Jeremy Soule did an amazing job reusing the theme music for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim but changing it to fit the tone of the game / the environment. Such a talented composer
Homesick, is the best way to explain what I've been trying to say about this soundtrack, I've never been able to perfectly explain the way the songs from Oblivion make me feel, but I think "Homesick" is perfect. It is something beyond nostalgia, a yearning for a feeling beyond simple nostalgia.
Oblivion music and just Elder Scrolls music in general is some of the best video game music ever in my opinion. It is so easy to listen to even without playing the game. Jeremy Soule really knew what he was doing
Skyrim's soundtrack along with the ambience allows me to just walk around without fast traveling and not really care when I get absorbed into it. I have walked the same paths in Skyrim hundreds of times without getting tired of it. It's the reason I found out why I get so bored when playing Minecraft despite every world being a new experience and the reason is because there is no ambience, the music barely comes on as well. Good muisc, ambience, really makes or breaks the drive to continue playing.
Agree, and its so unbelievably beauftiful and perfect for the games and the way it was used. Like when you walk around in the night and suddenly see the northern lights and tundra starts playing, its pure bliss. I dont think bethesda can ever reach previous heights without him, starfield wasnt such a bad game, but the music so mediocre and uninspired, and therefore everything else was also turned mediocre.
3:47 this right here; Soule is such a master of this art form. The way he can compose ambient music that still has such strong melody and harmony that it sticks out and feels familiar but doesn’t overpower ugh it’s divine.
Oblivion, at the time of release, had one of the most atmospheric sound tracks I'd ever heard. My favourite Elder Scrolls game by far for so many reasons.
Video game music, particularly for open world games, is actually a very interesting challenge as Charles points out. That task of setting a mood without being distracting is a big one, but there’s also writing music that can respond seamlessly to context cues and swell dynamically when you approach a visually impressive location, or blend straight into combat music at a moments notice. It feels like it’s as close as you can get to “composing someone’s day to day life” as you need to capture all the moods and set it up to be able to move between them based on fairly basic triggers in the games code
I've been waiting for this for SO LONG. I absolutely LOVE the Oblivion OST and listen to it about once every couple of weeks. So glad to have a musician like you look at it. Thanks Charles. You're the man!
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Oh hell yeah dude. Jeremy Soule turned out to not be a very good person sadly, but there's no doubt that the music he composed for this series is wonderful.
Damn, i didn't even know he had drama. Just searched for it and honestly, i think i can still enjoy the songs either way. To me, the songs are more from the game than from Soule.
@@kevinsundelin8639 One woman accused him of rape and another accused him of sexual harassment, and while I don't have examples, he has a reputation of being extremely hard to work with.
@@nabhchandra_ I mean the IV in minor and the II in major are actually the same chord. I just feel the iv/IV adds a certain romance and nostalgia to a scale
So glad you left the "well witten" in. I love the timbre of your channel. Always feels to relaxed. Like everyone is just hanging out, nerding of music. Love it!
I absolutely have to recommend Nier Automata’s PHENOMENAL soundtrack for you to dive into next. Because of the setting of the game, they created a new language that was an amalgamation of linguistic traits and sounds from several of the worlds most spoken languages (aptly referred to as the “Chaos” language). Aside from the interesting lyrics/performance, the actual composition of the songs is just breathtaking, please give it a listen sometime! Edit: I’d like to humbly add to my request by recommending Drakengard 3’s Final Song. It’s the same series as Nier Automata and it’s just… a masterpiece. But to be honest, every single entry in the whole series is a musical masterpiece.
Yeah!! NieR Automata has awesome pieces like: - Voice of No Return - City Ruins (Rays of Light) - Pascal - Amusement Park - A Beautiful Song The first game (technically a remake of the original) with awesome pieces as well is NieR Replicant (remake/remaster of Gestalt)! Specific pieces: - Song of the Ancients - Grandma - The Incomplete Stone - Ashes of Dreams - Fleeting Words - Shadowlord
I DEMAND a 3-hour Nebula special of you doing Skyrim's music. Secunda, From Past to Present, Far Horizons, and The Streets of Whiterun are all pieces that will make anyone my age cry at the drop of a pin.
fun fact. Bethesda actually has their composers make the music of the game before actual development starts. They then use the music that's been created as a blueprint for the rest of the game.
Thanks for doing a video of one my favorite soundtracks of all time. I've used this soundtrack for every d&d game I've run, I play it when I'm trying psych myself up while stacking wood for the fireplace. Or a calm drive to work. Genuinely good stuff.
You should check out the music from Enderal: The Forgotten Stories. It's an overhaul mod for Skyrim that has some of the best video game music I've ever heard. Both version of Fleshless are so beautiful and haunting.
One of my favourite tracks from Oblivion is King and Country. I used to literally fast travel to different world spots to trigger it so I could just sit and listen.
