What Makes Minecraft's Music So Great
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Insert your Minecraft track and/or other video game music breakdown requests here! And go listen to Bill Evans. Do you some learnin. You'll love it I swear.
Hey
Mice on venus for sure
Sweden
:)
uhhhhh do bethesda studios games. fallout. skyrim.
How dare you be so lovely
Hey you deserve it man. Made so much happiness for so many people.
If you make good music, he is legally allowed to compliment it
Jaime altozano also gave you a very good analysis
The legend himself
*gasp* he’s here
“We’re settled but never truly home.” I think you just described Minecraft
Exactly
Its genius
Pretty much
It's an endless game, even if you beat the ender dragon there's still soo much to do
@@rifdifirebolt th-cam.com/video/orI1Gi1SMDw/w-d-xo.html XDDD
Oh, look. a creeper.
Made me think of this quote:
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
― Frédéric Chopin
I guess he was a "follow what I say, not what I do" type guy then.
@@roguechlnchllla6564 His etudes are very simple.
Chopin saying that is quite funny, just by how insanely difficult so many of his songs are. I'd take his word though over any one elses anyway as he is my favourite composer lol. Also, for the dude above, I think you mispelled preludes. His etudes are fucking insane...
@@jonnyj. nah, hweirdo probably can play rush e with one hand
@@jonnyj. Fool! You must not be practicing 40 hours a day! If you practiced like your brother it would be easy!
11:14 Let's play an E chord
**Plays magical E scale that will take me a year to execute**
I laughed so hard when he did this..me too 😂
I swear whenever I see a time stamp, I just so happen to be on that part of the video without clicking it
@@Blueman-vc9ui I wonder if youtube algorithm somehow does that
“We’re obviously in the key of Gb” Yeah...yes...of course...obviously.
I KNOW RIGHT
I mean duh...
I guess he meant that the song uses pentatonic scale and the most obvious or simple pentatonic scale on the piano is on the black keys.
@@jakobymaster more like - you check all the individual notes heard in the music, and look at which scale has those exact notes. And also make note if it's happy sounding enough to make a major, or it is in the corresponding minor.
I told you guys
I think Jschlatt put it best when he said “you can put me in some random world i’ve never explored, you can add weird new items i’ll never know how to use, but to me, it’s not really minecraft until that music starts fading in. I’m pulled back into a world where nothing mattered, and when i was happy...”
Fuck you now I’m crying
damn that really does sum it up beautifully.
I read this in his voice
There's no way he said smth that profound unironically
Did you memorise that???
Thanks for the kind words about my video! I’ve been a fan for a while so it was surreal to hear my name!
And great work as always :)
Come back man. You made such good content
@@Art_for_Mage yes, please do. I love your videos
"We've settled, but we're never fully home."
That's exactly what the entire soundtrack feels like.
Damn
I have a different interpretation of it. We've settled and we're finally home. To me these songs are like that subtle happy relief you feel when you are finally home from school or work.
@@oligultonn Agree to disagree: because while there is relief, I feel like there is a longing underpinned in there as well.
Charles: simple sometimes is just better
Jacob Collier: *triggered*
Tea?
Keyword: sometimes
@@christopherking4648 Yes please thank you
@@christopherking4648 Jacob Collier is known for his complex musical structures, or smth like that
how to get kids to stop playing Minecraft: get Jacob Collier to compose the score
❤️
The legend plays Minecraft!
chocolate rain
@@mienaikoe th-cam.com/video/orI1Gi1SMDw/w-d-xo.html hehe
Cool!!
Hey it’s the chocolate rain guy
Please talk about “Wet Hands” from Minecraft. It’s a gorgeous piece!
it’s truly one of the best minecraft songs
If I were to choose only one Minecraft piece, it will C418 - Alpha (from Volume Beta). It's my personal favorite. Because it includes all the most iconic minecraft pieces in it and it's 10 minutes long, and it's so beautiful.
My second favorite is C418 - Aria Math
Please
@@theseangle Yeah, It's my favorite piece from the whole OST. Wet Hands is my second favorite.
