Tifa's Theme (Jazz Waltz Big Band Version) ft. Chloe Rowlands (The 8-Bit Big Band)
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2023
- One of the greatest video game music love themes of all time: Tifa's Theme from the legendary classic Final Fantasy 7 reimagined here in a Jazz waltz style featuring the truly incredible Chloe Rowlands on the Flugelhorn.
This beautiful theme encapsulates all of the emotion and feeling that video game music has to offer, and as soon as I wrote it I knew I wanted to feature Chloe's amazingly sensitive and dexterous playing to bring new life to this classic melody. Hope you enjoy!
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"The 8-Bit Big Band" is a 30-65 member Jazz/pops orchestra that formed to celebrate and realize some of the best themes from video game music from all consoles and eras arranged in a large ensemble Jazz/Pop/Rock setting!
Blending together timeless musical themes from Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and more then re-arranging them in genres and styles of all musical inspirations, The 8-Bit Big Band has members from all around the world, but most reside primarily in New York City, and are some of the most highly sought after musicians and performers.
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FULL CREDITS:
Flugelhorn Soloist - Chloe Rowlands
Alto Sax 1 - Andrew Gould
Alto Sax 2 - Josh Plotner
Tenor Sax 1 - Sam Dillon
Tenor Sax 2 - Zac Zinger
Bari Sax - Andrew Gutauskas
Trumpet 1 - Bryan Davis
Trumpet 2 - Jay Webb
Trumpet 3 - Chloe Rowlands
Trumpet 4 - Danny Jonokuchi
French Horn - Kyra Sims
Trombone 1 - Jimmy O'Connell
Trombone 2 - Mariel Bildsten
Trombone 3 - Sara Jacovino
Bass Trombone - Rebecca Patterson
Guitar - Alex Wintz
Bass - Bobby Wooten III
Piano - Natalie Tenenbaum
Drums - Jared Schonig
Violins - Lavinia Pavlish, Daniel Constant, Audrey Hayes, Lucy Voin, Alissa Jackman, Camelia Hartman, Tomoko Akaboshi, Caroline Drexler, Meitar Forkosh, Tiffany Weiss, Kevin Kuh, Tania Mesa
Violas - Laura Sacks, Will Marshall, Matthew Beaugé, Yumi Oshima
Celli - Susan Mandel, Sasha Ono, Jessica Wang
Harp - Liann Cline
Music by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged/Produced by - Charlie Rosen
Engineered and Mixed by John Kilgore
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf Mastering
Shot and Edited by Halleloo Productions
Animations by SovanJedi (Twitter @sovanjedi)
Thumbnail art by @MikeKILLUZ
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Thanks everyone 🥲💕
that was absolutely incredible, you knocked it out the park 👏 🙌
Amazing job!!!!! I feel like people typically think of the trumpet as this loud, bombastic instrument. But you make it sound so tender and beautiful.
Edit: *flugelhorn
Unreal Performance. 🔥🔥
It is a beautiful performance
Amazing! It was a magnificent performance.
This album is going to be absolutely killer
I literally cannot wait
where it at thoooo :( it's almost November :(
@@hurgcat it comes out on Nov 10
@jackschooley6966 oh wow where did that get announced? Thanks for the info my guy!
High school band director here. If you make these arrangements available for purchase you will sell more charts than Gordon Goodwin. We easily have a dozen Goodwin charts in our library and would purchase yours as well! I am certain there are legions of band directors who are in the same boat!
When I was a child, “video game music” meant the defeat theme from Space Invaders.
These days, it is a sprawling field with a plethora of talented composers and musicians.
For some reason, this brings me so much joy. 🎉
OUT OF ALL OF THE SONGS TO FOLLOW UP POLLYANA, YOU NEED STOP HITTING MY HEART LIKE THIS 😭😭😭
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You know, for a long time I thought Tifa’s theme would’ve sounded better with more energy, which I equated to being a little quicker with a different feel. I actually finished up a bossa nova version of it not too long ago to achieve this. But just like always you blow all of my preconceptions out of the water. You kept the piece slower but injected so much feel into it that it’s almost a completely different tune. I think I realize now that “energy” and tempo/feel are completely different too. Thank you so much, 8BBB, you all continue to inspire me to be a better musician.
