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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)

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This is The Battle Must Be Won, an original theme I composed for percussion ensemble. This is part of my album "Superstars on the Horizon," which includes 10 original character themes inspired by Animal Crossing villagers.

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Streaming: https://album.link/superstarsonthehorizon
Sheet Music: https://www.musicnotes.com/l/xh5hS

After starting my original album two years ago, today I'm finally sharing the final video for the final villager theme. Last but certainly not least is Kid Cat, a jock villager with a banger theme song! Inspired by his superhero helmet and default No. 1 shirt, I felt like his theme would play during a dramatic fight scene while he’s off to save the world. It almost reminds me of a Super Sentai opening. Given that my favorite K.K. Slider song plays in his home (Go K.K. Rider!), I thought this would be fitting for his character!

Every single part was a ton of fun to play and record! In addition to melody/harmony and drum/aux parts, there’s a lot of fun background parts in this one. One of the marimba parts has a cool little ascending line with the same rhythm as the other marimba parts (that stay on the same notes for the entire measure) that helps you feel like it’s time to get moving, even during the first eight bars when things are just getting started. The descending line in the electric piano part is simple but effective, building momentum into the next section when the feel changes. I brought that line back at the end too (although with different notes to match the different chords of course), which really just brings it all home together. Special shoutout to the drum set part: that’s the first time I’ve ever put the focus on the floor tom while only using the ride cymbal on 2 and 4 (as opposed to keeping the constant notes on the ride cymbal just like they were on the hi-hat) and I really liked how it turned out. Of course the extra two cymbals at the end (China cymbal and splash cymbal) were the icing on the cake!

I knew as soon as I finished this song that it would be the last song on the album. This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever created and it’s been so hard not to share it early over the last two years. What’s really funny is that the first day I started this theme, I actually sat down to write one of the other themes and accidentally started this instead. Funny how that works out sometimes! To give you some behind-the-scenes context, this was actually the fourth song I wrote out of all ten themes. (The last song was Erik’s theme, which ended up being the first video I posted haha) Would anyone be interested in a video talking about how I made the album and maybe some other behind-the-scenes stuff?

Could you hear this theme playing while Kid Cat leads his team of Agent S, Big Top, and Rocket to save the day? (If anyone wants to make a video with the four of them while this song plays in the background, that would legit make me one of the happiest people on the planet, please please please send it to me if you do!) What other video games would you like me to write original themes for? I could totally see myself digging into something Pokémon or Stardew Valley inspired… Thank you so much for sticking around as I shared each video from my original album and I hope you enjoy this final video!

#TheBattleMustBeWon #VGMGoneOriginal #originalcomposition #vgm

P.S. Punchy and Kid Cat are best friends on my island and you can’t change my mind. I can’t believe Kid Cat saw Punchy plop it on the ground and essentially said “yooo that’s a good idea, yeah me too bro.” I was originally gonna use footage of Kid Cat working out for the end screen, but Kid Cat and Punchy being best friends was just too good to pass up!

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Original Composer: V-Ron Media (that's me!)

-- Programs/Equipment Used --
Mallet Parts: Liberty One Glockenspiel, Liberty One Glockenspiel, Yamaha Vibraphone, and Deagan Marimba
Performance Videos: iPhone 14 Pro
Game Video: Elgato HD60 X Capture Card/OBS (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
Audio Production: Logic Pro
Photo Editing: Adobe Photoshop 2023
Video Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro 2023

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