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With "Three Houses" nearly upon us, I wanted to tackle one of its early released tracks that seems to have flown under the radar - "Fodlan Winds" or "Dawning Wind" - which has certainly been the most difficult track to transcribe and recreate thus far!
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➤ Analysis:
Known in Japanese as "Fodlan no Gyoufuu" (of which the official English translation is not yet 100% decided), this track was composed by Takeru Kanazaki, rather than the past composers Hiroki Moshita and Rei Kondoh. As such, the change in style is quite evident.
While generally, the aesthetic of orchestral samples has remained the same, there are new elements of electronic dance music (EDM) scattered within, including many synthesized and filtered instruments, risers and drops. The most obvious of these can be heard at 0:42.
As to whether this new EDM aesthetic is suitable for Fire Emblem, well, that is soon to be decided (I am sitting on the fence for now!)
To dig deeper into the track itself, there is a fascinating rhythmic syncopation going on which decimates the time signature. Although we are in 4/4, Kanazaki creates a strong metric grouping of 3 semiquavers (0:02), making the track appear to be in compound time rather than common. This disjunct meter persists nearly throughout the entire track, until the shift to the subdominant key (F minor) at 0:35.
This syncopated meter helps to add interest to an otherwise very typical harmonic structure: I - VI - VII - I (C minor - Ab major - Bb major - C minor), which is a very common progression to the Fire Emblem series, and music in general.
Just before the drop (0:43), Kanazaki jumps a tritone (augmented 4th) into Db major (from G), with crunchy added notes of the 7th and 11th (C and G), which are then resolved to Ab major/F minor, with the appearance of the main "Three Houses" theme in the violins (0:48).
This "Three Houses" theme contains a surprising major-minor clash, with both a B-natural and a B-flat at the same time, in the key of G major (0:56). This dissonance is resolved downward (B-flat - A-flat - G), as it similarly does so in various other musics (see J.S.Bach "Contrapunctus 9").
Note: I have no experience in making EDM, so forgive the very shoddy recreation here (all those FX, filters and synthesized stuff is new to me!)
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The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using libraries from EastWest, Vienna Symphonic, and 8Dio.
★Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
★Developer: Intelligent Systems
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Takeru Kanazaki (et al.)
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries, Vienna Symphonic Library, 8Dio, My Mouth
★Tags: Fire Emblem Three Houses, Fodlan Winds, Battle Music, Battle Theme, Three Houses Fodlan Winds, Fire Emblem Fodlan Winds, Fire Emblem Three Houses OST, Three Houses OST, Three Houses Soundtrack
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*Chooses Hilda
Hilda: Who, me?
*Hilda decimates opponent
Hilda: Hilda! Hilda!
You're making me **work**
I AM FERDINAND VON AEGIR
Aeryn Zael YES
Orange haired best boy pfp while quoting orange haired best boy?
You have good taste :)
This sounds absolutely amazing. You have a really great ear.
this is incredible in how accurate it is to the original. i want to hear this performed live, great work!
i thought echoes soundtrack was amazing but three houses blew me right away. best soundtrack ever. thanks for this amazing piece!
Echoes had such a good soundtrack that I have high high hopes for 3H's
And then they release an extended version of the track ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT (October 2020): I originally transcribed this using an incomplete OST preview before the game released (which is why it is only half of the track). I have now re-transcribed the entire 2.5 minute track (RIP me). The score link in the description uses this updated version should anyone need it.
TandA The link is down, but hey, what are you going to do? Can you explain to me how this track is in 4/4? Because it’s very difficult to hear, at least for me. Could you also do a video on music theory and all its trappings? Because although I am a music student (I play trumpet) and adore music as a whole, I find it quite confusing.
If it's difficult to hear, don't worry - it is extremely difficult to hear in this track!
Until 0:35, the 4/4 is obscured by very odd rhythmic stressing. Where 4/4 would normally emphasize 4 beats (e.g. 4 semiquavers, 4 quavers, 4 crotchets, etc.), here he emphasizes 3 beats (seen in the violins 0:03), which basically destroys any semblance of 4/4.
But the reason I have written it in 4/4 is because, outside of this unusual beating, the bars do add up to 4 (if you strictly and steadily beat in 4 from the beginning, everything lines up perfectly). That, and the rest of the track from 0:35 onward is in 4/4 (much more obviously!).
