The Mega Man Music Did NOT Need To Go THIS Hard
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Which Mega Man game has the BEST soundtrack in your opinion?? There is literally so much to go through it could be an entire channel on its own. What else do you want to see me break down?? ALSO, time is running out to grab the Intro to Piano course at 50% off, check it out! betterpiano.com/intro-to-piano
ALL OF THEM
Mega Man 2 is my favorite - almost FORTY YEARS later!
Mega Man 4 & 5 are hella underrated when it comes to their soundtracks. Def recommend
Mega Man and Bass! EASY!
@@w1nt3r_mut3true friend. very true.
Charles opened the Megaman box. No going back now
2 and 7.. and X.
@kendallcurtis7863 3 had bangers in it too, like the opening and ending being so good
@@SeanSMST I beat 3 right when it came out and then almost immediately forgot it. Then I played it 30 years later on Switch. SNAKES!
I've been waiting
Plot twist: Next Mega Man thing he'll cover is MM2 Wily Castle 1 and nothing else
Literally last night I was telling our son (who loves chiptune) that Megaman 2 was peak NES chiptune. Amazing soundtrack.
And Charles didn't even get to the Dr. Wiley's Castle theme in this video. That will definitely have to be a follow-up.
Can I recommend the brilliant cover of Dr Wily's tune by The Consouls - it's so good seeing it played on real instruments
Funny seeing you here lol. Great content btw
So you're really not just about bikes
I love your videos!!! I hate cars too!!!
One of my fave UA-camrs commenting on one of my other fave UA-camrs, awesome.
The fact that the people of the 80's, with the new technology of MIDI music, were able to use classical music and create a story with sound. With just a bunch of blings, bongs, plinks and plonks.
One of the largest frustrations old skool PC gamers had was the use of MPU-401MIDI on decent audio cards and in top tier games, but hardly anyone had the gear to use it. There are a few places on YT that have the properly emulated (with the real hardware!) versions of Wing Commander's music, and it sounds absolutely fantastic for coming out of that time.
Yeah man, I remember playing Megaman 3 and the intro music hit me like "oh shit, this isn't like Excitebike, this is a STORY." And then at the end when it takes Protoman's whistle, turns it into a whole song and it's this whole capstone on the original trilogy, so beautiful.
@@Salamandaa 3 was the first one I finished. That ending....
Thing is, these NES soundtracks didn't even use MIDI! These were songs produced through raw text programming, using sounds created through raw sound wave manipulation. It was equal parts creative work as it was technical.
When there was actual technical and artistic creativity in the industry and not just “MUCH TEXTURES, SUCH 48k”
Megaman III's intro theme is the first melody I remember working out on my father's keyboard. It would take years for me to study an instrument properly, but those themes are absolutely in my DNA as a musician! My appreciation of harmony is in part rooted in that era of videogame soundtracks.
Awesome!
_I am Megaman, I'm blue & cyan._
_The creation of Dr. Light, or Right if you are from Japan._
_(I eat all my Mega Bran!)_
- Brental Floss
Best intro in the series for sure! MM3 is my favorite OST
Mega Man 3 has the best intro and overall soundtrack of all the Mega Man games. Mega Man 2 is great and all, but 3 is god tier.
I love that Charles discussed this important about the Mega Man 2 theme. The opening part with the F sharp? That's the ENDING theme of Mega Man 1. That ending theme cuts to new score as the screen starts to rise and follows to the top of the building. So, the Mega Man 2 theme is, structurally, a bridge between the two games. That's something few people ever notice but a masterful construction of the composer.
Not like he mentions it near the end of the video or anything
@@VictorSilva-lj4wy Yeah, that's why I love that he mentioned it.
Yeah I noticed that as a kid actually. Maybe I was a teen by then but yeah I always thought that was super sick to do that. Then you start to notice it in other places, like how Tina/Terra's theme is in multiple parts of FF6. Neat stuff.
And so crazy how so many people never beat the first game to even realize that
@@daywalker3735 I was firmly in my 40s when I discovered it myself. Lucky to have experienced it not read it even in such a recent year. Save states, mwah.
One of the cool things about Mega Man music is that the composer for the original game deliberately gave its music a sort of sad, tragic sound to it--Mega Man wasn't supposed to be a fighting robot, he was forced to fight his brothers to save the city. They gave a lot of thought into the game's music.
