I'm sorry, Palutena only gave me the power of music theory for five minutes. Since you've gone over, my musical skills caught on fire. Will you bring me to the rewind spring to help me regain them?

@hopechr

5 жыл бұрын

... you should've cloned yourself with a magic mirror before doing that, not my job

@goldenwitherphoenix1389

3 жыл бұрын

PFFFFFFFFFFT!

Amazing channel 8-bit! I remember when a certain teacher at Berklee College of Music in the Film Scoring department laughed and said, "No thank you!" when a student asked why the school didn't have any classes designated to video game scoring. Your channel alone can prove that teacher wrong.

@JazzyBassy

7 жыл бұрын

I mean, let's be honest, KI:U is an outlier that's pretty much a film score so I don't think this video proves that it isn't redundant to have both a VG music course and a film music course. His others videos do though.

@VincenzodeLeon

6 жыл бұрын

I'm actually attending a class called "Analysis of Video Game Music and Techniques." Although we don't do any composition, we do seem to be going over analyses like this (I'm only in my third week so far...)

@MuteMusicalMorgan

6 жыл бұрын

In 2012, I took an online certificate course through Berklee that involved 3 classes. The certificate was for Composition for Video games and Other Media. There was a music theory class, one for film orchestration, and the 3rd one had to do with video games specifically. We even did a project that involved some very basic coding in Origin.

@lordgiles1841

6 жыл бұрын

What an arrogant Hack. But there a lot of those guys who don't take Video Game Scores seriously. Poor fools

@kylej.whitehead-music309

5 жыл бұрын

From what I can tell there's very little difference in film scoring and game scoring. Most music in both areas is generic schlock.

Anyone who makes a video about kid icarus uprising deserves to be subbed to.

@crystalclark5903

6 жыл бұрын

TAHK0 I agree

Man I sure do love the best Star Fox game ever made, Kid Icarus: Uprising!

@msalerno916

7 жыл бұрын

An Undefined User Technically you can't barrel roll in Star Fox either. The maneuver is called an Aileron Roll

@msalerno916

7 жыл бұрын

An Undefined User I definitely understand what you're saying. The game popularized the name "Barrel Roll" but was still incorrect. I've never expected to have a legitimately mature debate about something so meaningless in a KZread comment thread.

Holy craparolla, wasn't expecting anyone to consider writing/recording anything about Kid Icarus Uprising, even less about its amazing soundtrack! Thanks a lot for this :) for reals... this is amazing!

@8bitMusicTheory

7 жыл бұрын

No problem!

@newsdqq6732

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, It's Amazing

@TerraSwoop

7 жыл бұрын

Nach212 I FRICKIN LOVED THIS GAME!!!'

@DrakkarCalethiel

6 жыл бұрын

Nach212 The game was worth alone for it's awesome soundtrack.

@saldabest

6 жыл бұрын

This game has one hell of a soundtrack. It was indeed bound to get someone talking about it sooner or later lol.

I wish more KZreadrs pitched music lessons at this level. Your stuff is amazing.

@8bitMusicTheory

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@PamelaTaylor

7 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR THIS YOU GUYS

@force528

7 жыл бұрын

Ittay Nadesan Because most people don't understand music gibberish like me.

@Ssure2

6 жыл бұрын

Learning music theory / basically anything explained in this video should be quite a hard thing to learn. As someone who works with music, although I never have to get complicated about it, I still barely understand music theory. Not that I really need a lot of it, I'm basically doing the thing I shouldn't do... so... yeah. You know, looping unlooped songs...

God, I love this soundtrack. Kid Icarus Uprising is one of my favorite games, and it was awesome seeing an analysis of it's incredible soundtrack. Now, I'm just over here wishing there could be more in-depth analyses of some of the game's other flight themes, like the blatant Star Wars homage of Chapter 13: The Lunar Sanctum, or the brilliant introduction to the Aurum in Chapter 15: Mysterious Invaders.