So glad you enjoyed!! Yeah I think the waltz brings a little more motion to it while maintaining the romance
You might also like to check out the extremely soothing lo-fi version from The Consouls on their Vinyl Fantasy album.
"I think I realize now that “energy” and tempo/feel are completely different too." Great artistry can make slow have so much energy it's astonishing. We are blessed to have artists like 8BBB among us so that we can have these experiences.
That flugelhorn is smooth as silk! Chole nailed it!
I’m only two minutes in and I’m actually in tears. A composition hasn’t affected me like this since… your Pollyanna cover, actually. You guys are killing it over there!
I have to say, this waltz version is so romantic. If a band started playing something based on this rendition in a wedding, no one would find it weird.
Man, I’ve always believed that VGM is good, but the fact that some of the best musicians in the world think that it’s good enough to reinterpret and perform at such an incredibly high level is so validating. It’s like you’re grabbing the musical establishment by the shoulders and shaking them and saying PAY ATTENTION and then showing them everything I liked as a child, and it hits me in the feels in a way I wasn’t prepared for.
The whole arrangement is absolutely lovely, but it's incredible how at 0:55 just a few notes can instantly make me smile and tear up a little bit. God I love video game music. So many tunes that can take me right back to so many incredible stories and fond memories. Epic battles, shocking twists, tender moments, lovable characters, devastating losses, and on and on.
It might as well be a riff at this point!
This gives me chills. Hopefully we'll see more FF7 music in the future.
Chloe's got such a warm tone. Perfect for Tifa's theme.
VGM is so magical, and you guys are so insane, that I haven't played a single Final Fantasy game in my life, and somehow a felt so touched hearing this, and feeling nostalgia for something I don't even Know :')
There's something much more introspective and frankly, "grown up" about this latest slate of arrangements. This, like "Song of Storms" have a very relaxed, on the backbeat drift that are just quietly fantastic.
Also - Chloe is sublime here, floating through the melody with the effortless grace of a bird. This group of featured soloists have been a real coup for all of us.
The perfect gift to drop on Uematsu-sama's birthday. Another marvelous arrangement, bravo 8BBB!
This arrangement! geez
Beautiful way to wake up this morning!
ティファのテーマ！！！ピアノコレクションで何度も何度も弾いた大好きな曲…こんな胸が締め付けられる素敵なジャズになるとは！
左下のドット絵もめちゃくちゃ凝ってて愛に溢れてて感動します😭
素晴らしいカバーを本当にありがとうございます！
Definitely gonna add this to my chill playlist
Yep, right after The Consouls’ lo-fi version from their Vinyl Fantasy album!
I cried when listening to this live in ny, and am honestly surprised by how much emotion the studio version managed to capture - pulled my heart strings real tight this time.
Man this is beautiful - Chloe's flugel playing is incredible!
Love that you pulled from the “Square Enix Jazz” arrangement and infused some of that!
AMAZING PERFORMANCE ONCE AGAIN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!! THIS ALBUM IS GONNA GO SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That really brought a lot of "Eyes on Me" feel out in the song occationally it almost sounded like a medley.
This was an incredible arrangement, and Chloe KILLED IT. Fantastic performance, thank you
Is there an announced plan for the next album release? 😁😁😁
Also, _the animations_ are *fantastic.*
Charlie said at the Berklee performance that they're looking at a tentative summer release
I'm seriously still not over this cover. Imagine this is your theme song and someone plays it with this much love
23 seconds in and that chord progression already made me bawl. Excellent arrangement and performance as usual! Well done everyone!
The great videogame songbook strikes again. Absolutely beautiful writing in the arrangement and fantastic players.
I echo all the compliments regarding the music, but I also want to say that seeing Tifa and Aeris giggling as they talk about Cloud brought a smile of fondness to my face.
This had me in euphoric tears when I first heard this. I've never failed to be impressed by you lot, and this was perhaps the most emotive and feel-laden work you guys have gifted to the public.