It’s criminal that he didn’t talk about it. It’s by far one of the most beautiful songs on the OST
EVERYONE FORGETS THE NETHER SOUNDTRACK!!!!! C418’s Nether songs are great at making you feel dread (concrete halls & ballad of the cats) or lonliness (warmth & dead voxel), and Lena Raine’s can make you feel dread (so below), lonliness (rubedo), and strangely life as well (chrysopoeia). Also, Pigstep is an absolute BOP
Pigstep is 100% a bop
m a l l
yes. a bop composed by lena raine who is not the topic of this video
LENA RAINE THATS HER NAME THANK YOU
In short the music sounds nethery
Pigstep is a bop, Stal is unironically good, and wet hands/dry hands/Sweden and those other songs are so memorable and nostalgic and still so perfect for the kind of game minecraft is. I love it
take that 2nd statement back before jschlatt makes you watch the pope
@@NotExtro haha
stal gang
I want a musical analysis of Stal
But pigstep isn't c418
"Mice on Venus" has to be one of the greatest on the record. Simply put, it's nostalgic and beautiful, yet powerful, sad and weird. I feel like this one particularly enhances the gameplay and the general experience of actually enjoying Minecraft as a whole. The instrumentation on this tune has always made my time on this game truly special. No other game soundtrack has had the same impact on the player's lives than Minecraft, and I deeply think that Mice on Venus is one of the reasons why.
*The year is 2014, you're chilling on Minecraft and after a long and fatiguing mining session, you finally come home to your house made out of oak planks ; Mice on Venus is playing... "We're settle, but not truly home"...*
Take me back😩
I was going to say Mice on Venus, something about that gives me so much nostalgia it’s actually overwhelming
Mice on Venus is definitely one of the best on the soundtrack
Completely agreed
Amen man. Recently tried learning this song on the piano and it's truly beautiful.
"We're settled, but we're never fully home... It can go on and on and on and on. We never hit a point where the song feels fully resolved."
Said about a game where the story goes as far as you want it to and the creative possibility is limitless.
Perfectly apropriate.
I know it's a bit late, but do you remember where that quote is from?
@@Gruvmpy from about the 2 minute 30 second mark of this video
@@VocalBrony123 Thats what I get for skipping through on the feels train
@@Gruvmpy 😂 breaks don't work on the feels train 🚂🚃🚃
Charles: We're obviously in the key of Gflat
Me, a drummer: well oBvIoUsLy
I can't believe Minecraft is only 10 years old. Feels like I've been playing it for more than 20.
I've been playing since 2015 so I dunno if I´m a veteran or a newbie
I am playing it for more than that, there was alpha and beta in 2010
@@aro4cinglife anything past 2013 definitely isnt veteran
@@aro4cinglife th-cam.com/video/orI1Gi1SMDw/w-d-xo.html XDDD
@@aurumble *sad newbie noises*
i think my favourites might be "wet hands","dry hands" and "sweden"...Heck, ALL OF THEM ARE INCREDIBLE
Same
i like sweden most but all are great
Some like wet hands, but my favorite one is wet feet, a forgotten gem
Pigstep is really good too
@@jumpingaxe3373 I have to agree with you, but, I was refering to the soundtrack, but; non the less, I still do apriciate the feedback. :)
His music has the staying power of a Satie Gymnopedie. The calm, unresolved, meandering music allows it to stay in the background and be reused over and over.
My favourite is "Ballad of the Cats" from the Nether. It is very calming.
I'm joking. It multiplies the chance of me having a heart attack whenever I get damage while the soundtrack is playing.
Sweden definitely gives me vibes similar to Satie’s “Gymnopedie No. 2”
They’re extremely similar.
Check out David Bennett’s video about MC’s music
Gymnopedie No. 1 actually. Though, No. 2 also has a similar kind of vibe.
I gotta say: I’ve watched this video so many times and every time my mind wanders back to my favorite by C418: intro. A couple of months ago I listened to it just because right before I went to bed and I actually cried because of how many amazing memories of my childhood it brought back to me (even though I’m only 17)
My favorite is Mice on Venus
The ‘final’ chord is the peak of memories and tears and nostalgia for me
Yes. intro is the best one.
I think Volume Beta is underrated “Aria Math”,”Blind Spots”,”Taswell”, and “Haunt Muskie” are my personal favorites
Have you ever noticed how wind chimes are generally pentatonic? It's like no matter how the wind hits the chimes, it just sounds peaceful and calm -- like Minecraft.
It's not "like" that, it literally is that. The pentatonic scale is the heptatonic scale with its semitones removed, so it's a LOT less dissonant. The only two chords you can make with the pentatonic scale are the tonic chords, Ionian and Aolian. You're always home in pentatonic.
