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Bramble Blast (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) Jazz Cover - insaneintherainmusic Collective

So happy to be releasing this arrangement with the insaneintherainmusic Collective! I spent a lot of time in the Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros Brawl as a kid, and this particular song really stuck with me - it's one of the extremely rare occasions where a remix of a song from a different game ends up in another game, and takes on its own distinct personality. I wanted to transcribe and arrange this song so I could understand just how this arranging feat was achieved, and while we're a...

The Roost (Animal Crossing) Jazz Piano Arrangement

This was one of the first ever VGM tunes I learned how to play on the piano - I even covered it on my old YouTube channel before insaneintherainmusic was a while, nearly 10 years ago!  I decided to revisit it, and give it a romantic orchestra + piano solo kind of treatment. Some broadway vibes, and an original B section I wrote influenced by a lot of jazz ballads!

Hope you all enjoy! Next video will be a group collab with the insaneintherainmusic Collective friends!

A CYBER'S WORLD? Cover (Deltarune Chapter 2) - insaneintherainmusic Collective

Another Deltarune video from insaneintherain? Yep, you got it! Not sure if I'll do any more from Deltarune for the time being - Spamton's battle themes and this track were my two main favorite tunes from the soundtrack. Hope you've been enjoying these as much as I've enjoyed making them!

This video is particularly special since I'm working with a new group of musicians! I put together this band that we're calling the "insaneintherain Collective" (name extremely TBD lol), and this is our...

BIG SHOT Jazz Cover (Deltarune Chapter 2)

Happy to be covering music from Deltarune Chapter 2! For some reason, quite a few more tracks from Chapter 2 resonated with me than when Chapter 1 was first released, so you can probably expect to see a few more tunes coming out from Deltarune in the near future :)

This tune was highly requested, and it turned out fantastic! I'm pretty proud of this mix, and while it's not perfect by any means, it feels like a great step towards being able to produce the punchy jazz fusion tracks I love...

Route 113 Jazz Cover (Pokémon Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald) [2021 Version]

I first arranged this song for my first ever jazz arrangement album "Back To Your Littleroots" in 2014, and thought it would be fun to see how a new interpretation of this tune would turn out 7 years later! It blows my mind that that album is 7 years old. So much has happened since then, with friends, relationships, finishing college, and just life in general. One thing that's still absolutely true is that I love this tune and video game music as a whole, and I'll never stop sharing my apprec...

Treasure Town Broadway Orchestra Cover (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time / Darkness)

This is a song that I've loved for so many years, and I'm finally doing it! I also took the opportunity to sing a lead vocal part for this one, which is a channel first! It's been fun to learn a lot of new instruments recently, but I haven't really ever considered working on my own vocal skills... I think it's time to change that! Hope you all enjoy this one, straight from the heart :) 

What if Hollow Knight's Soundtrack was Jazz? (Rescoring Challenge)

It's finally out! Thank you all for your helpful feedback on the first edit of this video. I'm really excited to be trying this new format out. I think I'll try this with some other games in the near future. My current top picks are Donkey Kong Country, Xenoblade Chronicles, Celeste, and Chrono Trigger... but I'd love to hear what you guys have to say in the comments!

Since this is all original music, I can offer the songs for download to you Patrons! The files are attached to this post...

Hollow Knight Rescore Patreon Feedback!

Hi Patrons! I've got a special video for you all today, and I'm looking for feedback on this! I'm trying out another type of video on my channel that combines video game music with the original music that I've been writing lately: rescoring an existing video game! I chose Hollow Knight for this test run, and wrote 4 new pieces for the game as underscore, imagining that the game was scored using jazz.

I would love some feedback on this video before it goes live this coming Saturday! I've...

I'm Composing for Attorney of the Arcane!

Hey all, very excited to share with you my first credit as a composer for a game! Over the past year or so, I've become increasingly interested in writing music for games as opposed to just covering game tunes, and I've been given the opportunity to harness that interest into writing music for an actual video game! Very grateful to have the opportunity to pursue this!

I've written some music for Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, and we're currently raising funds on Indiegogo to s...

"Rooted in Tomorrow" - Video Game Hometown Theme (Original Song)

Here's another original composition called "Rooted in Tomorrow"! This one's based on a video game hometown theme! Full writeup as usual is in the description of the video :)

I just got back from a trip to San Diego to visit FamilyJules and Adrisaurus! It was super nice to see them again, and nice to get the creative juices flowing again.

