Jazz Pianist Breaks Down Pokémon 8-Bit Music
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I got my friend that white hoodie for her birthday last year and i don't know if she even knows you exist, she thinks it's just a hoodie
Charles please do a video on Genshin Impact music
Could you react to the Terraria soundtrack (original and/or Otherworld) or to Tom Lehrer?!
What's your favorite pokemon game?
Imagine being a lounge pianist at some ultra upscale restaurant and sneaking Pokémon music into your act
Don't know if you'd be interested, but I saw a video somewhere of a guy who snuck in the Jurassic Park theme into a church service routine. Lol.
Perfect
When Pokemon Go came out, the restaurant that I used to play piano at was a “Pokemon Gym” in the game. We started getting people coming in playing Pokemon Go so I would play the Pokemon Center theme for them. 🙂
holy shit nobody'd complain if it was the national park theme
@@DavidBennettPiano That's very nice of you, a nice easter egg to those who know. Somethings still good to listen to for others.
I'd watch you break down 100 of these Pokemon songs man
Surprised to find you here.
Surprised to find you here.
Surprised to find you here.
Could we possibly do the ghost town one?
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Hearing these took me back man...
Pokemon silver was my only game until like 6th grade and I beat it at least 30 times.
What a pleasant way to start the morning! Thank you.
I really miss those days
Japanese composers, especially in video games and anime, have such a unique style and sound. They know how to capture emotions I've never felt from anything similar in Western media
I went to Japan a few years ago and had a realization. It felt like Japan has held on to, and preserved a lot of things from the 70s-80s/late 20thC. Im in my 20s so can't claim to have lived then but there's a lot of 70-80s music that I got into because it reminded me of japanese game/anime music
Yes.
I think they know how to touch your soul with the music because the games/anime touch your soul as well because of the scenes or story
Probably because you consume Japanese media in excess.
It's in Japanese pop music as well. I think you are just not familiar with Japanese pop music other than some few that are famous in West. Check some top 50 pop list and you'll hear a lot of jazz influence
the Japanese don't get enough credit in the music world. they are cracked at composing music
Asia in general doesn't get enough credit in the music world, despite western classical music unironically being carried by them at the moment
Absolutely cracked, Joe Hisaishi for another example!
Is a case of "if is not white and/or from the US, we don't take it seriously"
Agree. But at least these brilliant boys give Japanese composers lots of credit: th-cam.com/users/TheConsoulsBandvideos
I know.
Games such as Ar Tonelico/atelier totori, Chrono Cross, Evergrace have amazing soundtracks too.
I would pay MONEY for an album of Charles covering pokemon music in his signature jazzy style
Until he does it: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
Yess
@@cooldebt That, and insaneintherainmusic.
You should check out insaneintherain! Granted his jazz compositions are more sax based, especially his earlier stuff but he does really amazing work and is very versatile. He usually provides a breakdown of his arrangements in the descriptions
Seriously, me too. whens our mans dropping an album anyways
The Japanese composers can take a popsicle stick and a rubber band and make you a JRPG theme song that slaps in any bit.
Seriously. I still tear up when I hear Celes theme
This video got a little emotional for me. Hearing melodies that are submerged in some of my deepest memories; recalling playing hundreds of hours of Pokémon games. It’s deeply nostalgic and reminds me of simpler times. The detail and admiration you took in your approach to video this made my heart smile.
🥰
I actually cried, man I played the piano back when this game was new, played the games, man it's so beautiful
Same here bro, I feel you
Honestly if it didnt have catchy music i wouldnt have remembered it
I remember just listening to the title theme on loop via headphones on my game boy. I wouldn’t press start and just let it loop.