To be fair, “forced” isn’t exactly the right word… it’s even more sad than that.
He wanted to make a difference and save innocent lives, and so he actually all but ordered his creator to modify him for heroism. He just… didn’t realize exactly what that entailed until it was too late.
Some of the robot masters are said to have been rescued and repaired and made good guys again, but others not so much… to say nothing of all the minion robots he has to fight. And he can’t just ignore them because half the time they’re trying to kill him anyway.
His name, Rockman, was because the entire bgm category was in the style of rock. It's why some of the character names goes with this like roll (rock n roll), bass, treble, etc.
The reason they couldn't use that name in the US was because there was a company named rockman so they had to make the switch but i still refer to the game and character as Rockman
@@ohdaUtube wow thanks for this info! I always referred to him as Rockman as a kid, as I got to play it on the "Family Game" console in Argentina. And never knew why it was called Megaman later. Go Rockman!
I thought the game soundtrack originally had a happier vibe, and the dev team was directed to redo the songs just to sound less "anime". Aside from the comics, which I understand are not canon, in what game does Mega Man ever show an inner conflict? I know he gets fed up with Wily, but it always seemed that the lament over all the fighting was more X's thing
@@ohdaUtubeCapcom never actually made the switch, nintendo did and that was way later than rockman on the nes.
You have to look at the Wily Castle theme from Mega Man 2. It's the opening level for the end-game, after you beat all the individual robot bosses. You're faced with this frightening, imposing castle full of traps and enemies with the final boss at the end. Instead of going dark and scary or punishing, the music just hits you in the feels so hard with this pulsing, Rocky-like montage music that makes you feel freaking invincible.
Growing up, the mega man 3 soundtrack hit so hard. I played that game over and over again just to jam out and never skipped the intro theme. So so good.
Yeah, in my opinion, Mega Man 2 has one of the best soundtracks of all time. These go so hard.
I couldn't even choose a favorite track from it. They're all great.
Mega Man 2 and Castlevania II both had really great music, and I loved both of those games.
Yoko Shimomura ❤ went on to compose for Kingdom Hearts among other things.
There are so many good soundtracks from the 8-bit and 16-bit generation. The composers had to do more with less. It really made for some tunes. The stuff is so iconic, they made an entire genre based around it (i.e. chiptunes).
ABSOLUTELY. Few game soundtracks are as memorable as Mega Man 2. Every single track is an absolute banger.
“We could go on and on about the music of Megaman”
Yes, please!
💯!!!!!
Megaman 2: Metal Man theme rocked ua-cam.com/video/uQXA9RkC_-c/v-deo.html
Flash Man stage as well ua-cam.com/video/26MopY4DTZU/v-deo.html
Electro Man from Megaman 3
Shivering and in tears the whole time. This franchise saved my life. And it has some of the best music ever made in human history. Thank you. Cheers from Brazil.
Needs a video for every stage in Mega man 2 to do proper justice to this masterpiece
When I was a young boy, we had a Nintendo. A good friend of mine at the time was lucky enough to have Mega Man 2. He was also kind enough to record all the level music onto cassette for me. I listened to that cassette quite often. Brian, if you're out there - thank you, man!
Thou art a warrior, and a master swordsman!
That slaps bro
Those were the days, I recorded video game music to cassette myself.
Whoa, I feel like I missed out on an amazing idea during my childhood 😆
@@savagedragnYou would ug in the audio in a sound system. And the output go thru a casette deck. I would record my favorite cartoons muaic/song on cassette and play them!
We used to double VHS and casette back then. Thats how i got the idea. My dad had a very good sound system.
My favorite Mega Man song is Storm Eagle Stage on Mega Man X. The counterpoint during the bridge is actually insane
You have great taste. Storm Eagle's stage music is an excellent track, outdone only by Spark Mandrill's stage. To quote the great Terminal Montage: "Woah. This song is really good."
I'd also like to give a nod to some gems from Mega Man X3's soundtrack for your consideration. My personal favorites are Toxic Seahorse and Zero's theme during the opening.
@@SouthernersSax I love both of those tracks. Only other Mega Man song that immediately pops in my head is Clown Man from Mega Man 8. I loved that stage as a kid and the track is very different than most of the other Mega Man songs.
