Video Game Music Analysis Videos
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How Video Game Jingles Work
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The Music Theory of Revali's Theme
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Will Mario Kart World's Music Hold Up?
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How to Learn How to Write for Orchestra
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Why Does This Music Sound Untrustworthy?
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How The Legend of Zelda Theme Works
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Dragon Quest 4's Carefully Crafted Chromatic Basslines
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How Colgera's Boss Theme Works || Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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Hope vs Despair in Nine Sols’ best boss theme
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Turn one bar of melody into a whole soundtrack. WAAH!
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How does Video Game Beach Music Work?
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Wario Land 3's Soundtrack Secret
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The Music Theory Behind Astral Observatory
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What Makes This Sound So Cute?
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5 Sus Chords to Get Yourself a Girlfriend
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How Can Music Be Scary?
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You Can't Write Music as Pretty as Pikmin 4's Credits Theme
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The Art of the Title Screen Theme
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How to Write Hero Music with Heart
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How Nintendo Makes Music Sound Japanese
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The Secret to Writing a Professor Layton Theme
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Can Odd Meters Feel Good? || Odd Time Signatures in Video Game Music Part 2
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A Musical Analysis of Mipha’s Theme
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Why Does This Paper Mario Boss Theme Go So Hard?
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How to Write Atmospheric Music on a Super Nintendo
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How Cynthia's Theme Terrorized a Generation
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Gohdan's Theme is a Baroque Banger
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Wind Waker's Boss Themes are the Best in the Series
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Explaining Super Mario's Underwater Music
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Ya got TRICKED: That Full Band was really just 3 Channels!
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Bloodborne’s Best Boss Theme? || Music Theory Analysis
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Why does Dark Souls sound like Dark Souls?
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The Music Theory of Super Mario RPG's Battle Music
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Explaining Super Mario Bros.' Underground Theme
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The Music of Zelda's Best Ending
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The Wii Shop Theme can teach you Jazz Songwriting
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What are the Melodic Minor Modes?
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Why Animal Crossing Music Sounds Nostalgic
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How Austin Wintory's Interactive Musical Works
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The Ionian Mode Feels RELAXING
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Understanding the Magic of Joe Hisaishi *MUTED*
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Analyzing the Orchestration of Skyward Sword - feat. @ChristopherSiu
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The Music of Tristram Village is a Classic for a Reason
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The AEOLIAN Mode Feels Devastating
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SURGE OF POWER - The Hype-est track from Mega Man Battle Network
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A Piece That Does Only Beautiful Things from Suikoden II
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My FAVOURITE Soundtrack?? The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls || ONLY IN JAPAN
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The DORIAN Mode Feels MYSTERIOUS (among other things)
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How Music Matches Gameplay in Ori's "Shadows of Mouldwood"
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ONLY IN JAPAN: Napple Tale's Magical Daydream Music
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The PHRYGIAN Mode Feels THREATENING
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The Beautiful Musical Textures of Okami
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SNES vs Gameboy music: Mega Man Xtreme
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The MIXOLYDIAN Mode is Really Kind of Goofy
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Fire Emblem Awakening's Greatest Track
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How to Use the LYDIAN Mode
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LOCRIAN doesn't have to be S p O o K y
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How to Write Transitions || Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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Why is Dragon Roost Island such a Bop?
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How I Turned Rainbow Road into a Jazz Fusion Jam
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How Simple Chord Progressions Work
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The Hyrule Castle Theme is Spectacular
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When the Music Fits the Action Perfectly || Kirby and the Forgotten Land
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Rosalina is a Disney Princess (musically)
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You Can Think About Melodies Harmonically, Too
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How to Use a Theme || Aryll's Theme from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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The Phoenix Wright Musical Formula
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What IS Metric Modulation?? || The Lake Theme from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
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How to Write a NieR Song
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How Creative Limitations Shaped Ocarina of Time's Best Music
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How to Write Drum Parts (for non drummers)
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Check out the Sick Chords in Road Taken from Fire Emblem Fates
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The VIBES of Final Fantasy IX, Part 2: Kuja's Theme
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The VIBES of Final Fantasy IX, Part 1: Melodies of Life
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Beginner's Guide to Voicing and Voiceleading || How Nobuo Uematsu Writes a String Part
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Part Time UFO's Very Cute Soundtrack
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A Framework for Basic Rhythmic Analysis feat. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
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Pepsiman's Theme Song SHREDS
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5 Tips for Writing for Orchestra
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Katamari Damacy's Lonely Rolling Star Rocks
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Austin Wintory's Newest Theme is Also Simple, but Sophisticated (feat. @awintory)
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Austin Wintory's Themes are Simple, but Sophisticated
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Baka Mitai Actually Slaps Though
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Paper Mario: The Origami King Doesn't Cut Corners
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Balancing Structure and Creativity: How Gravity Rush Develops a Theme
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Does Yooka-Laylee's Music Stay Faithful to the Banjo-Kazooie Style?
