Battle!! Torna (Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country) - Big Band Jazz Arrangement

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Published on June 5, 2021 4:30:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdxD_73_Lnc

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017)

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Jazz-influenced battle themes in RPGs are one of my favorite things ever. Xenoblade 2's DLC absolutely DELIVERS!

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Good lord, I love this battle theme. While many of you may know that I love the soundtrack of Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum, I think Xenoblade Chronicles 2 might surpass it for me! Sinnoh is absolutely home to my favorite childhood soundtrack, but Alrest is a bit more fitting for my current tastes - gah it's just so good! So many good themes, including music from the base game and the awesome DLC. Xenoblade 2's DLC "Torna, The Golden Country" is probably the best DLC I've seen in any game - such a full fleshed-out expansion of content from the base game, but with just enough twists to keep things fresh and interesting. Also, the music is notably jazz-influenced... so I'm super down with that, haha.

This particular battle theme, though, is just so special! The piano riff in the beginning fits right in with the percussive, groove-oriented style of piano playing that I really like, and the energy is just so good! This is a track that I’ve wanted to arrange for so long, but just didn’t really have the right tools to pull off the ideas I had for it. Now that I’ve spent quite a bit of time on drums, bass, and brass instruments, I finally felt ready to tackle this monster of a theme!

This is my first time posting a big band arrangement on this channel where I’m playing ALL the parts. Saxes, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm section… goodness, this took a lot of effort to put together, haha. Recording the saxes was a relatively easy process, but tracking all the brass took many hours! I’m not as consistent of a trumpet / trombone players as I like, so there were a lot of repeat takes, and a good amount of Melodyne used. All done for the sake of making the best final product I can, though! I’m super pleased with how this big band arrangement turned out! Not sure I’ll be doing too many of these “one man big band” videos since they take so much time, but maybe I’ll do some from time to time! Plus, not every song needs this kind of orchestration…

I also enjoyed playing around with some lighting and different video editing techniques than usual! I had these LED light panels that I usually used in the piano room, and decided to use them as color lights for this shoot - I really like what they did to the video, especially on shots like the bass bone, drums, and piano! I also pulled out the motorized slider again for some cool motion shots, and added some subtle motion in post on other shots. Let me know what you think of this style of video - it was fun to put together! I always feel a little weird experimenting with video stuff, since I am most certainly a musician first and a videographer in a distant second… maybe third or fourth, haha.

Hope you enjoy! I know a lot of folks have been requesting this one, so I hope you enjoy my take :)

♫ "Battle!!/Torna" composed by Kenji Hiramatsu

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