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What's your favorite video of mine? + Thanks for pledging! (Patreon)

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2017-04-23 18:36:16
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2026-06

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Hey Patrons, old and new! It seems there are a lot of new members to the raindrop Patreon community following the release of Last Surprise, so I'd like to welcome you here!

I've got a simple question for you all: what is your favorite video of mine? On top of that, what do you like about it? I figure there's nothing wrong with getting some feedback from you guys on what I can do better as a creator!

I'll start. My personal favorite video of my own is my Eterna Forest arrangement (which you can check out here if by some strange reason you've never heard it...) I love how the arrangement builds in this cover, starting off with the simple sax and piano lines, and later building to the "drop" with the entrance of a heavy drum groove. It's been over a year since I made this cover, and I'm still in awe of this arrangement. I also really love how layered this arrangement is! This arrangement has a ton of guitar layers in it, more than are just shown in the video. I love doing super-layered arrangements, they add so much extra depth in the song!

Let me know what your personal favorite cover of mine is in the comments below, and let me know why! I'll read all the comments here and use that feedback to produce better music for you all, as I'm always striving to do :)

Comments

Anonymous

Mt. Coronet for non collab, Vast Poni or Undertale for ours, and Dire Dire Docks for big group.

Anonymous

I liked the editing in the Sky Tower cover video. Now in personal favorite covers I'm between that, Champion Cynthia and KK Bossa. *I also like Route 216 and Yoshi's Island Medley, sorry that I can't have a favorite one uwu.

Levi Bechtold

It seems to change every day for me, but right now it's probably Asgore. I'm not the biggest fan of the original as I prefer not only most undertale OST over that, but most OST of covers you've done over that. What I really like though, is your take on it. I love when you start covers quietly, but in this you have it start fast and quiet, with a drop to loud and slow. It's an interesting choice of how to kick it off, but I really like how it works. I also like the visual effect where it gets slightly more orange as it picks up, then a VFX explosion for the downbeat, but the downbeat doesn't become something obnoxious as it drops down again to further compliment the medley instead of just blasting the tune. You take several minutes building it and when it really kicks off its the piano and percussion that make it intense, because you keep the tenor at the same volume. You then continue to play the medley, but another tenor starts playing an earlier part of the medley, adding a cool echo effect. Just when you think it's at its peak everything decrescendos for a piano solo that becomes a synchronization of all parts as it crescendos. When it picks up again you do an awesome effect with the frames before you're back on screen, then it's just a ton of Tenor, followed by a fade to the tenor solo from the beginning. Then... the solo. I love how it's call and response with the back tracks, but then you just go nuts on it and it's possibly my favorite solo of yours. The backtrack here does so much more than a backtrack normal would and it's amazing how it blends with the solo. Back to a bunch of tenors, then everything is synced up again before a final piano solo just like the beginning. So many amazing choices here! I love the pacing overall and how frequent the speed and volume are switching, and the things you tried with blending the solo and the backtrack, although overkill on paper, worked wonders in practice. Overall though, my favorite idea implemented is how it keeps referencing earlier parts with both tone, volume, and instrumentation, but with slightly more going on when things are revisited. It makes it feel much more cohesive than just the standard "keep adding more". Overall, one of my favorites not for the source material, but because the way you executed it had so many great ideas working together. ;)

Anonymous

Going straight to my most played: Link's Awakening Medley and Yoshi's Island Medley, Mt. Coronet and Route 16, Sky Tower and Big Blue.

Anonymous

Your Dire Dire Docks video is when I really fell in love with you (no homo)

Lee

Monster hunter series from Capcom, the game I like and hate at the same time. Besides I also want to hear more music from persona 3 and 4.

Anonymous

Wind Waker opening took me on a journey. Asgore is an awesome arrangement, love the sax section soli. FE Road taken is just an awesome tune

Anonymous

You have immaculate taste, because your Eterna Forest cover is ALSO my favorite video you've ever done...for all the reasons you mentioned! I'm so excited for the Gen 4 album! Keep up the fantastic work!

Anonymous

It's hard to choose just one (I grew up listening to the Lawrence Welk and big band, so I love everything you do!) For now, I'm going to say Pokemon gen 2 National Park. You put an upbeat spin on beautifully laid back song. My second choice is "It's Raining Somehwere Else" from Undertale (but I super love all the Undertale covers you've done). I definitely like the mellow, toned down, easy listening (but I also appreciate upbeat, boogie, and swing--so everyone wins, right?)

Gylphie

I've always loved Wind Waker Title Theme. The keyboard and it's transition to saxophone, as well as the contrasting and harmonizing baritone and tenor are some of your best work I think. I also think the drums in Wind Waker Title Theme are some of your absolute best. Aside from that, Pastoria City and Surfycove are close behind.

Anonymous

I think I have to agree with you on the Eterna Forest piece. The way it builds and layers itself combined with the magical feeling you give it just felt emotionally overpowering. A lot of your music hits right at the heart and for that I thank you!

Anonymous

As much as I love a lot of your stuff (for real, I'm not a big fan of jazz but you are a great musician) ... I think if it had to pick just one, it would be your cover of National Park. When the main melody comes in strong with the sax and drums together is just great.

