PARK!
Dang it me too
@@alexandremueller6236 yeahh!
Chariots of fire almost sounding
I love love LOVE that you show the sheet music (with chords) as you’re playing these. Do this in every video please!
1:22 I FOUND IT !!! FINALLY !!!
2:13 Holy shit i'd legitimately have paid someone to play something like this at my wedding or something and not just because of the "hehe" factor.
Honestly all 3 I'd pay for a jazz band to play like God its good and to watch all those who end up recognizing it just vibing in nostalgia
It sounds like something you'd hear at a swanky restaurant
Formally requesting the full "Mii Theme Song, but it's Jazz", I'd keep that on repeat for 10 hours.
Look up insaneintherainmusic.
@@Aar0nDavis Oh look, the comment above this one is by insaneintherainmusic lmao
yes please
@Willi der Große I Need more _wrong notes_
Omg! This video made me think “huh that mii stop music sounds similar to a Super Mario land 2: 6 golden coins track” - only went and found out that was composed by Totaka as well!! I KNEW it was a reference to something!
everyone who hears this music is blinded by nostalgia, but behind the blindness its still beautiful
Oh man, I wasn't expecting you to talk about videogame music but I'm so glad you did.
There's plenty more amazing soundtracks you could review in that field!
Woah, wasn't expecting to see you here!
BTW, I think we'd all love to see a funk arrangement of Wii music if that's something you'd be interested in making! Just saying...
If we're going down this path, I'd looooove to see his thoughts on Genshin Impact's OST
I personally would love to see him analyse the Persona Ost (not just P5), it's really good
Love your stuff man!
Call of duty zombies
2:27 you could play that in any fancy cafe/fine dining restaurant and people won't notice that it come out from a wii
I want this playing in a fancy diner
lol yeah
ive never seen you before and realy don't know anything about music but this is great!
Love how you love music.
i had to watch this twice because i wasnt expecting what came, first off youre an amazing musician and a fantastic pianist, you can tell you really put in the work to get to your level, when you just played the mii channel music as a jazz piece i had goosebumps and id love a full version of just that, going to the wii sports theme and specifically the /chord, they contextually can be also seen as sus chords cuz if you took that b(add9)/d# and moved the d# up a half step, itd resolve into something equally as beautiful, and this happens multiple times in the wii sports music, im the biggest sucker for sus/resolve and even minor to major progressions, the wii shop channel in bossanova form is very groovy and gets the body swaying and i love that
I didn't realize how much nostalgia I had for the Wii themes until I heard a piano version
Edit: 2 years later and now I love this video even more! Nintendo may have cut off support for the Wii, but it will live in hearts forever.
interesting isn't it?
This title acts as if it's a controversial one, but everyone loves the Wii music
Its called the Mii Channel
@@cometahavoc I meant all of the Wii music, not only the mii channel
I'm not a fan of video game music but this really caught my ear.. the jazzy tune, the sparkle, the syncopation gives it a vintage feel. It should be more than just a video game theme... it should be a jazz standard.
Bro video game music is amazing. Just try listening to Tekken soundtracks.
I will cry. My friend had a wii. We used to play together. This brings back so many memories
*The Wii Theme Music is Unironically Really Good.*
Yes, the floor here is made out of floor
It’s not mean to be kind
When people are killed they are unironically really dead
Yes, when a minute passes in china, brazil is late 12 hours.
When people are pregnant, they give birth.
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes
You can tell he's a music teacher because of his expression when he went up a half step 😂 2:27
Ayo imma need a full cover of all of these, well, covers you did! Phenomenal work!
I was a huge Wii player back in the day, it gives me so much nostalgia. Thanks for the video!
I can’t help but notice how much of the 10 hour Wii theme he’s watched.
nice
The way that bass is sitting in that guitar stand is giving me anxiety. Lol
I was sure someone else noticed that! Too (47 by now)
I can’t unsee that now, thanks I hate it
SLAP IT!
I feel like it’s moving closer and closer as the video progresses, like a ghost waiting for a jump scare in a horror movie. It isn’t moving btw, but it feels like it is. How uncanny.
Now that u say it haha
Thank you for another fun analysis!
bro this song defines my childhood it’s amazing how iconic it is
Why does the Wii Sports Theme remind me of the crazy arrangement Charles created to tie together all the key changes in the Gal Gadot Imagine video
Lmao
Same lmao
Omg yes xD
because jazz
Where is the link to this video 😂😂
"This to me is like perhaps the one that sounds the most like it could just be a jazz standard." That's because it is. The Wii Shop Channel music is a take on "Surfboard" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The deviation/bridge/riff on the Wii Sports theme sounds like Jurassic Park!
Also thank-you
Its all bossa nova.
