A weekly exercise where I create an original song using a randomly generated prompt. The goal of this is to expand my personal skills in a varying range of genres and themes, as well as providing FREE DOWNLOADABLE LOOPS for you to add to your games. Do you fancy yourself some rampaging household appliances (TT-011, TT-035)? Watch out! What about dark and gritty dog mysteries about abandonment (TT-022, TT-025, TT-37)? That’s ruff! Or are you stuck in a dimension where time ceases to exist and the only thing to keep you from going insane are your own thoughts of existential dread (TT-019)?……Tragic mafia clowns (TT-015, TT-032)? HONK HONK!
 
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Tuesday Tunes (FREE game music loops)

Battle Themes

Chiptune

Songs that work great as Character Themes.

Character Themes

King of The Ring vs. The Skeletwins

Castle Capers (Zone 3)

Joule Duel (Boss Battle)

TT-015: Individual vs Society/Mafia

Hey! I’m honkin’ here!

Tuesday Tunes is a weekly exercise where I create an original song using a randomly generated prompt. The goal of this is to expand my personal skills in a varying range of genres and themes.

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Tuesday Tunes

Tuesday Tunes 015: Blappo the Capo

The goose is loose! I've been developing a game for the past year. Here's a sneak peak at one of the character themes: The Huntsman!

Project S.R. (OST)

Huntsman Theme - Ravenloft Studios: Project S.R.

TT-022: Stolen Identity/Virtual Reality

BORK BORK BORK

Tuesday Tunes is a weekly exercise where I create an original song using a randomly generated prompt. The goal of this is to expand my personal skills in a varying range of genres and themes.

Support me on Patreon for extra sweet info like: sneak peaks of songs for current projects, downloads & detailed breakdowns of Tuesday Tunes, and more™. https://www.patreon.com/zachbrunomusic

Tuesday Tunes 022: Detective Doggo

TT-030: Tech Gone Nuts/Alternate History

See? Goblins have thoughts! They’re just…stupid.

Tuesday Tunes is a weekly exercise where I create an original song using a randomly generated prompt. The goal of this is to expand my personal skills in a varying range of genres and themes.

Support me on Patreon for extra sweet info like: FREE downloadable loops for your games, breakdowns of Tuesday Tunes, sneak peaks of songs for current projects, and more™. https://www.patreon.com/zachbrunomusic

Tuesday Tunes 030: Cretin Cabal

TT-035: Tech Gone Nuts/Fairytale

BLEND IT AND REND IT BROTHER!

If that dang ass toaster movie had a rampaging murder blender, my childhood would’ve been very different…MOVING ON!

I enjoyed the game idea from TT-011_VR-Vacuum so much that I decided to create another entry in the misfit household appliance boss battler series! I plan on making more of these in the future and will package them together in a music pack with some KILLER artwork!

Sticking with good ol’ Super Audio Cart, I blended together some neat sounds that sound kinda funky and groovy. That’s what happens when you listen to Tee Lopes and “King of the Spill” decides to live rent free up in that noggin’. I he*kin’ love Slap Bass + Triangle combo, it just gets me movin’ and groovin’, especially paired with the Drum rhythm. I wanted to experiment with the Noise Menu to push the Tech Gone Nuts prompt and adding panning rhythmic hits at varying octaves sounds so wild and crazy. Perfect for being stuck inside a malicious blender, slowly sliding through the protein shake and trying to avoid being ripped to shreds. I thought it would be neat to have one of the Lead Saws be slippy and slidey, so the left lead plays some slippery leads, while the right lead follows more arpeggiated shreddage. There’s also a backing Pulse playing some chords and plucking through a sweep arpeggio to add some tension and body.

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Tuesday Tunes 035: Blender Beatdown

TT-040: Forgiveness/Scifi

Sorry Ifrit, I wanna punch fire from my feet.

