Well hey hi I'm back for a new year had some nice time off hope you don't mind ok let's go new year new me or whatever. Wii.

"So, what's your favorite jazz music?" *Mi soundtrack starts playing*

“this is unironically really good!” *yeah why else do you think we listen to it for 10 hours straight*

Composers at Nintendo are classically trained geniuses. They're masters of their craft.

Fun fact, Totakeke in Animal Crossing is named in honor of this musician, Totaka, because his contribution was massive

I transcribed the Wii Sports theme to do an arrangement of it a few years ago and was BLOWN AWAY by how harmonically intricate it was while having such a great melody... Totaka-san is one of the GOATS for sure.

"The wii music is unironically good!" Everyone: ... we know buddy.

wii music always feels like you never not knew it. it’s so familiar for no reason.

4:12 Ah, yes. "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", otherwise known as "Wii Sports Theme". One of Bach's greatest.

If there's anything Nintendo has done right over the years, it's hiring amazing composers.

Yeah, I’m gonna need you to upload a full video of that cover of the Wii Shop theme.

Actually, the character "K.K.Slider" from the Animal Crossing franchise is based off of Kazumi Totaka himself. (K.K.Slider's name in the Japanese version is "Totakeke"→"Totaka K")

Your rendition of the Wii sports theme literally sounds like something they would play at a wedding when the bride walks down the aisle.

I love when composers pop off to just an absolutely unnecessary degree. No one was demanding banging Wii shop music, but they gave it to us anyway. Legends

“The wii theme music is unironically really good” Everyone: yes

The way Nintendo musicians can translate a concept identity to music always fascinated me. They can encode things like water, fear, adventure, desert, and other into a song that naturally takes you to the desired target.

The WII sports theme expressed on a piano 🎹 makes me really teary 🥲 for some reason.. I can only assume this is what medieval people felt well hearing church music

imagine walking into a jazz club and they're playing wii music

i can just imagine taking my child to his jazz piano lessons and he shows me his book of jazz standards and there's just music from the frikin wii on there.

The wii sports cover gave me chills. I would play Wii sports with my two older cousins and my uncle a couple times a week, cementing that song in my mind. About 10 years later, my uncle only has a couple months left to live, and I’ve been savoring my last few moments with him, trying to stretch them out. Thank you for reviving the memories.

Totaka is a genious. Sadly, in recent years he has mostly been a sound director/supervisor. I wish he'd go back to composing for new games.

Man I could listen to you play the Wii Sports theme all day

charles: "The Wii Theme Music is Unironically Really Good." gen z: *nods in approval*

4:42 I love how from here, this could have perfectly transitioned to Zelda, the characteristic theme of it

7:39 GOD DAMMIT

if charles was a teacher he’d be the teacher who every kid in the school loves whether he teaches them or not

Never met a single person who doesn’t think the Wii soundtrack is absolutely amazing

“One chord made it a sus chord” I can hear it already

Man the piano only versions of these themes are so beautiful I literally almost teared up.

The Wii Sports theme sounds weirdly heroic. I love it

That not just it! Most of the video game music is intentionally written with no clear end because as a composer you don’t know when the fight will be over, you can’t sync up a crescendo to a random critical hit on a boss you almost died to. The fight may last an eternity which is why you have to write music with no end. It’s a marvel of music and I can’t believe that so few people are talking about how the songs both can go forever and aren’t boring to listen to!

8:19 why was this so adorable

2:11 this is actually beautiful.

My dad was trying to write a Latin- style piece once. After a while he showed it to me and.... it was just the mii tune.

Imagine that you're at the most expensive and most fancy restaurant on earth with someone you care about and while you eating dinner; there's a piano just playing the Wii theme in the background. That would be the most perfect night ever!

There isn’t a song that randomly pops into my head more than the Wii Shop Channel music.

the wii is my childhood console i LOVE it

This is what they’ll be playing in nursing homes in 50 years, right?

I demand a video on what's the best video game music of all time and why it's Chrono Trigger.

1:22 I FOUND IT !!! FINALLY !!!

what I've learned from this video is: the beginning of the wii shop theme is really funny to see played on piano.

I hope in a couple years when I'm old enough I will walk into a jazz bar and some absolute mad lad will be playing this on the stand

4:11 this literally made me cry

The respect you have for the music and the composers is awesome. The way you build on all of it, incredible.

Wii music is a Genre, that I imagine would play in some Cafe's

2:27 you could play that in any fancy cafe/fine dining restaurant and people won't notice that it come out from a wii

2:13 Holy shit i'd legitimately have paid someone to play something like this at my wedding or something and not just because of the "hehe" factor.

I love love LOVE that you show the sheet music (with chords) as you’re playing these. Do this in every video please!

I would love a full version of the Wii Sports Theme, it’s so beautiful the way you interpret it! 💝

*The Wii Theme Music is Unironically Really Good.* Yes, the floor here is made out of floor

I didn't realize how much nostalgia I had for the Wii themes until I heard a piano version Edit: 2 years later and now I love this video even more! Nintendo may have cut off support for the Wii, but it will live in hearts forever.