Pigstep has gotta be a gift from God himself. I love it. It’s the ultimate chill music. I can study to it or sleep to it without getting distracted, even with my ADHD. And it’s just so interesting. It’s a different type of chill from say Minecraft or Sweden, meaning it’s a little more complex and bass heavy, but I think it works (because it’s a Nether disc)
It's funny how you said its a gift from God when the nether is supposed to be Minecraft's version of hell.
yes, but it doesn't seem to fit in the feel of minecraft like how sweden or mice on venus do.
Honestly all of the Nether music is incredible
I'm pretty sure that's one of the only pieces that Daniel Rosendelf/C418 didn't write.
@@kryspynator yeah it Lena Raine who wrote it
I honestly feel that a very large portion of Minecraft’s success would never have happened without such a fabulous soundtrack.
'Aria Math', 'Haunt Muskie' and 'Living Mice' got to be my favorites from the soundtrack. Truly beautiful tracks.
Charles: the Minecraft theme is so brilliant because bla bla bla
The guy who composed it: wow it sounds so cool when You use only the black keys
I didn’t actually think about the black keys and just wanted something pentatonic
@@C418 I'm a huge fan of your music, just wanted to thank you for making minecraft so memorable because of your music :)
@@C418 Did you expect your music to be one of the most iconic video game soundtracks when composing it for minecraft
@@C418 Thank you so much for making all that amazing pieces of art... They mean a lot for me, and for thousands of people in the whole World
@@C418 you actually made my childhood
The music from the game “Hollow Knight” is really good. A lot of people have made videos about it but I would just say its worth the listen. Also great video Charles!
Definitely, I second this motion.
Oh yeah, it's pretty sweet. 8-bit Music Theory introduced me.
YES YES YES and the Ori series by Moon studios
yessssss
@@sallybradshaw4576 Me too! I probably wouldn't have discovered this wonder of a game and soundtrack if it weren't for 8-bit's series.
Breath of the Wild. I've done some studying on this one actually, and figured out most of the piano is Pandiatonic (idk if it's spelled right). Essentially the piano plays notes in one key, but doesn't use any standard references, but kind of plays notes randomly in that key. It's amazing.
2:44 "Settled, but never really...home" That just sums up the whole game!
Nobody gonna talk about how he has his merch on the monitor the whole time
Subliminal messaging ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Always be plugging
Not the first time, not the last
@@boundarkness True. TH-camrs know some things. Our subconscious is very weak.
He's been doing it for four months since his qna lol
I gotta say, I really love how you fade out the piano examples while transitioning and talking over them. That's such a great editorial touch.
Was just thinking the same thing as I found this comment lol
Same
A vamp is perfect to describe Minecraft. We are always looping back to our base for whatever reason, we are respawning over and over, our worlds stretch out indefinitely, there are a trillion possibilities, and much more can be said about the feeling of restlessness. As Leonardo Da Vinci said, "Art is never finished, only abandoned".
This video just gives me fcking vibes from back to 2016, when I started playing Minecraft Singleplayer...I built houses, got dogs and died over and over again trying to kill Jean...(the Ender Dragon)...and after achieving that, I got on and built more and more stuff...
Then I lost my world because my PC just got a virus.
I stopped playing Minecraft for about a year or something.
My friends on Discord got me back to it; I started playing Multiplayer, PvP, Bedwars and so on.
But this video makes me want to create a new Singleplayer World and just play some chilled hours of Minecraft while listening to that amazing ambient and calm music.
Thanks, Charles, those memories are pure gold!
"It's obviously in the key of g-flat"...yeah...of course I could tell that just by listening lol
I feel that the track "Aria Math" is perhaps one of the most underrated minecraft tracks there are. It is a beautifully made piece, that deserves more recognition.
+++++ Aria Math is gorgeous and It's as underrated as C418 - Alpha (this piece is from Volume Beta, confusingly)
Aria math is probably one of my favorite songs from C418s volume beta
As an engineer, your "formulas" approach to extended chords is really interesting and makes more sense to me than just reading the whole chord. I'm still trying to learn jazz piano and I'm starting to get into jazz guitar, and this approach really helps with identifying these extended chords quickly.
Is it just me that find the "Sweden" soundtrack to be an uncanny resemblance of Erik Saties "gymnopedie no.1" ?
YEEEES OMG
It's in the same key, uses upper chord extensions, has a similar tempo, and is also pretty simple.
For me, as a beginner pianist who does not understand musical theory really, this was very helpful, thank you
It's actually amazing how iconic this music is. Especially "Minecraft", really throws you back to 2009.
honestly, there is nothing more nostalgic... gives you a warm feeling of sadness... really stange
OK
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I don't have to music background to know what or why something is good, but to me alpha is a musical masterpiece. I feel like the song tells a complete, complex story without any words.
