Super Mario 64: Dire Dire Docks - Piano/Woodwinds Cover (feat. SmartGamePiano)

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Published on September 18, 2020 4:00:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ca9Ww2wEQ

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Super Mario 64 (1996)

Duration: 2:57

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This video is a piano and woodwinds arrangement of "Dire Dire Docks" from the game Super Mario 64, originally composed by Koji Kondo.

🎹 Piano: SmartGamePiano (Sydney Kjerstad) (https://rb.gy/dnqatv)
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🎵 Oboe, English Horn, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals: Brooke Ferd

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This video was a lot of work, but a joy to make and a lot of fun to work with SmartGamePiano. I met Sydney at MAGWest back in 2019 and we saw each other again at MAGFest in 2020. She is an excellent pianist and awesome person, thank you Sydney for contributing a heartfelt piano performance ❤️

For the arrangement, it was my intent to minimally change the original tempo and style. The original has such a beautiful, dreamlike quality, and with my matching instrumentation I didn't want to produce something drastically different. I added some woodwind layers, seventh chords, and light orchestral percussion to round out the emptiness and topped it off with a soft string pad. I adjusted the final mix several times, keeping it as high as possible without clipping, as the final audio was fairly quiet with lots of instruments that stuck out (even low range oboe cuts through like crazy!!) The piano plugin I used was actually a stock plugin, which I loved so much I decided to keep it in.

For the video, boiiiiiii was it a process! I had to return to the beach two separate occasions because of the smoke from the California fires. It was still too overcast for my liking, but it is what it is. I showed up to the pier at 5:30 in the morning, was NOT prepared for the cold winds and crowds (even for early morning). Hoping that the disasters subside and my thoughts/prayers are with everyone affected by our awful fires.

Hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you next video!

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