I would love to hear a 2-3 hour discussion about the music of FFVII Remake. Especially a section on the scene where Aerith goes to save Marlene from the bar and when Tseng walks up the stairs the Aerith theme is played but in minor. It gives me chills.
I'm also a fan of when aerith is in the Shinra building talking about her childhood there and you hear her theme Combined with Clouds/main theme. It's super cool👌🏽
I’ll always know Soule for his work on the Harry Potter games 😂 “Alls Well” is my favorite track on this for sure. So calming. You should definitely talk about the soundtracks to Myst and Riven, Robyn Miller achieved a very similar effect in that you could listen to his tracks for ages and not feel tired.
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Man I am soo overwhelmed how you can just listen to something and hear the exact chords... I mean it's one thing to listen and play the bare melody and main scale with it. (I can do that with easy songs) But finding this exact harmonies... Amazing! Hope I can learn some of that with practice... Love your content, your humor , your videos and your talent!! Thanks^^
Just do it over and over again. You'll get there earlier than you might think. Maybe start with melody first and add chords with the left hand that you think could work. Then also try only copying the bass / roots and then building chords on top. Repeat those two exercises with all kinds of songs and soundtracks. practise practise practise
@@svenhegenmusic Thank you very much^^ Yeah that's something I really like to do, and im going to practise it a lot more in future^^ Whats so difficult is finding the chords that are some how " unexpected"..🤔 But I guess one aspect is pratice, and the other a good ear too^^
@@nathanael1354 They are unexpected because you need to train your ear with intervals and relationsships between chords. once you built a decent vocabulary inside your brain, everything will just work like automatically. it's like speaking a language
Paying attention to, and learning from everything and anything is the best way to expand horizons and cultivate creativity. I love that you’re continually checking out music that you’d otherwise dismiss!
The peaceful songs from Oblivion are some of my favorite pieces of fantasy music of all time. I sometimes put them on with a rain loop when trying to take a nap or go to sleep.
Jeremy Soule’s music changed my life. I listened to the Oblivion/Skyrim soundtrack in Queenstown NZ, a place with a similar landscape to Skyrim. The music translated to the real world beautifully, and its gamefied my life, made me the protagonist, etc. His elder scrolls music is most hyped but for me his music on the Guild Wars series is where it’s at!
Jeremy Soule's work is so incredibly good. He also did work on the Guild Wars series and Neverwinter Nights which are some of my favorite games of all time.
Minor 7 chord with a major 7th [eg. C-Eb-G-B natural] is also used a lot in Bond music - I think of it as the Bond chord. It is a little like playing minor tonic and dominant major [eg. C minor and G Major] at the same time.
This game is more than a meme too. It is one of the best of its genre and is regarded as a masterwork by pundits. It's otherwise obscure in your circle, but take a step outside and smell the roses. This soundtrack plays in people's minds day in and out.
@@kevinsundelin8639 I get that it still for sure has its fans (and also its memers), but I think it is still obscured to a point, especially with Skyrim overshadowing it. But more so the music is obscured because of the memes and everyone always bringing up the dialogue. Typically the only time I hear people talking about the soundtrack is for nostalgic reasons. Which is fine, but a soundtrack breakdown from a music theory channel I think was pretty unexpected. Although, I could be wrong as it could very well just be from my experience.
@@zimripiano I’m curious, are you younger? I’m 30 and I remember Oblivion being almost as popular as Skyrim when it was in its prime. Seems like everyone was talking about it.
Amazing analysis of probably my favorite video game OST. I'd love to see a part 2 because there's so much more to the soundtrack. "Glory of Cyrodil" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard
This is crazy, I literally discovered your channel today and was wondering what your take on Jeremy Soule would be. And then this video popped up! My nostalgia centers more around Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic. The latter is a big recommendation to you as a John Willians/Star Wars fans, because Soule really blends his own style perfectly with that of Star Wars (in my opinion)
The entire soundtrack is by far the best video game soundtrack imo. Might be because I played the crap out of it, but I can at any point of any day put this soundtrack on and just become mesmerized as if I never heard it before
The Halo soundtrack: somehow more mystical and majestic despite being a sci-fi space opera. Not a knock against Oblivion, it's good, but not holistically good like Halo's and other game's tracks.
funny thing is that I have been listening to Harvest Dawn (and the rest of the OST) for more than a decade and up to today I didn't knew there were memes using it. The more you know...
Hey Charles, I was wondering if you ever considered doing a video on overtones. I was watching a video of Gregorian Monks singing the Halo theme and on their third go around they sang in a way that made their harmonies create this really amazing overtone over the top. To me overtones have always been a really interesting aspect of music and I think it'd make and interesting video.
