Old Composer Reacts to Elden Ring Video Game OST and Sill Learning Minecraft

Okay well this is this is a short one so maybe I’ll do another one uh obviously so let’s listen to this let’s see we got uh I’m that kind of guy let’s go Thank you Foreign trying to catch the meter on this Oh creepy Oh man that was creepy now this was a short one I want to go back at the very beginning here just for a second and you know establishing that that creepiness with that little ostinato that was going on you know the double cellos or the cello section

I was trying to figure out what the temple was on that and I was like wow man that’s it was hard because there there was a syncopation that was involved in there between the percussion you know the bass drums or the timpani and what the um uh cellos were doing but

What’s really cool are these unique Dynamics where the composer arranges these they’re more they’re more um that’s what we’re looking for sound Dynamics like when that when violinists will take you know their their their violence but do it all kind of out off tune and stuff to give you a

Little bit of that that spooky high-end like you know uh chicken skin kind of vibe down their spine kind of a thing I just want to listen to that standby I just want to go back and just listen to that and then you’ll see me go like this I’ll

Say oh there it is so let’s here I know it took a second to get in standby yeah turnip Trader I mean I understand what you’re saying with that yeah you hear it that was great it was it was subtle it was in the background but I I definitely

Dialed into it uh somebody had mentioned the fact that this does definitely have a different kind of uh um Vibe when you listen to it without the visual and so without a doubt I mean because I’m listening to it in the in the way that I am

A lot it’s a lot at the theater the mind takes over and the emotion of the piece you know makes it dark and heavy but I this is probably a killer piece against the scene like if if it if I’m already feeling kind of creeped out and by the

Composition as it is guaranteed most likely with the the visual of this what what what was happening during this piece for you Eldon ring folks okay one more Elden ring let’s go back to Minecraft let’s get because I you know wanted to uh do that special track for metal Jack

ET let’s see what we got here Rasta model Jack thank you for the follow let me see okay everyone keeps on telling me to do Halo infinite oh Halo actually has a new game oh I didn’t know that all right standby um you guys have chosen um Elden ring again OST [Laughter]

All right now I think maybe I need to make my thumbnails like that don’t you think I should be going I don’t know oh hi buddy not making fun of you but I am but I’m not um I guess this is it here guys is this

The one all my chat paused again dang it did this this one oh they’re both the same in time though 435 soy Jack is that what they’re called uh second one all right guys here we go uh from Elden ring this is godskin Apostles array [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Foreign This is what I call gigantic unison and the power is unmatched when an orchestra is full-on you know plus 20 fire damage and they’re playing the same Melody throughout the Spectrum of the uh sections so there is a little bit of an ostinato going on at the bottom that’s keeping that edgy

And there is a harmony with the coral composition that’s going on in there not extremely bold not not very counter melodic going on but it’s this gigantic swimming moving dark heavy piece and then the Dynamics that come around it and kind of keep on like kicking you

And lifting you in or keeping you in the heat of the game are the swelling you know horn sections and stuff that blow up and grind up into you like that and it kind of keeps you kind of lifted and kicking in here I don’t know what’s

Happening in this if this is what they call the boss fight or something but it was very unique when they brought all that into when the composer brings all the energy down you have like that like a like a like a European Boys Choir sound it all

Brought that energy down to bring in the spookiness and then lifted it up and gutted us again with that whole bottom end very bottom end Orion orientated uh composition is I I guess this is a really must be a really Punchy section figuratively or literally of of the game [Applause] Thank you you hear the rips on the horns the very bottom end Oh is that it no it can’t be oh there’s more Foreign [Applause] kind of games that have their own language um I mean I it’s hard usually it’s hard to discern a language of Choral compositions at least for me unless I’m I’m going to like a Beethoven concert or a Mozart concert and I’m obviously familiar with the pieces of music but I

Know in video games they have their own languages a lot or random syllables I guess that’s what it must be right semi-space um which works just fine too I actually have funny enough uh one of my composer tools if you would is a module that I can do coral compositions and actually

