This is the brief theme for Inside the Whale, from Chapter 4 of 1990's NES release, StarTropics. StarTropics is a weird action/RPG hybrid type game, which was pretty high on narrative for a videogame of the time period that wasn't a true RPG. This song is about a 15 second loop that I always found interesting, I think because of the weird bass line ostinato.
I found the piece to be tonally diminished sounding, so for this cover, I did a few things to try and make it alot more tonally dissonant and rhythmically ambiguous. The drums were influenced by a polyrhythm that I believe was made famous by Billy Cobham, which I combined with the type of phrasing played by Danny Carey in the middle section of Pneuma by Tool. I started off on the 1st pass playing a pure 4/4 pattern with all double strokes on the hands. For the 2nd pass, my right hand plays a pattern in 2 quarter beats wall my left hand plays a pattern in 3 quarter beats. For the 3rd pass, my right hand plays a pattern in 3 quarter beats, and my left hand plays a pattern in 4 quarter beats.
As the song goes on, I introduced a lead guitar that initially does a run of whole-half diminished, followed by some chromatic nonsense and chromatic flatted 5th chords, and lastly alot of dissonant tremolo picking. During the tremolo picking, I added a further dissonant keyboard part. Finally, as if all that wasn't disorienting enough, I end the song during maximum melodic tension in the turnaround to create an unexpected, unresolved ending. If you found the arrangement confusing to listen to, it worked!
Anyway, definitely fun to put this tune together and play with expanding what is an extremely short and minimalist arrangement! If you enjoyed this tune, consider subscribing to the channel!
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