The 'Mario Kart' Lick

Sometimes you just gotta overuse a lick when it's so good.

This lick is originally played by Kazuki Katsuta, who is the saxophonist for the band known as Dimension. He played this line in the middle of his great solo recorded over the soundtrack of "Dolphin Shoals" - a racetrack on Mario Kart 8 & Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. You can find that soundtrack here:

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[matthewparkman]

Guy in the corner: "he actually did that" 🤣🤣

[thomasbplank]

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
-Pablo Picasso

[TheBitBigBand]

Yeah but all kidding aside this lick is SO killing

[D-Man_Jam]

Jazz is a genre of music where you can steal licks from anyone, and no one says anything.

[britchik]

This is the exact answer to “What are jazz students like?”

[imbi]

(In the corner of a crowded party)
“They didn’t know it was a mario kart lick”

[kung]

The fact he heard the luck and remembered he was playing and started focusing again, true gamer.

[KNTH]

What makes this even funnier is that this is a classic jazz thing to do😂

[Saxologic]

The YouTube Algorithm Gods have blessed me.

[SepiaSepiaKR]

Can we just appreciate the trombonist's reaction to that, tho? That man had his mind blown.

[slm]

the fact that the other guy in the concert realized that its from mario kart makes this vid even better

[TheBehm]

Everyone who’s a Mario kart fan: “what a Chad!”
Everyone else: “nice solo”

[jordisimons]

I didn’t know anything about jazz. Thought he was actually going to lick the saxophone.

[no-xfkp]

The director was like

"This guy is too good to kick out, i gotta hear this."

[themiddleones]

This type of stuff happened ALL THE TIME when I was in jazz band in HS
Our directors would actually encourage stuff like this!

[commaman]

It’s like he’s spending hours on end hearting every comment...

[banimepianocovers]

The most godlike thing someone can do is sneak a reference into something without being weird. Good job bro

[Psykel]

Jokes aside, Dolphin Shoals is unironically one of the greatest pieces ever imo.

[gordonslambsauce]

Saxologic: *Plays Dolphin Shoals lick in concert
YouTube Algorithm: I’m abouta start this mans whole career

[awesomeface]

I like how you're so concentrated on the race and then all of a sudden you hear that and then everything about winning the race just goes out the window