I never noticed that counterpoint before, I knew that Storm Eagle was in a class of its own even amongst the best MMX-X3 songs but I always wondered why I loved it so much. It's a bit of a shame that the song is REALLY short.
Boomer Kuwanger tho 👀
Spark Mandril, stome Eagle Armored armadillo and Boomer Kuwanger are just gold
I remember as a kid loving mega man music. Also castlevania sticks in my head musically.
Now it's time to go listen to a few YMO albums and hear one of the major influences of megaman's music.
Fun fact: Mega Man 2 - Wily Fortress 1 theme DID go too hard and scared Charles away. :P
So many guitar shredding remixes of that one. It's a ripper
I was gonna say, Wily 1 is the easy favorite, just because it's iconic. Okkusenman and all that wild shit.
@kiwiklogg Yeah. Sixto Sounds' remix is my personal favorite, but there are lots of good ones.
To be fair, Skull Castle is that boss stage
Five minutes on the first two chords. Zero mention of the iconic songs the game is actually famous for. I'm reminded of his Streets of Rage 2 analysis, where he heard someone playing a FM synth with one finger, and thought it was a genius chord progression. It helps to use the instrument before trying to analyze it.
6:04 we did it guys, he played Snow Halation
LMAO I was wondering why that sounded so damn familiar
"I will never forgive the japaneeeeese!!!"
I hate you, take my like
lol forreal
This comment needs 10k likes, at minimum! 😂
The game was called Rockman in Japan because of it's rock inspired soundtrack. Suddenly it makes more sense that his sister is named Roll, his dog is named Rush, there is a bird named Beat and Protoman was called Blues (the precursor to rock music) in Japan. Lets not forget the Megaman Killer Robots, Enker (Enka), Punk and Ballade. There is also Treble and Bass (known as Gospel and Forte in Japan) and to top it all of there is a bird that Dr Wily created and named Reggae. So yes, the music really does have to go that hard, it's the backbone of the driving theme of the entire franchise.
Megaman 3's screen select theme is another kick ass track =)
Can't wait for Chrono Trigger/Cross music analysis
Hell yes.
i hope he does Frog's Theme. :D
I've never heard anything like the 12,000 BC / Land of magic theme.
And the Rick Roll... Erm...Robo theme.
Phantasy Star 2.
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Mega Man X is just Setsuo Yamamoto making love to a guitar.
That's the best way I've ever heard someone describe that masterful soundtrack! Bravo! 😂
I haven’t been able to stop listening to it lately, basically every song is a banger. The level themes are absolute earworms
Jon Baptiste rendition of Sonic The Hedgehog's Green Hill Zone is one of the most magical things I've ever heard. He also performed The Guile theme from Street Fighter in different eras of music when he hosted "Live From Here".
I was going to throw Mega Man X out but it looks like I'll be adding my like and comment here.
I feel like every early SNES soundtrack was written with tears of joy running down the composers' cheeks.
MMX's guitar, Link to the Past's sweeping strings and brass, and Super Mario's World's bouncy percussion would never have been possible on the NES.
I love how Quick Man's theme from Mega Man 2 is basically a double-speed bossa nova.
the MM2 intro is so beautiful. like listening to it on an NES when it was new you almost imagine the first parts of it building up as a piano playing, but then right when it hits the main theme its like it swaps to an electric guitar and just starts SHREDDING. its so damn good.
He could literally breakdown the music from each boss stage.
Mega man 3, Wily Castle 1 does this great “bass repeats every 4 measures while the lead pattern cycles over 6 measures” thing. The whole soundtrack is amazing
Mega Man 3 intro track is also pretty sweet.
Charles would go crazy over that one
Now I want to hear a full orchestra play this.
Dear Mr. Cornell, I stumbled upon your channel by accident and I almost instantly got emotional just thinking about the MegaMan 2 intro. It brought back so many memories. Thank you for this. If you find the time, please review the Wing Commander intro, make sure to listen to the Amiga version. IT was a beast of a sound machine back in the day. Be well, Sir.
