The Super Mario Bros. Theme, or 'Overworld Theme', has gone from being just one of six tracks in the original Super Mario Bros., to becoming the theme of the entire series, one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of music in Nintendo's entire library, and arguably one of the most - if not the most - iconic tracks in the gaming world.
Naturally, this means that almost everyone and their Goomba has recorded their own version and plonked it online at some point, but this particular rendition has been doing the rounds online recently - and for good reason. Played by Aaron DeWayne, known as AaronGrooves on YouTube, this clip below was originally uploaded back in 2015 before seeing a new lease of life recently thanks to various social media users making it go viral once again. In a nutshell - it's pretty great.
We particularly enjoyed the cheeky spin halfway through, as well as the introduction of the 'Underworld Theme' towards the end. We only wish we were as talented as this.
Do you have a passion for music? Would you like to recreate some of your favourite tunes from classic games? Let us know below.
[source youtube.com]
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Nice. I love the sound of the marimba.
Wow !
Like Underwater style of Mario themes.
Wunderbar!
An effective use of a spin midway through too!
Marimba and video game music generally makes for a surprisingly fantastic combination. Loving this cover.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!!
And of course, this is talent combined with hard work and effort to reach this level of play! Really impressive!
Really cool! Impressive 'fro.
I wish I could play music like this, lol. This is super impressive! There’s a lot of themes I’d like to hear on marimba. Unfounded Revenge from Mother 3 comes to mind.
Well, there is this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRMHdmEEZGA
More Mario on marimba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1WvDSCdpQ0
One word AWESOME and TALENTED can't use only one word😍😍😍
Almost perfection. There were a few missed notes and several flams throughout but for the most part it was pretty good.
Amazing! That was awesome!!!
I mean, he's definitely talented, but I'm not sure what makes this particular video so special as to have its own Nintendo Life article compared to the thousands of other good instrumental remixes of Nintendo songs on YouTube. Like this rendition of Pollyanna from the Earthbound series, for instance: https://youtu.be/2OebZ5HwdPs
Oh well. At least the guy shares my name (Aaron), so I have to give him credit for that.
What a peppy guy!
@ReaderRagfish
I would like to see Switch Music or whatever it called as long we can create our song like KORG.
But Wii Music is Mii games and Nintendo is slowly want to forget Mii games existences so .....
Clever bugger lol
Great stuff. Simply amazing
Beautiful. Love the marimba. The brief interlude into the underground theme was wonderful. Well done. Looks like an elementary classroom. If he’s a teacher, he might be the coolest music teacher ever.
Would be cool to do this for a rhythm game. I know a lotta modders set this up.
So much awesome!
@Not_Soos: “Always nay-saying! Everything I create...you create something like inward singing!!”
Very nice!
(very short replies aren't allowed anymore, what nonsense is that?)
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