Bound Steel | Super Mario Paint Original Composition
11=== This original piece was requested by Stad on Discord. You may share your video ideas in the comments or by direct messaging me. ===
As was requested to me, I had two main ideas in mind while creating this: a dark-sounding protagonist theme, and chains as part of the percussion. Following those two guidelines, I decided to make use of two main tricks in order to give this theme a dark and unsettling sound. The former was to use dark-sounding scales, more specifically Aeolian, Phrygian and harmonic minor. The latter was to intentionally detune two of the soundfont's instruments, thus making them slightly dissonant with the rest of the instrumentation. However, the composition's mood doesn't remain the same throughout, so be prepared for this.
I used Super Mario Paint's latest version, as well as CyanSMP64's Gen 5 Pokemon soundfont, in order to make this. The main key is Bb minor and the BPM is 130. I hope you enjoy.