The arrangement's superlatively stellar here. The conductor's clever use of a string section and the orchestra's expert-grade dynamics both give the piece some tenderness and vulnerability, but the employment of a flugelhorn over a trumpet injects enough warmth into the soloist's florid playing to offset that - thereby making the whole theme convey both sides of Tifa's personality very faithfully. It's no mean feat to take such small snippets of music and convert them into majestic and powerful song-length pieces, and the maestro here is to this century what Duke Ellington was to the last century - the big band arranger who sets the standard that all others follow.
Simply put, you guys should be asked to score and perform a video game at some point, because this performance is as beautiful as the lady who led it.
Getting real emotional over this theme. Thanks for the beautiful music.
I loved the FFTactics-esque animations! Of course great job to the soloist and all the musicians as well.
That's it. This is the best one. You guys win. Amazing job on the flugel Chloe, and the arrangement is top notch.
This is insane. I just discovered this channel yesterday by listening to the Pollyanna cover, which was amazing since it came from Earthbound, a spectacular game. Then today a song from one of my favorite video games, FF7, especially from one of my favorite characters, this must be too good to be true.
the sound i made when i saw this notification is a little embarrassing, but it was worth it for every second of this beautiful cover… you really made every section of the song feel like a passing part of tifa’s day running seventh heaven…having a quiet drink and catchup with cloud, waiting through the slow hours, the playful times with marlene and barret, the upbeat and bright chats with aerith, the joy and camaraderie with jessie, biggs, and wedge, into the slow, night-time waltz of closing time. just gorgeous. thank you so much for this composition, every instrument had a meaningful role and shone throughout.
I genuinely love this Channel. Quickest sub I've given in a while
Every time you guys upload a video I get shivers.
**Every time**.
Chloe stans rise up
🥲❤️
Just amazing and quite atmospheric! Thank you for your beautiful playing and incredible arrangements!
It is a testament to the brilliance of the original composition that it can sound amazing in such contrasting arrangements. The big band stirs while the lo-fi version from The Consouls soothes. Incredible!
God I love the Flugelhorn so much. As a trumpet player it was practically love at first note when I got to play one in high school pit orchestra. I'm always ecstatic to see one in VGM covers. Blew any expectations I had out of the water yet again. Album 4 might truly be the album of albums you guys have done. How's album 5 supposed to top all this greatness?
That is some outstanding flugelhorn playing!
oh this is just pure bliss. what a beautiful arrangement that just elevates this already-stunning and beloved theme :')) the entire band absolutely killed it, and Chloe's playing took my breath away
What a glorious and Amazing arrangement. This is absolutly beautiful. Just 5sec and I was in tears.
Beautiful as always! Love to see everyone's passion playing each their own instruments!
Always a pleasure to see Natalie on the piano, and Jared on the drums, playing in harmony with everyone else!
KEEP BEING YOU - ALL OF YOU ❤
This reminds me of one of Roy Hargrove's albums with strings from a few years ago. Lovely arrangement!
Excellent work everyone. Oh my heart! And love the pixel art!
Sidenote: I have the BIGGEST crush on the drummer
The composition is just...sublime. Amazing work, and Chloe Rowlands is incredibly talented. This is one of my favorite RUclips channels, I'm so happy this exists
i’ve never heard this song, but it is gorgeous. common 8 bit big band W
Love it when this channel introduces me to themes I hadn't heard before. What a beautiful arrangement, and I can't state enough how much I like SovanJedi's animations, they're always a real treat for the eyes.
I’m a trombone student at the University of Oklahoma. To be able to play in an ensemble like this is my life’s dream…
The animations were spot on, incredible job.
Hats off to the animators for always providing a mini story for my short attention span, and giving me a chance to appreciate this true master piece!
can't even listen to a song lmao
Holy shit, that Flugelhorn tone is SO good! So smooth! And the animations are so cute! I don't know why they are in there because they are not the focus of the video but they still make everything better ^^
Lovely song. Really enjoyed your rendition Chloe.------
man, i got goosebumps right off the bat. y'all are amazing, such a lovely arrangement
Супер бэнд! Солистка супер! Аранжировка и исполнение- шедевры!