I have no idea what the funny jazz man is saying but it makes me happy
Same here brother. I don’t understand him, but he certainly brings joy
If you can understand what he's saying, the beauty of these pieces is magnified and can bring you even more joy
I‘m not understanding anything, too, but I love to just soak up information on something I am not understanding. :D
@@ThaMobstarr how i learned music theory, i just sorta listened to adam neely videos for like 2 years and then i got it
Lol
Sir, imma need a full piano cover of the National Park theme from you 😭😭😭🙏
EDIT: Very Joe Hisashi esque sound, extremely beautiful. I loved listening to that as I always loved the National Park theme and it’s so nostalgic!
Holy crap, Hi Elsie 👋🏼
Agree full piano cover from Charles would be great but in the meantime, not piano but a fantastic cover: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
@@cooldebt the consouls are so good
Yeees!
PLEASEEEEEE
As much as I love Red and Blue's music, Gold and Silver really took it to a new level with the overall compositions. Game Freak really pushed that cartridge to its limits
Absolutely. Gold and Silver are Masuda’s best soundtracks, bar none. And it’s not just in the compositions, but also how he utilized the waveforms to make them sound fuller (compare the bass channel of the gym theme from G/S to R/B. It just sounds much better and fuller).
It’s crazy that it was the same composer with the same hardware and they sound completely different
Nothing can match the eeriness of the original Lavender Town song
except for the original played backwards?
You’re starting to scare me. Or you have shockingly similar TH-cam habits that I do
You know, Just, I saw you in almost every videos that I saw, from vtuber scenes to here. I guess we both got similar youtube recommendations lol
That was horrifying when I was a child!
Pokémon leaf green was my first own game that I played through and I wouldn’t have had it any other way
Pokémon Red's Gym Battle music is also incredible.
To this day, it has some of the best arpeggios / run I heard in Videogame Music
Team rockets theme and the Pokémon League champion in that game as well. As well as Lance's theme in gold and silver.
My favourite pokemon music though has to be diamond and pearl because of all the jazz influences that went into writing the music.
Team rocket hideout from blue/red is also on that level, its like a bach intervention.
RBY had some amazing music. Remember the Viridian Forest music? The B section could be super easily converted into a nasty walking bass line
My favourites are the when on the bicycle and when a wild pokémon appeared in R/Y/B
I love that the two music analysts I follow know about each other. :D
The way that harmony is implied in chipset music is an absolute masterpiece in working around technical limitations.
Truth about all aspects of old games (game design, visual, audio)
It's evident when you have the chiptune genre, where the musicians really put the limits of what the old game consoles are capable of.
The 33 & 1/3 book series has a nice book about Kenji Kondos Mario music that spends a lot of time on this point! I totally agree
Redbull did a series called "diggin in the creates" (I think) and it digs deep into what your talking abt
It’s something I’m sad modern VG composers seem to have forgotten how to do, given that there are basically no limitations anymore. I’m waiting for the VG industry to rediscover the ingenuity the limitations forced them to develop in the early days
I LOOOOVE how you slowly fade out music when cutting to an explanation instead of it being a jarring jump. It's the little things, but it really keeps my focus and allows me to enjoy your playing as well.
I'm so glad you made this video because it's SO true that those early pokemon games have some of the most incredible use of the insanely limited voices they had to create some of the most interesting and inventive melodies and harmony which makes it SUCH a joy to arrange, since it really is some of the best raw materials of a piece of music to work from.
Omg yes
I would watch an hour long video of Charles reacting to a bunch of different Pokémon music. He doesn’t even have to break it down, his reactions to chord changes are all we need.
And then rejazzing and soloing along😭
I don’t think Charles realizes how hard his free style solo piano playing goes like GODDAMNN BROO
facts, theyre like my favorite parts of the video, I'd so watch an hour long video of just him freestlying
He just flexin. But I ain’t mad
He knows alright ehehe its normal to flex without noticing after you graduate
I didnt graduate in music tho but i think i applies to every skill
He just vibin
But with technique and mastery of a professional musician, its amazing
Almost makes me cry! It’s so good
I'm new here and I'm already hooked on is freestyle piano playing.
