Slippery Steps

"Slippery Steps" is the puzzle theme for White Wafers in Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe. It was composed by Hirokazu Ando.^[1]

Composition[edit]

A race down the slippery steps.

"Slippery Steps" is a goofy-sounding theme in C minor and 4/4. Its intro, a detached descending 4 note passage with strong percussion, serves as lasting accompaniment and recurring motif that varies throughout the piece. The intro ends with a brief dominant fanfare. The melody loosely follows its rhythmical pattern and range. It's played by an electric guitar with the occasional high piano remark. This ends with a wider repetitive phrase forming a short authentic cadence and another fanfare. The following section follows a call and response of the original phrase from the electric guitar and piano, revealing major harmonies, which are further developed in the conclusion before it ultimately resolves back where the track started, now accentuating C across octaves. A contrasting second section based on the original melody combined with its remarks modulates through G and C major, then repeats and dives into B-flat major. With a short rise and more similar transitional remarks, the track once again returns to its intro motif, with the melody failing to gain relevance again. The track loops after this.

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