Oh man, the Amiga was such an insanely good soundscape. The original Shadow of the Beast soundtrack, all the hacker demos, even the shareware game Drip's looping BG
And now that it's on piano you can actually hear it sounds like a classical piece.. VG music has had some of the best composers in history and most people never knew it
These composers likely played them on a keyboard only, so no wonder they would sound classical from a pianist composer lol
You should hear Kara Comparetto playing Big Blue
Until the title screen drops. Then it turns into rock clearly after the bVi-bVII-I
This is a nice comment, but it seems to imply that to be one of the best composers you need to make classical music, and that the reason VG music composers are considered great is because they're classical adjacent. I don't know if that what you mean but that's definitely not true.
Also the main part is definitely not classical sounding, it's full of b6 b7 1 and parallel fourths, which are rock tropes.
I see what yopu mean yeah, how Charles breaks it down shows how much thought goes into the music and what journey just listening to the music we go on. And most people thought it was probably somebody just hammering on a keyboard producing these "weird" sounds. Glad we are in 2024 still listening to and breaking down chiptune music so we can see it's actual brilliance.
10:09 - Goosebumps activated
Such a nostalgia trip, thanks for the ride!
A few days ago we started a discussion on our friends group about old video game musics and how they were so amazing, even with limited hardware resources. I immediately posted this intro music to illustrate that. To this day, it still gives me goose bumps.
The fakeout at 8:09 is the Royal Road chord progression. It appears quite frequently in Japanese music, especially in game and anime soundtracks.
Says a lot about his musical background being western, rather than hard focusing on eastern influence.
it appears in a lot of western music too, especially stuff written by Stock Aitken and Waterman! Never Gonna Give You Up is a variant, but Together Forever by Rick Astley uses the royal road prog perfectly
There's an internet rumour that the composer on Mega Man 2 was ashamed of his production. I wish he could see the pure joy you have studying it. :)
Imagine how great it would have to be for him to be proud.
Odds are that is an untrue rumor. I've heard plenty of internet rumors that are completely false.
Will Smith was ashamed of Wild Wild West and that was the best movie ever made. Full stop.
MegaMan 2 Wiley Stage 1 is one of the greatest video games tunes of all time and gets you so hyped
Hope he knows he is absolutely GOATED after this game. I've covered so many versions of Megaman 2 themes. It's too good
Great video! I never thought about the chord complexity that much, but it is really amazing when you explain it all.
The theme from Dr. Wily's stage in Megaman 2. Hands-down one of my favorite themes that screams "This is it, the final fight is almost here." So, so good.
Megaman Zero and Megaman X series have beautiful soundtracks and themes like Zero First Encounter, Zero Battle, Stages, Omega Fight, etc. Give them a try!
Bubble Man's theme from MM2 is my favorite.
Mine too! I used to watch my brother play it just so I could listen to the music.
Same! Such a great theme!
My ringtone for over a year now and when he warps is my message tone.
Thank you for this video! I had a smile on my face the entire time. Great to see people experiencing this excellent music from my childhood. The intro for Mega Man 3 is a must-experience, as well.
The first part of the Mega Man 2 intro music, right up to where it starts to pick up tempo, is the bittersweet/nostalgic intro music for the ENDING cut scene/credit sequence of Mega Man 1.
Edit: a fact with Charles goes on to mention later in the video '-.-
Lol I was about to comment the same thing haha
Came here and just posted this too. It's a masterful part of the score.
Keep in mind that 8 bit music like this was only capable of producing three tones at any one given time. Chords had to be 3 notes only
Unless you're Tim. In which case, the Solstices award limitless possibilities. 💪😎✌️
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That depends on hardware. The NES sound chip only had three voices (two square waves and a triangle), one channel for PCM samples (which had to be really small since the NES only has 2KB of RAM) and one noise channel. Those were static. The Commode SID chip only had 3 voices as well, but each voice could use one of 4 waveforms available and those could be changed mid song. Games like Commando and Monty on the Run would dynamically change these voices mid song and take advantage of masking to make it seem like there were more than 3 voices happening.
