Early Practice

With the help of other players in the group we set out by figuring out what we wanted to perform. You’ve probaly seen the Mario Kart Live Band trend going on. So we though, what the heck. And started transcribing music for our band. As a 5-piece we needed to take the music from Mario Kart 8 and condense it down to our setup. We listened to all the tracks, used resources available to us to fit the music in. Eventually we had enough to get rehearsals underway.

The thing we’ve noticed about Mario Kart is, although the music is challenging, and we can’t underestimate that, a lot of it is jazz, funk, fusion with variations in between. But the silver lining is, it’s video game music, which lends itself to being repetitive.

And after a few months, the layouts of the pieces started to stick. Here’s an early band recording we’ve made, bare, in mind this is early and we’re still exploring the music. Do not expect and epic piece. But as I see a use in documenting our progress here we our showing our working out.