Kass' Theme (Zelda Breath of the Wild) Jazz Accordion Arrangement
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- So, someone want to tell me how Kass plays the accordion with giant Rito bird feather fingers? I have regular human-sized fingers, and it's already hard enough!
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When I started this channel back in 2012, accordion was probably one of the least likely instruments that I thought I'd want to learn... and yet, here we are. I played Breath of the Wild in the summer of 2017 when it came out, and like many others, took a liking to Kass' character. I love characters in games that are really musical (K.K. Slider from Animal Crossing, Ursula from Xenoblade 2, Big Band from Skullgirls), and Kass is another one of them! It's so nice to stumble upon the comforting sound of his accordion while exploring the wide-open Kingdom of Hyrule.
I knew that I would't be able to do an arrangement of this theme quite enough justice without including a bit of accordion in the arrangement, so I took it upon myself to learn Kass' theme on the accordion. In retrospect, it was actually a really great tune to use for learning! The accordion has the right hand chromatic keyboard side, which I was already familiar with due to my experience with piano, but the left hand button side was a daunting task, since I've never played any instrument that had a system like that. If you're not familiar with accordion bass buttons, this one is the 72 Stradella bass system. It has 12 rows of 6 buttons each, which each row being its own key (organized by the circle of fifths, which is really handy), and each button playing a different note or chord within that key. Kass' Theme is very cyclical as far its harmony goes, so often, I'm just moving down a row each time the chord changes. The accordion wasn't exactly made to handle complex jazz chords with lots of tensions, so it was fun figuring out roundabout ways to get the accordion to play some simple jazz chords (for example, playing Bmi7b5 with the B bass button, and the D minor chord button!)
I don't recall where exactly, but I know I've heard some jazz recordings with clarinet and accordion playing together. I decided to use this ensemble (plus piano, upright bass, and drums) for this arrangement to give it a really natural and airy feel! I've always thought that woodwinds sounded like birds, and clarinet is a good instrumental personification of Kass in my mind... apart from his obvious accordion skills, haha. Kass' theme is originally in 3/4, but I stretched it out to 4/4 for this arrangement to be able to give it a kind of a tango vibe! I've been really digging recordings of Piazolla's "Libertango" lately (especially the Hiromi, Gary Buron, and Yo-Yo Ma versions), which inspired this particular arrangement. The opening section is completely rubato (meaning there's no click track or metronome), so it was a challenge to get all the instruments playing together how I wanted them to. I soon figured out that the thing that was missing was a conductor, so I filmed myself conducting how I wanted the intro to go, and used that video as a reference for all the other parts in the intro! I miss conducting for ensembles, and this is probably the closest I'm going to get to that for a while at least, haha! Hope you enjoy the other little Zelda references I threw in towards the end! Normally I don't try and shoehorn a ton of references to other songs in my arrangement, but I figured these were especially appropriate, since Breath of the Wild uses piano for a lot of its sound effects and stingers!
♫ "Kass's Theme" from "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" composed by Yasuaki Iwata
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![Breath of the Wild [Kass Edition] ~ Relaxing Legend of Zelda Accordion Music](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KDGY38NZ0xQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Accordion to UA-cam’s statistics, only a small percent of viewers aren’t vibing.
Now THAT sounds like something I could put in as a call to action....
Not vibing to this? Impossible.
i hope someone got that you wrote accordion
@@dsasda9728 OMG i literally had to do a double take there haha, not sure how i missed that so easily
I think you were bassicsally making a pun.
I can just imagine a Jazz Rito band playing with Kass in this XD
Holy crap someone has to animate that
Kinda hard to blow woodwinds with a beak. 😜
A bird version of the indigo-gos
For real I got such a vivid scene in my head. Link and Zelda visiting Zora's domain to see Sidon, and during dinner or something the band starts up and everyone starts dancing. Link trying so hard to remember basic steps Impa taught him a hundred years ago. Ugh, I need to get into animation.
@@TheBlazingSilver do it. That would be epic!
Clarinet came in and I audibly went *”Ooooh”*
It’s simply because Clarinet is the best instrument to have been conceived by our mere mortal minds
@@spencer7011 yeah for real a good clarinet always gets me goin hahah
Same, I definitely made an "OH" face
With me it was more like Ooooooooooooooooh ;)
@@spencer7011 I like clarinet, but I love oboe. Those conical harmonics vs clarinet’s tubular
I love you.
