Sonic 3 & Knuckles, compared to the original Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel, had an entire team of artists behind the game’s musical score, compared to the talents of Masato Nakamura working on the first two games in the series solo. Spearheaded by the late Michael Jackson, the King of Pop himself, and Brad Buxer, the result was that nine different composers had worked on the soundtrack for the 1994 SEGA Genesis classic, leading to an incredibly cinematic and highly varied OST that still resonates with fans to this day.
One such fan, Jerod “The8BitDrummer” C., hosts a number of live drumming streams on Twitch, and sometimes in sessions where he would tackle not just given song requests, but entire scores from a video game on his drum set. Recently, he did an absolutely phenomenal job of covering the entirety of the Sonic 3 & Knuckles soundtrack from start to finish, thus adding a new layer of depth (and percussion!) to a soundtrack that folks can learn to appreciate all over again.
As for my other personal recommendations, you should definitely check out The8BitDrummer’s awesome drum covers for the soundtracks of Undertale, Dust: An Elysian Tail, and Shovel Knight.
Be sure to subscribe to him on YouTube and Twitch, and to follow him on Twitter!
I was feeling really sick today, but hearing this guy jam is making me feel better!
Audio is horribly out of sync….
That’s the nature of streams, I’m afraid. It’s horribly distracting, but I don’t think there’s much he can do about it.
Oh okay! I had no idea. Fair enough 🙂