@ChazzzyF

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Higinbotham Aurum Island is an incredible song as well. If you asked me to pick a top 5 songs in the game, I couldn't give you an order, but the 5 songs would be Aurum Island, Mysterious Invaders, Dark Pit (the flight version), Destroyed Skyworld and Lightning Battle. But even that leaves out a lot of my favorites, like Silence of the Moon, everything in Chapter 18, the Space Pirate Ship, the Chaos Vortex, the flight song from the Seafloor Palace (starts with a fantastic remix of the Overworld theme). It's just such a good soundtrack.

@crystalclark5903

6 жыл бұрын

ChazzzyF Good choices to like

Again today I will go soaring through the sky~ My enemies, I'll dish 'em up in a stir-fry~ Gracious goddess of the light, watches from up above~ At dinnertime I show the cook some love!~

@zacharydodge7074

5 жыл бұрын

FLOOR ICE CREAM GIVES YOU HEALTH!

@PitXRoxas

5 жыл бұрын

lol thanks

@hopechr

5 жыл бұрын

i'M fInIsHeD!

I'm a simple man, I see Kid Icarus: Uprising in the title, I not only do I click, but immediately like before watching the video.

@corrinflakes9659

7 жыл бұрын

Inb4 "it's an old joke" replies

@logansmith2703

7 жыл бұрын

Corrin Flakes "it's an old joke"

@RF-Ataraxia

7 жыл бұрын

It's an old joke

I don't understand half what you are saying. But it makes so much sense!

@hopechr

5 жыл бұрын

me irl

@lightdrgn20

4 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming that none of us (in this thread) actually understand what's he's saying.

Kid Icarus' music is godlike, it makes you feel like your watching a movie.

Word painting. Again today I will go soaring through the sky! My enemies I'll dish 'em up in a stir fry! Gracious goddess of a-light Watches from up above At dinnertime I really show the cooks some love!

Whoa, what? I didn't expect my crappy La-Mulana video to get a shout-out. 0_o I didn't even have a halfway decent set of recording equipment installed for that one and I don't understand music theory enough to do anywhere close to a detailed analysis like your videos, so I have to say it's quite flattering.

@8bitMusicTheory

7 жыл бұрын

Hope you don't mind! I also really dug your Digimon analysis!

@thewizardninja

7 жыл бұрын

This was the least likely place I was expecting to see you pop up again lol.

I'm not a Patron (yet?), but the music of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is really worth a detailed look

@bee4377

7 жыл бұрын

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!! Explorers of Sky is easily one of my favorite video game scores of all time!

@MissedAWide2

7 жыл бұрын

Suppenfischeintopf >when you come to this video just to comment this same thing Great minds think alike. Specially I want him to look at PMD2 and the use of the leitmotif to convey different emotion.

@pokemon30326

4 жыл бұрын

@@MissedAWide2 Aaaand, now it's here. A video on not just pmd2, but its use of leitmotifs

Awesome job! So glad you did this, Kid Icarus: Uprising has such an overlooked soundtrack, with so much to admire. You could probably make a whole series on each chapter alone and how it plays off the motifs established in previous games or in the game itself (not to say you should necessarily). A few things I noticed while watching: -measures 126-133 use a harmonic and rhythmic motif used frequently in "The Lunar Sanctum," of which is a part of the forces of nature section of the game, used as a unique bit of foreshadowing -the "1-trip-let-2-- a" rhythm is a rhythmic motif used quite often as a general theme for Pit, originally from the melody of the underworld theme in the original game (at least the way I look at it) -Maybe I'm looking to far into it, but a bunch of this songs chromaticism I see as a reference to one of Viridi's motifs (the one that starts this very chapter, in fact) The game is so effective in using themes and motifs that during the credits it does a sort of recap that could get you to remember the story through the music alone (although the pictures and voice acting does help when you're playing :p )

The Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-Meta Lydian reference made me shriek like a schoolgirl with pure glee Your channel is life changing man, please keep doing what you're doing!

Kid Icarus: Uprising has absolutely one of my favourite soundtracks in any videogame and this video does a great job at showing _why_ it's so good. I recently found this channel and I am loving it so far!

