Steven Universe Stuff

Here’s the demo I made for the Cookie Cat rap. The lyrics were written by Ben and Matt, the writers on the show. I decided to turn it into a rap for some reason. I made the music in LSDJ on an actual gameboy!

Cookie Cat Demo

This is the arrangement I did for the opening song, minus Rebecca's vocals! Featuring violin played by Joe Johnston!!

Steven Universe Opening Instrumental Demo

Fall Is Almost Over

This is the original recording for Greg's guitar playing in Lion 3: Straight to Video, recorded in the backyard of my parents' house while I was on hiatus from work. I wanted it to sound pretty, but a bit vague and mysterious too.

Greg On The Beach

Steven Universe - Alexandrite

Here's the first demo I did for On the Run! This one's in the key of D major. The kalimba at the end is a real kalimba! The one I have happens to be in the key of D. The one in the final version is digital because I changed it to B-flat, and sadly I have no B-flat kalimba.

On The Run Original Demo

Some acoustic guitar I recorded for the No Home Boys scene in On the Run! If you listen closely at the end you can hear the soda machine at the studio making some crazy machine noises.

No Home Boys

Here's the demo I arranged for Stronger Than You! Rebecca recorded the vocals and omnichord track, and I put everything else together in Logic. We used this track to figure out the timing for the action sequence and for Estelle to sing to. Aivi and Surasshu then made it a billion times more awesome for the final version!!

Stronger Than You - Demo (feat. Rebecca Sugar)

I love this show, it's got some great characters, entertaining stories, just the right amount of absurdity and a lot of heart. It's also got a wonderful soundtrack, courtesy of the talented duo of Aivi & Surasshu, whose jazz piano + chiptune style has some interesting parallels to my own metal + orchestra approach. So here's my tribute to the wonderful music of Steven Universe, a 12 minute whirlwind tour of Steven's world done in my usual Symphonic Metal style. Translating some of this music led me in some rather odd directions, but I had a lot of fun doing this :)

Original versions of all of the songs can be found over at Aivi & Surasshu's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aivisura

Music written by Aivi & Surasshu, Rebecca Sugar, Jeff Liu and probably some other folk I'm forgetting. All instruments arranged, performed and/or programmed by me (The L-Train). Special thanks to SmastersonMusic and Samuel Dawant for providing transcriptions of some of the songs. My sincerest apologies to Cartoon Network, the Steven Crewniverse and all of the Steventhusiasts around the world.

Track list:
00:00 Intro
00:45 We Are The Crystal Gems
01:17 Pearl's Theme
01:50 Let Me Drive My Van Into Your Heart
03:16 Drop The Strawberry
03:57 Alone Together
04:48 Strong In The Real Way
06:30 Opal
07:30 Sugilite
08:17 I Am Lapis Lazuli
09:06 Stronger Than You
10:40 The Ocean Returns
11:03 Love Like You

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A Symphonic Metal Tribute To Steven Universe

I recorded this acoustic version of Rose's theme for the end of Story for Steven! (It's a little hard to hear in the episode mix which just has the rhythm guitar beneath the dialogue.)

Rose's Theme Acoustic

"K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)"
aivi & surasshu
originally composed by Kazumi Totaka
from the game Animal Crossing

aivisura liner notes:

- We love Totaka!
- We worked on this remix in between projects for a year.
- When we lived in separate countries, we played Animal Crossing: New Leaf together all the time, and went to K.K. Slider concerts on Saturdays. We requested "K.K. Cruisin'" every time.
- We started this remix in an attempt to answer the question, "Why is K.K. Cruisin' so great?" After listening to it and studying it, we determined that, for us, the heart of the song was its groove. The same five chords repeat throughout the entire song (five extremely creative chords--Mr. Totaka is always a step ahead of us all), and it never changes in rhythm or energy level. We used that concept as the main inspiration for our arrangement, where instead of ramping up the energy for the chorus like we'd normally do, we pulled back and settled into a comfortable groove. Keeping "still" was a big exercise in confidence for both of us.
- We named our remix after the road trips we'd take together down I-5, between San Francisco and LA. Those trips felt like mini-vacations for us (though we still worked on the road and in our hotel room) and making this song has been a mini-vacation for us, too.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGT5NfBPus

Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)

Strong In The Real Way— Demo From Steven Universe

Be Wherever You Are-demo (Rebecca Sugar)

A demo created by Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar who specially wrote a song for Adventure Time's mini-series "Stakes."
This demo has nothing to do with steven universe and is only for DEMO PURPOSES. Catch the Adventure Time mini-series this Halloween. This demo was preformed by Rebecca during SDCC 2015.

Rebecca Sugar - Everything Stays DEMO (feat. Olivia Olson)

Here's my demo for Amethyst's song in Cry for Help! Bonus intro guitar loops at the beginning- they play backwards over the end of the song.

maybe you're better off with her
i think she's better for you
i forgot how great it felt to be us
guess i got carried away...

i had to use you to make me feel strong
but i don't care about that now
i see a tower built out of my mistakes
and it all comes crashing down

is there something i can do?

can i make it up to you?


Tower of Mistakes (demo)

Steven Universe - Enticement

Sleepy late night jam on "Love Like You" from Steven Universe.

Sleep Like You

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