When I played Pokemon Silver way back in the year 2000 when I was a high schooler, I would go to the park and to Ecrutek city just to stand there and listen to the music at those locations over and over again, I loved them so much. And now in 2021, this jazz musician TH-camr has made a tribute video just to those two awesome pieces of video game music. Sometimes it feels like Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Metroid get all the chiptune love, but for me Pokemon was my first chiptune love, so this meant SO MUCH to me~
Charles' run at 11:13 is easily one of the coolest sounding renditions of National Park I've ever heard on piano. Especially the resolution and build into the high melody notes at 11:23-11:41.
Totaly agree. He must publish a complete and clear version of it 😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
a bit of refining on that part right after and its perfect. Loved that so much
8:52 - 9:38 this slaps sooo hard! I'd pay for an entire pokemon music cover album by Charles.
Honestly
Yoooooooooooobclip it lll
Right?! It's like he just invented a new genre! XD
Very similar to Aivi and Surasshu's music! Especially with the piano + electronic 8 bit tunes. I highly recommend anyone who liked what Charles played to check out their work :)
Fuck yeah
I would love to see Charles breaking down the Diamond/Pearl and Platinum soundtrack as it is the jazziest Pokémon Ost for sure!
Agree! Please!
I think that would be cool, but I definitely disagree that gen IV is the jazziest. I find gen II very jazzy as well.
Gen 4 definitely the jazziest fs
yall forgetting about Gen 5, literally based on New York
Agree, Diamond and Pearl are super jazzy!
Go Ichinose is goated. All his compositions in Pokémon are a treat for the ears
Since i was a kid playing Gold and Silver, the Ecruteak town song always made my eyes well up because i thought it was so beautiful sounding. Thank you Charles for letting me feel that again.
Dude same. Gen 2 is so weird for me cos I only experienced it second hand from my older brothers' cartridge. Because of that my memories of Gen 2 are the haziest but also the earliest memories of pokemon.
So majestic and filled with a sense of history... God the nostalgia is strong :')
I did not expect a piano solo over 8-bit to sound that clean jeez
We need a full album, that was crazy nice
Until Charles does a full cover, try this in the meantime: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Perhaps 8-bit and jazz hybrids are a thing. Imma look it up
Edit: @cooldebt Thank you
If you like that combination, you should check out Aivi and Surasshu. They're a duo of a pianist and a chiptune composer who both did the soundtrack for Steven Universe.
An artist called Schnabubula had been doing it for years and it's absolutely incredible
I mean yeah, Junichi Masuda is a great composer (he does literally ALL the battle themes), but all the tunes here were composed by Go Ichinose
He’s kind of stepped out of that role lately, though. Many battle themes in Sun/Moon we’re done by other composers, and Masuda only contributed battle themes to the second DLC expansion las.
Masuda heavily composed only the 1st gen music, then Ichinose took the main role. In the 4th gen the main composer was Hitomi Sato and in the 5th Shota Kageyama. Now instead the lead composer is Minako Adachi
@@samuelecallegari6117 the lead composer is and has been Go Ichinose since gen 2 with exceptions like bw, oras and xy when he was on break, he's basically the head of the sound team currently at Gamefreak still
@@PascalvandenBos well if you check the track by track credits you will discover that the majority of the 4th gen tracks are composed by Hitomi Sato and the 5th ones by Kageyama
@@samuelecallegari6117 thats actually not true at all, i have all of the cds and theyre pretty equally split among composers, that doesnt take away that Go Ichinose was still lead on gen 4 though and 8 too i bet but the ost still isnt out
I'm so glad you went into the technology involved. It's difficult to fully appreciate how incredible these old songs and their composers are without knowing the constraints they had to work with.
Listen to Ruby, Sapphire, and Emeralds soundtrack. Literal masterpiece in terms of Music. It's score is so adventurous, relaxing, uplifting, and powerful. I listen to Dr. Pez's cover of the music quite a lot. Brings tears to my eye.
little root town is my default ringtone since 2003ish
When you started playing that Ecruteak City arpeggiation, man. You doing these analysis of Studio Ghibli and Pokemon and stuff is everything my child heart could have wanted. Thank you for making these videos!
