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Cheers sir! For drum stuff, check out my recent Little Nemo and Duck Tales videos, the audio engineering is much better, and I snuck in drum solos to both! Will be checking out your channel after knocking out some chores

The DD3 soundtrack is surprisingly good, I think it's a little underrated because the game quality itself was a little dodgy compare to the first two. This tune is particularly good, with both Egypt tunes and the Italy tune being pretty noteworthy too! The Mummies and Cleopatra at the end were a beast to figure out how to beat before the internet, I've watched some speedruns and almost got angry how easy they are when you know the trick to them!

This one was deceptively tough to learn! That middle 8 measure of tapping runs was tougher than the Title Screen tapping, maniacal stuff! Fun, but maniacal!

I actually fell off In Flames after Clayman, Reroute to Remain didn't connect to me although on a recent revisit, I found it was more the production than the song quality that bothered me. I checked out the 3 newest records and thought they were pretty decent, but I haven't checked out Come Clarity yet. Probably will be a bit before I do another In Flames tune but I gotta check out Come Clarity!

Just checked out Leeches, gotta be good at singing to do that one!!! The solo section in that one is particularly good, cool tune! If I can ever get my vocals ok enough that Leeches is under heavy consideration, this channel would definitely be a major personal success! I'm going to keep grinding, who knows, right!

Ha, it's creeping up slowly! Cheers!!

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This arrangement really got helped because the keyboard I use has patches built into it that are pretty authentic SNES and N64 quality, some of them are really uncanny! Glad you enjoyed, cheers!!

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Cheers! This one was a fun puzzle to put together, it's a masterclass in song composition!

It took me about a month of practice to get it there, really tough phrasing!

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For sure, classic series with classic soundtracks!

I haven't done Razor, Dave, or Bernard's themes yet. I'm not 100% I can pull off Razor's, there's a few runs in there on guitar that I'm not sure I can get under my fingers, although I gotta work on a transcription first to be sure. Some tunes are super hard to play on guitar but this is a soundtrack if I can hit all the main themes, I will!

Thanks! This one it took three attempts over about 4 years before I finally had worked up it, definitely glad I waited!

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Thanks! Gotta rock the Dethklok!

Thanks, cheers!!

Such a heavy tune, cheers!

Cheers! Nes music is really what got me into music, until later on when I discovered prog rock! Nes soundtracks are masterclasses on using limitation to drive creativity, amazing how complicated many tunes are in spite of being primarily 3 monophonic tracks!

@@thesosomusician Apart from video game music I enjoy anime music as well and nearly all music from Death Note is my fav.

Nice! I never got too deep into anime but there's alot of overlap in anime music, jpop, and some vgmusic (particularly certain rpg), definitely cool stuff w very interesting chord progressions

@@thesosomusician Sunsoft, Konami and natsume are my fav composers from 8bit era

Sunsoft and Konami particularly punched above their weight consistently putting out classic soundtrack after classic soundtrack.

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Ha, yes! For an NES game, this tune is extremely epic and heavy, and it all comes through despite the sonic limitations on the NES! This is one I wish I'd done more recently after mixing songs for a couple of years because the recording is particularly raw. I can't believe it's been 4.5 years since I tracked it, but definitely mindblowing when people discover deep tracks on this channel and dig the process. Such a cool tune from a game that probably was a little under the radar back in the day!

I discovered it right before putting this one together, I'd heard of the game when it came out but never played it. The soundtrack has like this vaguely Japanese meets vaguely Ninja Gaiden meets Iron Maiden vibe, some cool tunes on there!

​@thesosomusician I've known about the game for a while because... Well... Username might be a clue

It's definitely cool that there's so many resources still covering some of these obscure off the beaten path games. That let 80s/very early 90s time period must be a gold mine for your channel as the combination of low memory/minimal artwork and lack of localization was a perfect storm for weird games!

Cheers! Yeah, that section rings out an Emin with an F# added on top, so it's like an Emin9 which is the James Bond chord minus the maj7th, and then it has the chromatic descending line at the end of each measure as if it wasn't already far enough in spy territory!

@@thesosomusician awesome, thanks for the insight. Mostly Greek to me but still cool.

Np! Playing in original bands for so long and wanting to refer to things specifically for songwriting got me into theory a bit. The Emin9 from this song, from low to high is XX2002, the 2 on the high E string is the F# that really gives the James Bond sound. The actual James Bond Chord from low to high is 0 10 9 8 7 x, the 7 on the high B is the F#, with the 8 on the G being the D# (maj7 of the chord), adding some extra mustard on the chord. The other three notes on both chord are E G B, which is just your vanilla Emin. It's pretty crazy that a song or motif from a movie can be so popular as to be able to make a particular chord be associated with said movie for half a century!

@@thesosomusician cool indeed. Cheers for the info.

I'm always down to nerd out about music!

The studio track was used as the template to record, it's on that tempo. The studio track is not recorded to a click.

