DrumUltimA

I'll be playing a few tunes on this set too! My band DiscoCactus will also be playing, though we haven't been announced yet And I'll be performing with Super Smash Opera! Oh boyyyyyyy~

Hey man, this is awesome! Sounds really nice It's nice to see someone who actually knows how to handle an EWI--I know a lot of wind players who just kind of, uh, have them. And that's it. I do youtube stuff like this too, so let me know if you wanna collab sometime! Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7206KnnMYvI Edit: wait a minute did you just friend me on Facebook lol

Hey guys, In a crazy whirlwind of productivity, I put together this arrangement/music video in roughtly a 24-hour window lol. There's a link to the SoundCloud file in the video description if you want to download it. I hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7206KnnMYvI

YES YES YES YES. This is wonderful. Thank you guys!!! I love it. btw, to whom it may concern--I think for the songs remixed in this, "Hopes and Dreams" should be up there. As thematic of a soundtrack as this is, that track is followed almost 1:1 in the beginning of this mix!

Hey guys, I think I joined the club! So far I've just been streaming some games (currently FF8) with plenty of beer and goofiness. I'll probably stream music eventually as well! No real schedule, but I typically make posts on my social medias just before streaming. http://www.twitch.tv/drumultima

Oh, you asked for it. This is definitely one of my favorite aspects of the game--let's make a master list. Track by track, here we go! MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD OK I WARNED YOU 1. Once Upon a Time: Main theme of Undertale, can be split into three sections: 00:00 (theme A), :30 (theme , and 1:00 (theme C). Nice one, Toby. 2. Start menu: Theme A from Once Upon a time. Instrumentation fleshes out more depending on how many character's you've met/saved. 3. Your Best Friend: Flowey's theme. Title contains massive spoilers. 4. Fallen Down: Not much to say yet, other than it comes back later (like most of these). 5. Ruins: The melody of this is based on a recurring theme I have yet to figure out the identity of. Let's call it "Adventure Theme". 6. Uwa!! So Temperate♫: Joystick Config music. Changes depending on season. Not related to any other tracks other than the other seasons of the same theme. 7. Anticipation: Foundation of battle theme. When slowed down a lot, this is what is played at SPOILERS OMG SPOILERS: areas during the genocide run after killing everything 8. Unnecessary Tension: Perhaps one of the few tracks that doesn't come back later? But maybe it does... 9. Enemy Approaching: Primary battle theme. Believe it or not, this is the same melody as "Dogsong", "Temmie Village" and "Tem Shop". 10. Ghost Fight: First time hearing this music, which is always associated with the spookier characters--ghosts and spiders. Let's call this "ghost theme." 11. Determination: Determination theme. Heard in Asgore's battle theme as well. 12. Home: Themes A and B of "Once Upon a Time". Aww. 13. Home (Music Box): Who turned off the lights? 14. Heartache: Opening motif is Toriel's theme. It's heard in Asgore's theme--if you had any speculation about their relationship, this should clear it up. 15. sans. Sans's theme, which is also heard in the track "Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans", which I actually have yet to hear in the game itself. 16. Nyeh Heh Heh!: Papyrus' theme. Obviously also heard in Bonetrousle, as well as a bit in Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans. 17. Snowy: And thus begins the Snow area themes. This opening melody is new, but is brought back in bits and pieces in "Snowdin Town" and "Shop" 18. Uwa!! So Holiday♫: See the other one. Winter time! 19. Dogbass: Don't think you ever hear this again, though it's reminiscent of the ghost music. Hmm... 20. Another track that I don't think comes back. Hmm! 21. Dogsong: Yes, believe it or not, this is the melody from the Battle Theme. 22. Snowdin Town: First section of the track is more or less original, but similar in texture/contour to Snowy. Second section is a little more obviously from Snowy. I think the section around one minute in is the first you ever hear this material, but this comes back in Shop, and.... Hopes and Dreams. I think it's intended to be a variation on Theme B from Once Upon a Time. 23. Very similar to the music of Snowdin town. Opening melody similar in structure as opening of Snowdin, but not quite the same. Second section same sort of variation of Theme B from Once Upon a Time. 24. Bonetrousle: More Papyrus! 