You have awoken in me an earthly desire for a 1-hour long video of you playing Pokémon soundtracks on piano
Until that happens, try this: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
This was just a few tunes from GSC. There's hours of music to break down. I hope he does more.
Holy shit, I never saw Leave The Door Open being mashed up with Ecruteak City theme coming in a thousand years.
Always had a thing for the gen 2 ost.
there's something that hit the nostalgia really hard in those more than Gen 1 and Gen 3 ones
The Johto region is honestly my favourite region. Yes, the games themselves may not be the best especially with the wack level scaling, but the vibe of Johto is just so strong - the music, the locations, the characters just makes Johto's culture feel so strong
@@J75PootleI think Johto had the strongest character identity with its Japanese architecture, the mythos surrounding it, and just how the world was laid out. The soundtracks are definitely the best in the series (especially the remixes for HG/SS).
It’s even more amazing, the gameboy had 4 channels, but only 3 of them were tonal!
Channel 4 is a noise oscillator.
Channel 1 + 2 are always pulse waves. Channel 3 has a wavetable, so more sounds are possible.
Charles' playing really speaks to me, it says: "P R A C T I C E"
Azalea Town might be my favorite track in the entirety of pokemon. it's just so good and so cheerful. it's got that brief little intro and then it jumps right into that uptempo cheeriness. I used to just go there and park myself next to Kurt's house to listen to the music
The music in gold and silver were so legendary and complex. The runs you hear in trainer battles and pokemon encounters are unmatched. Masterful composition
I am still humming the Gameboy Pokemon music to this day - considering how primitive the orchestrations were, the actual arrangements were amazing.
As soon as I heard that old 8-bit sound, I immediately got nostalgic and began tearing up. These sound tracks were absolute bangers, and we as kids had no idea how incredible they were.
same
you kidding? I sat and listened to the music doing nothing for a solid 10 minutes sometimes. I didn't understand *why* it was beautiful, but it was certainly captivating and I got lost in it all the time.
Listening to the Braxton Burks renditions on Spotify definitely gets me teary. So much nostalgia!! Just reliving these Kanto and Johto places, that don't even exist in the real world. Really crazy to be able to attach music to locations like that
Not to be "that guy", but the sound chip in the original gameboy is 4-bit. The games are 8-bit but the music is actually only 4.
To see proof of this, pause at 5:37 and see the triangle wave consists of only 15 steps. 4-bit has 16 possible values and 8-bit has 256, which would result in way smoother lines.
The PCM Wave Samples on the Gameboy was 4-bit. The other channels were 8-bit in resolution as it was done by the CPU itself like the NES and MegaDrive and PC-Engine before it. The Triangle wave was made on the Wave table so yes, it would be 4-bit. The actual sound generators are integrated on the circuit for the custom CPU in the GB.
@@YHUAN01 Actually, every channel is indeed 4 bit, not just the Wavetable channel. The two pulse channels and the noise channel all produce 1 bit waveforms that are adjusted by a 4 bit volume control to produce 16 different volume levels for each channel. The wave channel is also only 4 bit, and because of this only the max volume level can accurately reproduce the wavetable. The other 3 volume levels use bitshifting to lower the volume, to the point where the lowest volume for the channel only has a bit depth of 1. Also saying it was done by the CPU can be a bit misleading as it makes it seem like the sound is generated in software, when in reality (as you stated) the Sound hardware is integrated on the same chip as the CPU (NES and PCE are like this as well, but not the MD), and the CPU's role in most cases is to act as the sound driver, adjusting the sound hardware's registers in order to produce music/SFX.