Omg! This video made me think “huh that mii stop music sounds similar to a Super Mario land 2: 6 golden coins track” - only went and found out that was composed by Totaka as well!! I KNEW it was a reference to something!

everyone who hears this music is blinded by nostalgia, but behind the blindness its still beautiful

Formally requesting the full "Mii Theme Song, but it's Jazz", I'd keep that on repeat for 10 hours.

4:14 The Wii Sports theme has given me the chills. How the hell!?

i had to watch this twice because i wasnt expecting what came, first off youre an amazing musician and a fantastic pianist, you can tell you really put in the work to get to your level, when you just played the mii channel music as a jazz piece i had goosebumps and id love a full version of just that, going to the wii sports theme and specifically the /chord, they contextually can be also seen as sus chords cuz if you took that b(add9)/d# and moved the d# up a half step, itd resolve into something equally as beautiful, and this happens multiple times in the wii sports music, im the biggest sucker for sus/resolve and even minor to major progressions, the wii shop channel in bossanova form is very groovy and gets the body swaying and i love that

I'm not a fan of video game music but this really caught my ear.. the jazzy tune, the sparkle, the syncopation gives it a vintage feel. It should be more than just a video game theme... it should be a jazz standard.

thinking about how many rich people i can trick by getting hired to play events and only playing wii music

Oh man, I wasn't expecting you to talk about videogame music but I'm so glad you did. There's plenty more amazing soundtracks you could review in that field!

ITS JUST ALL SO NOSTALGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive never seen you before and realy don't know anything about music but this is great! Love how you love music.

This title acts as if it's a controversial one, but everyone loves the Wii music

Why does the Wii Sports Theme remind me of the crazy arrangement Charles created to tie together all the key changes in the Gal Gadot Imagine video

I will cry. My friend had a wii. We used to play together. This brings back so many memories

It's the perfect amount of cheese. It's like a jazzy, cheesy elevator music. And yeah, it's amazing. When the Wii was new, everyone would bring up how surprisingly good all the music is. To be fair, Nintendo (and Japan in general) are MASTER EXPERTS at crafting music to fit an event or action.

The way that bass is sitting in that guitar stand is giving me anxiety. Lol

I can’t help but notice how much of the 10 hour Wii theme he’s watched.

bro this song defines my childhood it’s amazing how iconic it is

I'm honestly learning sheet music due to the shop song. Following along helps me ALOT! I know this is old, but your knowledge is timeless

Not me thinking slash chords were chords you were literally allowed to choose between them

You can tell he's a music teacher because of his expression when he went up a half step 😂 2:27

I was a huge Wii player back in the day, it gives me so much nostalgia. Thanks for the video!

Ayo imma need a full cover of all of these, well, covers you did! Phenomenal work!

As a young teenager I would always get somehow emotional everytime the wii sport music came up and my friends would make fun of me because of it (like I literally felt the tears coming up) Now they better hide under their beds Those unsensitive rascals

2:13 i really want a full cover of Mii theme like this

Thank you for another fun analysis!

0:14 thanks for clarifying that really cool

"This to me is like perhaps the one that sounds the most like it could just be a jazz standard." That's because it is. The Wii Shop Channel music is a take on "Surfboard" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Wii Music: *changes key* Also Wii Music: I'll fucking do it again!

Rest in piece the days of the Wii, it really was my childhood and I still love it to this day.

The great music in Nintendo's many games is one of the reasons their games are so loved and so memorable. Those themes get stuck in our heads and stay with us forever. And not only Nintendo's first party games. Many games on Nintendo's various consoles had such great music. I have a lot of game music on a flash drive that I play in my truck when I go places. Hearing that music always fills me with fond, happy memories of the good times of my past. Times that I miss so much. Although some of it is current game music.

Lmao "he's made music for the animal crossing games" *shows the single game he didn't do the music for*

I saw this in my music teacher’s recommended tab and that was the moment i knew he was a true homie

I heared the Wii Channel Theme in so many videos and it just works.

KK Slider, aka Totakeke is based on Kazumi Totaka. So KK Slider wrote the Mii Channel music 😮 🐶

i played the wii shop theme on piano once and my drama teacher loves it so much she makes me play it whenever she sees me. she has, to my knowledge, never heard the original version before. she just likes the song that much.

I started laughing for no reason when I started imagining the wii channel music as soon as you said it. I was already laughing when the music kicked in and the edit at 1:10 was just so good

God the memories. That takes me back to 18, in college, buying my first launch console, and how cool it was to hook it up the first time after waiting all night for it

I’m just now realizing how much I would enjoy a full wii music piano album

that jazzy Mii theme sounds like something they would play at a fancy restaurant

These themes are amazing! I like the way they sound, wish i can reach that level of playing and creating songs!

I would never expect that something like this would be so engaging to me. Love your enthusiasm on the topic good sir 👍🏽

I loved his giggle at the hyper staccato at the shop channel theme 8:20. That's me every time

So true bro, this song is fire; 5 levels of this song would be awesome to see.

Oh wow! It actually sounds sincere and serious on a piano! That's amazing!

it’s truly amazing maan

Your bass looks like it’s in a really awkward position compared to the rest of the room.

Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, Mii, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, Wii Sports Resort, Go Vacation, Mario Kart Wii all of these have awesome music and they're all on the Wii. The Wii is the console of the musicians!

its like one of those songs you like thats stuck in your head but you dont get tired of it

I really do appreciate you breaking it down in ways noone else gets into