WOWEE IDK what happened with this track, my finger just slipped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It gives me major Final Fantasy vibes. Specifically, boss fights against the summons (I’m lookin’ at you Ifrit, bring that ASS OVER HERE FOR A WHOOPIN’ 😡)

I was kinda unsure about the direction of the prompt. I was thinking about maybe doing something space-y or doing some neat electronic fusion type thing, but I couldn’t settle on anything, so I just started fiddlin’ around with melodies and chord progressions to try and find something that can convey Forgiveness. I’ve found that using Piano as a skeleton (AHHHH) to plot out basic chords, melodies, countermelodies, harmonies, and simple flairs has been really helpful! Once I figured out something that sounded forgiving, with some neat repeated motifs throughout different octaves, I went to Percussion because I just couldn’t get this snare pattern out of my brain and it needed to come out. Love me some rhythmic, marching snare patterns! I still wasn’t too sure about direction yet, so I decided to do a full orchestral piece since it’d been awhile, and just started converting the basic notes from Piano to Strings. Violin 1 plays the melody, layered between CineStrings Solo and Abbey Road One for extra emphasis. Similarly, Cello mimics the snare pattern using the chord progression, also layered between CSS and ARO. Sounds crispy! It was during this transposing that I stumbled into the ostinato and I was like, “HOLY SANTA CLAUSE SHIT THIS RULES!” and then proceeded to sprinkle it throughout the song. The Brass section is full of beefy rhythmic flairs and the Woodwinds just sound so angelic.

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Tuesday Tunes 040: Summoner's Sorrow

TT-048: Descent Into Madness/Alternate Universe

HONK! I said what I said…I'd rather paint the town DEAD🤡

Blappo no…what are you doing? STOP IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlrighty then let's break this thang down. This is actually a boss battle theme about a killer clown from an old canceled project I worked on. I've been wanting to revisit it for a while and this prompt felt like a good time to do it. Boss themes are so much fun. I love writing chaotic melodies and arpeggios and just wacky and wild riffs in general. Since the theming is centered around clowns, I stuck with common instruments used in clown or circus music. I chose an Organ for the wild and tense chord combinations it can produce, and the staccato notes in the C sections sound so crispy and bouncy. The Xylophone scooby doo be goin' hard, with the octave layering coupled with the Bass. I also triple layered the Xylophone, each detuned 1 semitone from each other and the volume lowered and panned, so it gives a strange sound of uncertainty. I used a full Woodwind section for chords and alternating melody lines because they sound goofy and spooky, and I love when orchestral pieces use the Woodwinds to take turns playing melodies. So playful! The breakbeat drums just add another chaotic, and unpredictable layer to the clown theme and they just he*kin RIP dude. 

What kind of vibes does this track give you? What kind of game genre can you imagine hearing this in? Tell me your thoughts!

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Tuesday Tunes 048: Wrath of the Ringmaster

TT-049: Tech Gone Nuts/Scifi

I'M TRYING TO USE THE PHONE!!

Oh yes, the return of the malfunctioning, malicious household appliances! (TT-011, 035) This is such a goofy and fun game concept. I am definitely planning on writing more for this and releasing it as a music pack! I was feeling the itch to write something in a metal band composition, but make it chiptune. I setup the Pulse 12.5% as the Left Lead, the  Pulse 25% as the Right Lead, Add 2 for Left Rhythm, Pulse 1% for Right Rhythm, Triangle + BASS Slap for Bass, and Drumkit 1 for the Drums. I loved the upbeat craziness from "TT-035 Blender Beatdown", so I wanted to bring that style back. For the lead melodies, I started writing the Left Lead first and wanted to repeat it on the Right Lead, but I copy/pasted in the wrong spot which led to the offbeat variation, which was just a nice happy little accident. And then I got crazy and tried to layer them on top of each other and it turned off to be he*kin wild dude.

What kind of vibes does this track give you? What kind of game genre can you imagine hearing this in? Tell me your thoughts!