25. Dating Start!: Shop music, in an anime dating sim style. 26. Dating Tense: I don't think this has much connection with anything else... EXCEPT there is an accompaniment that comes in near the end which contains almost the correct pitch content to be Undyne's theme. Forshadowing? 27. Dating Fight!: Dating Start, but with some kick. 28. Premonition: Mostly ambiance I think. Can't place this progression anywhere else. 29. Danger Mystery. More ambiance. 30. Undyne: This six-note pattern is her theme. It comes back! Not sure about the melody that comes in though--I don't think I've heard that anywhere else. 31. Waterfall: Here's that "adventure" motif again! So the opening glock pattern will come back later too. But yeah, the melody that plays through this is basically the same as what plays in Ruins. 32. Run!: Piano motif made of Undyne's theme, which I guess makes sense because she plays piano. 33. Quiet Water: More "adventure" motif. 34. Memory. The first time we hear "His" theme. and SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS BY HIS THEME WE MEAN ASRIEL'S THEME 35. Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap: We haven't even met her yet, but this is Alphys' theme! What could it mean?! 36. Dummy! More ghost music, but a little more fleshed out than when we heard it in Napstablook's battle. 37. Pathetic House: Same melody as Dummy! and Ghost Fight, just really boring. 38/39. Spooktune and Spookwave: I guess kind of like the ghost fight music? Eh, I dunno. 40. Ghouliday. This is just jingle bells I can't make this stuff up 41. Chill: Not sure what this progression is from. 42. Thundersnail: Also don't think this really comes back ever. Toby said he apparently made the whole track out of one xylophone sample or something. 43. Temmie Village: Once again, melody is based on the battle theme. what the heck. 44. hOI! same as above 45. NGAHHH!!: Begins with Undyne's theme, which we know (just syncopated this time), and halfway through we get that adventure theme again! I think it's interesting that Undyne is the only character that gets this theme, which otherwise is associated to environments of the game. 46. Spear of Justice: Pretty much the same structure as above, just in a different key/orchestration. 47. Ooo. Oooooooooooooooo 48. Alphys: Another three-part theme! First part at :09, second at :32, and third at 1:01. I'll describe them in the same "a" "b" and "c" terms I was using before. 49. It's showtime! Good ol' Mettaton. He actually has a bunch of themes. This opening one is like, his show's theme more than his own personal theme. 50. Metal Crusher: I love this track. Mettaton's main battle theme. This one is also in two parts. 51. Another Medium: Opens up with the same motif as Waterfall, but then has (as far as I can tell) new melodic content. I think there are basically two themes in this track: the one played on the flutey-sounding patch, and the one at :52 52. Uwa!! So HEATS!!♫: Another one of these. Summer time! 53. Stronger Monsters: I never encountered this track in the game. I don't know! I don't hear anything that I can associate to anyone else. 54. Hotel: Theme A and B of "Once Upon a Time". 55. Can You Really Call This A Hotel, I Didn't Receive A Mint On My Pillow Or Anything: Hotel with a little more spice! 56. Confession: Those monsters really are in love. Theme B of Once Upon a Time. 57. Live Report: Mettaton's "show" theme, again. 58. Death Report: Live Report, but awesome. Same "show" theme, but then there's another theme at :25. What is it? Reminds me of Undyne.. 59. Spider Dance: More ghost music! 60. Wrong Enemy?!: Music of the Fan Troll. I'm pretty sure there are zero relatable themes in this one. 61. Oh! One True Love: Toby's making fun of FF6. The windowed screen says "Undertale: the Musical" during this. This is a new melody, but comes back. 62. Oh! Dungeon: Same melody as One True Love 63. It's Raining Somewhere Else: I guess this is Sans' theme, even though I think it sounds like Toriel. I guess they're similar? So sneaky. 64. Core Approach: just the hotel music 65. CORE: This opening motif comes back in the battle you're about to have with Mettaton. Then we get a nice dose of Another Medium, and both of it's themes. 66. Last Episode! Recognize this from Mettaton's battle music? 67. Oh My... Comes from Core and Death from Glamour. 68. Death by Glamour: we've heard this opening motif a few times now, thanks for getting us ready Toby. Halfway through we get one of our motif's from Metal Crusher, and then we get the "show" theme! God, this is a good track. 