This opening section could have been written in different time signatures, but then it would be a lot more confusing to performers, and more difficult to read at first glance (imo!)
edelgard : "I wil get the victor"
Byleth : "on my mark"
edelgard says "i will prevail"
petra says "i will get the victory"
Someone "I am Ferdinand von Aegir"
Wow that sounds really good!
Makes the wait just a little more bearable
Just stumbled across this - you may be the most skilful transcriber I've ever heard!
This is absolutely superb!!
I have no words to describe the amount of work this must have taken. You're amazing!
I LIKE THIS SOUNDTRACK SO MUCH I HAD SO MANY MEMORIES WITH IT 😭
omg this made me emotional lol. You are an incredible musician. Thank you so much for making this!!
This is incredible!
My ears are GAGGING!❤️
Don't play fire emblem or know anything about it. Still a great song that I liked when I first heard it, good job!
You, sir, are amazing. I just subscribed!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for having the Db at 0:43 on the long note and the G#9 at 0:57, NOBODY has got those chords right in all of the TH-cam arrangements I have heard.
You're welcome!
I've noticed those errors floating around quite a bit too. Unless they're taking creative liberties, they drive me a little mad! ;)
TandA oh absolutely it has driven me insane to no end
Marvelous!
OMFG WOOOOOOW THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!
damn, someone beat me to it! nice work!
Really nice work! Also liked the analysis portion of the description a lot. I'm really not a music theory buff (although I'm trying to get into more concepts currently) but is there something like polyrhythm going on here between the strings and the brass? I know you mention compound time, but is that all there is to it, or are these concepts related or even the same thing? To me it feels like the strings always need 2 bars to "match" up with the brass again.
You are correct - there are polyrhythms going on here!
Mainly 3 against 4, or compound time (e.g. 12/16) against common time (e.g. 4/4), or rhythmic syncopation. All 3 of those can mean the same thing, though some more specific than others.
You'll notice I've grouped the strings into groups of 3 notes to try to bring that across visually and emphasize that syncopation, though they could also have been written in groups of 4 notes - it depends on who is performing it and what they prefer!
@@TandA-Music Thanks for the clarification :). I was wondering about that ever since the track was released and I was kind of looking for someone like you dissecting this so I'm glad I found your rendition. Good to know my ear or "feeling" for this isn't as bad as my ability to put it into precise words.
Could you do one for "As Swift as Wind" from Three Houses? Since Nintendo is shutting down all official soundtrack, it would be an excellent hiding place for people who crave that song, myself included.
i didn't play fire emblem but, i know this song because of tetris 99
Amazing Work! Love your rendition of the soundtrack!
I'm considering doing another behind the scenes when I'm nearing 1,000 subscribers. The process has changed a little bit since 2017!
@@TandA-Music I'm thrilled to hear! Consider me subbed!
Why do I feel the need to ask people: "Do you haves eyes?"
Oh my goodness, this is amazing! I wish I was this good at analyzing and transcribing music!
Do you ever plan to do any other Three Houses tracks?
I'm always open to more Fire Emblem stuff (recently, their OSTs have been some of my favourites).
The problem is - their tracks are so damn detailed and intricate that they take so much longer to transcribe and recreate (especially these battle tracks).
'Tis the curse of their OSTs being sooo good! ;)
@@TandA-Music That makes sense. Still, this is amazing!
I appreciate how you include your mouth. Did you make the noise yourself instead of synthesizing it?
Heh, the sound used for the "Scratching SFX" was a combination of my mouth and harshly scraping a violin G-string with the bow. It's very VERY unlikely that's how the original composers created the sound, but it sort of worked here.
The other synthesized sounds were created with synthesizers and heavily filtered samples. For example, the "White Noise SFX" at 0:35 was created using a few milliseconds of white noise chopped up into a sampler with a high pass filter.
At the same place, the "Sweep Up SFX" was a long white noise sample with a thin bandpass filter that slowly ascended, creating that rising sound.
Good fun to try and figure out how to create those sounds, and I am certain there are numerous methods to achieve the same end result!
This is very spot on to the actual ost. Good job! Have you considered doing Xenoblade?