Heard this live at Orlando! Absolutely beautiful!!
My favorite arrangement so far besides maybe delphino plaza. The flugelhorn adds so much character here and it sounds like an incredible journey from beginning to end.
Fantastic job, as always, making me nostalgic for a song I've never heard before (though it does remind me a bit of the ending theme of the Incredible Hulk TV show...) Also, so glad to see the multi-talented Kyra Sims back on French Horn! I thought she'd gotten so busy with all of her other pursuits that she wasn't working with y'all anymore. I mean, it was a blink and you'll miss it cameo at 2:53, but a pleasant return nonetheless. Keep up the stellar work. Looking forward to more Grammys!
Yeah we love Kyra! She of course is an incredibly busy and absolutely incredible horn player, but also not every chart of ours uses horn (sadly haha) but you know the genre dictates whether I need it or not, but when I DO need it she is the first person I call :)
I'm really glad I discovered you guys. Your work is awesome. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
Alright this is probably the best one y'all have ever made. Bravo, this was fuckin' perfect.
One of the best renditions of any video game song I've ever heard. Sensationally good. Stopped my day dead in its tracks and made me listen intently more than once. Beautiful work!
WAY TO GO CHLOE - masterful work
That's it! This is awesome. The flugelhorn is an AMAZING touch for this one. Already emotional piece made better with a Chuck Mangione/Gleason crossover.
As in remembering a promise in a "song to change her mind" (look it up for those who don't know. Jackie Gleason had a few albums out that are actually quite good)
A lovely cover for an equally lovely song. Well done to all those involved in making this!
Outstanding! Chloe killed it. I can’t stop listening to this.
Unbelievable, once again. This should deserve to be played at the BBC Proms.❣
Almost feel bad for other VGM cover channels on RUclips, as this sets the bar so high it's unachievable. 🤪
Sounds like its straight out of the end of a Disney movie!
I love that Chloe is playing in the band and is the featured soloist. Fabulous solo!
Charlie, my lord, how do you create masterpieces EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
You folks never disappoint. My how this channel has grown :) Bravo!
This better get nominated at the grammys
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful 🥲 You all did an amazing job with this one 👏
Very beautiful. Always makes my day when you upload! Guaranteed hit each time!
New on my list of things I didn't know that I needed in my life: going full Nelson Riddle on Uematsu-san. Boy does this work. Lovely flugelhorn playing, too.
When you were just hoping to hear someone play this on a flugelhorn and you get this absolutely stunning arrangement instead :D Wonderful work.
Anyone super impressed by the Flugelhorn's tone should check out Chuck Mangione's albums. Very good stuff.
This is so beautiful
Thanks for doing us a solid
Gorgeous, never been an FF fan but the music is undeniable, and yall knocked it out of the park as usual
that's absolutely amazing and so beauty ! Thank's you for this piece
Very nice work, Ms Rowlands. But I've come to expect that from this top-notch group.
can't wait for this next album, sounds amazing already
I wish you guys would sell a physical album. I would buy all of them
Hits you right in the childhood.
Great music and wonderful soloing. Thank you for posting! FWIW, I find so many quick scene changes do make this hard to watch.
They just cannot stop making bangers. Loved seeing y’all at MAGfest!!!
I just realized the bari sax is the same guy from Brass Against, amazing.
The tune is wonderful, but then come these wonderful musicians and make it heavenly
The flugelhorn is such a good choice here my god. Chloe's incredible
A great/smooth jazz rendition of possibly my favorite theme from FF7, every time I watch one of ya'll's videos it makes me wish I was still in jazz band back in high school, I really miss it.
I was hoping y'all would do this one. Nice arrangement!
Happy Birthday to the great Nobuo Uematsu!
this is the best cover you guys have done so far. cant wait for the next album! keep up the good work!
MORE FINAL FANTASY PLEASE
Absolutely brilliant - such talent you guys. I love it so much! Thanks for all your hard work.
The stuff you guys put out is always absolutely top notch. Everything here evokes a dangerous amount of childhood nostalgia for me. I hope you guys can keep doing what you're doing well into the future!
Such beautiful playing on Chloe’s part!