Here's me doing an impression of jazz music haha. My only real exposure to playing jazz was during high school band, and I barely remember stuff about bass lines, minor 7 chords, syncopation, swing rhythm. I got this sweet SWAM saxophone sample library to try to integrate into an orchestra. Can't believe I'm only now using saxes. I went an listened to a big playlist of jazz music to kinda get the general feel of it. I'm sure not everything I did in this arrangement follows jazz convention correctly, but oh well. 

 

The original track has this bouncing beat that I wanted to preserve, cuz it perfectly encapsulates Lancer's playful mischievous nature. Toby fox's use of jazz is perfect, because while I was playing around with filling out the sound, I wanted to add a bunch of changes to the structure and texture that would make it really unpredictable to the listener. 

 

The funny thing is that I assume most jazz musicians are great at improv and can just fly off with their solos and articulations while being in harmony with all the other players. Being a jazz outsider, I had to instead meticulously sketch phrases and ideas out on my piano, and then translate them over to whatever instruments I thought sounded best. Some of the chords and flourishes I ended up using were a result of just brute force banging on the keyboard, trying out random notes and timing until I felt like I heard something nice. Finally, getting the overall mix to sound like it's in a cozy underground club posed another challenge. Most of my libraries were recorded/designed for large hall space. Even though I took out almost all the reverb, some instruments still sound like they're really far away, like the trumpets and trombones. Just pretend that the jazz stage is too small, so a bunch of players had to sit backstage. I got a newfound appreciation for jazz music. There's elements about it that I can see myself continuing to use in future tracks.

Deltarune Orchestrated will be available on iTunes/Spotify upon completion of the album.

MP3 and FLAC available for Patrons. ► www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement by Jeremiah Sun
Original Theme by toby fox

DELTARUNE Chapter 1&2 is currently free to download on PC and the Nintendo Switch!

Deltarune Orchestrated

DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Jazz Orchestra - Lancer's Theme

Night of Nights - New Super Mario Bros.

What I Fight for - Aigis vs Zero (Persona 3 vs Mega Man X)

Figured I'd post this one here, too. I post all of my music on YouTube, if you didn't know! Go check it:
https://www.youtube.com/c/waddoop

a BANGIN' Ruder Buster Remix

Playing through Deltarune Chapter 3 I honestly felt like it was lacking something, it wasn't bad but didn't quite deliver what I expected. Chapter 4 however, nailed everything and sometimes felt like a completely different game to me. With From Now On, it almost sounds like Toby Fox is really trying to change up his style a bit and I love the sound he's been going for.


From Now On (Battle 2) - Deltarune Chapter 4 | SGCS Remix

The work in progress for my upcoming arrangement album for music from the game Deltarune, this is not the final album, but got requested to publish the released tracks on Soundcloud!

From Now On (Battle 2)

Impoliter buster

A battle track from the 4th dungeon in YIIK: A Postmodern RPG. Composed/Arranged by Toby Fox. 

Based on The Essentia 2000 theme by Andrew Allanson.

Into the Mind - YIIK Battle Theme - by Toby Fox

ToxicXEternity is back at business, starting to make covers for deltarune! This awesome-as-always cover is for Rude Buster, the standard issue battle theme, and it rocks. Literally.

What I Fight for - Aigis vs Zero (Persona 3 vs Mega Man X)

SuperTheNova