@@zynidian the DAC is 4-bit. The CPU controls the sound mixing and pitch and timing. Yhe sound generators are part of the cpu itself though essentially on a separate circuit. Could have phrased it better but my point stands that the sound generators are not 4-bit. Hell the shift register on the noise channel is 15-bit but the polynomial register is 0-7, 8-bit. Much like the other channels sans the wavetable. The Mega Drive is similar a bit in how the sound generation is of higher bit depth than the final output. The YM2612/3438 produce sound at 14-bit depth but after converting the digital signal to analog the final output is 9-bit depth. PCM playback on channel 05 of the YM2612 is 8-bit depth.
Case in point, any programmer is working with 8-bit computing with the sound on a GB. Though yes the final analog output is 4-bit due to the DAC.
@@YHUAN01 Ah ok, I was primarily talking about the bit depth of the final DAC output for each channel, since that's what ends up getting heard. You're right about how, in the process of getting to that final output, parts of the hardware have lengths that are neither 4, nor 8 bits. I guess it really depends on what "bit" even means in context. Take for instance the LFSR used for the noise, which itself is 15 bits wide. But the output used for audio is just 1 bit. So is the noise channel 15 bits?, 1 bit?, 4 bit? Well, it's all of them depending on how you look at it. Bart E's original comment was specifically referring to the bit depth of the output, so that's what I focused on in my previous comment.
@@YHUAN01 Its two channels at 7 bits each. It's fuckin weird.
The interpretation you did on the piano brought me to tears it was so beautiful. Absolutely brilliantly done and highlights just how incredible these old 8-bit songs really were at the compositional level.
I swear to god, him playing around over the original ost and him converting the 8 bit into proper piano piece is so damn fun and pleasant to hear, i just wish he kept going.Love this stuff!
I would highly recommend Aivi & Surasshu. Beautiful jazzy 8 bit with piano accompaniment.
Great video! Small correction: the two tracks played in this video were composed by Go Ichinose, not Junichi Masuda. His name and face aren't plastered on the franchise but since Gold and Silver he's been a leading force behind the main series's music for decades.
Thank you, I was just about to comment this.
@@bkebradley Ditto. Thumbnail should've also been of Gold Version if he were being honest.
Ichinose is the Game Freak goat fr. Composes stunning route/town themes and amazingly bombastic battle arrangements. So versatile. Also was the sound director for DP, which is still the best overall OST in the series imho.
Yeah, Junichi Masuda was more of a director and/or music consultant after the first generation.
Go Ichinose was an apprentice to Masuda on the original Red/Blue/Yellow games' soundtrack. And then on Gold/Silver he took the lead, and Nat'l Park and Ecruteak are the two best tracks of the entire series imo. Love Go Ichinose, unforgettable name to an English speaker too, lol
Do I know anything about music? No. Do I love hearing Charles geek out over music like this? Yes.
man this was a blast to watch/hear, please make more of these! 8-bit to piano
Old Castlevania games have some amazing music in them
When he said that 8-bit is almost Bach I immediately thought about Castlevania
Wot
Oh hell yeah! Bloody Tears, Vampire Killer, Crystal Teardrops, Requiem of the Gods.
I was gonna comment saying that it'd be great to hear this for Bloody Tears and Vampire Killer!
Yeah but who asked
I also love how they mixed a stereo version of each track into the earlier games. Really changes up the feel of the track imho. Thx for sharing. Those gen 1 and 2 chiptunes are my jam.
Fancy seeing you here :) And he covered two of my favorite GSC songs too
Only GSC is good, RGBY has some grating tunes.
Dude I was playing GBI on my GameCube lately.
The gameboyplayer is basically a whole gameboy without the screen and buttons.
So it's full original soundchip is in there.
Played some gold and silver over towers. Holy shit those gameboy channels hit different.
On emulation it's kind of soft, but original hardware it's raw. Shits actually got bass. I think the high tones fucked up my ears for couple days tho lol.
I prefer the GBA tracks, but these are nice too.