Though it has been nice to release this original music lately, something feels just a bit off, and I'm not quite sure what it is yet. I thought t...

insaneintherainmusic - "Tactical" (Video Game Map Theme)

Feels so good to get back to making videos again! If you didn't see my return "announcement" video,  my next big project is going to be an album of original music based on video game music archetypes / tropes! I'm doing this to stretch out my composition chops, and also build a portfolio for myself of original compositions, of which I don't have too many!

For this tune, I chose a map-themed tune that's something like you might hear in a tactics game, like Fire Emblem, Advance Wars,...

Battle!! Torna (Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country) - Big Band Jazz Arrangement

Finally getting around to tackling this song, and in a one-man big band arrangement, too! This arrangement took quite a bit of time to record (there are 17 parts in this, all of which were played live), but it was worth it for this final result! I don't know how many of these one-man big band videos I'll be doing in the future... they take a lot of time to put together (and not every song needs to be performed in big band instrumentation!) Above all though, I'm glad to have this instrumentati...

"The Descent" - Original Composition by insaneintherainmusic

Another original composition! In an earlier Patreon vlog I mentioned something about doing a big original album project where I only publish original music in the style of video game music archetypes for a while. I still am into the idea, but have decided to hold off on launching the project a bit while I figure out some other stuff going on in my life first. For now, I've released "The Descent", which is a prologue-type composition! Pretty different from my other compositions or things that ...

insaneintherainmusic Studio Tour 2021

I finally filmed an updated Studio Tour! The last setup tour I did was back in the old blue room, done in 2016, and clearly, a LOT has changed since then! It's a long video, but I went into detail on every instrument I own, all my mics, all my video gear, all software I use, and some general questions I always get about my setup!

May 2021 Patreon-Exclusive Vlog

Here's the Patreon-exclusive vlog for the month! Quite a few new gear acquisitions this month, including some new piano and bass mics, a flat ride cymbal, and a new smaller bass drum! Also discussing a BIG potential future project involving some original compositions of mine...

Pigstep (Minecraft) Jazz Arrangement (feat. Lena Raine)

I'm so happy that this idea has finally come to fruition! I've loved listening to Pigstep ever since it came out, and I've been envisioning this arrangement for such a long time. Big thanks to Lena for joining me on this arrangement! I could talk about this arrangement for quite a while, but I already did in the video description LOL so if you want more info... go read that!

I just finished up work on a lot of commissions / external projects now, so I'm going to be starting some new arr...

Gangplank Galleon (Donkey Kong Country) Jazz Arrangement

It's pirate jazz time! Well, 30 seconds or so of pirate jazz, and then fast D minor swing with some trumpet and tenor duo action, but you get the point! Happy to finally be covering this wonderful VGM tune! I had a fun reharmonization idea come to me when I was on a walk a while back, and I was smart enough to record it via voice memo to turn it into a full arrangement! Hope you guys enjoy this one!

Pigstep was scheduled for this week, but I ended up finishing this video first, so Pigst...

April 2021 Patreon-Exclusive Vlog

April's Patreon-exclusive vlog is out! Somehow, I managed to not get a new instrument in all of March... crazy, I know! I talk about the videos that were uploaded to the channel, but more importantly, I also talk about the work I've been doing behind the scenes, which has been growing, and is very exciting! I'm working on a game soundtrack now, as well as a few other projects that I'm looking forward to sharing with you! I also answered a couple of questions from a Patron in this vlog. (And l...

Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64) Jazz Arrangement

This is my third time arranging Dire, Dire Docks for the channel, but I'm not complaining! This is one of my favorite video game melodies of all time, and it was so fun to get to stretch out my arranging chops a bit on a simple tune like this. Plus, this is my debut of soprano saxophone on the channel (well, debut if you don't count the couple of videos I played it in many years ago), since I own one now! I'm very excited to use it in future videos :)

As a reminder, I'm uploading videos...

You Will Know Our Names (Xenoblade Chronicles) Jazz Fusion Arrangement

(I neglected to add this video as a post on Patreon - whoops!) Xenoblade Chronicles is one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks (though it's beaten out by Xenoblade Chronicles 2, sorry, Engage the Enemy), and this has been a tune I've wanted to play from it for so long! I went for a Japanese Jazz Fusion vibe for this song, in the style of some other bands that I like such as H Zettrio, Jabberloop, and Fox Capture Plan. Hope you enjoy (or have enjoyed!)

"Feels Like Home" - Original Composition by insaneintherainmusic

Another original tune! I came up with this melody a few months ago, and finally figured out how I wanted to dress it up with an arrangement. "Feels Like Home" is a song about... well, home! It's nice to have a place to call home, especially in times like these. I composed this song mostly to function as a piece of background music in a game, so it's quite a bit less involved arrangement-wise than some of my other tunes, but I feel that's appropriate for the intended context.

Since this ...