#MondayMornings: Smooth McGroove's Video Game Themes

#MondayMornings: Smooth McGroove's Video Game Themes

#MondayMornings brings you the monocappella videos of Smooth McGroove and his video game covers.

May 29, 2017 by Evan Feist
#MondayMornings: Smooth McGroove's Video Game Themes
Good #MondayMorning to you!

Especially if you're a video game fan, you need to know Smooth McGroove.

Sonic The Hedgehog's "Green Hill Zone"


He's been making monocappella videos of video game covers on YouTube for about 4 1/2 years.

Super Mario Kart's "Mario Circuit Theme"


Smooth McGroove, whose real name is Max Gleason, has amassed over 1.8 million subscribers and has almost 300 million views across his channel.

Ocarina of Time's "Gerudo Valley Theme"


"When I first started doing this, I was doing Ocarina of Time stuff because it wasn't too tough and I had confidence that I could sing it, but back then I had 50 subscribers or something," Gleason said. 

Now I have all these people who are going to get a notification when I upload a video, and I'm very self-conscious about it. I'm fortunate to have received a lot of really good song requests.

Super Mario 64's "Dire Dire Docks Theme"


"I was looking at some other people on YouTube, I was looking at some other people doing guitar covers, vocal covers of video game songs, and I saw this one guy that I really liked who had 50,000 subscribers and I was like "Man, if I keep doing what I'm doing maybe in a year or two I'll have that big of an audience!" Gleason said.

"To look at my subscribers now and to see I'm over double that is pretty humbling, you know? I'm thankful for it. I don't know if I've done anything special really, but I do spend a lot of time on the audio side of the videos. I spend a lot of time mixing, and I guess I've got more refined and maybe that's part of it. I don't know. I guess a lot of people just like the beard."

Pokemon's "Lavender Town Theme"


His infamous cat's name is Carl.

Super Mario 3's "Athletic Overworld Theme"


"The first song I did was Zelda's Lullaby, and I just love that song. I was just like 'I love this song -- I wonder if I can cover it? I wonder if I can cover it with just my voice?' I'm a project-oriented guy, and that sounded intimidating to me, so I was like 'I'm going to take that on!' I gave myself a week to do it, to get into the stride of it, and it was rough. I go back and listen to that song and I wanna redo it, but I leave it up because it gives viewers a perspective on how I've grown."

Super Mario World's "Overworld Theme"



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