WOW! i never expected a video about ki:u from you, but here it is, and it's AMAZING! this game deserves so much more love than it gets

This is great, I always liked Uprising's soundtrack. Oh and you should do a collab with Ongaku Concept.

Man, I love Kid Icarus: Uprising, especially its' soundtrack! I'm so happy that you analyzed the music of this game!

KZread is featuring you as an up and coming channel. I saw your Breath of the Wild videos and i look forward to more awesome musical analysis.

This soundtrack is amazing. The whole bunch of great composers and orchestrated by Yasunori Mitsuda and Natsumi Kameoka... that's a dream taeam! In fact, it is my all time favorite soundtrack for any media. An this was a great analysis. Keep it up ;)

At long last, someone remembered this lost masterpiece. I never thought the day would come. Someone actually did something having to do with Kid Icarus, and not only that, but an entire video on it's music. Thank you for this video, thank the composer for the music, and thank the patron for the suggestion. (because I don't have any money to donate... I wish I had enough.)

Kid Icarus: Uprising is one of my favorite games for its characters and score, so I love the breakdown you did of this!

This video got me thinking: which pieces were written first, the flight or ground stages? I noticed a lot of recurring leitmotifs throughout the soundtrack, and now that I've seen the cinematic approach the composers have taken with the on-rails sections, I'm wondering if those themes were written first and then co-opted for use in the other parts of the game. For example, the melody from the beginning of the song you looked at in this video is used as a general theme for Viridi and her Forces of Nature (being found in other levels involving her as well as the menu music when she becomes your celestial guide). That leads me to question if this piece was made first to match the action in Chapter 12 and then used elsewhere, or if Koshiro chose to arrange Viridi's theme in a way that would fit the gameplay and dialogue of this stage.

Yeeees! i'm so happy you did this one- Kid Icarus Uprising is one of my favorite 3ds games ever.

KI:U Is my favorite game ever and the Reset Bomb Depot is my favorite level! Thank you for analyzing some of its music!

I honestly would love this for the entire soundtrack, but this song was a really good representative. Great job!

Man, you've got something special going on here. I'm really glad I found this channel. Please, keep doing what you're doing, this is incredible.

Uprising is my favorite game of all time, and has been since it came out. I can’t thank you enough for covering the brilliance of this game’s soundtrack! My dad, who’s a music teacher, was show this channel by a student of his, and thought I’d be interested as well since I like music and video games. One video in and I’m already hooked. Totally going to binge the rest of your stuff now. You’re great! :D

These videos have helped me better compose my game music after taking music theory and I love it. Keep up the good work!

Dark Pit's theme will forever be my favourite. I wanna listen to that on loop at every point in my life

@hopechr

5 жыл бұрын

[ness up taunt]

I've learned so much about music from watching your channel. A great review of what I learned in music theory and then a whole lot of extra stuff. I never found music theory all that interesting until I thought about it in the context of videogames I already know. Especially your video on the 2nd gen pokemon games. I never thought about what makes 2nd gen music so distinctive. Keep up the great work!

Classically trained musicians unite! Seriously though, your content is amazing. I love, enjoy, and wholly appreciate what you do and wish you all the best. Keep it up!

So glad I randomly stumbled upon your channel. You bring my too loves together: video games and hardcore music theory xD Keep up the amazing work my friend!

One of the most interesting channels I've ever seen. Thank you for your work

Yes, one of my favorite 8bit scores! Thank you!

Dude I wish that I could support you. Your work is phenomenal and as a pianist for the last 19 years these videos tickle the exact right strings =D

Easily my favorite channel lately.... Makes me want to get back into learning music theory. Not a patron (yet), but Illusion of Gaia has some cool underrated music... "Signs of the Past" especially! Keep it up man, great stuff

Hahaha super ultra hyper mega meta Lydian is my favorite meme. Thanks based JC.

@JariSatta

7 жыл бұрын

Jacob Collier. And Cmaj13#11#15

@galenstapley4950

7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yes!

Just found this at the creator on the rise thing, and this is AMAZING!!!! I've wanted to see a channel like this for a while!!