Always has been
@@IHateNumbersOnNames🌑 👨🚀🔫👨🚀
@@IHateNumbersOnNames thank you! From the beggining
Rest in piece the days of the Wii, it really was my childhood and I still love it to this day.
I started laughing for no reason when I started imagining the wii channel music as soon as you said it. I was already laughing when the music kicked in and the edit at 1:10 was just so good
i played the wii shop theme on piano once and my drama teacher loves it so much she makes me play it whenever she sees me. she has, to my knowledge, never heard the original version before. she just likes the song that much.
God the memories. That takes me back to 18, in college, buying my first launch console, and how cool it was to hook it up the first time after waiting all night for it
I absolutely LOVED this!
Wii Music: *changes key*
Also Wii Music: I'll fucking do it again!
I’m just now realizing how much I would enjoy a full wii music piano album
The look in your profile picture is freaking me out
@@mrshadrack8554 I aim to please
Same
a full album would be amazing
I'm honestly learning sheet music due to the shop song. Following along helps me ALOT! I know this is old, but your knowledge is timeless
Refreshing channel. It feels good to run into other passionate musicians.
Not me thinking slash chords were chords you were literally allowed to choose between them
i literally thought the same thing
Those options are ones that are in brackets above th of chord
oof i thought it meant you play the first one rly quick then switch to the second one
Ok, but imagine how cool of a piece that would be! It would written sheet music that could sound different thousands of times because there are a ton of different ways to play it and still sound good! That would be amazing
@@PtylerBeats the ultimate jazz! Now I'm actually really excited to make such a piece
As a young teenager I would always get somehow emotional everytime the wii sport music came up and my friends would make fun of me because of it (like I literally felt the tears coming up)
Now they better hide under their beds
Those unsensitive rascals
Keep on keeping it real
Good art do hit like that.
i love this 😭
It's never made me emotional in that sense, but it always gives me this sense of incredible nostalgia, so I don't blame you at all.
You're not alone... I didn't even grow up with the wii and actually never played a wii but listening to this music somehow triggers a sense of nostalgia that don't even exist to me. Unique chord progressions came into play here. That's also because this unique progression is very very extremely rarely heard in mainstream pop music scenes.
I heared the Wii Channel Theme in so many videos and it just works.
I would never expect that something like this would be so engaging to me. Love your enthusiasm on the topic good sir 👍🏽
2:13 i really want a full cover of Mii theme like this
Lol me too
Same
Insaneintherainmusic does an excellent jazz cover and the solo section actually uses changes from Spain.
that jazzy Mii theme sounds like something they would play at a fancy restaurant
Ikr
Dude, you're awesome; not just musically-gifted, but as a personality, too. Gonna subscribe off of this one video alone (it's the first and only one of yours I've seen so far).
Congrats on 1M subscribers!!!
I saw this in my music teacher’s recommended tab and that was the moment i knew he was a true homie
Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, Mii, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, Wii Sports Resort, Go Vacation, Mario Kart Wii
all of these have awesome music and they're all on the Wii. The Wii is the console of the musicians!
Super mario galaxy overture is forever embedded in my brain
listening to the mario galaxy soundtrack with headphones for the first time is an out of body experience
Sonic Colors as well has some really interesting pieces, and that was also on Wii.
@@felixcortesgratacos9597 oh my god yes to this day I am yet to find a bassline that is as fun to play as Planet Wisp Act 1, which is also just overall an amazing atmospheric song, and then you have Aquarium Park zone, possibly the biggest earworm ever written
@@konkey-dong hilarious you mentioned Planet Wisp, because that was the set of songs (Planet Wisp Act 1-3) I searched for soon after watching this video. 🤣
It's jazzy, catchy, and there are some strings that really make you wonder what they did.
These themes are amazing! I like the way they sound, wish i can reach that level of playing and creating songs!
its like one of those songs you like thats stuck in your head but you dont get tired of it
I loved his giggle at the hyper staccato at the shop channel theme 8:20. That's me every time
4:20 Never would I have thought I’d be so touched by the Wii Sports Theme lmao
Oh wow! It actually sounds sincere and serious on a piano! That's amazing!
Thanks, this episode helped me learn about how slash cords work.
4:48 that slight pause makes it majestic
So true bro, this song is fire; 5 levels of this song would be awesome to see.
Yesss
YES PLEASE
No
Yes
Yes yes 100x yes
Oh great, now you make me want to play this on piano..
You know, watching you explain how fast and many different chords the music goes through really made me see this song as a symbol for how far music in games has come. On the NES, the ram could only handle short, snappy, 3 chord tunes (Giving Bit-tunes their own special category) at a time. Now the whole range of the piano can be transcribed.
Its fun watching tech develop