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That is some tasty, smooth as hell jazz! Any opportunity to make a song chill and fun at the same time is worth it, and this fits! Awesome mix!

This is simultaneously the best cover & the cleverest mix title of any Tetris song ever ?

Nothing like an anniversary round to bring some old skool remixers out the of the woodwork. Been a long time since I've tried my hand at anything game-related, I'll see if I can get something put together!

I do it all by ear, and honestly a lot of my "interpretation" just comes from being sloppy in this process. As long as it's recognizable, I don't really worry about whether I've got all the exact same notes and chords as the original. That's a lot of the fun of arrangement anyway: those moments where you go "that doesn't sound quite like the original..... but actually, I kind of like it, so let's roll with it" As for how to come up with arrangement ideas, every mix I do starts out as a rhythm guitar part. I figure out some chords that sound close enough, then mess around with it. Try it faster, try it slower, try it with swing, try it in a different time signature, try messing around with the chords and see if I can still hum the melody over them, try switching everything to minor if it was major and major if it was minor, etc. Then once I find a style I like, I build back up from there.

Hi there, first of all: Thank you very much for all of your help in this short time! Astonishing. A little information about me: I do had piano lessons and play it since a very long time. I started to make music with Software like Cool Edit '95, Dance Machine, Cubase and ended up the first time in Impulse Tracker under DOS. Later I switched to Fruity Loops, which is now known as FL Studio, so I am also familiar with this software. My actual DAW is Ableton Live which is, in my opinion, the best DAW for me. MIDI-Files are not unknown to me, since I tried to write some in Guitar Pro years ago and also in Cubase. So I am familiar with different kinds of music and types of arranging them. My goal in first place is, to remix songs I like (from videogames like SNES, GB, Genesis and so on) to get better knowledge of song structures and builds, so that I am able to use it in my own music. I try to sum up the things posted below my question: If you want to Remix a track, there are different methods: - It is possible to look for MIDI-Files, which already have every track you need (but not every OST Track is transcribed correctly) (I already tried a rebuild of the Ending Part of Super Mario Land, the intro of Fortress of Fear and the Moon Theme from Duck Tales by simply using MIDI-Files and edit them) - Better ideas are to do the transcription by ear (which I do have to develop over time, since I think that I am not good at it) - It can be helpful to get the chord progression, because most melodies are going round the actual chord - It is also a good idea to get the main melody by ear (for this it is helpful to slow down the audio, if you have it). In this case, it can be very cool to develop own chord progressions and bass lines - When it comes to structure, you may think out of the box, which means, Part A in the original hasn't to be Part A in the Remix (which is, in my opinion a very creative idea) I hope, that I didn't forget anything and reconstruct it correctly. My actual project, which was a suggestion by a friend of mine is: Trunks Theme from the SNES games Dragon Ball Z - Super Butoden 2 I try to keep you informed about how I am doing, if you are interested in. But then, I will post maybe on the Discord Channel or the Workshop Forum on this page.

Oh damn this might be my new favorite remix

I actually do it a little different from what's been shared here. I tend to start by trying to figure out the bass (the root notes at least) and from there get the chord progression and key of the song. In my opinion, you get a lot of useful information from a song from just this. Melody is important of course, but a ton of VGM songs tend to play around the chord notes so, once you know the chords, the melody comes easy. When it comes to actually writing a remix, I tend to learn the song and then just sit down and improvise. It helps if you have a predefined idea, like, "make a metal cover", but usually just playing around with the melodies and chords is enough to trigger some inspiration.