Luke Beeman

I really loved your covers of Iris and Turnabout Sisters

Anonymous

My two favourites would probably be Eterna Forest and Sky Tower. The change in dynamics and the complex layering make them an absolute joy to listen to. Particularly the complex rhythm in Eterna Forest's loud part, and the guitar/piano part in Sky Tower. Keep up the great work! (Also, would you consider doing a PMD2 Temporal Tower/Dialga Battle/Vast Ice Mountain Peak cover sometime in the future?)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4833580

Oh boy, Mt. Coronet was one of my favorites too! There's a redone version of that song on my hard drive, maybe I'll post that one to Patreon soon :)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4833667

Thanks for the feedback! Those are all favorites of mine! However, I do notice that none of them are very recent covers of mine... any suggestions you can provide to improving the ones I'm making currently?

insaneintherainmusic
>>4837918

Ah thank you so much for the feedback! That's still one of my favorite arrangements to date, and I felt like I definitely deviated from the original quite a bit with that one :)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4838191

That one got some polarizing opinions in the comments section, and it's one of the covers I made that feels really rushed, imo (time-to-make-wise, not the progression of the actual song, that one's super duper slow). Thanks for the feedback :3

insaneintherainmusic
>>4841399

Iris is a strange one! I don't really like that one very much myself, I feel like I stuck to the original way too much. However, Turnabout Sisters is gold ;)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4841374

Well thank you for supporting me and listening to my music even if you're not a big fan of jazz, haha! National Park is definitely one of my favorites too. That one was so much fun to do with the Precipitation group :)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4842328

Definitely planning on doing PMD2 Temporal Tower & Primal Dialga sometime this year. Don't know about Vast Ice Mountain Peak, however! The two tunes you named are also some of my favorites :)

Anonymous

As many have said Turnabout Sisters is great, the song is awesome and your rendition is great. I have to say though, Alight (Storm) has a great groove in your chair, but an allegro feel, half time segments, with nice syncopated beats throughout that I really love. I also love Phendrana Drifts, its a nice casual song with slow progression and a nice build up with a good break. I really like the tune just in general but I love listening to that one. Some of my other favorites are Ashleys song with the amazing drums and high energy with amazing variations in the song just in the first 30 seconds! Realm Overwold (even though it is the one Zelda game I hate) You did this song so well. Also Stupid Blues, just great to listen to anytime.

insaneintherainmusic
>>4844453

Thanks for the feedback! I really miss Alight Storm, I need to make more songs like a lot of those old ones! Also, another super swingin' rendition like Ashley's Song would be super fun to make.

Aralya

Snowy Valak Mountain, Schala's Theme, Gladion Battle Theme and Alight (Storm), it's difficult choose one of them ;)

Alex Kuczun

please, PLEASE, I am begging you. Do a PMD2 album. Or even just a few songs from it. That is my favorite video game with some great music. Some examples Primal dialga In the morning sun Spacial cliffs Vast ice mountain/dark ice mountain Boulder quarry Icicle forest Its not a miracle Amp Plains Defy the Legends Don't ever forget <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6akIKaXBeU3-txbUWVhlJ0ZapNuXl-4i" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6akIKaXBeU3-txbUWVhlJ0ZapNuXl-4i</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6akIKaXBeU1_HKYAd0v5y7nAgM4G9s2a" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6akIKaXBeU1_HKYAd0v5y7nAgM4G9s2a</a> Just go to those playlists and just start listening. I would be your happiest fan ever if you did a playlist. I would even do an album cover for you.

Alex Kuczun

So there is no possible way to make legal covers of those pmd songs? Because that makes me really sad. I would've loved to hear* you work your magic on those songs.

Alex Kuczun
>>4851411

Honestly Im confused now, I've seen remixes of some of those songs before (they are very few and far between) for example glitch city did some of those tracks

Anonymous

Favorites have to be (in order) Sky Tower, Eterna Forest, Corridors of Time (newer one), and Snowy Valak Mountain (night).

Anonymous
>>4873030

All of these covers in my opinion are insanely pleasant to listen to, and are some of your more emotional pieces. Sky Tower's expression and chord prog. always get me (and just the overall genre/style), Eterna Forest's mix is amazing and everything sounded perfectly played, with awesome harmony, Corridors of Time successfully blends many instruments together in such a clean way, creating amazing textures, Snowy Valak Mountain is very emotional to me, the styles it goes through make it an awesome listen. It starts off very subtle and peaceful, then the main melody is played strongly right before the epic double time section with the INSANE solo trading. I'm not going to say how good each arrangement is, just because all of these are incredible.

James S-R

This probably comes more down to my own personal taste, but my favourites tend to fall into the categories of 'relaxed' arrangements like canalave city, route 216 or corridors of time; or 'emotional' tracks like snowy valak mountain, schala's theme or lost in thoughts all alone. That said, there are a few outliers like big blue (obviously), or alight (that got me into your channel in the first place) that are more upbeat but also still incredible listens.

Anonymous

I love the links awakening medley, I'd love to get my hands on the sheet music :)

insaneintherainmusic
>>4892387

Sorry to say that sheet music for that doesn't exist! When I was making the medley, the sheet music I had was just piano sheet music for each individual transition within the song, and I transposed it mentally to tenor key.

Anonymous

Awh thanks anyways :)

Anonymous

My favorite is your cover of Eterna Forest. It's so soothing and relaxing, and I just absolutely adore it. I also love your covers of Heartache, ASGORE, and It's Raining Somewhere Else.

Zhamka

Your recent livestream was absolutely the best!