Super Mario Brothers Theme Song: The video game of my generation and probably one of the most famous songs in the history of video games, and also one of the most downloaded ringtones.
Who hasn’t played Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo? The game’s main theme – Overworld or “Ground Theme” – has been a part of Mario games ever since it was first composed, and has been performed by orchestras the world over. This theme song definitely brings back memories.
Super Mario Bros: Video Demo
Here’s how to play the Super Mario Bros. theme on piano. You will find the piano notes for this music.
Super Mario Bros (Overworld / Main Theme): Midi File
Want the midi file of this popular theme?
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Super Mario Bros: Original Theme
Miyamoto plays the Super Mario Bros theme song with The Roots
Watch Shigeru Miyamoto (video game designer and the creator of this popular game) play the Super Mario Bros. theme song with The Roots (American hip hop group).
Shigeru Miyamoto was on The Tonight Show, starring Jimmy Fallon with his Gibson acoustic, to perform the game’s iconic theme song with the Roots.
Super Mario Brothers theme in Piano Sonata Style
How would have Mozart composed this tune? Probably something like this.
Watch pianist and arranger Laurence Manning take this iconic Mario Brothers’ theme and play it in true classical sonata style.
About Super Mario Bros Theme
The “Super Mario Bros. theme”, officially known as the “Ground Theme” (or Overworld Theme) is a musical theme originally heard in the first stage of the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Super Mario Bros. The theme has a calypso rhythm and usually receives a corresponding orchestration in games whose sound synthesizers can imitate steel drums.
The game was directed by Shigeru Miyamoto, and the music was composed was Koji Kondo.
Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack: Book
Checkout Andrew Schartmann’s book on Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. soundtrack of 1985. He talks about the music, and talks about the reasons why our hearts still dance to the “primitive” tunes of a bygone era. In this book, Schartmann shows his readers how Kondo and his team not just succeeded in creating a different tune, but heralded in a new era of video games.
“Imagine yourself at Nintendo during the development of Super Mario Bros. You’ve been asked to compose music for the game, and the developers have invited you to try one of their working prototypes. As you play through the level, you get a feel for how Mario moves through his environment: Your body sways as Mario jumps, stops, runs, changes direction, and so on. You also notice the movement of other creatures: how the Goombas’ feet move, how often Piranha Plants open their mouths, and so on. After a while, your body starts to beat in time with the game—you have internalized the rhythm of its movement. Having done so, you head back to your studio and translate the movement of your experience into sound,” excerpt from a new book devoted to one of the most recognizable pieces of music on the planet.
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