Hearing this brings back so many fond memories of my childhood and adolescence I would love a remake of oblivion with the Unreal Engine 5 . I miss that period when studios were forced to innovate, they had no choice, and we found ourselves with absolutely legendary titles. Today we can also find quality I think of The Witcher 3 but things have changed and the objectives too. The wheel turns so one day or another a great period like the one we had will come back I just hope not in 20 years. Thanks for this video !
So I've never given a second thought to 'Unmarked Stone' but after hearing the voicings on piano, it reminds me so much of the music for the Water Temple from OoT. And the empty 'wind through a cave' sound effect being tuned to that tritone interval is crazy brilliant
My god that welling up of the music in harvest dawn at 4:13 is truly beautiful. You can really feel the near death experience of Soule in it. That's the best way I've come to describe how these tracks make me feel, life, its this beautiful appreciation for life.
Jeremy soules music is crazy good for studying, or anything really. I love how it can be great background music and yet it's still complex enough to consume you.
Hey man, you should definitely check out the music from the Professor Layton games series, I think it brings a truly magic and unique atmosphere to the game. By the way, your content is amazing, I think that thanks to you I'll soon start playing the piano! You bring so much information in such a simple and pleasing format, it is always a pleasure. Have a nice week!
I got sick when this game came out and my dad let me take the whole week off to recover and play this. The music in this game was so next level. Makes me wish I could relive the past. So beautiful.
There's a track on that score called Peace of Akatosh and for the longest time I would listen to it on repeat whenever I felt anxious. These softer pieces on the soundtrack have such wonderful soothing qualities.
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Love this analysis. You'd love the music from NieR Replicant (remake/remaster of Gestalt)! Specific pieces you might like: - Song of the Ancients - Grandma - The Incomplete Stone - Ashes of Dreams - Fleeting Words - Shadowlord Another NieR game with great music is NieR Automata which has awesome pieces like: - Voice of No Return - City Ruins (Rays of Light) - Pascal - Amusement Park - A Beautiful Song
There's SO MUCH amazing video game music!! I really hope you keep doing more games. My favourite track on the Oblivion soundtrack is Watchman's Ease. It's short but it's really epic. The beginning gives me Legend of Ashitaka vibes :)
Yes, thank you!! I've never heard anyone else talk about Soule's near-death experience(?) during his work for Oblivion, but damn, knowing about that just made the OST achingly beautiful to listen to
I would like to recommend Donkey Kong Country music, it was composed by David Wise and he's one of my favorites. If you do check it out please listen to Aquatic Ambiance, Stickerbrush Symphony, and Forest Interlude. Just some of the most beautiful pieces of music ever made and it was made on a cartridge that only held 64 Killobits of memory to hold the whole soundtrack and the sound effects for the game
I continue to be convinced that almost all music that's used in memes genuinely has some kind of good substance to it, or else it would have died out early on out of straight annoyance
Another video-game music suggestion: Celeste. Most of the music also has official remixes used on the B-side levels, most of which are available on Spotify and TH-cam Music. It varies between high-energy electronic bops (Sever the Skyline), chill piano/string pieces (Exhale, Madeline and Theo), and places in between (Anxiety). My favourite is Reach to the Summit, which has one melody that repeats throughout, but as you get to each new landmark ascending the final stretch of the mountain, the instruments and vibe change dramatically to reflect each part of the climb.
I have to admit that I have absolutely no knowledge about music structure/theory/whatever it's called, but I still like watching these because of the enthusiasm and very impressive improv! Oblivion music is very special and definitely brings up a lot of memories. I like the meme ones, but my favorite will forever be Auriel's Ascension. This specific score playing during clear nights always made me stop and just take in the scenery and starry sky. The piano parts of it are so simple but touching
Jeremy Soule wrote the music to probably my favourite video game: Secret of Evermore. Sometimes it's just atmospheric background sounds, sometimes straight music and the rest the two mixed together. The range of that OST is fantastic for a SNES game. That was the very first time Soule worked on a video game as well.
BTW this reminds me of the game "The Longest Journey" which also has quite a lot of nice intriguing background music made by Bjørn Arve Lagim and Tor Linløkken, with complex harmony all over the place.
I'd love if you could go into the music used in the Death Note Anime. There's some simply beautiful songs in the show that made may scenes so much more impactful.
9:38 - 10:10 D natural minor (aeolian) turning into D dorian, which introduces the B note instead of Bb. And I'm assuming that the 4th chord in the dorian mode is major (edit: 7th). Am I doing this right?
There was a time where I didn't have access to the internet and I had to download the ost on my game files, all I could scrounge was Oblivion and CIV4, both amazing soundtracks.
not sure if anyone is gonna read this, but I so wanna watch Charles do one of these videos on the music of Racing Lagoon, it's just late 90's japanese perfection!
