Rooftop Run Appreciation Station

Rooftop Run - Sonic Symphony World Tour

Edit: Remaster here: https://soundcloud.com/kevin_rudd/everybodys-rooftop-run-2017-remaster

Full album name: 
Sega vs. Quad City DJs vs. LMFAO vs. Nickelodeon vs. Beastie Boys vs. Snoop Dogg vs. Kanye West vs. PSY vs. Terry Crews

Download link:
https://mega.co.nz/#!kw1igbZQ!a50e0Vkq78-SzDMviRK0iEu3DEaWOANZ3mYoyIyA6RY

Album picture if you really want it (wallpaper version):
http://i.imgur.com/ZkRwQUP.jpg

Everybody's Rooftop Run (Sega vs. Quad City DJs vs. LMFAO vs. Nickelodeon vs. Beastie Boys...

My Remixes of Some of The Best Sonic Tracks!

Sonic Generations - Rooftop Run (Remix)

Because of course Rooftop Run Classic has to be on this.  It's like a law of Sonic remixes, or something.  Credit to Tomoya Ohtani for writing the original, and TNRea, Hinz and Heroboy1092 for making the MIDIs that I worked from to make this version.

Rooftop Run Classic (VRC6 Edition)

And since one Rooftop Run was never going to be enough, here's a VRC6 "demake" of the original Rooftop Run Day, too.  I think I prefer the original's music to the music for Modern Rooftop Run in Generations (which is still good, I just prefer the original and RR Classic) - I like the way the guitars complement the strings.  And it certainly adds some of the proverbial buttrockiness :p.

Credit to Tomoya Ohtani for writing the original, and Shadrow for making the MIDI I got the notes from.

Rooftop Run Day (VRC6 Edition)

The first full length album from "Spindash" - the video game related musical project and side band made up of myself and Ross Elliott; released through his multimedia production company (and company I most frequent for) EVM Productions.

If you like songs and music about video games then this is for you!!

#07 Rooftop Run (Instrumental)

Yeah! We've got two mixes in a row!!

This one I was quite surprised no one figured out! It's been such a long time and I finally discovered it too lol.

Metropolis Zone - Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Rooftop Run Act 1 (Classic) - Sonic Generations

Enjoy!

Rooftop Metropolis

Happy birthday Sonic!
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm26549702

Rooftop Run - House mix

Added a little bit more of a Metropolis-y flourish to the mostly Rooftop Run dominated bassline, removed a few of the guitar riffs because I thought I overused them, and added a few more bars of bassline before the bridge near the end.

Copied from the v1 blurb:

"Funnily enough, Metropolis Zone and Rooftop Run Classic have the same chord progression - I-II-IV-I (which it turns out, thanks to a quick bit of research, has its first known use in the Beatles' "Eight Days a Week". So a fairly recent development).  It seemed like a nice opportunity to try and mix them together into something.  Different parts of each melody line have been played around with to try and fit the tunes into each others backing.

"Hopefully it works out all right.  It feels a little slow maybe - Rooftop Run got to pick the key (A Maj vs. Metropolis' C Maj), so it's only fair that Metropolis got to set the tempo.  Let's call it mellow. Yeah. Mellow."

Rooftopolis v2

FS-471 Wwise Interactive Music implementation assignment.
update: Video of implementation here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtXrKpW7G4&hd=1
remix version: http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/be-wild

Credits:
Sean Folk - Piano
Nikhil Hogan - Acoustic Guitar
Ethan Lee - Guitar Solo (SECRETS LOL)

THE BAND!!!
Guitars - Fake Falk
Bass - Fake Falk
Drums - Fake Falk (yeah you get the idea)

When thinking of what game to score for my Wwise interactive music assignment, I had the bright idea a few months ago to try to do a Sonic the Hedgehog level. Firstly, because it was a no brainer, but secondly - Japanese games have had a cultural precedent of barely touching interactive scoring compared to western titles. On the flip-side, this allows the composer to do what he does best, which is create memorable melodies and hooks you can hum along to that aren't limited by the 'loose' requirements that interactive scoring demands.

While the goal of 'interactivity' and 'memorability' seem to pull in opposite directions, Sonic levels are (for better or worse) on rails, and more importantly at points they funnel you through one-way sections, meaning that I could apply a basic song form concept, assigning each part of a song to each part of a level, making sure the sections can loop around seamlessly, and then writing appropriate transitionary sections that can be jumped to from the end of each phrase within a section.

I chose Spagonia as my level, and there are many tie-ins of the composition to the level. For instance, while the violin lead parts were a feature of the original track, I maintained that as a means of tying the track to the European vibe of the level.

Since musical sync to the level is the essence of this project, one of the transition segments is the clock tower climb and subsequent grind (which conveniently enough is one-way) and is characterized by the breakdown section and guitar solo.

There's also a whole bunch of little musical cameos that connoisseurs of fans of Sonic music throughout the past 20 years -should- be able to pick up on (I hope!) be it from the 16-bit games, Sonic Adventure, hell even Sonic X anime.

This is only Stage 1 of the assignment. There's a shit ton of other stuff I still need to do before the project is deemed complete, and no, I'm not talking about implementing it in Wwise. Stay tuned!



Be Cool

FS-471 Wwise Interactive Music implementation assignment, Part 2
update: Video of implementation here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtXrKpW7G4&hd=1
rock version: http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/be-cool

Credits:
Sean Folk - Piano
Nikhil Hogan - Acoustic Guitar
Ethan Lee - Guitar Solo (SECRETS LOL)

THE BAND!!!
Guitars - Fake Falk
Bass - Fake Falk
Drums - Fake Falk (yeah you get the idea)

Part 2 of the assignment. So the secret is, aside from having parts sync to points in the level, there are 3 genres corresponding to how well Sonic is doing. This is when Sonic is tearing up the level, wherease a 3rd iteration, "Be Groovy" will correspond to when Sonic screws up/gets hit/etc.

I've spent since literally the start of the year coming up with the concept of tying interactivity to how well Sonic is performing. Imagine to my amazement when the Sonic Generations demo came out, and the exact same thing was being done by Sonic Team (listen to Modern Green hill playthroughs - when Sonic boosts, the drums go double-time)

I think I was pretty elated and disappointed at the same time. Elated in the sense that great minds think alike, and disappointed that what I'd intended to be an original concept has been 'done already', even though the game releases today. Oh well. Live and Learn.

Be Wild

Something I learnt on Logic pro...

Twitter: @Ben_WML
Instagram: @ben_wml

8-Bit Rooftop Run Classic

When can we Rooftop Run again?

Here's my cover of the theme for 'Spagonia' from Sonic Unleashed. Other wise known as 'Rooftop Run'. 
Granted it's a little short... I apologize, I wasn't really concentrating, I was only improvising... but either way, I had fun doing the cover. 
Hope you guys like it x

Moc Isaac's Cover - Sonic Unleashed - Rooftop Run (Spagonia Day)

Rooftop Run 2019

Rooftop Run: Day

Sonic Generations Disc 3 (Modern Era)

Rooftop Run Act 1

Rooftop Run Act 2

Maximum Overdrive - Team Sonic Racing Original Soundtrack

[D3] 3. Team Sonic Racing OST - Market Street: Lap Music

Original Track : Rooftop Run(Sonic Unleashed/Sonic Generations GST)


Download : https://hypeddit.com/track/vv85vr

Rooftop Run Appreciation Station

Paul Varley