Banjo Kazooie music really needs more recognition!

Banjo-tooie's interpretation of the motif representing the "lost of innocence" makes so much sense. The game really feels more grounded in reality in comparison to the first one.

As a visual learner, I really liked how you added the extra visuals explaining the different notes/tones being played. Watching the notes and hearing the music with it really gave me a better understanding of what you were talking about.

16:11 Kirkhope is a music composition genius, but of all the insane work he's done, the losing jingle literally sounding like Gruntilda laughing at you is just perfection. Each note slide is an individual "ha" from a "hahahaha", and it's audible. Genius guy

I never thought the banjo kazooie music was this ambitious that's really cool

Great analysis! Something I also noticed during the final boss theme is that it's a mix of Gruntilda's theme, Mad Monster Mansion and Rusty Bucket Bay. This really cements imo that these two areas are the ones where her influence is the strongest.

Omg the part where you sprinkled notes from the egg mobile killed me 🤣 Excellent video as always!

Donkey Kong Country 2 does something similar where it sets up the villian's leitmotif right at the the title screen and you hear it playfully peppered throughout until the final K. Rool Duel. Nice to see Banjo-Kazooie continue that in spirit.

When you beat Grunty and go back to her lair, her laughing stops because she's gone. When I first noticed it, I thought it was such a cool little detail. It made me smile.

I always felt the major-sounding sections in Gruntilda’s theme felt like they represented Banjo sneaking in and gave the listener a reminder that we they were here, and that they could still stop Gruntilda. But mostly I just enjoy listening to the mallet percussion 😊

Gruntys battle theme has always been my favorite. Its very atmospheric and its length works for each phase of the boss. Not to mention the mad monster motif and all the instruments being used

This was amazing, even "delicious", a real treat even down to the video editing. I hope Grant sees this, it's a dreamy homage (my fave part was analyzing the mansion theme). I'm gonna have to re-watch this a few times to soak all the info, but bravo and bless you Alex. I'm inspired to make my own music partly thanks to your clarifying work.

I love your style of music analysis because you take into account the context it is applied in-game, and don't just look at the music in a vacuum. it makes things easier to understand, and also much more entertaining to watch ... it doesn't feel like I'm attending a lecture or something lol

Banjo Kazooie, along with Diddy Kong Racing, is one of the games that really caught my attention with dynamic game music when I was a kid.

Wow, you're really getting some good mileage out of that Egg-O-Matic. This is such a cool musical theme. I love hearing variations on a single tune, really cool to use that as the basis for a hub world. Might have to give this game a go sometime!

15:03 Dude, i would loved that Mario 64 had done that with the music! I don't know if you made that little arrangement with peach's castle and shifting sand land themes mixed, but if you did, I need a full medly of all the levels! Loved the video. BK and BT are of my favorites games of all time. Just a little sad that you didn't talked about the grunty's furnace fun variation, I know it's not that different but I love that theme

For some reason I've always had the bizarrely best luck when it comes to people covering media. I just started playing Banjo Kazooie for the first time about 2 days ago and now suddenly someone I'm subbed to makes a video about it. No clue why so many things keep lining up for me like this, butI'll take it

Can i just say, i genuinely love the way you use symbology through out your videos. Makes it both fun to watch and easy to understand, so yeah, keep at it with the good stuff!

God these videos are so good, very adept at expressing complex music theory concepts in terms of visuals and emotional impact

all my life wanted see this kind of fully detailed music theory of Gruntilda Lair, this was perfect, edition was awesome, very profesional . There were two theories always wanted to see, the first one Gruntilda Lair, the second one Contra Hard Corps OST of Sega japanese version, it could be a dream if someone do the second one. About Grant, every day learn how he did an excelent work using the minimal details to transport us to a different world. Thank you Alex

This is probably my favorite game soundtrack of all time so it's fascinating to learn more about how it works. Great video.

thank you so much for this video!!!!! this is literally my favorite game in the wolrd and i've been a crazy fan for more than 15 years now. as someone who started to play piano as a kid, it's a dream come true to watch a video like this!! i always knew that gruntilda's lair had something more than the other songs in the game and to see this beautifully translated into music theory is a bliss. you're amazing, i'm so grateful for this 😭😭😭

Banjo Kazooie is probably the only franchise where I can say that I like everything that the titular characters appear in.

Wow. You've outdone yourself. This is a perfect video in my eyes. Well researched, informative, and paced exactly right.

Wow, this video was actually really good. I always have to give props when a music theory channel is able to keep my adhd ass invested, and this one succeeded immensely! I always somewhat wondered why the Click Clock Wood variation sounded so different, and learning about the Rusty Bucket whistle nod was a minor mind blow. I do wish you had mentioned the Furnace Fun variation of the theme, but aside from that, I have no complaints for this video! (The editing was also really good!)