@@averytubestudios every single tune in 3rd gen makes me instantly cry in nostalgia but 2nd gen ones are very underrated imo
love your content man! this is really cool to see in depth all the stuff behind these tracks and hear a "fuller" version of it on other instruments
Your videos are so calming and passionate at the same time! I love watching them in my free time big big fan
The fact that there's now audio of Charles playing my favorite song from GSC (National Park) in a full piano arrangement makes the world a little better :)
btw: It was Gō Ichinose that originally composed both National Park and Ecruteak, as well as a good majority of GSC's soundtrack
Okay, I know we say we need full versions a lot here. But I DESPERATELY need a full version of Charles doing jazz improv over the National Park theme.
Agree but until he does, I'll be listening to this: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
@@cooldebt Oh, snap, this is a good find. Thanks!
@@AdamSmith-jb2lf Glad you liked it. The Consouls turn 7 in a couple of weeks so you have 7 years of tunes to enjoy on their channel ;)
This is why I love 8-bit VGM so much. The composers had to write such interesting and creative music to overcome the system limitations and would use some beautiful harmonies and theoretical devices to do so
@Charles Cornell thank you for your videos. After many years of being away from my piano, my bass, and just playing music in general you've inspired me to get back at it. Thank you!
It's amazing how just hearing these songs on piano is enough to make someone tear up.
Someone is me. I'm someone.
I'm someone too Ahaha
Youre not alone... its okay. Tesseract has made me cry once or twice.
I feel that just hearing the chip tune versions of them lol. Ecruteak city is probably my all time favorite track. I just get so nostalgic hearing it. I play that to go to sleep sometimes
So, can we get like an hour long video of Charles just playing the piano? It's always so calming to listen to
Ikr?!? Please Charles?!
hey charles? please break down bill wurts' here comes the sun
@@mr_lemonade4230 n 7 I'll
Dude please do more of these breakdowns, this is pure nostalgic along with beautiful music
That solo section you played over the park theme was so gorgeous man, truly heart melting
VGM deserves more presence in music education. There are so many VGM themes that are slept on.
It's a relatively young art-form, so it's only in the last decade or so that mainstream critics have begun to analyze it. Plus once games starting releasing on CDs the soundtracks became more likely to fall into a pre-existing genre (usually orchestral or jazz) and the main thing to analyze was format related elements like loop points and dynamically adaptating to gameplay.
8-Bit Music Theory has a great video on his channel discussing the Kanto theme remakes in Gold and Silver. 10/10, highly recommend
In an indirect form this video has changed my life, after watching it I searched for the national park music and then watched a jazz cover to that music, now Im always listening to jazz, and it all started after this video.
Pokemon taught me how to whistle. Hearing those songs so much just made it easy to mimic them, now I'm a pro at whistling.
Four part counterpoint has entered the chat.
Oh hey! You’re that trombone fella.
Perfect fifth violations 🥰
on a gameboy, it would need to be a 3-point counterpoint. The fourth channel was only a white noise generator, which usually got relegated to being percussion.
8th species
YOOOO sup
I hope you will talk about the gen 4 soundtrack soon
Honestly the DPP soundtrack is criminally underrated. They have incredible music there. Hearthome City and Route 201 are some of my favorites
And who can forget about Cynthia's battle theme? An absolute banger.
Underrated? Its the most overhyped soundtrack in Pokemon. Black and White is underrated.
@@eddiewiththe_ie correctly hyped**
But I agree that gen 5 music is sick too. But there are a ton of good gen 5 music memes out there already so I don't think it's unrecognized by any means.
@@benjaminpiela5210 It is correctly hyped, but it's very close to the Hoenn soundtrack in terms of how great it is and often takes all of the spotlight. and yes, gen 5 music is the most underrated
Don’t forget the Lake Themes! Highly underrated!
Great video! And I love the jazz bass chilling in the background
Really hope to hear covers of these two from you one day!! I come back to this video just to hear you play the songs :)
the fact charles doesnt have a million subs yet surprises me the man is extremely talented
There are a bunch of those kinds of channels. And there are many channels that don’t deserve to be more popular than them unfortunately. *cough cough* James Charles *cough*
This.