The workaround to get bigger chords was rapid arpeggiation.
highly inaccurate.
while 3 melodic channels was common on a lot of 8bit devices, some could produce many more. even the nes has 3 melodic chip sounds, but also a dpcm channel which was occasionally used for melodic sound (see the super c soundtrack).
additionally, the famicom (tho not the nes unfortunately) could be expanded with additional sound channels produced by chips in the game cart. the namco 163 was particularly crazy as it added EIGHT channels
This video made my day. Brought back so many amazing memories. Your narration and explanation brought my love and appreciation for everything Megaman especially the music which is every games heart and soulful. Thank you for this. More please! I have always been able to play the piano by ear. This makes me want to maybe finally take it seriously.
Thanks for breaking this down for me. I look forward to trying it out myself some day.
Megaman 2 was the first Megaman game I've ever played. The intro and Dr. Wily's Theme were the 2 songs that really stuck with me for the longest time and still to this day my favorite songs from Megaman 2
For me it was Woodman's Theme. I actually named that one "It Gets Harder From Here" I had my own lyrics and everything.
@@rdkap42That was one of the first video game themes I figured out by ear. Still love it! 🤘
I barelly understand anything you say about notes and harmony but I find it SO amusing to see your excitement that I keep coming back every new video
I have been playing piano since I was 6 in 1985. Some of the best music I've heard came from the NES.
Also, guitarists, bassists, vocalists, learning the keyboard will improve your playing. It's a whole world of piano, synths, organs, etc.
Hey I really like how when you saw the passing tone, you stopped, but then explained the music term for what was going on there, even though it's clear it wasn't part of the original plan for the video - super good stuff! I was slowing down the video and trying to play along with what you're doing.
At 8:30-9:00, it would be great if you add some indicator to what chord base you're playing, so we can follow what the progression was in that walkup.
Thanks so much for these great videos!
I'm super fond of MM3 soundtrack, particularly Snake man and Gemini man. it amazing how they could fit so many different genres of music on that 8bit board, but they did an amazing job.
Mega Man 3 is my favourite Mega Man game, and also has my favourite soundtrack. There's too many good tunes in that to easily pick a favourite, but the opening theme and Spark Man are really good.
That top man level tho
I am a music theory fan and a Mega Man fan. this covers both of my passions. I freaking love this video Charles!!!
Bubble Man's stage music was always my fave with a close second being the first wily castle outdoor stage
Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 sure have fantastic soundtracks.
Actually, all 6 NES games have awesome soundtracks. 🥰
The gems abound.There are orchestral, rockestral and dance remakes of multiple tracks from all three.
Way to tell us you haven’t played 4-6 bruh
@nickcliche I haven't, and 5 is quite expensive (although collections exist on Steam). Most people generally agree the first three are the best though (from what I've seen online).
I really like the first 5. I find 6 to be very bland
The Airman stage is my favorite song in MM2, but it has many other good one's too.
Great video. Thank you! I’d love to see a breakdown of the intro to Mega Man 3.
3:57 The bass chord is nicely steady while harmony notes give a beautiful, dramatic effect which is similar to a chord song Can You Read My Mind (Maureen McGovern).
The Mega Man 2 intro is probably one of if not the most iconic and recognizable Mega Man tunes, but right on their heels I would say is the Mega Man 3 intro and Proto Man's theme. Please do a video or two breaking down these two pieces also! I love video games like this that I grew up with, and I play and love music, so your videos are just so fun and awesome and wonderful to watch with these! Thank you so much for this content!!!
Bro NEEDS to get on the MMX soundtrack
MMX was bangertastic.
@@albertlevins9191boomer kuwanger-tastic 😅
Thank you for making this! My kids love the Mega Man music so much they have learned some stage themes on the keyboard haha
I just start discovering this chanell and I spend whole day watching it. I will start learning to play mario theme from your video in future :)
4:00 It's two fucking chords. But it's SO GODDAMN GOOD.
My music brain loves the content. My marketing brain loves the smooth flow into promos.
Just love it all.
BRO YOU DEFINED MY PASSION FOR MUSIC IN A SINGLE VIDEO!! Also! Zero's theme from X4 as well as Sigma Stage 2 from MMX 1!!!
About to view the video, finally recognition for this fantastic score. Always enjoyed the music, especially Cut Man's Stage.
I prefer Mega-Man 3's intro, but both are amazing tbh.