Also intro perfectly captures the pure bliss that come from being fully immersed in a world. I love how toward the end the track builds until it nearly overwhelms you and sweeps you away, but then just.. leaves you.. leaving a memory of 'something that isn't quite joy', to quote Jacob geller. Also in the beginning hearing daniels clothes rustling and the mechanics of a piano makes me feel like I am in the room with the artist. Nothing makes a song more personal to me than evidence of music's physical creation.
My absolute favourite Minecraft song is Alpha from Volume Beta. It's the credits song of the game and no one ever gets to hear it cause everyone skips the credits right away. Is absolutly the most beautiful song in the game that takes you on an absolute ride of emotion and brings in tunes of tons of classic Minecraft tunes and makes them sound so much happier or sadder than the original tunes. A song that will still sometimes get me to tears.
"we're pretty obviously in the key of G flat"
me, having zero knowledge in music: 👁👃👁
Dude, it’s just sitting on the G flat pentatonic scale obviously
And now we’re just gonna add some other notes obviously
Give me some drumsticks…with color tones
I’m just gonna throw it out there, how about a breakdown on the movie soul or maybe just the composition in the movie
omg yes!
My favs are "Ballad of the cats", "Intro", "Alpha" and especially and with great affection: "The End"
2:50 "We're settled but we're never actually home" if that doesn't describe Minecraft survival then idk what does
“Penta” means 5 and “tonic” means tone. It makes sense why the pentatonic scales only have 5 notes.
😱
Fun fact: F# Pentatonic Major is all the black notes!
@@pentabitsmusic your username says it all
Wow you're a genius omg good job
Wow you're a genius omg good job
To me, the simplicity and openness of the harmony is designed to leave space for the mind to be creative, which is exactly what a game like minecraft is about. You can find the same type of music in meditation videos, or channels like 3b1b that try to get the creative part of your brain to focus.
beautifully said
Yes! So glad you referenced that Meraki video, he absolutely NAILED it with his analysis. I especially liked his point about how the tracks are randomized, so the reason the songs feel nostalgic to us is because they evoke our singular, unique experience with the game that no one else has experienced.
It's crazy how you're able to explain this to an absolute beginner but also to the jazz pianists watching. Absolutely wonderful job keeping it simple but also moving it fast enough to keep those of us that know this stuff entertained.
I like to think that the music of minecraft never resolves because we will always remember minecraft and it will always be in our lives even if not obviously present. sort of like a never ending soundtrack to our lives.
This is video proof that music can make you feel certain emotions. The music of Minecraft is obviously very calm and we see Charles acting calmer than he usually does.
The nostalgia hit hard with this one
2:39 AAAAAAAAAAAH You defined Minecraft so much well! OMG, How the music can say a lot about the game, han?!
Someone, somewhere, at some point: plays a note
Charles: let me tell you why that is awesome!
Now that you’re entering into videogame soundtrack territory, you could do an analysis of Undertale's OST
Battle Against a True Hero
And banjo kazooie
loved the editing in this video! been watching you for over a year now and been loving watching how your channel and vibe have grown and adapted over that time.
loving the content man, keep it up!
Minecraft, Sweden, wet hands, Moog city, mice on Venus, they are all life changing pieces of music that carved my nostalgia for the game and listening to there simplicity makes me so happy from when I started back in 2011 on my dad's old iPod touch. Thanks Daniel you have made me happy
As a Minecraft youtuber, this is probably one of my favorite videos in recent history.
What I love most about the Minecraft soundtrack is its variety; all of the songs are very diverse in their moods. But from Cat to Stal to Mellohi , you can always tell that they're related because of their beautiful simplicity. Great video, I love the breakdowns!
So basically, every vamp are just individual puzzle pieces that can fit with each other however one would like.
wOAH, that V/I chord breakdown makes so much sense :O
Thanks for the amazing analysis, it was much easier to understand than any music theory lesson I've taken! :D
Mice on Venus is definitely the most nostalgic track on the MC OST for me, it has this melancholy and adventurous vibe that greatly defines what Minecraft is. However, I would say the entire alpha track is just so great.
Even when I yeet, I still vibe to the music
'Mice on venus' will always be a favorite as if you know minecraft you will cry by listening to it
So fun to hear you talk about the track Sweden, that was my wife and I's first dance song at our wedding. Means a lot to us and super fun to hear all the details about it.
