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Kingdom Hearts: Traverse Town Jazz Video Game Saxophone Cover (Patreon)

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It's taken me a while to follow up my Simple and Clean arrangement from last year with another Kingdom Hearts jazz arrangement, but I'm here to supply you with one now, finally!

Whenever I think of "video game saxophone" the first track I think of is Traverse Town. It's got one of the best uses of a classical-sounding alto saxophone in any video game soundtrack that I've heard! I haven't played through KH myself yet (a travesty I know), but I'll get there :)

Thanks to you Patrons, I was able to hire an mixer for this video! My friend Nick (guest collaborator on Green Hill Zone and the ACNL title theme) does a lot of mixing work, so I thought I'd have him tackle some of the mixing for this song! I like how things came out - let me know what you think of the overall audio in this video!

August is turning out to be a month of weekly uploads! This video and Together We Ride were the only videos I was planning on releasing in August, but I ended up releasing Lower Brinstar in the middle of things just for fun! As a reminder, make sure your monthly caps are set for Patreon - I wouldn't want to charge you with anything more than you're comfortable with, I am endlessly grateful for all of your support!

Speaking of weekly videos, there's another video coming out next week. And it's a big collaboration. 4 people total, to be exact! And it's from Earthbound / Mother. Get hyped.

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Kingdom Hearts: Traverse Town Jazz Video Game Saxophone Cover

"What a dream... This isn't a dream! Where am I? Oh, boy." Insaneintherainmusic's video game jazz saxophone cover of Traverse Town from Kingdom Hearts. 🎵 Spotify • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTownSpotify 🎵 iTunes • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTowniTunes 🎵 Apple Music • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTownAppleMusic 🎵 Google Play • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTownGooglePlay 🎵 Amazon Music • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTownAmazonMusic 🎵 Tidal • • • http://bit.ly/iitrTraverseTownTidal ♥️Watch more #KingdomHearts covers • • • http://bit.ly/iitrkingdomheartsplaylist 🎼 Sheet Music • • • http://bit.ly/2BAWl7P 🎷 Subscribe • • • http://bit.ly/insanesubscribe 🎵Submit a Song Request! • • • http://bit.ly/insaneintherainrequests ❤ Support my music on Patreon • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane 💬 Discord Server • • • https://discord.gg/Ju97889 When someone says "classic saxophone video game tune", tis is the first song that I think of. I haven't delved much into the KH series myself, apart from Chain of Memories, but I know this song holds a lot of memories for many people, so I thought I'd reignite those today :) While I was doing my "research" for this song's arrangement (which includes finding out composers, scoping out other arrangements, both remixes and official) I found an arrangement of this for Kingdom Hearts 3D, and really enjoyed it! I decided to incorporate a few elements from that version into my arrangement. These elements namely appear in the introduction, and throughout the piece as interludes between the melody sections! I also experimented a bit with arranging using techniques of modal brightness and darkness! There's a section after the bari sax solo over an F# pedal where the song progressively gets darker, just by changing the parent chord scale over the F# pedal. The brightness-darkness theory of music is one that Jacob Collier recently popularized with "negative harmony", but it's something that I've long experienced and dabbled in. Will you notice it? Who knows! I also have to thank my buddy Nick Smith for the mix on this video! We've been experimenting with having him mix some songs, and this video turned out very well! Let me know if anything particular catches your ear, and I'm sure Nick will hear about it in the comments below ;) ♫ “Traverse Town" from “Kingdom Hearts" composed by Yoko Shimomura Mixing by Nick Smith Video Editing by SunderCR SOCIAL MEDIA: 🐦 Twitter • • • https://twitter.com/insanerainmusic 📘 Facebook • • • https://www.facebook.com/Insaneintherainmusic 📷 Instagram • • • https://instagram.com/insaneintherainmusic ❤️ Patreon • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane ⚙️ Gear • • • https://www.amazon.com/shop/insaneintherainmusic 🔊 Distrokid VIP Link • • • http://distrokid.com/vip/insane