Looks like that'll be changing pretty soon.
He'll get there in like two days lmao
@@TheColonelMcKernel hopefully
Almost 1 million!!
Yeah
I just now realized that he wasn’t at 1 million already.... wow. I thought he was for the longest time lmao
Hell yeahhhhhhh!!
No u
Just discovered your channel. It’s so great to see how much you love these pieces. I’m enjoying it so much. Now I’m off to Spotify to find the piano and orchestral arrangements 😀.
I love the layout of your room and the way it looks. So cozy..!
Dude, Chrono Trigger is one of the most spectacular soundtracks of all time. Playing that as a kid is the firstr thing that got me into music. And I became a cello player.
Chrono Trigger has one on the best soundtracks ever. It's incredible just how much the music in that game heightened the mood and atmosphere and turned what were already pretty memorable scenes unforgettable!
An old one from these boys but a good one: th-cam.com/video/1rmI3WERIrY/w-d-xo.html
Dude, YES!!!! I said this last time, but Chrono Trigger is so dope, especially Zohar's piano renditions. (Btw, it's so nice to see a fellow cellist out in the wild ✊😔)
Had to look into the comments to see if someone would mention Chrono Trigger. It's absolutely magical.
I love chrono trigger music too!!learned secret of the forest by ear I was obsessed with those opening arpeggios
Lavender Town theme from the gen 1 Pokemon games is so incredibly haunting
Something about the Gameboy speaker and chiptune gave it an unearthly sound that later iterations haven't quite captured. Maybe it was the subtle buzz.
Yes, I was thinking this one as well.
Actually they changed the original song because it was too creepy and dissonant. You can find the original song on youtube though.
Isn’t that the one that supposedly caused kids to commit suicide?
@@steelstrings4 yea I heard that, but sounds highly unlikely.
@@SeraphsWitness
The Japanese version causing suicides has been a creepypasta for a while, but there's even less evidence for it than the widely exaggerated impact of the Porygon episode. The latter was at least partially real.
Junichi Masuda and Go Ichinose are both masters of using a little and getting a lot back. Such simple 2 or 3 track pieces that sound so full of life
The stuff around 8:00 is so beautiful, it sounds like a George Duke ballad inspired by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The Earthbound and Mother 3 soundtracks are works of art and absolutely worth checking out
Yes! Especially done by these boys: th-cam.com/video/FXIyse1sFnc/w-d-xo.html (they also did Monkey's Delivery Service)
They are amazing although it’s based around samples more than 8bit of some of them.
Lisa the painful too, although its much more simpler and tame in comparison.
8:53. Man, that just sounds great.
I'd love to see him breakdown Kingdom Hearts music, especially the relationships between character themes like Ventus's and Roxas's themes
Where is this video??? Charles pls
Please make more of this. Am now subscribed
This made me realize that I desperately need piano improvisations paired with old Pokemon music. That National Park improvisation was beautiful
That's why I love what HGSS did with the remake of this tune. Also if you're looking for good Pokémon piano music, I suggest musicmike512 and Darren Ang for their piano renditions of Pokémon tunes.
fun historical fact: Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow’s Route 1 overworld theme is a 19th century minstrel song called “Golden Slippers” which is now a bluegrass/old time standard and also a real banger
That IV-iv motion is, to me and my neurodivergent interpretation, a movement that carries nostalgia with it, like memories of a time fondly remembered
Nostalgia hit hard here. Been seeing this video recommended to me, to be honest not even sure why I'm not subscribed yet, but haven't been clicking on it for some reason. Well, surely didn't disappoint! Most of these town songs in Pokemon were so pleasant to listen to and I'm glad I've been able to spend a portion of my childhood in them. Would definitely love to see you cover more of those songs, or break them down while playing. Been smiling throughout most of the video, I'd love to see more!
