🎬Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mp-Z35WtxLY

🎷🎹Shoutout to @insaneintherainmusic for sharing the piano backing track and giving me a fantastic excuse to try out big-band writing!

I've spent the last month doing a score study of @crosenmusic's arrangement of "Bob-omb Battlefield" from Super Mario 64 and used it to inform my own short rendition. This is also the first project where I used music notation via musescore to sketch the parts instead of recording straight into my computer🎼! It's definitely taken some time to get used to, but it made the job of learning to write and perform the 4-voice saxophone soli waayyy easier!

One of the hardest parts recording this was performing the high notes on trumpet and trombone🎺. With trumpet, I'm slowly figuring out the importance of ab-crunching the high notes to get that brash brassy sound associated with big-band jazz writing, and learning to "whistle" the upper pitches has allowed me to extend my range up to a semi-comfortable C6!

While recording, I also fell down the rabbit hole of learning the hammond b3 organ via Logic Pro X's stock virtual plugin -- it's really worth doing a deep dive into and I'm excited to feature more 3-voice organ playing in the future! ~I didn't realize just how well the left hand and foot pedals function as a bass replacement😊

I'd highly recommend checking out @the8bitbigband and their YouTube channel! I've learned so much from their score reductions!

Bob-omb Battlefield - Big Band Arrangement (ft. insaneintherain (piano)) ｜ 🎬Link in Description🎬

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Bob-omb Battlefield - Big Band Arrangement (ft. insaneintherain (piano)) ｜ 🎬Link in Description🎬

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