HBO’s fantasy drama doesn’t need any help to feel epic as fuck, but when the composer of the theme song was asked to play the track on a Nintendo Labo he took things to a whole new level.
Composer Ramin Djawadi is the man behind the show’s music. Best known for Game of Thrones, he also masterminded the soundtrack for movies like Pacific Rim and Iron Man and TV series Prison Break and Westworld.
He’s a busy man.
But even Djawadi knows how to kick back with a games console now and then.
Games website IGN challenged the musician to perform the entire theme tune on a Nintendo Labo – which is basically a mad cardboard piano.
Obviously, Djawadi rose to the challenge.
Starting with the classic chord section, he moved on to add catchy melody and even techno-rave drum rhythms.
The man’s got talent.
Got a Labo at home? Why not give it a go yourself and see how you stack up against one of TV’s biggest musical names.
Djawadi recently spilled some secrets to us about what it’s like working on the world’s biggest TV series.
Apparently, you’ll never hear any flutes on the programme as the showrunners ‘don’t want it to be a stereotypical medieval show’.
Also, Djawadi doesn’t listen to any other film composers when he’s working as he gets inspiration ‘from conversations with my directors or showrunners or just life I guess. I try to dream up the music.’
Weirdly, no piano was used in the score until season six and each episode takes a whopping three months to write music for. Which makes you think he must be hard at work on the final season right now.
But no, Djawadi’s not even started writing season eight’s music and he’s not worried.
‘I’m not working on the final season [yet],’ he told Metro.co.uk.
‘I don’t know anything yet either. So I’m just as curious as everybody else!’
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