69. For the Fans: "Oh! One True Love" 70. Long Elevator: come on toby 71. Undertale. It's the title track of the album! You get to hear the story of Asriel, which is why his theme is playing the whole time. You also get Themes A and B from Once Upon a Time, as usual. 72. Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans: I have yet to actually hear this in the game. So the melody is based on "sans.", and then we get some Papyrus in there as well, near the end of the track. 73. The Choice: Very ambient, but the harmony is largely based on the harmony from Undertale 74. Small shock: More harmony from Undertale. 75. Barrier: once again, come on toby 76. Bergentrückung: A German literary archetype describing the trope of a human mysteriously vanishing from the human world. Also basically Asgore's theme. 77. ASGORE. So we get Bergentrückung, and then we get Toriel's theme (and both parts of it!). Then we get "Determination". EDIT: ENDS WITH UNDYNE WHAT 78. You Idiot: Very ambient, but the notes of Omega Flowey's theme. 79. Your Best Nightmare. Man, what an incredible track. This six note motif is Omega Flowey's theme. Then, we get six variations on "Your Best Friend" (aka normal Flowey's theme) scattered throughout the track. One for each of the human souls that Omega Flowey has absorbed. 80. Finale: Flowey's theme with an awesome reharmonization. Now, you have no idea about this aspect of Flowey's character yet, but Asriel's theme comes in at :40. Come on Toby, those are some serious aural spoilers! 81. An Ending: Ruins music, then leading to the track that is basically "respite" (which comes later), which is that adventure theme. Hey, maybe we should call that theme "respite". 82. She's Playing Piano: What you hear Undyne playing in her house when you go to hang out with her. Guess what! It's part C of Alphys' theme! 83. Here We Are: Welcome to Alphys' True lab. Which is why this is just Alphys' theme--Theme A. You get the rhythm of theme C near the end. 84. Amalgam: Holy god this track is AWESOME. Don't know where the melodic material comes from. 85. Fallen Down (Reprise): There's Fallen Down again, but it's been extended! Now we get themes A, B, and C from Once Upon a Time. 86. Don't Give Up: Adventure theme (or respite or whatever). 87. Hopes and Dreams: Ah! My favorite track. Beautiful variation on Theme A from Once Upon a time in the beginning, and then most of the melody is actually based on Theme C from Once Upon a Time. We also get snippet's of Flowey's theme in the background, which is great now that we know how they're related. You also get that variation of Theme B from Once Upon a Time, which sounds more like Snowdin/Shop theme than anything else. Same with the end of this track--this is from Shop. 88. Burn in Despair: Based on those six notes from Omega Flowey. Scary. 89. SAVE the World: Once Upon a Time paired up with Flowey's theme. Pretty cool! Then we get more of Theme C from Once Upon a Time, with Flowey's theme returning to haunt the background again. 90. His Theme. Yes, Asriel's theme. Get your tissue box out, because you're going to cry a lot. (I cried a lot). I think it's the 1-5-9 motion in the left hand of the piano that really does me in. 91. Final Power: This is just some of Hopes and Dreams reversed and slowed down slightly 92. Ah, nostalgic music. This is a pretty long track, but you get all three parts of Once Upon a Time, as well as that variation from the Shop theme./Snowdin village. 93. Menu (Full): the full orchestration! You did it! 94. Respite: Epilogue music. That "adventure" theme we heard a lot. 95. Bring it in Guys: awesome credits music. Enemy Approaching, Nyeh Heh Heh/sans., Snowdin Town, Once Upon a Time, Undyne, adventure theme, Death by Glamour, CORE, Bergentrückung, Fallen down, Once Upon a Time. 96. Last Goodbye: More of some Hopes and Dreams/SAVE the World style music, mostly working with Themes B and C from Once Upon a Time. The end of this is awesome. Finishes out with Theme A from Once Upon a Time. 97. But the Earth Refused to Die: Heard just before fighting Undyne the Undying. Variation on that "adventure" theme. 98. Battle against a true hero: Theme reserved for special boss battles in the genocide run. That opening theme comes back later. We get that adventure theme again! 99. Power of NEO. Same motif from the last track. This one is pretty short, because it doesn't last long. 100. MEGALOVANIA: This is a track from Homestuck, apparently. No other themes from the game in here, as far as I know. 101. Good Night. Good night, goatmom. Once Upon a Time again. Whew I can't believe I did all that! Have fun!

