Animal crossing title screen music is like comfort food. It’s a crime that new leaf wasn’t mentioned though. That game has such an amazing overall soundtrack

@corneliariasdita715

10 ай бұрын

Yeahhh I'm a bit disappointed too when I didn't see new leaf on the timestamp 😥 But hey...maybe it is for another video?

@RobinsMusic

9 ай бұрын

The new leaf 7am track though

@mint_marigold1229

9 ай бұрын

Funnily enough, New Leaf has my favorite OST of the entire franchise, but its title screen is my least favorite... 😅

@scootie_scoot

9 ай бұрын

I would love to see a full video on new leafs soundtrack. Especially the more bittersweet nighttime tunes like 7pm and 1am

@Vanity0666

9 ай бұрын

New Leaf doesn't attempt to evoke the same kind of feeling that WW and Population Growing! manage to achieve. PG and WW feel more like you are a child, or coming back to your hometown after a long time away where everyone just kinda knows you. City Folk is where the change started towards becoming a bit more metropolitan, the instrumentation especially is more modern and focused around motifs, which works for the game as it's not about being cozy at home with your neighbors but is instead more of a city building and planning game.

The thing I always remember about the title screen theme of the original Gamecube Animal Crossing is that you can't even hear the whole song unless you do a trick. The title screen reloads after a minute and starts the song over before it finishes if you just let it play like normal. But if you open the lid of the Gamecube while on the title screen, a screen pops up to tell you to close the lid, and the song will keep playing, so you can actually hear the whole thing. When I first heard of that trick, it sounded like one of those fake things kids make up on the playground, but I tried it, and it worked, and it blew my mind, both because it worked, and because they'd write a whole song and include it on the disc, only to not play the whole thing unless you do something weird like that.

@Vanity0666

9 ай бұрын

A lot of vgm (historically) is just parts taken from full songs and arranged differently

I've noticed that a lot of Pokemon games use these same techniques for the themes of the starting town. It's so cool how a little touch of bitterness can make a song sound so cozy and homelike.

@DogOnAKeyboard

10 ай бұрын

oooh I hope he does a video about this, the starting town themes and what they have in common! Unless he's done it before, I don't know but I love how the starting themes sound so cozy and kind of bittersweet that you're leaving but it's still home.

@micahbarrus8406

10 ай бұрын

​@@DogOnAKeyboardI believe he has one on pallet town.

When Animal Crossing has been YOUR game since Elementary school, and now you're 30, and its genuinely hard to watch this without crying 🥲💚

Always the best when 8-bit Music Theory uploads

@abarie4314

10 ай бұрын

I know, I couldn't tell you just how excited I get when I open up discord and see a notification next to the 8-bit server. it's crazy.

These are some of the smoothest key changes I’ve ever seen! Really telling when you can hum a melody without even realizing that the melody changed keys lol… can’t wait to use some of these techniques in my own writing

I've always wondered how these games can have very positive / major key sounding themes without sounding overly cutesy or childish. Awesome video!! Makes me want to go back and learn how to play all the different animal crossing tunes

Your closing statement was brilliant. I do a lot of writing about bittersweet optimism of games like AC, Earthbound, and Chulip. Your closing statement is the crux of what I'm talking about with these games. It goes further than just the music and K.K. slider, it's everything! It's why I love them. The first Animal Crossing wasn't a vanity simulator, it was a bittersweet, old fashioned, slow paced, 20th century country living nostalgia trip.

This breakdown is fantastic. Wild World (and its banjo!) especially has a way of putting tears in my eyes without even trying because of its nostalgic quality. It's got major Rainbow Connection vibes, another song that causes me a lot of core feelings and memories.

Gosh! That D/E setup at the end of the Wild World theme really does pull at the nostalgia strings. I only really know the music from playing Smash, but the theme music is just so relaxing. Love hearing the breakdown and how each carefully constructed chord is designed to hit just the right feels.

I would play New Horizons late at night when it came up, and I often let the themes lull me to sleep. Perfectly cozy, engaging, and relaxing.

@benjamindover8221

10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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@sodicious

10 ай бұрын

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Wild world theme evokes tears whenever it touches my ears

This video makes me want to play New Horizons again.