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7 Levels of Reharmonization (ft. 88bit)
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Why Animal Crossing New Horizons' Shop Closing Theme Sounds Like A Pixar Lullaby
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Chibi-Robo's Wild and Wacky Soundtrack
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Key Changes in Touhou Music
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How They Remade the Mako Reactor Theme from Final Fantasy 7
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Gusty Garden Galaxy's Perfect Melody
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What Makes a GOOD Leitmotif? | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky
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When Bioshock Infinite Covered The Beach Boys
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Exploring the Music of Golden Sun
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My Favourite Musical Moments of the 2010s
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Chord Voicings in Halo 3: ODST's "Rain"
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How Link's Awakening Rearranges a Soundtrack
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Silent Hill 2: Silence is Also a Sound
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How Celeste Takes a Little and Gets a Lot
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What's a Chordioid?
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How Rhythm Drives The Music Of Ace Combat
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What Makes Metroid Music Sound Like Metroid Music?
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The Lost Soundtrack of SimCity NES
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Leitmotif in Hollow Knight's Soundtrack
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Storytelling through Music in Hollow Knight
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Atmosphere and Motivic Development in Hollow Knight's Soundtrack
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How Yoshi's Crafted World Crafts Level Music
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Mount Wario's Dynamically Developing Music
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What? THE SOUNDTRACK is evolving! | Revisiting Kanto Themes in Pokemon Gold and Silver
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Odd Time Signatures in Video Game Music
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How Octopath Traveler Changes Key
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Spider-Man and the Effective Use of Musical Clichés
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Final Fantasy VI Analysis Series PART 3: Dancing Mad
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Final Fantasy VI Analysis Series PART 2: How an Idea Grows Across a Soundtrack
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Final Fantasy VI Analysis Series PART 1: Development of Melodic Ideas
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Chromatic Notes Are Goofy In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
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Musical Evolution in the Civilization VI Soundtrack
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How Super Smash Bros. Music Sets a Tone for the Series
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Pikmin's Interactive Soundtrack
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How Melody Expresses Harmony in Cave Story
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The Musical Fusion of the Castlevania Series
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Iconic Opening Intervals in Game Music
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How Koji Kondo Writes Creepy Music
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The Musical Evolution of Rainbow Road
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Harmonic Relationships in the Music of Disasterpeace
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4 Tips for Writing Ambient Chord Progressions
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How Cuphead Arranges for Ragtime Orchestra
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Analyzing Christmassy Melodies for Christmas
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Rhythmic Dissonance in the Knuckles' Chaotix Soundtrack [Patron Request]
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Top 5 Traits of Battle Themes from Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal
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Motivic Development in Link's Awakening [Patron Request]
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Analyzing The Sax Solo From Dolphin Shoals
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Good and Evil in the Persona 5 Soundtrack [Patron Request]
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How Pilotwings 64 Brings The Funk [Patron Request]
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Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Analysis PART 4 of 4: Hyrule Castle Theme
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How Super Mario Land 2 Rearranges a Melody [Patron Request]
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How To Write A Song From The Mega Man 2 Soundtrack
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Scoring the Action in Kid Icarus: Uprising [Patron Request]
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Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Analysis PART 3 of 4: Kakariko Village
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Orchestration Techniques in Banjo Kazooie [PATRON REQUEST]
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Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Analysis PART 2 of 4: Main Theme
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Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Analysis PART 1 of 4: Hyrule Field Theme
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PATRON REQUEST: How Transistor Uses and Abuses Pedal Points
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Nonfunctional Harmony in Chrono Trigger
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PATRON REQUEST: Rhythmic Layering in Kirby's Gourmet Race Theme
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Why does Mario music sound "Fun"?
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What Makes A Good Melody - Earthbound's Snowman Theme
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5 Tips for Jazz Reharmonization from Pokemon Sun and Moon
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Music Enhances Narrative in Shovel Knight
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How Final Fantasy VII's Victory Theme Defies Expectations
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Songwriting Secrets: Spooky Mario Music
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Songwriting Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog
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The Music of Zelda's Overworld: a Historical Retrospective and Analysis
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