Gangplank Galleon (Donkey Kong Country) Jazz Arrangement

You need abs like King K Rool to be able to play high notes on trumpet... that's how it works, right? Stream this track • • • https://song.link/us/i/1563027543 Sheet Music • • • https://bit.ly/3CMP545 Support my music on Patreon • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane insaneintherainmusic Signature SYOS Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece (Use discount code "INSANESYOS" for $10 off!) • • •https://www.syos.co/en/artists/carlos-eiene Pirate-infused jazz is something you never knew you needed until today! I played through DKC as a kid, and I think I do remember beating King K. Rool! I actually knew him from DK64 first (the N64 collectathon game that I grew up), so I was used to seeing him with boxing gloves! Gangplank Galleon has long been on my list of tunes to cover, and I randomly came up with a cool reharm that I thought would be really useful for writing an arrangement of it. Gangplank Galleon's harmony, at least after the opening march section is pretty limited (mostly just staying in D minor), and while that works well for the original tune, I wanted to spice it up a bit! In a Twitch stream of mine, I spent some time comping up with a couple of different reharms for this tune, using both in this arrangement - one is the "main reharm" that the melody and solos are over, and the other is used at 4:24 underneath the build back to the main melody at the end. Most notably, this arrangement features the most usage of trumpet yet in any one of my arrangements! I challenged myself with some fanfares during the march section of the video, and a whole trumpet solo. It took a lot of takes to get the parts right (and a lot of what you hear apart from the solo is comping of mulitple takes aided by some Melodyne), but I'm pretty happy with how the brass inclusion shaped up in this video. Sometimes, I find it funny how my channel icon is still the white saxophone on the blue background, when in actuality, that's not so much the focus of the channel anymore, these days! Of course, tenor sax will always be my primary instrument, but bringing in other instruments has really helped me get some additional cool colors! ♫ "Gang-Plank Galleon" composed by David Wise Mix and Video edit by me! SOCIAL MEDIA: 🐦 Twitter • • • https://twitter.com/insanerainmusic 📘 Facebook • • • https://www.facebook.com/Insaneintherainmusic 📷 Instagram • • • https://instagram.com/insaneintherainmusic ❤️ Patreon • • • http://bit.ly/supportinsane ⚙️ Gear • • • https://www.amazon.com/shop/insaneintherainmusic 💬 Discord Sever • • • https://discord.gg/Ju97889

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