I agree, his music is superb. As far as the accusations goes - I'd rather not believe anything until I see evidence. As far as I've read, the person accusing him of his indecent behaviour is an unreliable witness with a bad record - atleast according to the Internet, which is sadly unreliable in itself, so I don't know what/who to believe in honestly. Nonetheless, such accusations can ruin a person's life, even if they themselves are innocent. So until anything is proven, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. It really is unfortunate, that his situation has limited his creativity. It is also unfortunate that people have described him as a person, with whom it is hard to work with - he's a perfectionist and one can hear that listening to his works. As far as his financial blunders with his latest album goes though... Yeah, not much I can add there, that is not very responsible.
@@Capwnql If someone is hard to work with because they're a perfectionist, then that's really an objective flaw that deserves to be pointed out so that others know to steer clear of them. Perfectionism is nothing more than a crutch for artists who think they're geniuses. It causes them to miss deadlines and treat their colleagues poorly.
Your insight is the BEST. You lead us all to things that we know/feel, but were absolutely not aware of. I love the sense discovery in all of your content. Skyrim or Final Fantasy 6 sometime in the future?? Dragonborn - Jeremy Soule .. why is it so heroic? I mean, its arranged perfectly, but what makes a heroic song sound heroic? Terra's Theme - Nobuo Uematsu .. why does it sound like such a gripping adventure? Ive been captivated by Nobuo since childhood, this song moves me to tears almost. Why?
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Call the judge and get some fudge
How about Skyrim soundtrack? Jeremy Soule truly made a masterpiece
Analyze some low volume Vulfpeck for the nation 😋
Check out Morrowind's soundtrack too, it's really interesting
Thank you, kind Sir.
Blessings of Akatosh upon you
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has amazing music
Jeremy Soule did an amazing job reusing the theme music for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim but changing it to fit the tone of the game / the environment. Such a talented composer
Indeed. Morrowind is the Mother of all Mothers. The small masterpiece from which everyother came.
Great musicians I feel see music like a films you can make sequels too , such as the main skyrim theme.
This soundtrack honestly makes me feel homesick when I listen to it. Oblivion meant a lot to me when it came out and still does.
Homesick, is the best way to explain what I've been trying to say about this soundtrack, I've never been able to perfectly explain the way the songs from Oblivion make me feel, but I think "Homesick" is perfect. It is something beyond nostalgia, a yearning for a feeling beyond simple nostalgia.
I still feel nostalgic for being in my early 20’s playing it right after work until the sun came up the next day. That music brings me back.
The Morrowind soundtrack does the same for me, that game got me through some really dark times growing up.
I agree with you, with all my heart and soul. There was something special and spiritually transcendent about this game
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Oblivion music and just Elder Scrolls music in general is some of the best video game music ever in my opinion. It is so easy to listen to even without playing the game. Jeremy Soule really knew what he was doing
Gotta upvote for that name and profile pic
Skyrim's soundtrack along with the ambience allows me to just walk around without fast traveling and not really care when I get absorbed into it. I have walked the same paths in Skyrim hundreds of times without getting tired of it. It's the reason I found out why I get so bored when playing Minecraft despite every world being a new experience and the reason is because there is no ambience, the music barely comes on as well. Good muisc, ambience, really makes or breaks the drive to continue playing.
Agree, and its so unbelievably beauftiful and perfect for the games and the way it was used. Like when you walk around in the night and suddenly see the northern lights and tundra starts playing, its pure bliss. I dont think bethesda can ever reach previous heights without him, starfield wasnt such a bad game, but the music so mediocre and uninspired, and therefore everything else was also turned mediocre.
3:47 this right here; Soule is such a master of this art form. The way he can compose ambient music that still has such strong melody and harmony that it sticks out and feels familiar but doesn’t overpower ugh it’s divine.
Oblivion, at the time of release, had one of the most atmospheric sound tracks I'd ever heard. My favourite Elder Scrolls game by far for so many reasons.
Critical Role is why I was exposed to the Oblivion soundtrack and it’s just such perfect background music. Evocative without being distracting.
critical role! 💕
yeah, 100%
Video game music, particularly for open world games, is actually a very interesting challenge as Charles points out. That task of setting a mood without being distracting is a big one, but there’s also writing music that can respond seamlessly to context cues and swell dynamically when you approach a visually impressive location, or blend straight into combat music at a moments notice. It feels like it’s as close as you can get to “composing someone’s day to day life” as you need to capture all the moods and set it up to be able to move between them based on fairly basic triggers in the games code
Omg please do more Elder Scrolls videos! I'd love a video dissecting Skyrim's music! 🥰
Jeremy Soule's work on Guildwars 1 will forever hold a special place in my heart
I've been waiting for this for SO LONG. I absolutely LOVE the Oblivion OST and listen to it about once every couple of weeks. So glad to have a musician like you look at it. Thanks Charles. You're the man!
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "mundruk"
Yoongi: "Butter"
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
Oh hell yeah dude.
Jeremy Soule turned out to not be a very good person sadly, but there's no doubt that the music he composed for this series is wonderful.
