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Super Smash Bros. (1999)

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The classic invincibility music from the Mario series makes an appearance as part of the corresponding item in Super Smash Bros. Its Latin influences are turned up to eleven, with a swag that has nothing to envy from Afrocuban music classics such as "Conga" by Miami Sound Machine. You can feel your body moving just with the sparkly glockenspiel who is as far removed from a Latin instrument as you could expect; it just goes to show how rhythm is at the core of these Latin styles ;It is here just to represent the sparkly star item. it just goes to show how rhythm is at the core of these Latin styles. That particular swing you cannot get out of notation, you must feel it in your bones.

The piece known to all mankind is just a little vamp between two chords, Dm7 and Cmaj7, the jazzy quota in the harmony. The bass has many ghost notes and you can see that the muted trumpet has a subliminal melody on top of the standard DuDuDUdududu tune. That is usually the main melody although it can also fulfill the role of accompaniment as it did on the WIng Cap music From Super Mario 64, where there is a string melody on top. The arranger from Super Smash Bros decided to use three glockenspiels panned center, L and R in order to wrap the listener in magic. So dance away while you are untouchable.

Naturally, the piece was written by Nintendo maestro Koji Kondo for the Super Mario Bros game on the NES. It has been used on practically every Mario related thing except bizarrely for Super Mario Land.

Here you can hear a deconstruction

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This is a music theory analysis and piano cover visualization project recreated with the original samples intended for the Nintendo 64 game. We can now dig inside the score for the first time; offering us a glimpse for how each instrument contributes to the whole.

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