Assigned to it to say something literally I mean that’s where technology is if I was to start doing a composition and I wanted the choir to say or the section I’m writing to say I will beat you boss dude literally I can type that in and as I played uh

The notes in a particular way it would actually say I will eat you boss dude technology is insane but anyhow let’s continue [Applause] It is [Applause] [Applause] I’m going to take it back a little bit I want you to listen to what the horns do in the last I don’t know eight bars that we just heard listen to how the horns is lifting the darkness of the ostinato or that heaviness of the let’s call it the

Orchestral chug if you’re a metal fan you know what a chug is obviously but when it lights up and you hear the horns going you know in that extreme Forte kind of performance it gives it that like orchestral chug let me go back a little bit let’s listen for that thank you Foreign [Applause] Oh I see oh did you pull that from uh I guess maybe something that the composer may have written down in an interview or something like that thank you for that very much very um Mass requiem Style you know what I mean like funeral oriented but in a powerful

Battle kind of way like I don’t know the game but in my head this whole piece would have been like you know uh like super gnarly field Renaissance battle kind of vibe you know I don’t know how to better equate that but um just gigantic now this is along also

The same lines of um that um uh you know where where I think we start getting to that conversation where some people say that these large bombastic compositions begin to sound the same you know throughout games and you know the only reason why I don’t necessarily uh I understand when people say that

What that means but what I haven’t heard through my journey with these osts what I’ve only been doing is six months now is that there is any repetitive use of um in in the likeness of copying and what I mean by that is I think when people say and this is just

Me interpreting but when I think people uh say um that they kind of sound the same it has to do with the instrumentation and not the composition so whenever there’s battle themes that are going on you’re gonna have at least in in these cases you’re going to have timpanies you’re going to have

The chugging what I’m going to call orchestral chugging you know that’s the bottom end of the string sections and the brass sections and stuff holding these bombastic because that’s the energy that the you know that music gives in those particular kinds of scenes you know I’ve

Had a lot of comments uh throughout the last six months about kind of sounds the same it kind of sounds the same and I and I get you you know if if you’re one of those folks that say that it kind of sounds the same uh it

It kind of does sound the same but I could you know there’s a definite discernible difference in the melodic content of that approach in the original content of that approach you know between composers you know and then of course composers that step outside of the box a little

More they’ll do tracks like this and then add a little hybrid little synthy sounds a little couple of things that might kind of glow and Glam in there and I think I’ve done one or two very similar to that um Contra bassoon Melody yeah that would be sick

You know I think the Contra bassoon sometimes gets gets that gets labeled as that kind of like that Opie kind of you know giant bear running through the woods okay excuse me let’s now get back to some Minecraft we’re closing in on my two hour limit but I’m gonna go past two

Hours it looks like so what I’m going to do is one more Minecraft Journey and then I’ll close up the Minecraft and then we’ll do two more osts at the end okay so that’s how we roll here all right so let me uh switch back to Minecraft

Uh yes sex sax appeal 21 that’s a very good yes very much so Bravo to that teacher yeah that would be killer all right um let me do this I’m back okay stand by to the game okay what I’m gonna do is I’m immediately rushing back to that

Boat and I’m gonna see if I can use those shears hit this I want to make sure I have my shears I’m gonna risk losing my shears but if I I realize that I’ve got to get there in time before the Sun so I’m running guys I’m cooking I’m going to my boat

That’s my boat remember that from Forrest Gump oh geez no negative ha ha almost got smoked by The Roasting zombie well that that scared me oh geez oh what the one run oh where did he come from get in get it oh [ __ ] oh how do I get in oh oh no

How is he still shooting me oh he’s in the water oh I’m screwed oh no I don’t know how to get out of this oh I’m dead right I mean look at me my hearts are gone how come nobody told me he could be in the water

Now I can’t even finish my journey I got no hearts guys I thought you were my buddies no I’m kidding well now I got no Hearts I don’t have enough food I’m dying can I switch over while I’m in the boat hang on I think I have oh look I got bread

