8BMT Secret Santa

Secret Santa 8: (Hopefully not) The Last Santa

Arrangement of Dead Pigeon's "Jhjhjh", for the 8-bit Music Theory Discord Secret Santa event.  ( https://musescore.com/132hj231/jhjhjh )
Thumbnail image - https://unsplash.com/photos/hdk3LKtOaio

Piano - Lucas Kelly ( https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly )
Drums - Lampie23
Saxophone - Jesse!
Clarinet, trumpet, lead sheet, arrangement - MTaur

Justifiable Homicide

A cover of MicTheVillager's "Winter Is My Dream"

Written for Summer Secret Santa 2022, 8BitMusicTheory Discord channel.

MTaur/Minotaur - Arrangement, chord progression, bass/drum track.  Trumpets.  Actor (James Taursfield)
DerHealsmann - https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly - Piano and spoken lines (The Muffin Man)
MelDecision - https://soundcloud.com/mel-decision - Vocal (Donna de Lima)
Aaron/Coffee - Spanish vocal (Aaron con Leche) and Spanish translator
Keeba - https://soundcloud.com/kee-ba - EWI (flute/clarinet sort of) and spoken lines (Swing Doggo)
SpindaSaturn - https://soundcloud.com/duncan-abrahart - Trombone (Tommy Tremolo)
metamoogle - https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling - Crowd heckler
Dufflepug - https://soundcloud.com/user-734464508 - Ronald P. Duffleman (Ron)

Invierno, Verano

Arrangement for 8-Bit Music Theory Secret Santa 2022 event.
Original by StormyRaptor:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTWxoIpLztY

Drums and funk bass:  Lampie23 (Discord)
Keyboards:  https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly (DerHealsmann on Discord)
EWI:  https://soundcloud.com/kee-ba (Keeba on Discord)
Guitar:  By me, VST wrangling and adjustments by Moebius (Discord)

This arrangement is a SNES-style metal-adjacent jazz/rock/metal fusiony kind of battle theme in the vein of Mystic Quest, Lufia 2, and Phantasy Star 4.  Kind of.

Ethereal Falls

Arrangement.  Original piece: Scalet by Lucas Kelly.  ( https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly/scarlet )

Summer Santa 2023 arrangement by MTaur.

Arrangement, trumpet (solo), and keyboards by MTaur (me)
Guest trumpet (head/melody) by Carl (in-law)
Bass and additional drums by Jesse (Discord)
Drums by Lampie23 ( https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334 )

Art source:  https://unsplash.com/photos/joGq-Kjpvlk (Tengyart)

Agent Scarlet

Arrangement.  Original piece: A Shop Story by Lampie. ( https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334/a-shop-story )

Summer Santa 2023 arrangement by MTaur.

Piano by Lucas Kelly ( https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly )
Tenor sax by Jesse (Discord)
Melodica by metamoogle ( https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling )

Art source: https://unsplash.com/photos/87e5Kxl-Zfk (Ilaria De Bona)

A Love Story

Late lunch

For Orni during Summer Santa 25.

Going through Orni's extensive catalouge two environmental tracks "The Open Sea" and "Fields" really stuck out to me in how different and yet similar they are. I decided to make a metal medley out of them - the changes between 3/4 and 5/4 work really well in that genre. I had a ton of fun reducing the very complex layers into 4 guitars and 1 bass (and a surprise towards the end).

Foto by Azmodea

From the Ocean to the Fields

8-bit Music Theory Summer Santa 2025 arrangement of "Until Our Paths Cross Once More"

Original composition - Toby
Harmonica, lead sheet arrangement - me https://soundcloud.com/mtaur
Mixing, guitar - https://soundcloud.com/moebius-the-composer
Piano - https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly
Drums - https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334
Vibraphone - https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling
Bass, tenor sax - https://soundcloud.com/timmitei

Live versions recorded at Aretha's Jazz Cafe:
https://youtu.be/kLoeQs77ruw
https://youtu.be/xp_Tjnfvhl4

Until Our Paths Cross Once More

Arrangement for 8bmt's for secret santa event. Original tracks belong to https://soundcloud.com/octave738