Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Spear Pillar Suite (Battle Dialga / Palkia) || Sinnoh Fusion Ensemble (Patreon)

Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Spear Pillar Suite (Battle Dialga / Palkia) || Sinnoh Fusion Ensemble

The legendary deities of time and space probably headbang real hard whenever they visit Spear Pillar. Traveling through dimensions is serious business. Watch more Pokémon DPPT covers • • • http://bit.ly/iitrpokemonDPPTplaylist Stream / Download this Song • • • Coming soon! Sheet Music • • • http://bit.ly/35J35KM Support my music on Patreon (Recurring donations) • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane Support my music on Ko-Fi (One-time donations) • • • https://ko-fi.com/insaneintherain Year of Sinnoh Finances • • • http://bit.ly/sinnohfinances The last of the Sinnoh Fusion Ensemble videos, yay! And I'm happy to be ending off on this tune. After ascending Mt. Coronet, we've finally made it to the intense Spear Pillar to battle against Dialga & Palkia at the climax of the journey through the Sinnoh region. What a crazy moment this is to experience in game. Onto the song itself! When I was arranging this, I knew I wanted to include both the Spear Pillar theme and the Dialga Palkia battle theme, since they're really closely intertwined. I had this crazy idea to go full on metal chug with Spear Pillar... and oh my gosh it turned out so well. Whenever this band has played Spear Pillar live, people are always so so so surprised by how hard it rocks (and the fact that it's a jazz ensemble doing it!). I also wanted to incorporate some weird, aleatoric out of time stuff into this arrangement, which is what the first 50 seconds or so of this arrangement are. Check out the notation I used for it, it's pretty crazy! There are three big hits during that 50 second duration (which you can see me conducting in the video), intended to represent the three beings of time, space, and distortion making their way to Spear Pillar! (There are also literal explosion samples in the mix layered in to add some beefiness haha, they're mixed pretty low though.) I tried actually sampling the cries of Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, but I wouldn't be able to use them in the audio due to licensing restrictions. Instead, I had the horns play a really slow version of the Spear Pillar motif, and follow it with multiphonics / random notes. Spear Pillar also has a few secrets hidden too! The section at 1:34 uses the chord progression during the "chorus" of Mt. Coronet, intended as an allusion to the journey you had to take as a player before getting to the summit! Additionally, the piano is playing a transposed version of the opening piano bit from the Battle Dialga / Palkia theme. Lots of references to the past and future crammed in there! The trumpet solo that follows it is honestly one of my favorite solos ever... we had some pedals set up running through that EV RE-20 mic you see in the vid, but I ended up "re-affecting" it in post with some delay, auto-wah, and pitch shift. With the wah and pitch effects, the solo kind of sounds like some distorted Pokémon crying out or something... maybe one of the three deities? Just like with the Sinnoh Trainer Battle theme, I had a hard time arranging this legendary battle theme. Fortunately, there was a bit more interesting original material that I had to play around with, especially the sections at 4:18 and 4:45! The section at 4:18 alternates between 4/4 and 6/4, but the drums hit every three beats. 4 + 6 = 10, which isn't evenly divided by 3, so the drum pattern underneath the ostinato is really really interesting. On top of that, the piano comes in with a pattern at 4:25 that repeats every 2 beats, so it's like a really slow 3:2 polyrhythm that goes over alternating 4/4 and 6/4... super cool. The section at 4:45 is in 7/4 (what?? I remember being so shocked that it was this way in the OST haha) but it's only about 4 bars long in the original, so I leaned into it to make it longer, along with a cool riff beneath it :) Electric Violin - Emily Gelineau Trumpet (Solo) - Lachie Day Trumpet - Richard Stanmeyer Tenor Saxophone - Carlos Eiene Tenor Saxophone - Trace Zacur Trombone - Auden Durant Electric Guitar - Spiro Dussias Piano - Yoko Suzuki Rhodes, Synth - Jonathan Huber Electric Bass - Alan “Speedy” Peralta Drumset - Francis Peña Percussion - Ricky Matute Recording Engineer - Joel Edinberg Mixing & Mastering - Carlos Eiene Videography - Peter Gillette, Jen Bongarzone, Frank Muniz, Madeline Motyczka Video Editing - Carlos Eiene ♫ "Spear Pillar" from "Pokémon Diamond & Pearl" composed by Go Ichinose & Junichi Masuda ♫ "Battle! Dialga / Palkia" from "Pokémon Diamond & Pearl" composed by Junichi Masuda 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 Discord Sever • • • https://discord.gg/Ju97889 Distrokid VIP Link • • • http://distrokid.com/vip/insane #yearofsinnoh #sinnoh #lofi