I have always wanted to some of the tracks from "Xenoblade 2", but ALL of them are incredibly intricate and massive which would take a loooot of time to transcribe (much like this "Fodlan Winds", which also took a while).
So until I can afford that time, it's unlikely I'll be able to tackle them!
YES THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!
Might I also suggest Xenoblade 1 as well, as it is an absolute masterpiece
I still wonder what instruments do they use
After hearing this you can die in peace *^*
As I watch, I can barely hear the different instruments at parts, but if you take one of them away, I would probably feel something is slightly off.
Edit: Also I feel like some people may not know what some of these instruments are or how they sound or work.
The blending of physical instruments with computerized effects is interesting to say the least. Fire Emblem Warriors did that a lot. The Dynasty Warriors series has done that a lot too.
i remember this playing when I was battling with Hilda for the first time and i married Hilda in game lol
Hey, what notation software did you use? I use musescore, but the midi playback can be quite unpleasant...
Check out the bottom of the description for the gear info!
Otherwise, the notation was constructed using Sibelius - though it is not Sibelius' playback! Instead, I recreated the recording by hand in Cubase, using various sample libraries from EastWest, Vienna Symphonic, and synthesizers.
@@TandA-Music hey thanks! Can't believe I let that pass lol. I'll look into it! :)
I don't mean to be nit-picky or rude, but you missed a big chunk of the song. There's a subtle change where the brass' initial melody gets handed to the strings, and the string's section gets handed to brass in exchange, and then it finishes on strings so that it can perfectly loop around to the beginning again. Again, not trying to be rude, in fact, this is amazing! Just something I noticed. Thank you for transcribing this!
Not rude at all! - I actually created this transcription before the game was released, using the audio preview they shared beforehand (now only found here: th-cam.com/video/1gzWCVcY0rA/w-d-xo.html ). This audio preview was the incomplete track (which I did not know at the time). They released a full, longer version when the game released.
So unfortunately there is a big chunk of the track missing, but I could only transcribe what had been released at the time! :)
@@TandA-Music ah! that makes sense!
Hi, i wanted to ask, if it is maybe possible to do some transscriptions of the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Soundtrack. For instance Tracks like "Mewt", "Magic Beast Farm", or "Snow dancing in the schoolyard" would fit quite well with your style. Please check them out. You are doing great work!
I'll give them a listen - can't make promises though! ;)
Hey TandA, I was wondering... do you think you could PM me a copy of the .sib file for this song? I'd love to port it to GBAFE games and having the MIDI would be a godsend.
Sure thing, I'd be happy to send the .MIDI file over!
Either:
1) Reply here with your email
2) Drop me a message with your email here:
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Why am I counting the beginning of the song being 11/8?
Good old metric dissonance.
@@TandA-Music Help a music noob out, what does that mean? I googled it but there was a ton of jargon I couldn't even begin to understand lol, is it truly in 11/8 or 4/4?
@@ninjadude36 Yeah, no worries - with this track, they intentionally (and brutally) destroyed any steady sense of pulse / meter / time signature.
I firmly believe it is in 4/4 (namely as, if you steadily count the beats - 1, 2, 3, 4 - it does all line up neatly into 4). But to confuse things, there are other rhythms going on ("polyrhythms") that are not common to 4/4 and blur the meter significantly.
Here, this is mainly having 3 beats against 4 beats, or compound time (e.g. 12/16) against common time (e.g. 4/4), also known as rhythmic "syncopation" or "metric dissonance" (e.g. a disruption to the steady meter) . All of those can technically mean the same thing though (which doesn't help understanding the jargon!)
You'll notice I've grouped the strings into groups of 3 notes to try to bring that 3 vs. 4 across visually and emphasize that syncopation, though they could also have been written in groups of 4 notes - it depends on who is performing it and what they prefer.
Rhythmically, a very advanced track!
@@TandA-Music Wow, you're right that is super advanced! Wasn't expecting that out of 3H! Thank you!
@@ninjadude36 No worries - I consider it one of their greatest soundtracks yet!
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It seems Nintendo have truly upped their game with taking down the official recordings of their soundtrack on TH-cam :/
Though recreations like this appear to be safe, for now...
@@TandA-Music it was already like this since zelda botw. I was actually surprised they were uploading the soundtrack at the first place although they deleted it after
this is a waste of time