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Tuesday Tunes 049: Ringtone Rager

The Wingding Wizard I

TT-050: Pursuit/Western

The stars at night are big and bright 👏👏👏👏

I was really feelin' somethin' with this prompt. I woke up one morning and the only thing I could think about was writing a western adventure song. Maybe it's because of the western themed Got Item! show I'm playing this weekend. Maybe I just wanna be a horse idk dude. Anyway, I wanted to write more songs for an eventual Western Music Pack, so I chose my last Western prompt (TT-036) for a basis. Sticking with the classics, I used Nylon Grandpa's Guitars and Bass for the rhythms for that good ol' fashioned cowfolk sound. I just picked up Berlin Woodwinds so I really wanted to try out the Flute patch for the melody and see what the HYUCK was up. I'm still getting used to the articulations, but I was able to use the key switches to get it sounding good enough. For the counterpoint, I used solo Violin and there's some real nice harmonies up in that binch. For the Percussion, I just copy/pasted from TT-036 and added more Tamborine and introduced a Snare pattern for extra adventure-y feeling. It's a common practice in game soundtracks to reuse parts, but alter them a bit for variance and feel depending on the goal. I also reused the motif from TT-036 and TT-005 in this track. Can you spot it?

What kind of horse do you wanna be? Tell me your thoughts!

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Tuesday Tunes 050: Sunset Stallions

TT-051: Power Corruption/Dark Fantasy

A dark a gloomy tower with unknown shadowy entities scattered throughout? Let's split up gang!

For this prompt, I've had this motif stuck in my head from one of my previous unfinished projects that I've always wanted to expand upon. One of the main things that's been stopping me is I didn't have a good Harpsichord VST, but CineSamples Black Friday sale really came through this year. This Harpsichord sounds SIQQQ 🤙🤙🤙 It's such a unique and iconic instrument. It's perfect for those Medieval/Renaissance/Dark Fantasy vibes, which is fitting for the antagonist motif I've been dying to write. I originally intended to compose a boss fight with this, but it ended up being more of an interchangeable villain or level theme. The boss fight will come later and it's gonna he*kin RIP dude. Harpsichord battle themes are intense and I'm looking forward to seeing how this VST sounds in that scenario, especially once it's combined with various other instrument layers to added intensity. That's part of why I chose to write a solo Harpsichord piece. I wanted to know how it would sound, and it really can hold the fort on its own. Just imagine this in a game setting; You're adventuring through this castle with this theme playing, and then you encounter the antagonist and all of a sudden the music just explodes into chaos. 😱😱😱

What kind of instruments would you want to hear for the boss fight? Tell me your thoughts!

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Tuesday Tunes 051: The Tower in Twilight

TT-052: Isolation/Samurai

Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow…🐉🐄

Oh HELL YEAH BROTHER I love me some world/ethnic music and I've always wanted to try and write something in a Japanese style. However, I was also feelin' another 2D Platformer Level Theme/Boss Theme, so I chose Chiptune instruments. I really vibe with those styles of games and they're so much fun to write. The Shamisen has such an interesting sound to it, it almost sounds like every note is being quickly slid into it with a quick decay. It's a gr8t sound for these quick, upbeat riffs and arpeggios. It just sounds so intense! The Koto also has a noticeably unique sound. I think I could've done more with it like adding extra vibrato and bends because from the research I did, that's what I heard and to me, that's what gives it that traditional & iconic sound, but I wasn't confident in my skills. Oops 🙈 Also MIDI is just really a pain to automate bends and vibrato and nobody got time for that. For the other iconic Japanese sounds, I used the Hyōshigi which is just instantly recognizable, and I also used some percussive tom work which is commonly heard in ethnic/world pieces. I decided to use more of a Drum and Bass direction for those respective instruments because I like the way they sound in this style of music, and they help beef up the overall composition since the Chiptune leads are sort of thin on their own. Combining the Percs & Bass with the Japanese instruments creates a cool fusion of genres, which I'm a huge fan of. Lastly, I used an Airy Pad to help set the setting and provide some ambience the he*kin concept I was going for! Imagine you're out adventuring through a clifftop monastery, in search of a legendary warrior who has been exiled from their clan. The reason? Well…that's for you to decide in your game!

How do you think this feller dishonored their cow? Tell me your thoughts!

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Tuesday Tunes 052: Banished Bushido

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Tuesday Tunes 048: Wrath of the Ringmaster

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