Banjo Kazooie "TREASURE TROVE COVE" - METAL Cover (Patreon)
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Hey everyone! Here is the final video for my celebratory metal cover of the amazing Treasure Trove Cove theme from Banjo Kazooie!
So the obvious thing here is that AAHH BANJO IS IN SMASH! For those who maybe aren't familiar with BK or aren't sure why it's so hype. Basically Banjo Kazooie was a huge game for the N64 but a few years later, the development company was purchased by Microsoft and the series kind of fizzled away, leaving us BK fans a bit sad feeling like BK will never return to Nintendo. But here we are with BK back on a Nintendo Console and damn, I honestly never thought it would happen. Maybe we'll get a new game soon!
But let's talk about the cover, TTC is one of my favorite themes from the BK series with it's amazingly catchy melodies and absolutely insane chord progressions. Ive always jammed this theme on guitar for years so it was super easy to re-learn some of these melodies.
Arranging this piece was actually pretty challenging because I really wanted to incorporate those iconic marimbas and percussion from the original to get this 50/50 blend of metal with the original. This gave me a lot of choices to figure out how I would want to incorporate them and where to put them.
But as far as the actual recording and playing went, It was a walk in the park and I had such a blast jamming these nostalgic melodies.
I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I enjoyed working on it. Thanks so much for your amazing support and let's get hype for BK in smash!
~ Jack / ToxicxEternity