Also not sure how Oblivion has aged but this game was incredible back in the day.
Less popular but more groundbreaking than Skyrim was IMO.
@@AlexMoukalaMusic Vanilla still holds up. Sound leveling systems don't age.
Damn, i didn't even know he had drama. Just searched for it and honestly, i think i can still enjoy the songs either way. To me, the songs are more from the game than from Soule.
Could you please elaborate
@@kevinsundelin8639 One woman accused him of rape and another accused him of sexual harassment, and while I don't have examples, he has a reputation of being extremely hard to work with.
We can all agree that he never disappoints us with his content
Yup
For sure. Even when he does a video on something Ive never heard of it’s worth checking out bc you know the music is gonna be bomb
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9:30 I mean the major IV in a minor scale is like the minor iv in a major scale. Pure magic either way
Strongly agree. I particularly like going from the IV to iv in the major key. Such a great drop down to a melancholy feel.
I'd say the major IV in minor scale is more like major II in major. Both "uplifts" the mood, if yknow what i mean
@@nabhchandra_ I mean the IV in minor and the II in major are actually the same chord. I just feel the iv/IV adds a certain romance and nostalgia to a scale
So glad you left the "well witten" in. I love the timbre of your channel. Always feels to relaxed. Like everyone is just hanging out, nerding of music. Love it!
I absolutely have to recommend Nier Automata’s PHENOMENAL soundtrack for you to dive into next. Because of the setting of the game, they created a new language that was an amalgamation of linguistic traits and sounds from several of the worlds most spoken languages (aptly referred to as the “Chaos” language).
Aside from the interesting lyrics/performance, the actual composition of the songs is just breathtaking, please give it a listen sometime!
Edit: I’d like to humbly add to my request by recommending Drakengard 3’s Final Song. It’s the same series as Nier Automata and it’s just… a masterpiece. But to be honest, every single entry in the whole series is a musical masterpiece.
Definitely my fav game OST. I try not to listen to it though cause it gives me the Nier feels and I don’t need to put 40 more hours into it again lol
Yeah!! NieR Automata has awesome pieces like:
- Voice of No Return
- City Ruins (Rays of Light)
- Pascal
- Amusement Park
- A Beautiful Song
The first game (technically a remake of the original) with awesome pieces as well is NieR Replicant (remake/remaster of Gestalt)!
Specific pieces:
- Song of the Ancients
- Grandma
- The Incomplete Stone
- Ashes of Dreams
- Fleeting Words
- Shadowlord
Lol I was watching this video and I’m literally playing the game at the same time
Oh man yes. Nier Automata's music is absolutely incredible. I rate it as some of the most beautiful soundtracks I've ever heard.
Both Nier games have sublime soundtracks. He has to check them out
The Elder Scrolls series has always had a beautiful OST. Even the ambient music is iconic.
I DEMAND a 3-hour Nebula special of you doing Skyrim's music. Secunda, From Past to Present, Far Horizons, and The Streets of Whiterun are all pieces that will make anyone my age cry at the drop of a pin.
fun fact. Bethesda actually has their composers make the music of the game before actual development starts. They then use the music that's been created as a blueprint for the rest of the game.
Please do one with the Witcher 3's music. It's phenomenal! 🙏
Thanks for doing a video of one my favorite soundtracks of all time. I've used this soundtrack for every d&d game I've run, I play it when I'm trying psych myself up while stacking wood for the fireplace. Or a calm drive to work.
Genuinely good stuff.
You should check out the music from Enderal: The Forgotten Stories. It's an overhaul mod for Skyrim that has some of the best video game music I've ever heard. Both version of Fleshless are so beautiful and haunting.
Nehrim and enderal sound tracks are great
Ah, I see you're another Enderal enjoyer as well.
@@miro.georgiev97 Of course. Nothing beats a nice, crisp piece of meat
I know you've been doing them for a while now but I'm so glad you're out there appreciating music from all media including games
One of my favourite tracks from Oblivion is King and Country. I used to literally fast travel to different world spots to trigger it so I could just sit and listen.
Soon as the menu screen loads up I get the biggest nostalgia hit.
I would love to hear a 2-3 hour discussion about the music of FFVII Remake. Especially a section on the scene where Aerith goes to save Marlene from the bar and when Tseng walks up the stairs the Aerith theme is played but in minor. It gives me chills.
I'm also a fan of when aerith is in the Shinra building talking about her childhood there and you hear her theme Combined with Clouds/main theme. It's super cool👌🏽
Harvest Dawn was literally the first thing I ve learned to play on piano. It s so peaceful.
I’ll always know Soule for his work on the Harry Potter games 😂 “Alls Well” is my favorite track on this for sure. So calming. You should definitely talk about the soundtracks to Myst and Riven, Robyn Miller achieved a very similar effect in that you could listen to his tracks for ages and not feel tired.
