Comments on: Nintendo music with drums over it.

Nintendo music with drums over it.

Sticherbeast — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:27:21 -0800

TheNintendoDrummer plays drums over Nintendo music. Totally Rad. Castlevania 2. Ghosts and Goblins. Ninja Gaiden 2. Mega Man 9.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:03:46 -0800

I guess I am not the only one who (air-)drummed along to the NES back in the day. Love it, thanks.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:11:48 -0800

Very cool. Hope he does more stuff I've played at some point.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:12:45 -0800

Also I think I've now heard the Maniac Mansion theme song I always heard in my head as a kid.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:57:23 -0800

My man rushes those fast snare roll fills in that first link, though. He needs to work on that. He nailed the hell outta the tight little parts on "MegaMan 9 Wily Stage 2" and "Castlevania 2". Impressive! There, though, I kinda wish he didn't keep his hi-hats so loose the whole time. Some really crisp hat work there would've been nice, and would've made a good contrast with all the splashy cymbal work toward the end. On Ninja Gaiden 2 and Ghosts and Goblins I think the loose, swishy hats are appropriate. He's internalized these tunes, for sure. Now what'd be cool would be if he put together a band to do this stuff live: guitar, keyboards, bass... doing all Nintendo music. I reckon they'd get a following.

By: fuq

fuq — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:48:19 -0800

What happened to the rest of the Advantage?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:55:02 -0800

Man, I so wanted him to go off at the end of Ghosts & Goblins. Overall they were fairly restrained and surprisingly tight. Good stuff.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:32:43 -0800

I must link to Xoc now. Here and here.

By: schmod

schmod — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:33:01 -0800

I don't know why it is, but I absolutely love it when chiptunes use vibrato (and most of the songs he chose seem to feature it a lot).

By: lubujackson

lubujackson — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:50:13 -0800

Also check out the Minibosses (full rock covers of NES songs) and Anamanaguchi (uses NES as an instrument in a band).

By: ollyollyoxenfree

ollyollyoxenfree — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:58:51 -0800

Speaking of Nintendo-related music, the new Powerglove album is freaking awesome.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:15:41 -0800

Those are fun listens, and the public access-esque video production only helps!

By: sophist

sophist — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:55:14 -0800

Try this video of Andrea Vadrucci doing the Super Mario Theme for an example of a great drummer doing an amazing video game cover.

By: KillaSeal

KillaSeal — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:07:40 -0800

Pretty cool. I know that Os Gamboys is another band (a Brazilian one) that also does covers of classic video game music. You can also check out No Question, which does hip hop with video game music samples.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:01:26 -0800

Um, it's not a patch on this.

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:02:05 -0800

duracell is better

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:18:20 -0800

On non-preview, what fire&wings said

By: straight

straight — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:40:23 -0800

Much more enjoyable than I would have expected from reading the tin. I especially like his Kraid's Lair from Metroid.

By: luvcraft

luvcraft — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:39:24 -0800

these are great! The Ghosts and Goblins one ends up sounding like reggae with drums, and Kraid's lair turns into sort of a power ballad.

By: iamthetrend

iamthetrend — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:06:23 -0800

damn first time i have ever seen the nintendo drummer! definitely brought back some memories!

By: crLLC

crLLC — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:28:06 -0800

When I was in college, I was a jazz studies major for awhile. This reminds me of a friend of mine who played bass in the top jazz combo at our school. He did an arrangement of some Nintendo music for the combo. It was great to see these great jazz musicians who usually played stuff by Coltrane and Duke Ellington suddenly transition into the theme from Bionic Commando. Wynton Marsalis would not have approved, I'm sure.