I absolutely love that you took the time to explain the limited sound capabilities of old systems. Especially on a channel that isn't highly technical, and isn't focused on gaming. Understanding what the limitations are helps clarify so much about the 8-bit sound and style.
its crazy that Junichi Masuda made these brilliant music on an 8-bit game system-- songs full of life, sentimental and jovial.
Was masuda the composer as well as the director?? Damn
Go Ichinose was actually the composer of all the themes Charles Cornell talked about. Masuda's compositions weren't nearly as ingenious.
@@seanplayscl in the second generation, the more emotional and harmonically rich songs like this one were composed by Go Ichinose, a very talented composer
@@seronimo__7735 Oh I see! Thanks for correcting me.
This brings back so many bittersweet memories from my childhood, with my grandparents
Charles, would looooveee to see you do a breakdown of some Phoenix Wright music.
you can close your eyes to this guy's National Park renditions
also why am i crying
This rendition also: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
I'd say about 3 minutes of 8 bit song; 5 minutes of music theory, and discussion; 8 minutes of flexing; and Ads make up the res... oh shit he played the full version of those two songs on nebula brb.
Update: it was dope. Got get Nebula.
Absolutely loved this video. Thanks!
I did NOT see the Braxton Burcks shout-out coming! Pokémon Reorchestrated is one of my favorite fan projects of anything ever, and it's soooo under appreciated. Awesome to see it pop up here!
His Gen 3 arrangements, Hoenn Summer, are absolutely incredible.
completly agree! Braxtons work is soooo fucking fantastic
You have no idea how quickly I jumped out of my seat at 14:33 when I recognized that chord progression from The Baka Mitai vid that 8-Bit Music theory made
Ah yes, I love Whitney crushing my soul in 8-bit
woooowww, these soundtracks are heartwarming and soul lifting.. hours and hours of joy were invested in these games. it is an awesome thing seeing someone break sound down in a respectful and beautiful way.
You are amazing. What a skill and thank you for sharing your knowledge
Yeah, we need more of this Charles. I could watch this for hours. One of my favorite videos I've seen recently. Here are a few more I'd love to see you check out:
-Violet City Theme
-Champion/Red Theme
-Vermillion City
-Ice Path/Dark Cave
-Rival Battle theme (Johto)
I could list a hundred more, but these are the first ones that come to mind. Seriously, would love to see more of this.
I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention the 8Bit Big Band, perhaps the best example of what happens when you explode 8bit music to a full orchestra.
They are among the best. They bring out what many composers tried to replicate when writing their music.
They show how, for example, Koji Kondo was influenced by latin jazz. (Sidenote: Koji was also influenced by what is now known as city pop.)
They deserve more subscribers.
Agree. Also love The Consouls - the best example of exploding 8-bit music into a jazz ensemble: th-cam.com/video/BiqDtkCoPb4/w-d-xo.html
Super soul Bros has the best Jazz adaptations in the game next to Insaneintherainmusic
i spent so much time in Ecruteak City just, listening to the music as a kid. it was my favorite music in gold/silver. great vid
What an amazing analysis and amazing breakdowns, hats off to you
Not 8-Bit (16 bit), but the Donkey Kong Country has super insane voicings, bass lines and makes amazing use of the SNES’ limited music hardware. David Wise was a genius
Yes!
The SNES actually wasn't super limited in terms of its sound hardware. It was mostly a space issue at that point; storing a bunch of long, complex, or high-quality samples on the cartridge wasn't exactly viable in most cases.
@@KidPrarchord95 Right, I guess I meant more in regards to a space limitation. A lot of interesting workarounds were made to compensate for the lack of storage space, which I think is really cool.
Holy smokes we need it! I can hear it now in my head let's find some Hidden Barrels!!!!!!!
Rare had their own proprietary sound chip...
So much nostalgia. It is amazing how sound becomes an icon of an era.
Hitting me right in the nostalgia, plus awesome rendition. Amazing!