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Super Mario Bros. (1985)

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Title : Shell Rider
Artist : Christophe Blondel (as CarboHydroM)
Release date : 2006
Original : Overworld, Super Mario Bros., by Koji Kondo (Nintendo)

Official website : http://carbohydromusic.com
VGM arrangements repository : http://www.carbohydrom.net
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This is me playing my own arrangement of the overworld theme from Super Mario Bros., that is perhaps the most famous video game theme of all time. The original was, of course, originally written by Koji Kondo himself, for Nintendo.

I released this song back in 2006. You can listen to the studio version of my arrangement and find more details about how to get the song here : http://youtu.be/9vXMYcx54DA

This is not a difficult song at all. It's just that timing the notes is crucial, and in that regard my performance here is far from perfect ! The backing track is panned on the right, and leads I'm playing are on the left. Also if you want to figure out how to play it by watching my fingers, take into account that my guitar is baritone and is tuned in ADGCFAD.

Notes : to make things a bit trickier, I alternated between 2 playing styles. Let's call these "Mario-style" and "Luigi-style" :) The rules are as follow :
- Mario-style is played on bridge pickup, with bends and more emphasis on picking attack.
- Luigi-style is played on neck pickup (round tone), with slides and hammers/pull-offs to replace bends, and with a lighter picking attack.

I've added red and green annotations to help you figure them out !

Thanks for watching !

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