A soundtrack I have to wholeheartedly recommend has to be from the game Celeste. The OST, by the wonderful Lena Raine, does an incredibly good job at echoing the story of Madeline's quest to reach the summit and conquer her inner turmoil. You can almost track the entire story from the OST alone. There are some extremely notable tracks that I'd recommend taking a look at, both from story, and musical composition perspectives (spoilers for the game below):
- Resurrections: A mysterious, dream-like sound, where the game's main antagonist "Badeline" makes her appearance.
- Anxiety: Madeline and Theo escape on a cable car, and the player hears an somewhat-off version of the Level Complete jingle. Then, the cable car malfunctions and shudders to a halt, and the player is taken along into Madeline's panic attack by the overbearing pressure of this track that sounds like alarms going off. It finally releases to a muted, ringing version of the intro once Theo teaches her a technique to regain control.
- Quiet and Falling, followed by In The Mirror: The former track is just beautiful and full of wonder, while the latter track is oppressive and full of horror; a corrupted mirror image of the first. The reversed speech in the latter track is just... ouch.
- Reach for the Summit: After getting dragged off the mountain and sent even lower than she started by the literal personification of her self-doubt and anxiety, Madeline has come to terms with Badeline, and they start working WITH each other instead of AGAINST each other. This track is a reprisal of the entire journey through every area up the mountain with a new-found determination, with an adventurous, almost giddy backing behind Madeline and Badeline's major leitmotifs. Then, the track begins anew in the final sprint as the pair make it back to where they were and have the peak in sight. This track feels like the personification of "we can do this".
This is not to say AT ALL that these are the only important tracks in the OST, there are indeed MANY. However, these are the ones I'd recommend specifically.
I aint reading allat, sorry
@@akselgrdum9844tl;dr track recommendations + spoilers
so true i love celeste
@@akselgrdum9844I will never understand comments like these. Are you expecting a TLDR for your monkey brain?
Omg yes. I'd love Charles to do an analysis of some of the Celeste music. Especially the Summit level that revisits all the themes from each level as you finally make your last ditch effort to reach the top
In the sequence at 5:44, the surprise major II is also what makes the opening of Bach's Air in G so memorable!
Goes from sad to hopeful to ultimately triumphant! Beautiful music. Brings a tear to my eye.
5:55, very Dream Theatre like transition
i know that my soul will transcend
After creating chip-tunes using the original NES hardware for over a decade and a half I can all but guarantee that the composers at the time had to be doubly genius in order to not only compose but also program the music, and they made some of the most creative choices when composing because a) the limitation of only five monophonic channels forced their hand much of the time (only three with actual 'tones' while the other two were basically static and 1-bit sound samples) and b) the two primary channels (square leads) had a top and bottom limit that likely forced them to use these types of very creative chord progressions so they didn't end up below or above these limits on pitch. That's not to say that they haphazardly 'fell' into some of the most bangin' tunes of all time (nor is it to say they didn't), but that they leveraged the limitations to their best advantage. This is why I love chip-tunes - the limitations breed creativity and this is prominently showcased among OG NES game soundtracks.
Well said, it's what makes this music its own genre, and what keeps me interested in writing new authentic NES-style chiptunes as well.
It always cracks me up to know that composing music for early video games is more akin to filling an Excel spreadsheet than anything else lmfao
I imagine that the limitations push the creativity to awesome heights. I'm thinking of buying such a NES sound chip and hook it up to a raspberry pi
@@BboyKeny Now THAT is a project! I use peripherals to control my NES and Gameboy (DMG) using Midi CC's sent from...well, any DAW with programmable parameters, but personally, FL Studio is what I am most familiar with and is more than capable of manipulating a variety of external synth hardware, including vintage video game systems with the right peripherals.
@@DoctorOctoroc That sounds like a really cool setup! Noted down the programs to check them out, thanks!
Freaken finally, there are more then a dozen megaman songs you need to do now, please don't stop
somene went all out with this one! nice, now i want to come back to piano playing... after 20 years...
I appreciate you are going through so much video game music. I use it to help my kids with ear training, and your videos go along with that.
Mega Man 3 music slapped even more than MM2.. suggestion while on older game music.. the king of SNES soundtracks - Secret of Mana
Yeah 2 set the groundwork but gets way too much credit when 3 was the actual GOAT of NES music.
@@VindoViper agreed!! If you look at most of the remixes people have done over time, so many are from MM3
I agree! I loved 3 more than 2 music wise!