Oh My My Heart’s jumping I’m dying right now guys give me a second seriously oh my God that was the gnarliest guys oh my God oh my God hey burning Knight how’s it I can’t eat any more food right so does my hearts get stuck like that’s as far

As my hearts can go like now I don’t feel safe going to the other side of the island like I wanted to oh my gosh that was the worst I wasn’t ready for that I was thinking I’m going for a leisurely like swim on the ocean and this guy follows me

Can I eat more oh I’m eating more okay so if I eat and I sit still does that kind of chill out and give the heart a little time to catch up like I see when it goes flicker flicker oh I don’t know if I have any more food now mine some iron

I need to mine iron I don’t know where to find iron though it’s such a pain in the butt okay stand by I gotta recoup guys I’ve been floating out here in the water I feel like I busted an ore or something when that guy shot me

I definitely got to save that piece and put it up on YouTube there’s no two ways about it old man needs defibrillator okay wait a second let me turn this here whoops there’s not enough time where’s the Sun no I’m a little too nervous without the

Food now I’m going to go back and have to have a barbecue standby I’m so nervous I forgot what I’m supposed to press to move forward well that just ruined my mission that was so lame I’m so heartbroken I really wanted to go over to that other section

Now I’ve got to roast some food well guys I guess I learned right come on though you guys have to tell me you had somebody had to have spazzed out and had a heart attack with me when I was going through that close the door just in case

Okay guys well I guess I’m roasting food let me see what I have in my can I eat the eggs Raw hey guys can I eat the eggs like raw or do I have to cook them Resident Evil oh I use it for cake and stuff ah all

Right well fine then I must eat I’m gonna I gotta make some food stand by I’m still a little nervous for me blowing it like I’m usually in a flow and I know what buttons I need to push but that freaked the hell out of me um oh that was the worst

Okay eggs is making cake okay oh that’s all I had in lamb chops wow I’m really dropping the ball here guys as far as health oh man that was so Grim scared the crap out of me and I definitely don’t have enough time to get to the other side

All right screw it on mine I don’t know where to get iron I’ve been you know is there a trick guys where like you have a higher chance of finding different minerals when you’re mining like closer to mountains than let’s say by the ocean because one of the things that I’ve

Realized it seems like maybe it’s just logic when I’m by the ocean and I’m digging down I never get into any coal or anything cool and it’s like if you get towards more of the mountains you get more minerals only stands to reason right if you study little geology

There’s you know but iron is deep underground now oh and I have to do one of those kind of explorations oh and it’s not exposed to air good in a snake thank you my Axis location too oh that’s a little over my head right here staircase underground it’s safer than a cave

Oh oh so in other words caves existing caves in the game are where potentially the devs put um uh uh creepers can spawn or they live down there already right if so if I dig down is a lesser chance for me to get creeped on yeah no that’s why it’s called Minecraft yep

All right well let’s see where the sun is let’s let’s give her a go here let me come around here because I don’t want to ruin the Aesthetics of my of my rig so let me do something here let’s just try see if I have a shovel I have no shovel

So I am going to just I have to do it this way guys I don’t have enough tools to go faster thank you I’m getting used to digging in a way where I have to create my own steps okay now I can change to this guy

And get a little get a little jiggy with it hey how many of you guys heard or saw that Chris Rock finally acknowledged that whole thing with Will Smith man that was gnarly he he went off like he waited a year and he went oh yeah okay look I’m getting deeper I’m

Coming into the coal let me make sure I have a good line out just in case there’s an emergency and I have my steps yeah if you guys didn’t see that believe it or not this old man has a tick tock account and I really do like Tick Tock I

Mean it can be kind of weird and creepy but it shows like a whole different level of of energy that that the world is feeling let’s let’s put it safely that way but anyhow yeah there’s a lot of Clips on Tick Tock and as well as YouTube I guess you just have to

