Super Mario Bros Theme

[ReiOn8]

That's why I love youtube! It has amazing inspiring musicians like you! Keep it up dude, Im inspired to do my own arrangement thanks to you! ^o^

Excellent combination of instrumentation, and its so bouncy~

[aklbarnes]

I really enjoyed this! I'd like to learn your arrangement, plus I'd like to work on my Burton technique. Any possibility you'd be willing to share your MIDI file?

[randomgreg666]

omg its electric =O

[Caramellofellow]

HE'S HOLDING FOUR!

[PhantomFedora]

You are Epic. You should hang out with Chuck Norris sometime.

[MELZWORLD101]

HAHAHAHAH I LOVE THIS SHIT WHO AGREES LMAO

[ghettowiskers]

damn dude this is awesome

[FatalisWhite]

no thumbs down - congratulations!

i like it too...so you have one "thumb up" more! =)

[TheChibiShow34]

YOU DID THIS BY EAR :O

[09205967668]

What is that instrument??

[alessandrocarrozzo]

PRO!

[Spindriftful]

Jack, this is wonderful. It's almost identical to the MIDI on the game-pak.

[burrito873]

lovin the doubles at 1:59, that's some sick nasty malletkating.

[thorns81]

1-UP jajalol

[JayOhEnEnWhyEx]

Amazing my friend!

[Derek519425]

Nobody died from awesomeness and landed on the dislike button, very cool!

[TheDarkLordofSaxes]

Thumbs up if you like this video!!!

[blittmage]

Awesome fella! very good dude!

[JusticeConstantine]

Good job man. 

[RebelliousToast]

Hey I commented here like 9 months ago, and since then, I have actually purchased my malletkat and have been using it for about 5-6 months. I bought a malletkat express witthout sounds and have a kurzweil pc2-r module to go with it as well as roland KC-150 amp. I am totally satisfied. Great product. I get tons of use out of it. Your video was a large influence towards my decision to purchase this item. Thank you.

[jackshenker]

@RebelliousToast No problem man, I'm glad my video was able to help you make the decision to get a malletkat. It's a great investment :)

[RebelliousToast]

@jackshenker Indeed it is. Thank you very much.

[anglerfly]

U are hitting your piano it will brake ( LOL )

[JCustomZ]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!! 5*****

[BostonSingers]

yesss!!!!!

[WesleyFreeRun]

respect man, that might be difficult o.0

[darkmagic1701]

This would be awesome if used in a mario game

[MathBagh]

Holy Shit ! It's Awesome !

[AntunyPhrunkacki]

do you have sheet music for this???????

[jackshenker]

Sorry, I did it by ear and didn't write anything down.

[AntunyPhrunkacki]

DAMN! that's too bad, it's really good. Those malletkats are quite impressive!

[MikuFreaky]

awesome Oo x33

5*

[RebelliousToast]

What does one need to use a malletkat?

[jackshenker]

It depends on which type of malletkat you get, there are two versions.

The first one is "with sounds", which means it has a built-in sound bank. To use that, all you'd need is mallets and some headphones.

The second one is "without sounds", which means it's only a MIDI controller. In addition to mallets, you'd need your own sound bank (any kind of instrument sample library), and most likely a MIDI interface.

[RebelliousToast]

For the with sounds one, it only plays into headphones, and not out loud, right? Oh and also, where did you buy your malletkat?

[jackshenker]

Yeah there are no speakers on the instrument.

I bought mine directly from the company that makes them - Alternate Mode.

[RebelliousToast]

Ok., because that was where i was browsing. Thanks for your help.

[DrumsAndToms]

@jackshenker Which one you have?

[jackshenker]

@DrumsAndToms The "without sounds" one. Actually I've since sold it...

[LauraFromGermany]

i made a video with this melody xD and thats great 5*

[dirt1bike1boy]

cool 5 stars

[Compastral]

Amazing!

[Perco21]

I. Want. A. Mallet. KAT!!!

My mates played an arrangement of Mario Bros.- 2ppl on Marimba and 1 on kit, for a percussion recital. I thought their version was cool. But yours is way cooler.

I saw a MalletKAT for the first time at PASIC 2005 when 'Lalo' performed.

Nicely played.