3:46 bar 38 I think that D is a Db. Amazing work doing all that transcription. I couldn't do it with fast & complex music.

I'd love to see an analysis of Metroid Prime music. Boss Tardus for example : how can a song be that scarry ?

This game is legitimately one of my favorites of all time. I should really pick up another copy of it since I have away my old one. I never paid much active attention to the soundtrack but it must be part of why the game is so exciting and thrilling and just fun to play. Great video as always!

I loved this. I feel like this game's music doesn't get appreciated as much as it deserves.

I know I'm not a patron, but I hope you do a video on Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon sometime. That music ties in with the plot and character development so well. The way the general sound and instruments change after leaving home, the partner's theme, and how the final boss ties everything together is pretty good.

@bee4377

7 жыл бұрын

100% Agree!! :) Mystery Dungeon games are notorious for having excellent and emotion-packed soundtracks.

Really great breakdown, you totally destructimated it. This is such an interesting track when you pick it apart.

late as HELL but amazing and super cool video !!! thank you so much for doing content on this game :D

You're the creator on the rise on the trending tab!

The fact that you got a great sense of humor makes all of these even better. Had some really good laughs in this one.

I've had notifications turned off since KZread announced the feature, because I dislike most app notifications. But this video made me gladly click the bell. So I just wanted to say, thanks for analyzing one of my favorite games, and your channel is awesome!

Oh man, what an amazing video. Thank you for making it.

Just found out about your channel through youtube's creator on the rise section, after the first 4 minutes I clicked on subscribe, clicked on the like, and notification bell. This is easily the best channel they have featured!

@8-Bit Music Theory I have no idea what you're saying (cause I don't know music) but you sound smart and you know what you're doing. I like you.

Cool video man. Keep it up!

Excellent vid. Keep it up!

Your content deserves 100x the amount of subscribers you have

Thank you Lars Flyger for this request! One of my favorite games ever!!

NINTENDO PLEASE MAKE KID ICARUS FOR NINTENDO SWITCH

@crystalclark5903

6 жыл бұрын

heyy That would be awesome

@shimp9824

6 жыл бұрын

Sugar Baby Dude it's one of my favorite games of All time, it will fit perfectly with their new online service

I'm not very good at music theory but I'm glad to hear your analyses of video game songs that I like that help point out why. The score of this game is really something special.

man, I had forgotten how much fun I had with this game.

Uprising is one of my favourite games of this decade. Always happy to see it given more love.

Great video! Don't kick yourself for being behind. Just keep it up :)

Love seeing this game covered in one of these vids, although hot diggedy I'd enjoy seeing your opinion on the flight section of the chaos vortex. It's not the most popular amongst people I know but I can't get enough of it.

Hi 8-Bit! Your videos are fucking amazing! I understand something like 10% of what you are talking about, but your knowledge of music theory is astonishing! If I can suggest you, I would like you to talk about the music of 3 games that I think are masterpieces of music (and game) history: - Undertale (I'm sure I'm not the first one who is asking it!) - Breath of Fire III (a lot of jazzy music here, i think you would like it) - The Last Of Us (Santaolalla here gives his best) Keep on with the good work! A new follower from Italy

was not expecting you to actually define a term!! but im really glad you did because im always lost when you bring up anything of the, like, italian terms ^-^'

Thanks for the great birthday present!

Kid Icarus Uprising is one of the best games ever, and it has godly music. So glad this was a video.

Glad I saw this! KZread put you on the Creator on The Rise right now in the Trending section :D

I have no idea about music but this is pretty cool man!

Amazing analysis served in a wonderful video editing. Thanks man :) Perhaps giving us two chances to hear "complex" passages would be great - just to reduce my rewinding/fast forwarding!

Speaking of Leitmotifs, what about Undertale? Yeah, I know "undertale is bad lul," but the game does a fantastic job of reintroducing the same melodies and transforming it at the same time.