We all do, but stop being everywhere
Haedox? More like redox hahaha #ExchangeOfElectrons
@@thesparkspectre1237 biomedical sciences major here, you just made my day. Thank you!
Kass' character in BOTW is pretty damn good, so he DESERVES a whole 7 minute long arrangement of his theme
Really hoping that he's just as great of a character in BOTW 2
6 minutes and 59 seconds*
I hope his teacher becomes relevant and isn't just a nameless bard that apparently knew every secret in Hyrule
Leaving a comment here in hopes of news tomorrow for botw 2 🤞
too bad we haven’t got that, and instead 6mins 59secs
Why are you everywhere
With how many instruments he plays at this point Carlos is just gonna be able to record an entire symphony by himself
I would love nothing more than that...
@@insaneintherainmusic Time to break out the ol' cloning machine again.
and conduct it too
Haha, that's my dream. I want to be able to play every part in any piece I write!
Isn't that basically what he's already doing?
Mad respect to Carlos to learning accordion just for this video
Tbh makes me wanna give up at this point like damn
It was a bit harder than I thought haha, but was very fun!
@@insaneintherainmusic expanding your musical vocabulary.
@@insaneintherainmusic does playing piano make it any easier?
Learning? He is down right killing with it. MAD RESPECT indeed
thank you
when
This cover was very rad let's go
Thank you very much Mr. Zelda
I looooove the voicing in this one! The clarinet, piano, and accordion together is *Chefs kiss*
It’s such a satisfying blend! Straight out of... Ratatouille...
Ten outta ten!
@@insaneintherainmusic It was a great blend there, and it's a great blend here, and you make it sound so delicious! :)
Chef kass in hells kitchen
料理人のキス。 Cant believe chef is food/cook person
Carlos, if you keep this up I might find myself again at the nearest Horse stable wearing a blue shirt and carrying a rusty sword- I can't go back to jail again!
Wait what
@@artsman9114 its cuz hes zelda
As an insaneintherainmusic fan, and a Breath of the Wild fan... this is indeed what the kids call an "epic gamer remix"
We stan the fact that you learned accordion JUST for this video
I opened the box the accordion came in and started trying to figure out how to play this lol
We stan Carlos
Can we also stan the cushion on the piano bench lol
@@insaneintherainmusic And you crushed it!! It fits in extremely well in this arrangement.
@@insaneintherainmusic I mean, is it like the piano?
Wow, how does he have so many friends who looks like him
Clones.
#AdoptACarlos
Alternate timelines.
@@johnbryant989 parallel universe
@@bepeplia5086 musical gathering
Carlos lookalike competition. winners get to appear in a video
“I learned accordion just for this video” LOL you’re nuts man, always amazed at how quickly you’re able to pick up new instruments and make these covers!
The song needed accordion, so I learned it!
@@insaneintherainmusic Simple man I guess 😂
All of it is incredibly impressive but man that smooth clarinet was godly. Also really awesome accordion improv!
Thanks! A lot of skill transfers over from saxophone, since they both are single receded instruments that use similar fingering systems!
@@insaneintherainmusic in my class at school I was they only one who started with a child-sized soprano sax (which looked more like a shrunk down alto in form factor). Everyone else who was going to move to sax started on clarinet, and one girl on the flute. Our music teacher used the oboe. So we all got a good taste of how cross-applicable it all is!
Carlos on his way to conduct across time and space
You know me...
@@insaneintherainmusic ominous carlos 🤔
Playing the button side of the accordion is so difficult, so major props for learning it so quickly!
It is SO different from anything I’ve ever played, but it’s a really interesting and useful system!
Learning accordion solely for this video? Absolute madlad, as usual
It was pretty hard haha, but after a few practice sessions, I could get this song down decently!
Learning accordion just for a video shows how much dedication is in your music :0
He recorded himself conducting parts of this Arrangement even if there is absolutely no point other than rather small (visual only) parts of this video. THAT is some serious dedication.
This gives me major late night talk show vibes, like it sounds like something that would play on a live TV Show from Rito Village .
“Welcome back to the Late Night Show with Kaneli! Coming to you live from Rito Village, we bring you many celebrities from across the land of Hyrule, and tonight, our musical accompaniment features today’s musical guests, Kass and the Bards!”
