Fire Shark (Genesis) - Stage 1 Theme (All Instrument Theme)

Here's a cover of the theme from the first stage of Fire Shark released in 1990 on Sega Genesis! Fire Shark is a game I'd never heard of before, but when I got tipped off about the soundtrack, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it sounded like a Mega Man song run through an Iron Maiden filter, pretty epic stuff loaded with excellent twin harmonies at almost all times!
For tracking this song, I tried to lean into what I felt was a pretty Iron Maiden-esque arangement by playing drums more in line with something that Nicko McBrain might play. And even though I generally play uptempo bass more accurately with a pick, I went for no pick which I discovered was a good idea as a few of the bass parts late in the song have some string skipping that would've been rough with a pick. The main melodies I played on guitar, however, to channel the crazy phasey sound of the main lead melody from the OST, I added a pretty crazy Surge XT patch as an extra texture. Finally, to not go too Maiden on the arrangement, rather than add power chord heavy rhythm guitars, I wrote some minimal keyboard parts to fill in the arrangement with strings.
Overall, this was a real gem of a song to discover, and I had a blast putting it together, particularly hearing all the harmonies arranged on guitar! Definitely one of the more fun things I've encountered running this YT page are discovering songs like this that I probably otherwise would've never encountered, let alone learned to play!
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[@doggtown]

CANT STOP HEAD BANGGIN' LETS GO BRO! SO FUCKING GOOD.

[@thesosomusician]

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[@doggtown]

That Black metal part, kinda just want an "immortal" death drone even deeper on that, but damn, great composition my friend, I can see that your wu tang styles are strong, keep bringing the ruckus.

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers! I wrestled a bit on this one whether to try and add rhythm guitars, they would've made it heavier, but I felt the main melodies were so strong, I didn't want to muddy up those harmonies. The original track is so rocking that even though my approach was Iron Maiden, I still had to rock the double kick and some grinds!

[@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers]

Sounds nice man. I've never heard of it, but I can see the Mega Man vibe. The bass parts looked/sounded cool in particular.

[@thesosomusician]

Totally, one of those hidden gems of a track, at least to someone like me who never owned a Genesis! Being able to play a bass line like this without a pick is definitely a reason I did this channel, I definitely couldn't pull this bass line off 2-3 years ago.

[@fmguitars]

🎉

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers!!!