Thanks! This tune was funny, the main riff in the OST sounds like a guitar, but it's surprisingly tricky to actually play on one! Also, I never pass up an opportunity for stock footage of the guy getting hit with the cannon ball!

And it was well complemented by the sound byte, lol!

I'd been a big fan of the 1st three Castlevania soundtracks (particularly 3), so it was mind-blowing to finally play through SCIV on the SNES. The tunes still have the wild arrangements the NES games, but the compositions were longer and more sophisticated, such a major step up!

Cheers! I really had fun putting this one together, such a great tune and crazy fun to play!

This one's from nearly three years ago, the mix is definitely alot rougher than my mixes are now, but this is also a tune that was definitely the bleeding edge of what I was able to play when I tracked it. You don't get better at playing music by not trying though!

I'm lucky this one came out half mixed ok, this is from the 1st year or so that I was mixing.

@@thesosomusician Try putting everything (drums mainly, but bass as well) to a grid. Every DAW has its own way but yours shouldnt be hard to figure out

I'm using reaper, it's pretty trivial to quantize drums in it, although when I tracked this video I didn't know that. I tend to still not quantize but it's more of an artistic choice than a gap in engineering knowledge.

Nice! Great tune for sure, a fantastic merging of moodiness, melodic atmosphere, and Baroque organs!

Thanks! I gotta get those bass thumps a bit tighter, real hard for me to play that many in a row!

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Are you referencing the mute on the guitar? That's a strip of velcro, it helps dampen the strings. This guitar is extremely resonant where hammering on any string causes all the other strings to resonate pretty loudly even with left and right hand muting, so the extra dampening really keeps the noise down.

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Thanks! The production on some of these late 90s records is classic, but it's mind blowing to me what you can accomplish on a shoe string budget in your basement! The production on the newest katatonia record is brilliant, I highly recommend them!

Thanks! The whole soundtrack is a banger, and this tune is a big highlight!

That's tremendous, as long as it doesn't recommend microwaving hamsters!

Thanks! It was definitely a blast sitting in the pocket on the drums and bass for this one, but on the keyboard I was hanging on for dear life! Great tune!

Always some room for some Swedish metal! There's a few tunes I'm planning to get too, just gotta rotate some vgmusic too since the non-vgmusic doesn't seem to do as well

Thanks! This one came together pretty quickly despite the length, not too bad to mix!

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Cheers! I'm pretty sure I was still playing the original NES when SCIV came out, definitely was a real mindblow when I finally got my hands on an SNES, and then even later when I started going back and playing the classics that were out early in the SNES life cycle. SCIV is still a masterpiece imho!

Katatonia is an interesting band, they really evolved over their career. The record this track is from, Brave Murder Day, almost sounds like an ambient version of Morningrise by Opeth. Check out the song Atrium from their newest record, I'm not even quite sure how to describe it, it has things in common with mellower Opeth and Porcupine Tree, but it's kind of it's own thing. Really cool band!

@@thesosomusician will do, thanks for the recommendation :) edit: also for some reason the singer's voice made me think of another band 'Soen', who are kind of like a mix between Opeth and Tool, sort of. I think they even had (have?) a drummer that used to be in Opeth, but I could be wrong on that. If you haven't heard of them (I don't think they were very famous), their songs 'Lotus', 'Last light' and 'Lucidity' are pretty cool (imho).

Yes, Soen is pretty cool, especially that first record! Martin Lopez from Opeth is, I think, the founder of that project. Right before the pandemic I believe they put out a record that the 1st single was a bit nu-metally sounding, wasn't quite my cup of tea, but early on quite cool!

Cheers! Wayback on the vgmusic archive, there used to be a midi that had the idea of combining these three tunes, that was definitely the influence on this one! Great OST for sure, I think in general the game has a bad rap for not being created by Kojima, but overall it's pretty top notch.

Cheers! That guitar is fantastic, it looks great, it sounds great, and best of all, it plays great! I've been super happy with it so far!

Such a fun tune to put together and jam out, cheers!!

Yes!!!!! Cheers!

Thanks! I'm a big fan of all those Sunsoft soundtracks on the NES. Every tune on Blaster Master is a classic, although the Stage 8 tune is a bit more of a sound effect fiesta than a song but classic nonetheless! This tune always reminded me of the Stage 3 tune from Batman

Thanks, I'm a big fan of the SH3 soundtrack, and this tune is one of them! The full tune is on my YT channel here

@@thesosomusician loveeeeeeeee song end OF SMALL SACTUARY 🎶🎸😍🤘🏾🔥. Faz um vídeo tocando "room of angel" ou "promise"🎶🎸😍🤘🏾🔥

Room of Angel is great, but I'd definitely struggle with putting something together to do it justice (vocal driven music is definitely not my forte!). Promise, on the other hand, is right in my wheelhouse, just would have to do some research on the arrangement.