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Pokémon DPPt: Stark Mountain Jazz Video Game Saxophone Cover (Patreon)

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Another Gen 4 cover! I was actually originally planning to release Lifelight today, but it's going to need more work than I thought! That'll be the next upload, and I'm confident it's going to blow many of your minds with what I've done with it :)

Anyway, this song! I applied some latin samba elements to the original Stark Mountain theme, and came up with a pretty cool groove that starts after the song's intro! There are some also cool flute and aux percussion bits!

Hope you guys enjoy! I won't be posting until after the holidays, so I hope everybody has a wonderful time with your close loved ones at the end of the year! Also, MAGFest is near... will I see any of you there?

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Pokémon DPPt: Stark Mountain Jazz Video Game Saxophone Cover

It's time to bongo. Insaneintherainmusic's video game jazz saxophone cover of Stark Mountain from Pokémon DPPt. 🎵 Will be available for download soon! In the meantime, you can click the link to get notified when this song is available on other platforms! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/insaneintherainmusic/fR9y 💎Watch more #PokémonDPPT covers • • • http://bit.ly/iitrpokemonDPPTplaylist 🎼 Sheet Music • • • http://bit.ly/2BmbB5n 🎷 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 I'm continuing on my train of Pokémon Gen 4 music! This track in particular has always intimidated me a bit - it's super complex and hard to navigate, just like the original dungeon! For the longest time I wasn't sure how I was going to arrange this song. That all changed when I figured out how to play the piano part that comes in at 1:21 in this arrangement! I decided to take Stark Mountain's volcanic heat energy and turn that into a hot salsa latin jazz kind of thing! Stark Mountain's main melody is really angular and rhythmic, so it worked really well when layered on top of some latin rhythms. I was inspired by a piece I played in high school called "Arabesque" for some of the percussion-heavy interludes in this piece, with the bari sax honking out some glorious low A's as well. Memories of a piece I played in All-State band in high school called "The Time is Now" by Elaine Elias came back to me as well, and really helped guide me through the process of incorporating latin music elements! I was also very happy to get to use my keyboard's percussion sample pads for the bongo solo! You may also notice the change of scenery in the saxophone and flute videos! These were recorded at a studio near me in Boston called The Record Company. I had a session there with my former roommate Nick Smith, and we tracked a bunch of stuff for upcoming covers! It was cool to record some stuff for this channel in a real studio, although playing saxophone and flute parts for 3.5 hours straight was a bit of a challenge! ♫ “Stark Mountain" from “Pokémon DPPt" composed by Go Ichinose (一之瀬剛) 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