Journey to Silius (NES) - Stage 2 Theme (All Instrument Cover)

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Journey to Silius is a game from late in the life cycle of the NES released in 1990 that I never played, but recently discovered the soundtrack is simply top notch! Bass lines in the proper register for bass, big melodic hooks, and legit arrangement of percussion tracks, what more could you want on an NES soundtrack!
The arrangement of this song is somewhat straightforward melodically in B Minor, but contains alot of detailed nuance, particularly on the percussion arrangement. The song is essentially split into three different parts, an intro, a melodic verse type section, and a delay chorus type part, which takes three full sequences to cycle. This is pretty epic length for a song on the NES. The bass line is melodically simple, but it's broken into a number of different 16th note patterns, with an occasional octave up note accent. It's reminiscent of old school funk style bass line, but with a very aggressive driving 16th note pulse. The lead melody, while fairly minimalist, is extremely memorable in all three of its cycles.
For tracking, I double tracked the guitar melody through the Fender Cybertwin, and added a third tapped guitar direct into Reaper for the delay sequence. Bass was also direct into Reaper. I opted to play the bass part with a double thumb because I couldn't grab the octave note accents any other way. The original percussion part of the song on the NES contains an unusually complex kick drum part during the verse sections that contains at least 4 different iterations. I opted to simplify the part into something slightly more traditional but tried to keep key accents on the open hihat, and to keep the snare rolls and imply similar drum fills over the delay section.
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@stephenkain6603 Ай бұрын

Underrated song

@thesosomusician Ай бұрын

This was one of those rare gems I discovered well past my NES days, the whole soundtrack is out of control on this one. Those Sunsoft NES games have great tunes!

@melvinesquilin3354 Жыл бұрын

I was shocked when I saw this KZbin post, I could say a dream come true for me, Rock on!

@thesosomusician Жыл бұрын

Cheers! I'd just discovered the soundtrack to this game when I recorded this track, I can't believe how good it is, particularly this song!

@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers Жыл бұрын

Someday I want to learn the Stage Theme 03, that one is super duper catchy. I remember having that downloaded despite not having played the game lol.

@thesosomusician Жыл бұрын

The Stage 3 Theme has been on my radar for awhile, I'm definitely going to return to this soundtrack at some point, just not sure when. I never played this game either, but the soundtrack is mind blowingly good!

@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers Жыл бұрын

@@thesosomusician it really is lol

@antessodoquemalacompanhado273 3 жыл бұрын

Essa é a MELHOR MÚSICA DA HISTÓRIA do NES. A Sunsoft era genial com seus canais de audio revolucionários para o 8 bits, mas tenho que reconhecer que a genialidade do Naoki Kodaka. Aliás, se não me engano, esta é a música mais longa de uma fase do NES

@thesosomusician 3 жыл бұрын

Gracias! I had to run that through google translate, and I completely agree! Sunsoft really was in a league of its own in terms of music consistency from game to game, and the Kodaka soundtracks of Blaster Master, Batman, and Gremlins 2 (and Journey to Silius as I recently discovered!) are top notch! Stay tuned, I'm actually posting a new Sunsoft cover in the next day or two, I just finished the mix this afternoon