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Explaining Super Mario Bros.' Underground Theme

Here's the latest video, enjoy!

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Zelda's Lullaby YouTube Short

Trying out something new here, if you want a little extra snippet of music theory for your day check out this short I put together about the reharmonized Zelda's Lullaby that shows up at the end of Tears of the Kingdom!

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The Music of Zelda’s Best Ending

Here’s the new vid, this one was super fun to make! Enjoy!

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I'm gonna be at MAGFest! Here's my schedule!

Hey everyone! I'm going to be at MAGFest this weekend doing some panels and playing some music, and I thought I'd share my schedule here in case any of you are at Mag and want to check my stuff out!

THURSDAY:
6:00pm, the Belvedere Lobby Bar: I'll be playing a set of arrangements of video game tunes with my buddies Robbie Benson, Howie Dietz, and Brian Sheu. If you caught our set at VGMCon last spring you already know it'll be liiiit

8:30pm, Panels 5: I'll be doing a panel bre...

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Where I'll be in the real world in the next few weeks:

A couple opportunities to see my real, in-person face this month:

I'm gonna be in San Jose at MAGWest from Aug 19-21, hosting a panel and moderating a Composers' Roundtable with some serious heavy hitters! Definitely gonna be a great convention to check out if you're in the area!

I'm also playing a local gig in Winnipeg, MB with my band The Single Players on August 12 at Park Alleys! If any of you are in Winnipeg and wanna hear tunes from my album played live come check it out!<...

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I've been on some stuff!

I did an episode of a podcast a few months ago where I had to rearrange Auld Lang Syne and talk about the process, it was super fun and I just realized I never posted about it anywhere! Oops! Here it is, the podcast is called A Strange Arrangement: https://astrangearrangement.podbean.com/e/ep-8-8-bit-music-theory/

I also did an interview a little while ago with the Association for...

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Let's Play is OUT NOOOOOOWOWWWWWW

I'm so excited to finally share this with you all! I hope you check it out and enjoy it! Here's a link to the Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ZQIvQFPv4LU8jcoLiR2531AIu7mUWJx

Spotify and apple music links are in the description of each video!

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8-bit Music Theory Album Release Date Announcement!

Big news! I've arranged and recorded an album that will be released next week!

The album features arrangements of some of my favourite tracks from some of my favourite GameCube games, performed in a jazz fusion style. I've been working on this project for a long time behind the scenes, and I'm very excited and nervous to finally share it with you all! If this seems like something you'd be into I hope you look forward to its release on May 13th, if it does not seem like something you'd ...

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8-bit Guest Appearances List

I have compiled a list of some guest appearances I've done in other channels' videos, just in case some of you who would be interested missed them!

Making Advanced™️ Kids Music (odd meters, metric Modulation, etc) - https://youtu.be/cC8KT07m5aY
- A bunch of Youtubers tried to arrange childrens' songs using advanced rhythmic concepts.

5 Composers Choose each other SONG LYRICS ft. Aimee Nolte, 8-bit Music ...

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