"We're pretty obviously in the key of G flat."
Ya, ok Charles lmao I can't tell any of this. Part of what makes your content so amazing.
This is everything I’ve ever wanted, all in one video.
If you like this video, you should definitely check out David Bennett Piano's video on the soundtrack. It is really good and even includes Mumbo Jumbo :)
I really enjoyed watching and listening to your analysis! Minecraft OST is amazing and iconic, and I haven't even played the game at all, but the music just transcends the game.
I honestly think that one of the more unique tunes is Shunjii, it's just such a unique and awesome song, love it
I love "Door", "Living Mice", "Mice on Venus". Basically, I love all minecraft music but I would also love if you could take a look and cover "Dry Hands". it's lovely.
I love Volume Alpha, but Volume Beta is underrated.
ALL the nether music is so well done
Alpha (the song when you beat the game) is the most beautiful song imo. It's one of those pieces of music that tells a story and it works so well with the poem it's written to. I'd highly recommend watching a recording of it if you haven't seen it before (or beat the game so that you get the full experience).
Dreiton, Taswell, Shuniji and Dragon Fish also, Concrete Halls are some of the underrated tracks in Minecraft Volume: Beta.
Floating Trees from the Minecraft volume BETA album is one of my favourites growing up playing Minecraft and still playing it, it’s just one of those songs that make you remember the good days one you can listen to at anytime, it’s also one that you can zone out to on loop
Please do a music theory on Cuphead, The soundtracks are filled with the jazziest of jazz.
8bit music theory did a video about it if you didn't see it.
@@mr_torle yeah but I feel like it would be better to see Charles’s analysis of it, considering he is a jazz musician
Best minecraft song is easily Alpha - perfectly wraps up the game (it plays during the credits) and has so many beautiful moments.
Congrats on hitting 1million, Charles! You really inspire me to want to create music-related content like this, because since I started music school, I have fallen in love with things like musical analysis and taking it into things beyond just 18th and 19th century compositions. Huge congrats again my guy :)
Haggstrom, Clark, Sweden, Living Mice and Blind Spots are my favorite ambient tunes of the game, but 'Wait/Where Are We Now' would be by far my favorite music disc, because it reminds me of what it felt in the summers of the mid-early twenty-tens.
I think "Equinoxe" is really weird to hear in minecraft, is really underrated
it got removed from Minecraft, but I play it a lot. really cool song
@@xebrax124 why is it removed?
"Minecraft."
-Techno
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Gotta admit that a wide smile was spread across my face when you were going through Sweden. My sister and I performed Sweden as a piano/guitar duet in a recital of ours, and it was one of the most chilling, yet most enjoyable performance experiences I've ever had.
'Blind Spots' will forever be my favorite, I know it's a Creative Mode song only but I have so so so many good memories attached to that track, and hearing it now will always make me cry a little
I love how positive all of these videos are, recently you've just been going over what makes things great and that's really wonderful. It just puts me into a better mood.
“Wet Hands” is my favorite piece from the soundtrack. It’s just so perfect to me. I honestly tear up almost every time I hear it.
this is from the volume beta album and it's not actually in the game but intro is possibly one of the most tearjerkingly nostalgic songs i've heard. c418 really is a master of his craft.
15:06 This almost made me tear up. Beautifully put.
"we're pretty obviously in the key of g flat"
Me: Yeah, totally knew that... I'd be an idiot not to...🥲
"Door" is a piece on the album that isn't actually in the game. Short but one of my favorites.
Please do more of these types of videos!! love them
When you started playing peace piece, I actually almost started crying... I love that song so much (and I couldnt agree more with what you said). Love your videos, great for anyone of any music ability to follow along❤️
Everyone loves Sweden, Minecraft and Wet hands, but for me, my favorite song of the soundtrack will always be "Living Mice". It's just so beautiful.
What about mice on venus
8:01 “I can sit here and play a rendition of it and use all kinds of things make it sound fine.” Yes please I would love that. That would be amazing
6:18 proceeds to accidentally play Maiden's Longing, from Genshin Impact
I just wanted to point out the gentle, lulling motion that you get from the Db/Eb in the bass. It's like a hammock on the beach, waves crashing on the rocks.
Charles, I’ve never been more inspired
11:20 this is incredible, thanks Charles
I literally played Minecraft yesterday and yet when the main theme started I got mega chills and almost cried.
My favorite is Wet Hands! So peaceful. Even though I haven't played Minecraft a lot, this is one of those soundtracks that I always come back to.
You play marvelously.