Oblivion has one of my favourite sound tracks ever, I'm so happy you're covering Oblivion(:
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "mundruk"
Yoongi: "Butter"
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
@PYXB3 Hahah a few of my friends do it so I've picked it up
Man I am soo overwhelmed how you can just listen to something and hear the exact chords...
I mean it's one thing to listen and play the bare melody and main scale with it. (I can do that with easy songs)
But finding this exact harmonies... Amazing!
Hope I can learn some of that with practice...
Love your content, your humor , your videos and your talent!!
Thanks^^
Just do it over and over again. You'll get there earlier than you might think. Maybe start with melody first and add chords with the left hand that you think could work. Then also try only copying the bass / roots and then building chords on top. Repeat those two exercises with all kinds of songs and soundtracks. practise practise practise
@@svenhegenmusic Thank you very much^^
Yeah that's something I really like to do, and im going to practise it a lot more in future^^
Whats so difficult is finding the chords that are some how " unexpected"..🤔
But I guess one aspect is pratice, and the other a good ear too^^
@@nathanael1354 They are unexpected because you need to train your ear with intervals and relationsships between chords. once you built a decent vocabulary inside your brain, everything will just work like automatically. it's like speaking a language
Paying attention to, and learning from everything and anything is the best way to expand horizons and cultivate creativity. I love that you’re continually checking out music that you’d otherwise dismiss!
The peaceful songs from Oblivion are some of my favorite pieces of fantasy music of all time. I sometimes put them on with a rain loop when trying to take a nap or go to sleep.
Jeremy Soule’s music changed my life. I listened to the Oblivion/Skyrim soundtrack in Queenstown NZ, a place with a similar landscape to Skyrim. The music translated to the real world beautifully, and its gamefied my life, made me the protagonist, etc.
His elder scrolls music is most hyped but for me his music on the Guild Wars series is where it’s at!
Jeremy Soule's work is so incredibly good. He also did work on the Guild Wars series and Neverwinter Nights which are some of my favorite games of all time.
Minor 7 chord with a major 7th [eg. C-Eb-G-B natural] is also used a lot in Bond music - I think of it as the Bond chord. It is a little like playing minor tonic and dominant major [eg. C minor and G Major] at the same time.
I actually use Harvest Dawn when doing long homeworks and proyects, it just works
I think it's so cool he's been covering these otherwise obscured and/or underappreciated soundtracks and bringing them into the limelight.
This game is more than a meme too. It is one of the best of its genre and is regarded as a masterwork by pundits. It's otherwise obscure in your circle, but take a step outside and smell the roses.
This soundtrack plays in people's minds day in and out.
I agree but I wouldn't call this game nor its soundtrack obscure
@@kevinsundelin8639 I get that it still for sure has its fans (and also its memers), but I think it is still obscured to a point, especially with Skyrim overshadowing it. But more so the music is obscured because of the memes and everyone always bringing up the dialogue. Typically the only time I hear people talking about the soundtrack is for nostalgic reasons. Which is fine, but a soundtrack breakdown from a music theory channel I think was pretty unexpected. Although, I could be wrong as it could very well just be from my experience.
@@zimripiano I’m curious, are you younger? I’m 30 and I remember Oblivion being almost as popular as Skyrim when it was in its prime. Seems like everyone was talking about it.
Amazing analysis of probably my favorite video game OST. I'd love to see a part 2 because there's so much more to the soundtrack. "Glory of Cyrodil" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard
This is crazy, I literally discovered your channel today and was wondering what your take on Jeremy Soule would be. And then this video popped up!
My nostalgia centers more around Morrowind and Knights of the Old Republic. The latter is a big recommendation to you as a John Willians/Star Wars fans, because Soule really blends his own style perfectly with that of Star Wars (in my opinion)
The entire soundtrack is by far the best video game soundtrack imo. Might be because I played the crap out of it, but I can at any point of any day put this soundtrack on and just become mesmerized as if I never heard it before
The Halo soundtrack: somehow more mystical and majestic despite being a sci-fi space opera. Not a knock against Oblivion, it's good, but not holistically good like Halo's and other game's tracks.
Real. I'v been listening to oblivion soundtrack for more than a decade now after i stopped playing oblivion and i still don't get tired of it
funny thing is that I have been listening to Harvest Dawn (and the rest of the OST) for more than a decade and up to today I didn't knew there were memes using it. The more you know...
Hey Charles, I was wondering if you ever considered doing a video on overtones. I was watching a video of Gregorian Monks singing the Halo theme and on their third go around they sang in a way that made their harmonies create this really amazing overtone over the top. To me overtones have always been a really interesting aspect of music and I think it'd make and interesting video.
Hearing this brings back so many fond memories of my childhood and adolescence
I would love a remake of oblivion with the Unreal Engine 5 .
I miss that period when studios were forced to innovate, they had no choice, and we found ourselves with absolutely legendary titles.