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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10 ай бұрын

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@snailpocky

10 ай бұрын

me too, i havent played in like a year

so pleased to see wild world's theme here. wild world has always been my favorite of the animal crossing games, and its music is a HUGE part of that. i remember leaving my ds on and falling asleep listening to the music many many times as a teenager (TTwTT)

I was just thinking to myself how nice it would be to have a new one of these to watch with my coffee

This video taught me some interesting things, really love the Animal Crossing musical vibes, it's interesting to see how they are achieving this

Love your videos, man! Been watching for many years. Currently, I'm in the pre-production of original music of mine, and for the past month, I've watched many videos of yours, searching for inspiration. There are so many tools for writing music on this channel, it's amazing! Big thanks for everything you've done! Cheers!

Genuinely think this is one of your best videos. I was completely gripped the whole time and it was SUPER well explained 💃🏻

I love your videos so much. Every time I sit and watch a few I get so inspired. You put the fun back into theory for me

Absolutely superb analysis here! Absolutely love your choice of video topic! Keep up the awesome work!

Very well done as always 8-Bit, thank you

Again, out of my THOUSANDS of subscriptions from the origin of KZread itself. THIS channel's uploads are what I care about the most. Thanks for being here.

Almost as interesting as the music is the way 8-bit says the word "Borrowed"... 😂

@schwa4883

3 ай бұрын

Ikr 😂

so comforting i adore the ac ost

Animal Crossing is 100% comfort music. I got the first game when I was 11, and here I am playing New Horizons a few days a week at 30.

14:05 this reminds me of the motif from jubilife village from Legends Arceus -- same kind of homely feel

So many nuanced and beautiful chords and chord progressions in these songs, it's no wonder they feel more complex and nostalgic than their simplistic melodies might imply

Interesting you upload this and the last few weeks I’ve gotten back into AC after a long hiatus

This inspired me to make my own little Animal Crossing style tune. insomnicsy uses the New Horizons theme in some of their video intros, so it was nice to find out where exactly it was from and get a little more insight on it.

You're gonna make me cry. Well done!

That clip that goes along with the patreon plug is perfect!😂

New Leaf music is so good, probably my favorite of the series.

oh nice upload timing. i recently rediscovered animal crossing music when i was watching a video, and i was huh what songs is this? ive just been listening to the hourly songs while doing activities, changing the songs every hour. also found a nice browser extension that automatically changes the hourly songs. yeah the music frigin slaps PS: the song i talked about turned out to be 5 PM Rainy from New Leaf

@dizzynarutofan100

10 ай бұрын

7pm is also a great one.

@nyuh

10 ай бұрын

@@dizzynarutofan100 ohhh yeah absolutely agree

watching 8-Bit Music Theory as a video game music fan with no background in music theory: "Mmmhmm... yeah... ah... I know some of these words."

@AnnaHans88

10 ай бұрын

I don't even know where to begin learning all of this theory. I want to start somewhere but it seems very daunting and overwhelming.

I fucking love this niche ass channel.

masterful compositions...

this really helped my understanding of jazz harmony!!

I feel like that "stanky" ending a run on borrowed notes and a minor twang has been a thing for these games since the original Sims soundtrack

9PM from the original AC will always be my favourite version of the theme. If I had to describe sound of the feeling of being a kid, coming home at sunset and curling up into bed, itd be 9PM.

Very good explanation of the feeling elicited by these themes, I always could "feel" it so seeing it explained makes a lot of sense. I had also noticed the extreme structural similarities between the themes for _Wild World_ and _New Horizons_ but this lays it out exactly. The title themes are also always used as leitmotifs in the game's hourly themes so it provides a vibe for most of the rest of the game. Personally I think that the theme for _Happy Home Designer_ takes what WW/CF did and brings it to the max with the nearly indescribable bittersweet feeling (both composed by Kazumi Totaka too, which could be part of it). I'd hope for another video detailing that and the theme for _New Leaf_ - heck, throw _amiibo Festival_ in there too. Say what you want about that game but the soundtrack is as _Animal Crossing_ as ever.

Seems to me that in the first song the Eb isn't a borrowed chord at all; rather, the song is simply in F Mixolydian. Ab appears to be the only borrowed chord IMO.