I have been blown away by the amount of sections in this piece

I like how the Smash 3DS version of this stage is the only one in the game that stops the music when you pause for this exact reason.It's a nice touch. Also, I kinda hate myself for laughing at all your jokes. Great job as always!

i have no idea how to read sheet music and never took a music class in my life but i love this shit, keep it up

I had always preferred the air sections of this game because the music is way better in there. Great video!

Man, I love Uprising. It's such an underappreciated and underrated game. We need another Kid Icarus. But Nintendo will never let Sakurai stop working in Smash.

Awesome work, thanks :)

@TheAngelofThrash

7 жыл бұрын

Also loved the Jacob Collier reference

@8bitMusicTheory

7 жыл бұрын

No, thank you!

dude, you're trending right now, awesome.

Yay new vid!

Fantastic analysis. I loved the soundtrack to this game even though I wouldn't describe it as singable like most looping tunes.

Huge fan of Uprising. One of my top 3DS games for sure. Without a doubt the soundtrack is a huge part of my love for this game.

Just seeing someone analyzing the Kid Icarus series puts a smile on my face.

Wow I did not know this about Kid Icarus Uprising. That's unique, I have to check this game out now.

Kid Icarus Uprising definitely has one of my favorite soundtracks!

The reset bomb arc was easily one of the most breathtaking moments I've ever experienced in a game, and MAN does the non-repeating score boost that experience to 11...

You sound like the game theory guy... ARE YOU!? MAYBE YOU SECRETLY HAVE TWO CHANNELS THAT YOU'RE MAINTAINING PHENOMENALLY WELL. Well, that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY. All jokes aside I very much appreciated this video. I loved the OST of Kid Icarus Uprising.

Heading into Theory III next semester and some of this stuff is still mind boggling lol

That freaking Arrested Development reference. Oh my gosh that was perfect.

That Jacob Collier reference LOL great video man.

one day I hope to have the knowledge required to analyze music like this, really inspirational :)

Okay, I think I've got my request for a future video of yours (once I join your patreon, of course). I'd love an analysis of Dancing Mad/One-Winged Angel, and how they adapt to the player's progress through the battle.

love the vids! But I wonder, will you ever make a videos on how to approach composing some game music from scratch, as opposed to doing analysis vids?

@rustydogg

7 жыл бұрын

id love to see how to approach composing in general as well. just something to keep the channel fresh. some other things id like to see would be tutorials for composing and song analysis in general (outside of games), but i dont think itll fit the channel.

@tobiasbanks3743

7 жыл бұрын

Analysis is really the best way to learn about composition. There isn't a secret formula for writing music. You can learn the technical stuff and get feedback on your work, but beyond that you learn the most from dissecting other peoples' work. These videos ARE composition lessons.

@kay486

7 жыл бұрын

but what if you do not have memorized all the techniques like chordprogressions and their corresponding associations? Say you want to achieve X with your music, how do you go about doing it?

@rustydogg

7 жыл бұрын

fair point. i was essentially saying was that there should be more series rather than one, but i dont really know what that could be... i suppose analyses are a good start though.

@tobiasbanks3743

7 жыл бұрын

Well you can learn a lot about how people achieve different goals and how different chord progressions work in this channel. This video, for instance, can teach you how the mode mixture of a major IV chord in a minor key sounds heroic and a whole bunch of other ways to use harmony to create different feelings. The Dark Souls video teaches you how to expand on an idea to make a song (which is one of the most important things to be able to do in composition), the Earthbound video has lots of helpful advice for writing melodies, etc. He's doing what most theory and composition classes in college do, except instead of using Bach and Beethoven, he's using Kondo and Uematsu.

Loving the Arrested Development clips.

What timing that the day I start a KI:U 100% play through this is uploaded.

Wrath of the Reset Bomb!! My jaw dropped because it's one of my favorite pieces to listen to!

When this came out when I was in primary school I learned to play like half the soundtrack on guitar.

Me look at sheet music: *I NEVER LEARN HOW TO READ!!!!!!!!*

Good one!

If memory serves (which, knowing myself it probably doesn't), when you pause the game during a flying section, the music stops too. But in a ground section, it continues in the background faded