Name: Sara ni Tatakau Monotachi
Channel: Syzygy/Uematsu
Description: "Sara ni Tatakau Monotachi" is a song by Syzygy. This is just a tribute to the man who originally got me interested in music theory, Nobuo Uematsu. I figured this would make for a nice instrumental song.

Sara ni Tatakau Monotachi

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This is just a tribute to the man who originally got me interested in music theory, Nobuo Uematsu. I figured this would make for a nice instrumental song.

Syzygy

I don't know yet.

Well, I haven't uploaded much yet. It's mostly going to be stuff from my days in my church band until I get some quality stuff of my own (which requires some free time). I'll see what I can do later on. If you're into Christian rock or just soft rock in general, maybe you'll enjoy what I have now. I don't know what I'll have up when I get the time, though.

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Genre

Rock • Instrumental Rock

Charts

#30,916 today Peak #288

#4,482 in subgenre Peak #52

Author

Syzygy/Uematsu

Rights

2004

Uploaded

June 30, 2004

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MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Well, I finally finished it. All of it was done by me: the guitar is recorded directly as digital audio, the rest was done on the keyboard (synths, bass, percussion). I wanted to actually play the bass, but I do not own one and could not adjust my guitar to sound like one (via pitch-bending) so I went ahead with keyboards. It doesn't make that much of a difference since I wanted them in the back of the mix.

Anyway, the keyboards are all played by me and sent to the computer as MIDI. From there I applied the voices and so on with soft-synths. That is, I processed the MIDI data through very customizable programs that converted it into digital audio. Anyway, after roughly 15 hours of messing with said voices and perfecting the quality of the recording I have this as a finished product. What was originally designed for a four-piece band came out with five guitar tracks and many synth voices I did not plan on utilizing. I suppose a lot of the obsession that went into making it was that I wanted it to be a worthy tribute to a man whose work I am very fond of, and I hope I succeeded.

Of the liberties I took with the song, the main one is that I made many of the keyboard parts into guitar parts. It's not that I lack confidence on keyboard (in fact, I'm much better on that than I am at guitar), but I thought it gave it a better of a rock feel. The video game qualities of the synths are still there (especially in the square lead voice, which I am rather fond of), but they exist more to complement the guitar than dominate the song.

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