@sdw-hv5ko

10 ай бұрын

You might be onto something, based on his transcription E natural isn't in any of the chords or melody. I do feel like if you were soloing over these changes an E natural would sound better over the first 3 chords at the start of the song but that's obviously subjective

@alelaera13

8 ай бұрын

Songs are written in either a major or minor key, that's what you put next to the clef. When soloing over the progression, thinking in F mixolydian might make sense, but on the trascription it would mean that you have to indicate a Bb key on the clef, or its relative minor. The simplest thing a musician would assume by looking at this is that Bb is the home chord, but it clearly is not. In my opinion this is counter-intuitive. It's much easier to indicate F major and let the musician understand that the scale of F myxolidian can be used, since that E is flattened every time. This is a much broader topic. Let's make the example of the most used mode after the trivial ionian and aeolian: dorian. The most common dorian progression is vi - II. Have you noticed that everyone writes it as vi - II? Say we are in A dorian: if one were to follow your approach, you wouldn't write it like this, since you wouldn't indicate a key of Am on the clef, but rather a key of Em. Then the progression would become ii - V. They are both equally valid - the latter doesn't have non-diatonic chords while the first has the II instead of the ii. In my opinion, vi - II makes more sense for two reasons: "home" is indicated very clearly as A minor (which is correct); and the non-diatonic II would act as a signal, like "uh-oh, this is no ordinary Am". In fact, the natural flavour of II is to give that dorian vibe. Let me know what you think.

Oooh this is a good one, animal crossing game was often full of fun feeling.. game music sets atmosphere so well; im hoping for an ecco the dolphin video.

Great episode, thanks. 😎🤓

how have I never noticed before that you're canadian

11:23 reminds me strongly of the Styx song "Don't let it end"

@AerisVelivolus

10 ай бұрын

Definitely

I remember it feeling so satisfying when I learned how to play the original’s title screen music. Still absolutely love it.

You should make a video about gang-plank galleon, specifically the smash ultimate remix. Personally I think it's one of the greatest video game music ever made, it literally has 5 distinct sections! Most music has only 3 (intro, A section, and B section).

i like your funny words magic man jokes aside, this video will really help, i want to make an animal crossing style game at some point in the future

_Pain from an old wound,_ this video is. Only hearing the melody from New Horizons brings me to tears. The best relationship I ever had was with a girl I played NH with. I lost her for being a complete idiot and now this music is too much for me.

You’re doing the lords work, thanks! 🔥😂

I need this man to breakdown Pokémon Gen 4

This is an amazingly analytical answer to the question posed. If you'd asked me, I would've said it's because these all sound like the Golden Girls theme song.

i can hear the canada in your voice

In Australia, this particular theme is very close to a popular advertising jingle for Bunnings Warehouse, a huge hardware store chain. So it makes me want a sausage on bread. haha

hearing the early ac music is making me so emotional

I know that my question has nothing to do with this video, but I just look at your theory minute videos, and I am amazed at your understanding of music. Do you have contact info? I'm trying to learn theory so I can play by ear and also make it possible to create my own music. I would love to speak with you, if possible.

Omg my fav game!!🎉❤

@benjamindover8221

10 ай бұрын

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6:26 that's just boogie woogie (the F7 with the melody) slightly in different order. No wonder it sounds so uplifting

The original original theme has another chord right before the b theme The one for the N64. You should check it out

YES

Have I mentioned I love your channel?

i don’t understand how you’d even begin to write a piece like the WW title theme, the song is completely through-composed and never repeats any phrases, but has just barely enough melodic cohesion and chord repetitions that it sounds completely normal and satisfying, if not downright catchy. that’s like, an almost impossible feat to pull off

Saying that a game's music keeps you from playing it isn't typically a compliment

Thank you.

Yet my favorite was New Leaf theme 😢

The Dm to Gm move in the GC theme. I actually understand what this part of the piece is saying. o_o

What source do you have for these themes having different composers? I was assuming they were all Totaka's. I know for the most recent games he wasn't the only composer, but I haven't found a reliable credits list for individual tracks.

LOVE AND ALGORITHM APPEASEMENT AND LOVE AND ALGORITHM APPEASEMENT AND MORE LOVE!💜‼️🤠

Okay but which songs are the best Smash Ultimate songs to pick when going to Smashville and Town & City stages?