This game and its music is truly a masterpiece. I didn’t know how much more of a masterpiece this was until I came across your analysis, simply wow. Not many games have music that actually sync up with the levels to this degree, just a well thought out and executed game.

This was definitely the soundtrack of summer '98 for me without at doubt! I remember playing this game so much as a kid I used to 100% speed run it just for fun. As much as I love Mario 64 I always felt this game was superior in every way. Unfortunately I never got around to part two as I had moved to to the Dreamcast by that point, although I heard the second one wasn't as good so I guess there's that. If I had one nitpick about the video it would be that I would have loved to had heard the gameshow version of the song in some capacity, other than that it was captivating from beginning to end!

I totally recognize and appreciate the amount of work you put into these videos and the quality definitely shows! I'm super stoked you're branching out into different games. Keep up the great content!

wow, what a video. easily one of the best yet. i hope you'll get new subscribers from the Banjo audience. you've earned it for sure - for the editing alone. thanks for understanding the magic of these tunes, also for adding your musical insight. oh man, already can't get it out of my head again ... thanks for that too.

Need more of this. Not just for Banjo but for other rare games such as DK64 I’d love to see.

Not only is your breakdown of the musicality of the game superb, but I love all of the visual details and examples you provide throughout the video while using in game graphics and models and such. Incredibly done. Definitely looking forward to more of your work.

First time I've seen one of your videos, but you are incredible!! I absolutely love the way you display the instrumentation of each important segment or measure as the music plays along, and then discuss what kind of emotion it inspires (and more importantly WHY a certain chord or flourish inspires that emotion). For example, besides the obvious instrument choices, I could never figure out what the notes were doing in Freezeezee Peak to make it sound so delicately wintery and festive. When you called out the Rolled Chords, I had that a-ha! moment.

I have always been very impressed by Kirkhope's work, I'd love to see you dissect more songs from him in the future!

Since it was released Banjo-Kazooie songs have been playing as the background theme to my thoughts, and I am completely fine with that.

Finding this channel was a miracle! I love that this truly helps on my music classes

I love this in-depth look into my favourite game music of all time 😍😍

Another fantastic video! Loved this game and it's soundtrack is regularly stuck in my head.

I could have sworn that Grant Kirkhope denied any connection to the Teddy Bear picnic song on an old Jon Tron episode of Game Grumps where Jon confronted him on that directly. Maybe Grant was just trying to keep hush hush to avoid trouble. Although the original composer is long gone, so maybe not? Anyone else remember this?

Amazing analysis! I feel like this really accurately captures the character and themes of the game and really shows why we love it so much.

This game is an absolute masterpiece. Probably my favorite game of all time.

BRO OH MY GOD, I LOVE THAT YOU MADE THIS, THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THIS WOULDA TAKEN LOL... But seriously Banjo Kazooie music is so unbelievably good and catchy, i still listen to the click clock woods summer music

I know nothing about music but this was amazing. The content, explanation and video editing really helped SEE the music.

This is one of my favorite videos ever. This was perfect.

this was unexpectedly amazing in my suggestions. Banjo Kazooies music is amazing. Now im going back to watch your older music videos.

it really does sound quite absurd, adventure of a bear and bird!

Banjo Kazooie's music is one of the aspects that I love in the game, it would be awesome to hear what you have to say about Banjo Tooie' music also. Btw, what a creative way to explain something that it's already amazing by itself, kuddos 💖💖💖

My eyebrows rose when I got the notif... Thanks for the blessing.

I just started replaying this for the first time (since childhood) like a week ago and this video just comes out of the ether. That is just serendipitous as one of the things most coming back to me and bringing up old memories was the music. I remember just having the game on and idling with the music from certain zones going on loop, and it's just very memorable music as well. I didn't understand half the music terms since I only played the violin through high school but Excellent video!!

Everything in this video is so visually interesting to look at and to listen to! I'm very impressed how easy you made it to take in all that technical music information.

Just boosting the algorithim.. great job with the video. I'm a huge fan of Banjo-Kazooie and also a musician, so this video is 10/10.

5:30 That little guy with the bassoon popping up is amazing and hilarious. Nice job on the content and editing of the video 👍

This was an excellent video that really helped spark a passion for sound design. You explain it in such a way that can easily convey not just the information, but why it's fascinating too. This is the first video I've seen of yours but I really hope you continue making these. I'm about to go binge the rest of your music theories, have a great day!

hands down the best yt video ive seen in years man thank you so much

Another great video man, looking forward to your next one!

the snow sprinkles got me good :)

I love the important role and heavy use of the bassoon in Banjo's music -a bassoonist

I have no clue about notes and music but this was epic and interesting! Love it, of course big nostalgia on Banjo Kazooie💙

15:43 I used to stay in this area just to listen to the music, and everytime i got a new piece in the board me and my uncle would discuss what the level would actually be like. Such good memories....

