Paragliding

You recall the previous video of some members of this band sight-reading the piano score I made. Well, they liked it so much that they made their own arrangement based on that piano score for the whole band to play.

Percussion: Kitty Wilson
Violin: Mary Preston
Piano: Tom Brier
Tuba: Brian Schlegel
Euphonium: George Preston
Piccolo: Julia Riley

Brian is the band’s backup tuba player.

You can download the piano score that I made here: http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/music/yoshiath.pdf

Because they’re playing based off the piano score, you don’t get the overlapping melodies like the original tune had, or the syncopated chords in the background. I should suggest that Mary play the previous bars there when the piano and percussion do a solo. I think that would sound best.

I wasn’t going to post this one first, but George mentioned after they played this that one will be able to find it on YouTube, so here it is.

This is from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, and was composed by Koji Kondo (近藤 浩治).

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Castle numbe 6 of The Unworld. This castle really is like a fitness center- there are all kinds of sprites to dodge, jumps to make, and a single mistake may cause you to lose a life. A workout for mario, a workout for your fingers!

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Music: Athletic Theme
Game: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Franchise: Super Mario

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You can view the sheet music they are reading here:
http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/music/yoshiath.pdf

Thanks to YouTubers Quietschquatsch and Raphy013 for the music suggestion a few days ago!

Not only did Tom find this a fun tune to play, but, as you’ll see, flautist Julia Riley and tubaist (tubist?) Mark Meeker decided to join in as well!

After Tom’s first sight-read, you hear Julia mention another Nintendo videogame tune that she liked. That was K.K. Ragtime. A short time later, Tom and Julia played it from memory! I’ll have to post the video of that moment at a later date. It was fully evolved into a fleshed-out rag arrangement, much like the second run through this tune from Super Mario World 2 in this video.

This tune was composed by Koji Kondo (近藤浩治). It is also known as “Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts” by some people, but in a concert video of Nintendo video game music at which the composer was in attendance, the title that appears clearly reads (if you read Japanese, anyway) simply “Yosshii Island Athletic Theme”.

You can purchase Tom’s latest album here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/tombrier

One of these days I have to get Tom to play Spinach Rag from the Final Fantasy games again… I made a score for him to read years ago, before I had a camera.

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