Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64) Jazz Arrangement

Can any video game music cover artist do Dire, Dire Docks too many times? I don't think so! Oh also, I got a soprano sax.

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I love Dire, Dire Docks! In my first year of making music videos, I recorded a piano and soprano sax version of Dire, Dire Docks, using a soprano sax that I borrowed from a friend at my high school. I also arranged a version of Dire, Dire Docks for the Mulitplayer II Charity Album that I participated in back in 2016. If my new trend is making a cover of Dire, Dire Docks every 4 or 5 years, I guess that means I'm due for another one come 2025 - 2026 :)

Since then, I've never had the chance to play soprano sax... until now! I decided to complete my saxophone family (the 4 most common ones, at least) with a soprano sax! This is a Yamaha Custom Z, and oh my goodness, does it play well. Pretty much all saxes have intonation issues (soprano sax especially), but this one manages to play pretty well! Really looking forward to using it more in the future, possibly for some sax quartet stuff!

Dire, Dire Docks is such a beautiful melody. It's one of my go-to melodies when I sit down at a new piano I haven't played before, just because the melody is so great, and the harmony has just the right amount of lushness to it! I took it up a notch with this arrangement, adding a decent bit of reharm and meter changes, nothing too crazy, though! The duet combination of soprano sax and flugelhorn was a really interesting one to try (somewhat inspired by Quincy Jone's big band tune "Grace"), and I think it worked out super well in this mix! I am also SUPER happy with the piano and drum sounds in this mix - I used some mics I already had in some different ways on the piano and the drum overheads, and MAN they added so much! This is definitely one of my favorite-sounding arrangements I've produced, for sure!

Hope you enjoy! As a reminder, I'm still uploading every other week from now on. This gives me more time to work on outside business (of which I have a good amount of currently), and work towards cool opportunities for the channel... one of which you'll see in the next video!

♫ "Dire, Dire Docks" composed by Koji Kondo
Mix by @Julia Henderson
Video Edit by Pete Giltette https://twitter.com/djSteamyPete

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