Today we can also find quality I think of The Witcher 3 but things have changed and the objectives too.
The wheel turns so one day or another a great period like the one we had will come back I just hope not in 20 years.
Thanks for this video !
So I've never given a second thought to 'Unmarked Stone' but after hearing the voicings on piano, it reminds me so much of the music for the Water Temple from OoT. And the empty 'wind through a cave' sound effect being tuned to that tritone interval is crazy brilliant
Oblivion ost is probably the one that stuck with me most in the series
My god that welling up of the music in harvest dawn at 4:13 is truly beautiful. You can really feel the near death experience of Soule in it. That's the best way I've come to describe how these tracks make me feel, life, its this beautiful appreciation for life.
Jeremy soules music is crazy good for studying, or anything really. I love how it can be great background music and yet it's still complex enough to consume you.
Hey man, you should definitely check out the music from the Professor Layton games series, I think it brings a truly magic and unique atmosphere to the game.
By the way, your content is amazing, I think that thanks to you I'll soon start playing the piano! You bring so much information in such a simple and pleasing format, it is always a pleasure. Have a nice week!
I got sick when this game came out and my dad let me take the whole week off to recover and play this. The music in this game was so next level. Makes me wish I could relive the past. So beautiful.
There's a track on that score called Peace of Akatosh and for the longest time I would listen to it on repeat whenever I felt anxious. These softer pieces on the soundtrack have such wonderful soothing qualities.
Should look at the progression of the main theme through the elderscrolls franchise
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "mundruk"
Yoongi: "Butter"
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
I love oblivion, especially the music is a huge reason why i still come back to this game, even after 15 years of playing it for the first time
Oblivion music never fails to invoke an emotional response out of me. Whenever I hear it makes me want to play Oblivion again.
Very well witten. Still chuckling...
Love this analysis.
You'd love the music from NieR Replicant (remake/remaster of Gestalt)!
Specific pieces you might like:
- Song of the Ancients
- Grandma
- The Incomplete Stone
- Ashes of Dreams
- Fleeting Words
- Shadowlord
Another NieR game with great music is NieR Automata which has awesome pieces like:
- Voice of No Return
- City Ruins (Rays of Light)
- Pascal
- Amusement Park
- A Beautiful Song
damn, i was really hoping he would listen to the Wings of Kyraneth, my favorite from the oblivion OST and endlessly loopable
Same
3:21 I love when Charles starts smelling the music
I only have two words: Final Fantasy
Terra’s Theme
Aerith’s Theme
Fisherman’s Horizon
Zanarkand
So many fantastic songs.
15:52 Weally weally well witten. Say that 5 times fast XD
There's SO MUCH amazing video game music!! I really hope you keep doing more games. My favourite track on the Oblivion soundtrack is Watchman's Ease. It's short but it's really epic. The beginning gives me Legend of Ashitaka vibes :)
Auriel's Ascension is my favourite
Yes, thank you!! I've never heard anyone else talk about Soule's near-death experience(?) during his work for Oblivion, but damn, knowing about that just made the OST achingly beautiful to listen to
Jazz Musician Discovers Staying In One Key
7:20 that whole bit is so beautiful :)
EVERYTHING IS THE AVENGERS
I would like to recommend Donkey Kong Country music, it was composed by David Wise and he's one of my favorites. If you do check it out please listen to Aquatic Ambiance, Stickerbrush Symphony, and Forest Interlude. Just some of the most beautiful pieces of music ever made and it was made on a cartridge that only held 64 Killobits of memory to hold the whole soundtrack and the sound effects for the game
I continue to be convinced that almost all music that's used in memes genuinely has some kind of good substance to it, or else it would have died out early on out of straight annoyance
I work 10 hour shifts at a very loud factory. Sometimes I'll just put on the Oblivion soundtrack in my earbuds and just go somewhere else mentally.
hope you find a better place dude, these factory jobs are destroying your emotions and turn you into a robot, I've been there too
could'nt help myself but to drop a tear. what a memory this melody brings
O'Donnell. Kirkhope. Soule. The triforce of my youth.
The elder scrolls series has some excellent music, bethesda published games in general sound great in the soundtrack department
Unfortunately they're lacking in the AI department.
@@P.Whitestrake shutup dude, literally didn’t say anything about the gameplay.
Another video-game music suggestion: Celeste.
Most of the music also has official remixes used on the B-side levels, most of which are available on Spotify and TH-cam Music. It varies between high-energy electronic bops (Sever the Skyline), chill piano/string pieces (Exhale, Madeline and Theo), and places in between (Anxiety).
My favourite is Reach to the Summit, which has one melody that repeats throughout, but as you get to each new landmark ascending the final stretch of the mountain, the instruments and vibe change dramatically to reflect each part of the climb.
