Mother 3 - Serious║Reorchestration

A reorchestration of the Serious battle theme from Mother 3. It was originally composed by Shogo Sakai, and therefore all rights go to him, HAL Laboratory, Brownie Brown, Nintendo and Tokyo Itoi Shigesato Office.
The Mother/ Earthbound series has had a long history with breaking the mould when it comes to game soundtracks. Earthbound used musical sampling to great effect, with samples from Monty Python to The Beach Boys and of course, The Beatles. Mother 3, while unable to use sampling to such a great extent (thanks to the limitations of the GBA's memory and sound card), in my own humble opinion, still manages to hold its own. A perfect mix of quirkiness, originality and just plain old fun that all combine into an album's worth of tracks able to easily give you stuck song syndrome, very quickly.
(This track in particular I had never had any thought of covering until I listened to the OST a week ago. Long story short - here we are now; One, three, one-two-three, one-two-three-four, two-three...)
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[@VECK88]

0:13 You wanna skip the intro ? Here .

[@blustickman0285]

Thx man

[@MasterHandFinalDestination]

I like how heroic this remix is.

[@aidanwilson2389]

I absolutely love this. Serious is one of my favorite battle themes from Mother 3, and I was very happy to find such an amazing reorchestration.

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Thank you so much Aidan! I'm super glad you enjoyed it. Serious, seriously is such an amazing tune.

[@Speedowagone]

A couple years back I was shocked at how little covers of Serious/Fate existed. And now I’ve found the best one of them all. It’s been on repeat for 40 minutes now while I draw. Amazing work.

[@ndmt1225]

Love your take on this theme! In my opinion, mother 3 had the best battle music in the series. Don’t know why, but this rendition in particular kinda reminds me of the track hard rain

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Thank you so much! : ) - I gotta agree about 3 having the best battle music, I can't really name a track I don't really like, haha! I also get that connection to Hard Rain... might be the layered stereo guitars I've added in? I'll definitely also add it to my list of future tracks to cover!

[@ndmt1225]

I’ve also been working on my own cover of hard rain - the acoustic guitar and the synths are easy enough for me to play, and doing some of the instrumentation with my own instruments has been a goal of mine. The bass line, however....

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Oh cool, I can't wait to hear it! Good luck with the bassline, haha - that's certainly gonna be quite the challenge

[@ryancarandang4489]

Dang this is under appreciated

[@NayruYT]

Mother has the best music, and this is a great cover of it, as always, Also I thought you'd like to know that I have about 6 of your tracks in my playlist for my Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and my players have commented on the music positively ;)

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Thank you so much as always! : ) It's always so amazing to hear that my reorchestrations are being included/used for a variety of stuff - tell your players thanks from me!

[@nintendork57youtubeedition92]

This is just amazing. Also here's something funny, a few weeks back I got it stuck in my head but couldn't remember where it came from despite how many times I went through the soundtrack.

[@Huetete]

Hey, sounds really good! Imo, maybe if you'd use a more accentuated marcato on French horn you would have get an enhanced effect.

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Thank you so much! I definitely agree that giving the horns some more attack would've worked brilliantly - I'll be sure to keep that in mind if I ever cover any more of the Mother 3 OST, thank you!

[@flinch2440]

1:09

[@AsifAhmed-xb3ef]

Damn....this remix is really good Can't stop listening to it bruh

[@blustickman0285]

I like that long intro before the real melody!

[@williammerwin1850]

I guess you could call it Serious - Reconstructed

[@burneraccount7052]

Rad

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Thanks! : )

[@AlastairGames]

beautiful thanks! Have to check out your other Mother 3 songs now

[@cryptidcloud]

THANKS THIS IS DOPE AF

[@aymanaboufarise4346]

So good, I'm sad I didn't find this earlier!

[@AT-js7hg]

very noice

[@painzilla7573]

Hey dude, could I use this for a Mother-based project with credit?

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

Hi there - sure thing! Best of luck with it : )

[@painzilla7573]

@@MatthewNewsomeComposer Thanks mate.

[@TsukiStuffs]

Do I hear some Pokemon bw2 soundfonts for the guitar? I might be wrong

[@MatthewNewsomeComposer]

TsukiStuffs - wow, what an amazing ear you have! I sure did use the guitar soundfonts from B&W 2, layered in with a couple of other guitar samples! : )

[@itsCbomb]

Beginning sounded straight outta original Doom

[@Marco_Dugs]

Reddit brought me here.

[@rob3106]

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[@DexieTheSheep]

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