[R3xLOAD]

woow

[GambitInTheNight]

that was AWESOME!! no doubt about it. you've got talent. you should be on a POPULAR tv show for people who've got a really REALLY GOOD TALENT!!!!

:D

[JustephanMUSIC]

Hey Jack. My name is Justin and I am a vibraphonist from Baltimore. I ran into your video looking for some malletkats online. And great rendition of Mario Bros. Seeing your video made me more interested in buying one.

[jackshenker]

Thanks man, glad you liked the video.

The malletkat is definitely a great investment.

[courtneyelyse11]

This is quite fantastic! Go Jack!

[Ch1T0wNAtt1c]

awesome vid man

[IvoH90]

awesome dude *thumbs up*

u should go to britains got talent or somethin like that XD

[ruuchan5021]

SUPER NICE. i love the background music you've put in, it's amazing!

high five four mallets!

[jackshenker]

Thanks, I appreciate it :)

[Psychokinesismaniac]

lol wouldn't that be "high 2 four mallets!"? Great job man 5 stars

[shadyemad]

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[shnickell]

so so unrealy good!!! very nice!! wow!

[jetskidrummer]

Bravo!! Keep up the great work!!

[imeternallyawesome]

That is like the coolest thing ever!!

[FluidArtManagement]

Ha! Fabulous!! Braavo!

[MclarencarV]

Hey bud, you play in a drum corp. ? Most people who play four mallets must have done some sort of Marching band/Drumline/Percussion ensemble/Drum corp.

[BlahFreak24]

not everyone doest four mallet for drum corp or marching band. it's just kinda a standard for mallet percussion.

[jackshenker]

I started playing mallets when I took a class at college a year ago.

If I had gone to high school in the US I'm sure I would've done marching band/drumline/drum corp stuff.

[zurdokmexico]

grandioso man! cuando pueda, me comprar un mallet kat

[mpedro123]

how u are playing drums and changing the sound ??

[jackshenker]

I sequenced the drum track separately - in the video I'm only playing the organ track.

[niels241]

Awesome! :-P

[niels241]

I didn't even know a "malletKAT" exists :-P

[song110beforgiving]

sweet, nice arrangement, good mallet work too

[Matt6607557]

how much that malletkat PRO cost you?

[MikeTheBigBadWolf7]

Those things are ridiculously expensive!

[chichip12]

the malletkat is so annoying i almost ahd to play it this year thank god i got marimba

[doktorfuture]

how long did it take you to learn to play the instrument?

[jackshenker]

A few months - I took a mallet class at my school. It's not my principal instrument, but it's really fun.

[jkeelsnc]

amazing better than the original

[pierremcneil]

Is he playing for real lol? If so that's freakin amazing, wow.

[boomer0917]

cute song

pro player

nice

[Kirstenmee]

cool!! very good!

[jjmsmusic]

Haha, this is great. Well done.

[numbersand]

dude...... ummm.... awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[tlalocorg]

Terrific!!!

[Amarda01]

This is so good! =O

great job =D

[BKRockwell]

I want Jack Shenker's babies.

[SirAaronGold]

awesome!

[xhilikus]

Amazing! So clean too!

[alvarokapaz]

This is sweet, Jack...you are the man!!

[tobb93]

1337 views at the moment :P Nice video ^^

[calder47]

Yeah the mario theme song is cool, but what is even better is the "mlletKAT". never seen one before... pretty sweet.

[DragonMasterLeon]

great 5 stars

[PokeCoolian]

5 stars is small for it! Lololololol recurring.

[nathansam123]

awesome i can't belive this only has 839 views!!! 5 STARS!!!!

[Iplaydrums2112]

Great job. I play mallets too but I don't focus on them much, and you are much better!

[anollinger]

That's awesome!

[anacatas]

hey awesome!... now which is better kontakt or reason??

[jackshenker]

They're both pretty great programs... I couldn't really say one is better than the other.

The main difference is that Kontakt is purely a sample library, but Reason can be used as a full virtual studio (although in this case I only used it in ReWire mode - as a sound source, just like Kontakt).

[filmscoringdude]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!

[Groover38]

5/5 man! You rock!

[kevilinsky]

Agreed, 5 stars all the way! Let's see more of this stuff!

[ernestom666]

Exelent!!1!!!11

[phatvolvo]

that's bad ass.

[TrueHavik]

awesome man! 5 Stars!