Sounds fun
*Kass and the Birds
Once again I ask.....
HOW MANY INSTRUMENTS DO YOU NEED TO PLAY?!
every
he trying to get to that price level
There’s no number I’m aiming for, I just want to have fun and make good videos!
@@insaneintherainmusic You are a madman, sir. Keep up the great work!
I barely kinda know how to play guitar and im lousy at it lol
Madlad out here conducting HIMSELF
Oooh, I hope this means you'll do more Professor Layton arrangements soon! Really nice work as always!
Already got one recorded :)
@@insaneintherainmusic Awesome!!
@@insaneintherainmusic 👀
I love the amount of emotion you can see Carlos put into his performance throughout this video, you can tell how much he enjoyed making this
This arrangement was also uploaded right before Valentine's Day, which just makes it even more perfect
Oh my god, a Christopher Moon comment with no replies and 10 likes.
Dang man. This comes at literally the perfect time, as I've had an awful week. Thanks for that!
hope stuff goes better for ya
Gonna have to rate this one 18+ for Carlos' face during the accordion solo
lmfao
My favorite part about jazz is the face of smelling something absolutely nasty that the musicians have when just BUSSIN a hard solo. That same face gets put on the audience. It's just such an emotional experience
I really hope we figure out cloning soon. So we can get Insaneintherain to go on a tour called Insaneinthecampain. And if he traveled noisily he’d be Insaneintherain, going Insaneintheplane, taking his Insaneinthecampain, all the way to Bahrain.
quite insane.
This is my favorite song ingame not only because of how good it is and how it seamlessly transitions to the main theme but also because of the big Lore revelation it gives us, if you know you know
literally every time something new came in there was a “hell yeah” moment
Props for learning the accordion for this, and the clarinet also meshes into this song really well
Did my mans just jazzify an accordion song? Cuz I think my mans just jazzified an accordion song. And I loved every second of it
"What instrument do you play?"
*yes*
I guess he plays the Orchestra
As a fellow accordion, bassist, Zelda fan, and jazz cat, I appreciate a whole lot about this cover.
If you had to learn accordion for just one song, it had to be this one.
Yes... there was no way I would cover this song without playing accordion!
and then professor Layton came along
I've been learning the accordeon lately and it's such a relief to see that even insane in the rain keeps the base buttons as a suggestion
There’s nothing better than being able to see a musician really feel a piece, especially with jazz. It really gives a life to a piece!
The bass part of this is so fun to play, it's just a walk down the entire bass board, I really liked seeing you make the attempt on the bass parts where you could, it can be a little tricky to get used to but being able to play entire chords with one button is the reason I love the instrument so much
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
insaneintherain for his viewers: *learns the accordion*
This would make a perfect addition to my work-from-home playlist...or the imagine-I'm-in-a-café playlist. Classy AF.
I have listened to many Zelda songs and remixes in my time. Dozens, hundreds even. Never before have I heard somebody sneak in the chest opening and secret found jingles! That is insanely clever. It references the many short piano flourishes (is that the right word?) that play throughout BOTW, as well as paying tribute to the series as a whole, which itself goes full circle because that's what the original Kass's theme did. Incredible.
Oh good lord, I was already sold on it after the first second and then the little “item get” buildup in the piano at the end!! It’s all just so *chef’s kiss*
Never knew how much I needed jazz accordion in my life
my ears thank you oh my god this scratched a certain part in my brain and it feels so good--
Been hoping you'd cover this one- absolutely gorgeous, feel like I'm on a Parisian street corner at night listening, absolute perfection!
Kass is my favorite Rito in Breath of The Wild. And I'm happy you learned to play the accordion just so then you could play the songs he did. You have my Subscription.
4:38 bruh he's playing these high notes so seamlessly while i struggle to even make a sound
WOW! What a lovely and exciting introduction of the accordion and the grand piano, plus the acoustic drums really brought everything together. Not to mention the accordion and clarinet SOUND SO GOOD TOGETHER! This was a joy to watch and listen to :)
Learning the accordion just for this? You're dedicated...