I love how enthusiastic you are
7:22 actual footage of Eric Whitacre composing
Oblivion music is great and all. But imagine his take on Skyrim's Far Horizons. Best piece in all of Jeremy Soule's career.
I have to admit that I have absolutely no knowledge about music structure/theory/whatever it's called, but I still like watching these because of the enthusiasm and very impressive improv!
Oblivion music is very special and definitely brings up a lot of memories. I like the meme ones, but my favorite will forever be Auriel's Ascension. This specific score playing during clear nights always made me stop and just take in the scenery and starry sky. The piano parts of it are so simple but touching
Using fourth major chord in context of minor key is kinda mirroring using fourth minor chord in context of major key and I love it.
It would be worthwhile to do an extended review of Skyrim music.
Jeremy Soule wrote the music to probably my favourite video game: Secret of Evermore.
Sometimes it's just atmospheric background sounds, sometimes straight music and the rest the two mixed together. The range of that OST is fantastic for a SNES game. That was the very first time Soule worked on a video game as well.
BTW this reminds me of the game "The Longest Journey" which also has quite a lot of nice intriguing background music made by Bjørn Arve Lagim and Tor Linløkken, with complex harmony all over the place.
I'd love if you could go into the music used in the Death Note Anime. There's some simply beautiful songs in the show that made may scenes so much more impactful.
9:38 - 10:10 D natural minor (aeolian) turning into D dorian, which introduces the B note instead of Bb.
And I'm assuming that the 4th chord in the dorian mode is major (edit: 7th).
Am I doing this right?
A Charles Cornell piano arrangement (jazz, anyone?) of some Elder Scrolls music would make this music theorist cry a little. But only tears of joy.
Harvest Dawn does go for the G major earlier and more frequently. It's just quite subtle, before that big swell happens on it.
I love your content sm. It's literally exactly what i was looking for today lol. luv u charles
Jeremy Soule also did the music for my favorite MMO, Guild Wars 2. Some REALLLLY good tracks hidden inside this game too!
I can never think of memes when it comes to oblivion, I played oblivion so much years ago when it first came out I have all the 360 achievements
There was a time where I didn't have access to the internet and I had to download the ost on my game files, all I could scrounge was Oblivion and CIV4, both amazing soundtracks.
I'm so glad you showcased Bacon_'s work. That channel is an absolute goldmine for all elder scrolls and fallout stuff
I wish anyone would love me the way Charles loves harmony.
8:55 bro just sitting there like “wtf am i doing?”😂😂😂
Unmarked Stine reminds me of Assassin's Creed 2 - it would be fantastic to do a video on that game.
not sure if anyone is gonna read this, but I so wanna watch Charles do one of these videos on the music of Racing Lagoon, it's just late 90's japanese perfection!
One of the reasons this is still my favorite Elder Scrolls game.
The Elder Scrolls in general has great music. I adore the Skyrim soundtrack, myself. Pity the composer is such a [redacted].
morrowind music is the best
Y what happened? He ded? A pedo? R*pe? Kill3d people? What he do?
Has it been proven? I know about the accusations, but I don't know if there was any irrefutable proof.
I agree, his music is superb. As far as the accusations goes - I'd rather not believe anything until I see evidence. As far as I've read, the person accusing him of his indecent behaviour is an unreliable witness with a bad record - atleast according to the Internet, which is sadly unreliable in itself, so I don't know what/who to believe in honestly. Nonetheless, such accusations can ruin a person's life, even if they themselves are innocent. So until anything is proven, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. It really is unfortunate, that his situation has limited his creativity.
It is also unfortunate that people have described him as a person, with whom it is hard to work with - he's a perfectionist and one can hear that listening to his works. As far as his financial blunders with his latest album goes though... Yeah, not much I can add there, that is not very responsible.
@@Capwnql If someone is hard to work with because they're a perfectionist, then that's really an objective flaw that deserves to be pointed out so that others know to steer clear of them. Perfectionism is nothing more than a crutch for artists who think they're geniuses. It causes them to miss deadlines and treat their colleagues poorly.
A game that I love for its sound track is Child of Light. I would love you hear you breakdown the music from that game. It’s so beautiful
Your insight is the BEST. You lead us all to things that we know/feel, but were absolutely not aware of. I love the sense discovery in all of your content.
Skyrim or Final Fantasy 6 sometime in the future??
Dragonborn - Jeremy Soule .. why is it so heroic? I mean, its arranged perfectly, but what makes a heroic song sound heroic?
Terra's Theme - Nobuo Uematsu .. why does it sound like such a gripping adventure? Ive been captivated by Nobuo since childhood, this song moves me to tears almost. Why?
Charles's laugh gives me such joy, it's contagious 😂
my 2 favs are Sunrise of flutes and Wings of Kynareth, it hits me in the feel in the first 2 sec
These soundtracks are great for falling asleep. I listen to some of the long run videos here on TH-cam.