This is an easier answer for me, only because I've been playing AC for at least 20 years now lol. I can barely listen to AC GC's start screen music without tearing up.

This channel is the shit!

I thought this would be about more than just the title themes.

8:06 isn't that a C7(sus2) chord, instead of a C7(sus4)? it has a D in it but no F

How is nintendo stealing all these brilliant composers?!!

"...Animal Crossing: Wild World, which is - in my mind - the representative piece defining the Animal Crossing sound" LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!! BASED! BASED! BASED!

gosh the acnh title theme is so good, sometimes it feels like everything has been done before and I'm doomed to V - I for eternity but whenever I see incredible stuff like this, it's so refreshing and inspiring

Huh, I think Penelo's Theme from FFXII is built on the exact same bones as that first Animal Crossing theme.

New Horizons apparently inspired the chord progression to Playing God by Polyphia

I love that that animal crossing character is obviously phoebe bridgers lol Edit: maybe...

Why didn't you talk about the New Leaf theme?

please tell me you've listened to final fantasy 16's soundtrack

What does the pixel text on the keyboard say? NOPE? ROFL?

2:58 a sus chord?

So the question is: is it inherently nostalgic at the time of it’s release, or are people just finding it nostalgic after the fact due to their personal relationship with it years later?

@RobSeib

10 ай бұрын

Idk how to define nostalgic but when i played the original way back in 2001, i remember finding the music very comforting and homey

@aoBubs

10 ай бұрын

Nostalgic isn’t exactly the word I would’ve used at the time but the Wild World/City Folk theme always stirred a unique feeling in me from the first time I heard it

@AnnaHans88

10 ай бұрын

Good question. For me it's the latter, I played the original as a kid in 2003. So it's nostalgic for me in that sense.

Pat Metheny vibes

The way he's saying borrowed as boarrowed is killing me.

The first game has the best music, COME AT ME, but I think it's that touch of melancholy that brings everything together between the games. Until you get to New Horizons where they totally abandon their roots in exchange for ostensibly making you God. Worth the trade? Hell no! This series is supposed to be about finding new friendships in the face of loneliness in an unfamiliar place, NOT about who's island castle is the fanciest.

@AnnaHans88

10 ай бұрын

Oh I'm coming at you alright. With a hug because I agree. But that's mostly nostalgia talking.

And somehow video game music composers are not real composers. There is a classist and elitist view of professional composers thinking that video game music is just computer garbage and not real music

Inn😅 Mill

New Leaf skipped

2:59 I'm sorry, a B flat 7 WHAT chord?! 🤨

@pmnt_

10 ай бұрын

dunno, sounds pretty sus to me

Personally I think New Horizons is the weakest of them all. Despite the amazing craft and decor everything on the island feature.

Except that's NOT what "nostalgia" means. "nostos" means "homecoming". It's the painful longing for a home you haven't seen in a long time.

Is there such a thing as synesthesia but with tastes rather than color? 😂 I'm diagnosing you

Great analysis! Just a heads up, since you said it so much in the video, "borrow" isn't pronounced how it looks. It's pronounced "BAH-row." I googled it to make sure it wasn't just my local dialect.

@partylikeits1066

10 ай бұрын

Sounds normal to me. I think he probably knows the word borrow it's not exactly uncommon

@Calyylac

10 ай бұрын

Breaking news: some people have different accents to you

@stevenjones8575

10 ай бұрын

@@partylikeits1066 He says it how it's spelled, like bore. I remember there were a few years when I started saying the first syllable of "buried" the same as "burrow" because they're spelled the same and thought I had been mispronouncing it. Only after a few years did I look it up and realize my original pronunciation was correct. I figure something similar is going on here.

@Calyylac

10 ай бұрын

@@stevenjones8575 he's Canadian, the way he says it is the standard pronunciation of borrow in Canada. Think about the stereotypical Canadian way of saying "sore-y" for sorry, it's the same as that, there's nothing "incorrect" about it

@stevenjones8575

10 ай бұрын

@@Calyylac That makes sense. Didn't know he was Canadian. Thanks.

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@BiggestBenBoy

10 ай бұрын

How Camel by camel by Sandy Marton was written

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