Kass's melody, once more, guides me to a beautiful place
Great cover! Love the recent inclusion of the clarinet in your arrangements
I’ve really been loving playing the clarinet :)
I love this man and his love and passion to his craft so much
CRIMINALLY underrated artist. Aspire to be like you my man
Hearing your clarinet is tempting me to get back into playing it again it's just so crisp
Well this definitely made my day :)
LOVING your icon. I assume you heard his Galactic-related remixes
@@BJGvideos You assume rightly ;)
Absolutely adore this, Kass is easily one of my favorite characters and this arrangement absolutely does him justice!
The best birthday present I could ask for
@Fiona the sheep thanks!
That nod of approval after the bass solo...I love it
So this is how Kass looks like without his feathers...
He do be lookin nice and jazzy tho 👀
Nakie Kass o.o
Your neck in this is a truly TOP tier performance. I couldn't help but get hyped in every shot of your neck popping off.
Amazing cover, as always! This song just hits different because it's often the one thing to break silence while exploring.
InsaneInTheRain never fails to amaze me.
Is your goal in life to learn every instrument ever? If so that's an impressive goal. I admire the dedication to making such great covers!
I wouldn’t say it’s my central goal, but it’s a fun project to tackle alongside making these videos!
Omg this is beyond exceptional!! What an amazing arrangement!!!
I just realize how jacked he is.
Kass is my absolute favorite thing out of Zelda tbh. Just occasionally hearing his song start playing in the distance while exploring just gives a sense of comfort.
Когда ты живёшь в музыке, а музыка живет в тебе.
The absolutely perfect blend of old and new! This might be my favorite thing you've done.
This cover icks Kass
That was ridiculously good. We do love low, warm clarinet pitches
You have no idea how long have I waited for you to bring kass theme, I must mention, it's even better than I imagined
And the amount of instruments you can play grows yet again. Huge props for learning accordion just for this video!
I would have never thought to put Kass's theme in a Bossa, but it works SO WELL.
Accordion + Clarinet is such perfect combo
maaan i remember when jmusic did a kass theme jazz cover and ive been craving another ever since then, thanks carlos you did great.
wow, just wow
Every video I watch of your I'm soooo absolutely blown away with how talented you are dude!! Please never stop gracing our ears with that sweet SWEET JAZZ.
that added touch of the 'opening a chest' sound effect was so smooth
The Legend of Kass: Breath of The Accordion.
Okay, I genuinely adore you conducting “yourselves” in the video. It adds so much charm.
Your arrangements never cease to amaze me
The fact that you learned the accordion for this is amazing! And just *incoherent screaming* I love this so much
Hahahaha that ending piano theme like when Link unlocks a part of the map or gets a new rune, that was a nice touch!
I love how you can see the quality of each video go up with every upload.
That’s something I’m always aiming for, thank you!
Literally just learning the accordion for this cover!!! Is there any musical instrument Charlie CANNOT play???? You are quite the mad lad my dude! Much respect!
It's things like this thake make me wish either my accordion or clarinet were in 100% good working order with no little issues. Phenomenal Arrangement, definitely going into my playlist of things that slap
your way of writing music just inspire me on another level, its fking awesome its very much like traditional jazz, some bossa and some kind of twist added to it that just make it very special and unique, again, its awesome !
I really love that you added the conducting
I really love the sound of that clarinet.
The cleanness of that gliss on the clarinet was just unfair
the greatest zelda remix ever made
I loved how you acted in the video at the start. It was as if you were virtually conducting a band of Carlos'
I actually was conducting haha! I filmed that video first, and then watched it as I was recording all the subsequent parts!
Thank you. So much. One of my favorite themes ever turned into my favorite genre of music. It's just perfect.
THESE ARRANGEMENTS JUST KEEP WINNING
I GO HARD
i literally started playing breath of the wild last week and now you release this banger????? that's a mega pog
"I don't recall where exactly, but I know I've heard some jazz recordings with clarinet and accordion playing together."
Buddy DeFranco and Tommy Gumina created some really good stuff with this combination of instruments. And in general I think accordion can be very interesting in jazz: Frank Marocco, Richard Galliano or more recently Taca Shimizu have brought something quite unique with their instrument in this genre
ITS HERE THANK YOU
The fact that there is a "Litterally just slapping the bass" section brings joy to my life
GEEZ this is absolutely amazing. I’ve even lost my words, your talent and skills are awesome!
My hopes for more Carlos clarinet were fulfilled! Fantastic arrangement.