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Music: Ground Theme
Composer: Koji Kondo
Game: Super Mario All-Stars / Super Mario Bros.

Music deconstruction of the Super Mario Bros. Theme.

The main theme of the series is a piece that we have already covered. You can read the relevant articles here: https://videogamemusicshrine.com/supe...

For details about the composer, the history of Mario and his theme song

This one is a comparison between the original NES version made with just the five channel available and the arrangement made by Soyo Oka where the calypso track has fully blossomed.

We covered the original tack as part of the Super Smash Bros series but still it was not a perfect recreation of the NES original. You see, the arranger, free from the 8-bit restrictions, sneakily used three pulse tones to form some of the chords of the chordal melody, the original had to drift the bass player to perform low chord voice duty from time to time, which accounts for the leaps in the triangle wave here; remember the bass sometimes is part of the chord and it is only in the B Section where it becomes a proper bass line.

The composer of the original Mario Kart has some idiosyncrasies of her own. Beyond the obvious instrument upgrades and the fact that the intended steel pans can now play the melody, she makes the piece with even more Latin flavour, allowing you to dance as opposed to bounce like in the NES version. For starters, while the original only had a swing feel for the percussion, this one brings also the bass line into the groove. Other instruments perform some licks when they find space within the main melody.

Some slight modifications to the original melody also take place like the endings of the phrases in the A Section where one note is displaced by an eight to create even more syncopation than in the original. The steel pan melodies also add ornamentations of their own. The triangle wave is retained and just plays one lick during Section C reminiscent of the boss battle intro cue from Super Mario Bros. 3.

The most changed aspect is the new bass line which adds notes of its own and even more decorations than the humble triangle wave. What other differences can you perceive between these two tracks?

This is also the first time that I actually notice that all these titles had a period after Bros.

Stay tuned for more content. Um currently revamping the music analyses of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at the site

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This is a music theory analysis and piano cover visualization project recreated with the original instrument tracks meant for the OST of game. Extracted with a specialized audio software, we can now dig inside the scores and ost for the first time, offering us a glimpse for how each instrument contributes to the whole.

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