Jack in, Saxman, execute!
Well, this is something new for the channel! Since returning to creating RU-vid videos, I've been at work on some big projects that are going to take a long time to complete. While working on those projects, though, I got the itch to make something a bit more simple that I could produce myself... and that's where the idea of a saxapella came in! Despite becoming interested in many different instruments over the years, saxophone is still my primary instrument, and it's the instrument I feel the most comfortable expressing myself on. I thought it'd be fun to make a video where I only use saxophone to see how much I can get out of the saxophone family. I've done this once before with my arrangement of "Mario Raceway", but there were drums in that video, and I didn't own an alto or soprano saxophone, so I was a bit limited in what I could do.
When I was picking a song for this, this song immediately jumped to mind! I am a huge fan of the music from the Megaman Battle Network series, since after playing a ton of Pokémon as a kid, I ended up sinking my time into Battle Network because I just couldn't get enough of that kind of RPG. BN6 is my favorite Battle Network game, and it comes with an absolutely incredible boss battle theme that never fails to get me hyped when I hear it. I've considered arranging this for a while, but the arpeggios and technicality necessarily to pull off this arrangement definitely intimidated me and made me question what kind of ensemble this could be arranged for. With the saxapella, though, it actually worked super well. Though it forced me to play an altissimo G on soprano sax (yuck!) this arrangement actually translated really well to saxophones! I had a lot of fun practicing to get the fast arpeggios in this theme down best I could.
Hope you enjoy! I don't expect this kind of video to become the primary content of the channel anytime soon, but I figured this would be a fun experiment :)
♫ "Surge of Power" from "Megaman Battle Network 6" composed by Yoshino Aoki
Gameplay footage by ethan0248910 ( • Megaman Battle Network... )
🎼 Sheet Music of this arrangement • • • bit.ly/3R9Fqhu
LINKS:
❤️ Support my music on Patreon • • • bit.ly/supportinsane
🎷 insaneintherainmusic Signature SYOS Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece • • • www.syos.co/en/artists/carlos...
SOCIAL MEDIA:
🐦 Twitter • • • / insanerainmusic
📷 Instagram • • • / insaneintherainmusic
❤️ Patreon • • • bit.ly/supportinsane
💬 Discord Server • • • / discord
20 ноя 2023