I love these videos so much, please do more!

how did I just find this channel, great breakdown, presentation, and of course amazing music!

The entire game is a masterpiece and this video itself was done quite well. I really hope you continue to make video's like this. The snow sprinkles were a really nice touch too. Fantastic.

This was another outstanding and great episode. Glad I subbed a little while back!

Thank you. I thought I was mad to think this motif was similar to Teddy Bear Picnic.

This is such an informative and interesting video. Thank you for the hard work you put into it! Very well done.

Shared this video with my brother and we both greatly enjoyed it. Kirkhope's music meant a lot to us since childhood and your insight helped us to even better understand his genius. Hope to see more dissections of his music from you. Your explanations are both captivating and approachable to a casual music listener.

The greatest antagonistic music in video game history

I appreciate your work here. I don't know much about music, this helps me to understand. The only other game I had known of with dynamic game music was Monkey Island 2. I think it's a very impressive technique and both Banjo Kazooie and Monkey Island are fond memories from childhood.

I absolutely loved this video!! How cool to apply music theory to one of my favorite and most nostalgic games!!

I'm really starting to appreciate this channel more. Since I started music class, I understand way more!

This is the best video I have ever seen on music theory, and it isn’t even close.

This video made me appreciate one of my favorite games ever even more. Thank you for this :)

What a beautiful breakdown of the music composed for BK! I enjoyed my time listening you point out all the musical details in the songs used in the game and I’ll be watching more videos soon, take care. ❤😊

An incredible, albeit brief, deep dive into possibly my favorite part of Banjo Kazooie, being the music. This has illuminated parts of Banjo Kazooie I never knew, when I was sitting here thinking I knew damn near all there was to know about my favorite game of all time. Amazing video, I’m extremely glad I found your channel.

This is an amazing way of illustrating and teaching music theory in multimodality. Impressing! This combined with childhood nostalgia earned my sub 🤩👌

This video is perfect. Keep up with your work, man.

Some of your best editing yet.

You put so much effort and care into these videos. You deserve far more views than you're getting. Keep up the great work!

BK is one of my all-time favorite games. It's full of charm, and the music plays no small part in that. I loved the breakdown and the video editing. Good stuff!

I'm so happy that you did go over BK music. I was really hoping this for a long while.

I always thought the song was based on Teddy Bear's Picnic. Thank you for confirming this.

Fantastic video, I really enjoyed this. So many memories

Beautiful words to end an amazing video! Props

Amazing video ! What an amazing editing skill !

The video editing, the little beeps and squawks are hilarious and do wonders enhancing the underlying fact the music theory is excellently presented.

Dude! Awesome video! I love it. Such great music in that game.

Phenomenal analysis of some of my favorite video game music !

Love your videos! Keep it up!

I always thought there was something just under the surface of this game that I was missing. Thank you!

A video we all needed. Compliments and kudos ❤

This is incredible! Thanks Alex, love the vid ✌️

Your creativity with your editing skills make this video 100 times more enjoyable. Your work here really shows in it's quality, nice work! The way you transitions the music from in-game to instrumental isolation to emphasize your points feels so natural, example: (1:00 - 1:13) And the way you go from spiral mountain to Gruntilda's lair (physically/in-game), for the reason to intruduce gruntilda's theme as well as you use her painting to showcase your points; nice

What a great video! Gruntilda’s Lair has been my absolute favorite song to play on the piano just for how fun it is to change its rhythm and instruments to fit in with different styles!

this is just so, so, so good. thank you for analyzing one of my favorite game scores ever. i remember impressing my musician mother by noting the parallels between gruntidla’s lair and teddy bears’ picnic.

What a very detailed and intelligent way to make a video about video game music. 👏

I always felt the major-sounding sections in Gruntilda’s theme felt like they represented Banjo sneaking in and gave the listener a reminder that we they were here, and that they could still stop Gruntilda. But mostly I just enjoy listening to the mallet percussion

This is a very high quality video. Thanks mate

First time viewer , excellent video. I love banjo Kazooie . Love the ost. Thank you

very nice video, you deserve more recognition

i love grants music in rare games, it would be really great to see you cover more of his songs! also i love how you covered every rendition of gruntys theme for each stage, and not just the main theme. thank you for this video!

High quality content, brother. You've won a new sub