Spot on. With MM3 and with the Secret of Mana request.
This
That song is a ton of beautiful and thoughtful bridges strung together.
This series have so many banger after bangers, can't get enough of them
Holy crap, CC is doing a Megaman 1-3 track! And it's the Megaman 2 intro, _completely_ worthy. I always knew it took me on an emotional journey as a kid, and now the Master shows us why as he breaks it down and pulls out all the chord progression glory!
Crash Man was the first level of the first game I ever played on NES. Also, can confirm on how hard MM1 was. There was a trick to beating the first end game boss that I didn't know until I was in my 20s. I got to that point in the game approx a billion times in elementary/middle school.
Magnet Man from MM3
My favorite thing about your breakdowns is that you get maybe more excited about these nuanced musical details than I do!
Thanks! It was a pleasure!
My favourite is Crystal Snail - that alternating 6 & 7 in the opening motif is 🔥 (not to mention the Consouls randomly quoting it in as many solos as possible 😂)
It was my ringtone for a long time
3 seconds into the megaman2 intro music, I hit like and subscribe button.
I always go back to this intro and play it just cause. One of my favorite intro songs of all time
one of the best things I've watched in a short while. Thankyou.
The One Must Fall 2097 soundtrack (small dos-based pc fighting game, nobody remembers it lol) went way harder than it had any right to as well, the original composer ended up remastering some of the tracks for youtube almost a decade ago now, still in my personal playlist :D
Hell yeah! That one definitely goes HARD!
Loved that game as a kid. I still suck at fighting games though.
I played that one when I was a kid, I have no memory of the soundtrack though
@@smartbart015 Do yourself a favor and play the theme song on youtube, It's 🔥!!!
oh yeaah, this is an awesome OST to break down
So many gems on this soundtrack....Quick Man, Air Man, Crash Man, Wily Castle 1...
Crystal Snail too! (also has a great cover by The Consouls)
I've been waiting for like four years for you to open up the Mega Man jar. There is SO much there.
This analysis was great! Every time I hear someone breakdown these songs I learn something new.
Personal favorites are from Mega Man 3: Wily 3&4 theme is tops for me but so many other great tracks too. Opening theme, Proto man theme, Weapon GET theme, the super tense Wily Castle screen. And that's not even any of the robot stages. So much great music!
This was heaps of fun to watch, not just because you were musically dissecting a beloved childhood video game, but the sheer joy in listening to it, haha. Fantastic video!
Mega Man loves using the minor scale, and there are some tracks that sound almost melancholic. I definitely recommend the Dr Wily (stages 3 & 4) from Mega Man 3, and the Dr Wily stage music from Mega Man 6 for that melancholy (and we can't forget the Dr Wily theme from Mega Man 2!).
My dude, you can make more of these chip tune vids and I will watch every single second over and over. Love this stuff.
I love how you're having the same sense of delight that I had as a kid in the late 80s! (albeit, with much more of a musically informed take) I will forever love Megaman 2 the best for the entire of the soundtrack, and also the game itself. I played and completed it soooo many times
The part with the stacked fourths sounds like the theme of an 80s tv procedural drama when played on the piano.
Your channel is exactly what youtube was made for
the #5 diminished is actually very common in modern j-pop and I absolutely ADORE IT. One of my favorite sounds for sure aside from the chromatic minor chord walkdown - im glad it finally got covered in the video!!!!!
Modern jrock as well, you can hear it in songs from Lisa, Milet, Yoasobi, man with a mission, the list goes on. Man japanese composers are amazing!
You’ll never leave this series. Too many bangers. Every single game has one or two all time greats, without fail, without exception.
I've always loved megamans music since I was a kid. Your video stumbled onto my feed....YES!
The nostalgia hit hard with this one. In the more recent «Shovel Knight», I think some of the sound tracks were written by the same composer as Mega Man 2. They have a very similar sound profile, at least!
I was texting that until i read this message hahaha yes that OST needs more recognition too! slaps hard
I know 8Bit Music Theory already has a video on it, but I'd just like to see Charles' reaction to Surge of Power from Battle Network 6
The way the ending themes of the previous games segue into the next games intro theme is next level and genius!
Megaman 3, megaman x1, megaman zero 3 and 4... you MUST look at these