Look up um Chris Rock destroys Will Smith or something I don’t know oh man I’m losing power with my um my pickaxe which I know means that I’m coming to hear that clink I have to place torches you see now it’s getting nighttime I can tell by the music that’s when the music

Creeps in I mean a lot of coal if you’re if you’re from Hawaii you know what that meant Oh there it is that’s that catch sound where I lost all right well it’s getting nighttime so let me just do some outdoor cleansing first I’m gonna I’m gonna widen this a little bit God I love this music so beautifully simple and that’s not a hack against the

Composer but what’s his name again c814 thank you I watched a couple really great YouTubes on what happened to c814 as a composer and Minecraft and it’s you know it’s right up there with the mick Gordon well not not quite like the mick Gordon thing that’s going on but

You know negotiations that uh Contracting that fell down and fell apart and also watched a little bit about the actual developer of Minecraft and how he sold it for a couple billion dollars and some of the things he’s gone through as a human very unique stories all right guys

Let me see if I can do this real quick for us Oh no why can’t I oh it’s too late I was gonna make a pedestal for us too late watch the sunset remember we watch our sunsets at least on my journey perfect with the music too right yes I have to learn how to make ladders too is that nice

Just everything about this is so cool even with the sunset and how the Stars kind of come in foreign Music sounds great see if the moon’s coming up oh there’s Mr Moon and there’s my lava dude got this little patch of lava here sometimes I’m wondering if maybe somewhere underneath there there might be some iron you know from the lava and compression oh it looks like I better stay here now

The dudes are like right on me look at him he’s waiting for me I wonder if I should make a run for it if I jump from here I’ll definitely lose some life I’ll break some ankle won’t I hmm I want to make a run first I can hit the bed

So let’s see how do I do this again I gotta do it this way okay I’m gonna take a few blocks down oops and then I’m gonna make a run for it control w here I go oh Punk one of them get in the door what are you doing

I don’t know if I can do this it hurts my heart my boy just got shot in the butt okay hang on let me make some trolls really quick uh let me go here um what can I make okay I need um sword I need a new pickaxe

That’s it that’s all I get out of that oh I need more sticks stand by everybody sticks see I’m learning to look for things when I run out of things that I go wait a minute do I have enough sticks um so let me go back to this and now I can

Make a couple things I have an ax I have a hole I have the pickaxe what else should I get here oh I’ll play a horror game don’t worry about that I’ll just I need to get good enough I need to get my skills Amazon was supposed to deliver my my game

Controller today and they said it’s a day late so needless to say that’s going to be another learning curve um I need to might as well get the shovel in shovel some of this crap move the dirt out of the way remove the coal up here

Is there anything else that I could get or should get what’s this I don’t need anything for Aesthetics yet I’ve got enough torches so I think I’m pretty good to go hi Billy timick yes I just learned about that guys and I had no idea about peaceful mode thank

You for that Billy TMC um that there is something called peaceful mode here and you know what I might give that a wing if I find myself getting really frustrated but I think for myself I’m still I still got enough reaction left to want to encounter you

Know the bad guys and stuff but I really am considering the peaceful mode um just so that I can get ahead of my skills and build some things and then maybe I’ll go back into you know the the regular mode um but you know you guys are teaching me

So much here I know that I’ve Advanced a million miles had I just tried to go through this game and not gotten the leads you guys have given me I probably actually I don’t want to say I would have quit but I probably would have gotten

Discouraged so I think one of the great things about you guys tell me maybe today’s day and age um because of YouTube and stuff that all the help videos out there has exponentially helped grow um the retention I guess of video gaming maybe for noobs like me or something

Like that that continual growth where you can or you can look up on YouTube how to make a bed or like I still haven’t figured out how to make a window pane versus these blocks but I did come across um a video that said something about it so

I know I can look that up but without a doubt that seems to be um the way to go first noobs all right guys uh let’s say goodnight to our Minecraft Journey and I will shut this down and we’ll do two more osts and then I will be calling it a day