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Lumas, princesses, heroes and villains.... at long last, it's my great pleasure to present to you "Gusty Garden Galaxy" by Mahito Yokota from Super Mario Galaxy, live with Lara and Chris!
This was our final collaboration as a trio before Lara left. We all love this song, and I've personally wanted to play it for years but have been too intimidated to record it. I got to perform it in the best way I could've ever imagined: with Lara's warrior princess musical prowess, Chris' gorgeous melodies, and my twinkly (star)bits!
Hope you enjoy listening to the music as much as I enjoyed making it, with these two amazing friends and musicians!
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boomypower favorited a video
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We'd like to thank the Bell Tower for letting us use their facility to film. They went way beyond in helping us achieve the setting we were looking for. This is a great place to have a wedding, dinner, or dance. Go check out their website here:
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The BellTower
1368 East 100 South
St. George, Utah
Phone: 435-673-6875
Email: info@dixiewedding.com
A special thanks to Bloomers http://www.bybloo... for the beautiful flowers they put together just for the shoot.
Also a huge Thank You to Forever More Events http://www.foreve... for the use of the chair covers.
If you liked this video you'll LOVE our version of these tunes:
ColdPlay's Paradise (Peponi): http://www.youtub...
David's Guetta's Without You: http://www.youtub...
As always our subscribers give us the best song suggestions. we think "Just the Way You Are" is one of those timeless melodies that only comes along every once in a while. The word 'love' is tossed around alot today. This arrangement goes out to anyone that feels something so deeply for someone that words can't even begin to describe. Jon says, "I tried to represent the song lyrics which match how I feel about my wife to a tee. The way I feel about her affected the musical arrangement big time. It shows that 'amazing' girl how I feel about her (after 20 plus years of marriage)". We hope everyone can relate. We hope everyone hears the very deepest side of what they feel for someone when they listen to this song.
Piano arrangement written by Jon Schmidt
Cello arrangement written by Steven Sharp Nelson
Piano recorded at Big Idea Studios
Cello recorded at TPG Studios
Song mixed & mastered at TPG Studios by Al van der Beek
Video filmed, edited, & produced by Paul Anderson & Tel Stewart
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If you liked this video you'll LOVE our version of these tunes:
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The story behind the song:
Each time we write/arrange a tune we take a journey. We have to admit—this journey took us a lot further than we expected. Retracing our steps reveals several factors that made this a reality. As we started arranging it we had serious writer's block. Perhaps some of the worst we've ever had. In fact, one day instead of writing we went around the entire studio with a can of WD-40 and coated every piece of metal to ensure that we were a squeak-free studio. Then on a whim we decided to back away and take an entirely new approach to the song—an African approach. It may seem random in retrospect, but at the time it was an exciting way to restart the arrangement. It was working, but our journey still was on foot until we called in Alex Boye, one of the most talented people we've ever met. Alex has this contagious energy that gave new life to the song and to us. He sings the tune in 4 different languages: Swahili, English, Yoruba (his mother's native language), and Alex's own African "scat" (we'll call it...Scafrican) =) Most of the words you hear are translated from the lyrics in the original Coldplay Tune. We're huge fans of Alex -- We bet you are now too!
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When we had finished the arrangement we all agreed that listening to it was like taking a journey to somewhere remote and ruggedly beautiful. How were we to depict this with a cello, African percussion and, most difficult of all, a grand piano? We took a risky, but oh-so-valuable turn when we called in helicopters to air-lift us and our instruments where none had gone before! (Please excuse the Trek reference). Since no one had ever done this before where were we to go for advice? Well, we can tell you that Home Depot didn't have a lot of answers (how disappointing) but we did clean them out of their strongest cable they had. We don't mind telling you that when that helicopter began lifting our brand new-never-before-played grand piano into the air we couldn't help close our eyes and cross our fingers. We consider a blessing of Heaven that it worked. I guess we figured that if it didn't, maybe it could still be a viral video -- "PIANO MOVE FAIL" =)
We'd like to thank from the bottom of our hearts, Duane Fielding who offered the helicopters and SkyHawk http://www.skyhaw... for not dropping the piano...:-) Half-way through the first day of shooting we discovered that, as typical guys, we had forgotten to bring ANY food or water to this remote location. We had two options: one, wrestle a mountain rodent and harvest cacti or two, starve. Duane, our head pilot, took pity on us. He took off (literally) and moments later landed in a Wendy's parking lot, ordered 5 of everything (sadly, he couldn't use the drive through)...took off again and brought us chicken sandwiches and hamburgers via airmail. Thank you Duane! Flying in your helicopter was a dream come true for us despite the lack of doors. =)
Filming location:
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All the instruments you hear are REAL instruments. We wanted to be authentic about this. The following percussion instruments were used:
Djembe (drum)
Agogo bell (like a cow bell)
Udu (the porcelain vase-looking drum)
Guiro (gourd scraper)
Djabarra (shaker)
Rain stick
Pangi seed shaker ("goat toenails" or Unas)
Credits:
Paradise (Mylo Xyloto) by Coldplay written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, And Chris Martin; Copyright Universal Music Mgb Songs And Upala Music, Inc.
Arrangement written and produced by Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Lead vocals: Alex Boye
Cello: Steven Sharp Nelson
Piano: Jon Schmidt
Percussion and backup vocals: Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Recorded, mixed, mastered at TPG Studios by Al van der Beek
Video filmed, edited, & produced by Paul Anderson & Tel Stewart
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