OA you listened to the soundtrack before playing the game?! So many spoilers!

I love this game a lot. It's gotten further under my skin than any other game I've ever played. I'm going to be doing a LOT of arranging of this music. The composition of the soundtrack is incredibly tight--every character has a distinct theme, and the themes are woven together so carefully that they actually contain spoilers about the relationship of various characters. My brief cover of the Shop theme is my most popular sound on SoundCloud somehow. Therefore, I'm going to link it's less popular sibling, the YouTube video of the same recording:

Hey everybody! A new album that I contributed to was released today. It also includes some other OC remixers, such as Wilbert "bustatunez" Roget II, Laura "Flute Link" Intravia, Haroon "FFMusicDJ" Piracha, Jordan "bLiNd" Aguirre, and more! I'm extremely lazy so I'll just post the link to the loudr page: https://loudr.fm/release/materia-final-fantasy-vii-remixed/VxYsz Yay!

I thought I responded to this but I guess I didn't! I'm beginning my second year out of school this fall. I'm currently working as an adjunct professor of percussion at one of the CT state universities, and actively freelancing as a percussionist. I actively perform with a number of ensembles--a mixed instrumental-vocal chamber ensemble called Cantata Profana, my jazz/new music group Triplepoint Trio, and of course, my video game band DiscoCactus. Most recently, I've been performing a lot with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of a Goddess as their principal percussionist in the northeast/mid-atlantic region. I'm also freelancing as a recording artist--I've had a few more video game gigs since I performed on Wil Roget's score to Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. This summer, I threw myself head-first into a number of different arrangement album projects--all of which I'm excited for. Keep your eyes on Harmony of a Champion, Materia Collective, OC Jazz Collective, and many others!

Thanks so much, man!!! That really means a lot to me. We are talking about an EP... I'll keep you all posted!

Hey guys, Hope making this post is kosher--I wanted to invite anyone who is going to be at MagClassic this year to come hear me perform! My on-again, off-again VGM band Discocactus was invited to play this year, and we'll be performing on Saturday, 9/12 at 7 PM. This is my first time performing at a video game convention, so I'm super excited! It's going to be a lot of fun. If you're going to be there, please join us at 7! Then, once we're done, run off to OCR's How to Remix panel!

no. no they're not chili dogs ebcause they repele sonfgic and we sk now that's wnot whtat schillit dogso asodo!!!!!!!!!

Do you guys know what time yet? I'm performing Saturday night! I hope it doesn't conflict (but it shouldn't, right?)

I guess if anyone has space in their room for me and all of my friends let me know

I'm gonna go... but they're out of rooms! Dammit! I'm super bummed

I am having a lot of fun with Splatoon! I'm DrumUltimA, of course. Play with me!

I love how you can "like" posts in this new forum system

For me, things came about as I needed to learn them. Honestly, it may help to put yourself in uncomfortable situations. For example: while in school (studying percussion), we were playing a piece where I needed to learn a very difficult steel drum part. Now, steel drums are technically percussion, but the technique and note layout of the instruments are completely different than anything I've ever done before. Normally I would say "no, I don't play those", but in this situation, I actually HAD to--so I busted my ass to meet the deadline of the performance. The result? I play steel pans now! As a kid, I took piano and drum lessons at the same time, but stopped studying piano when percussion became more important. I think I should also emphasize that those few years of piano lessons, which I haven't studied in a long time, really stayed with me. Don't worry about studying everything a ton--focus on what you enjoy the most, and work on the other things when you have time. Learning an instrument takes a long time, but it's a gradual process with a lot of cross-pollination. You never know what opportunities will arise that will allow you to continue to hone those skills.

well, too bad my jazz trio is like completely separated this month

Why get an orchestral percussion library when I can just record it all for you!

Spent nine years studying percussion in college and grad school. Only marching experience I ever had was playing drums at Six Flags New England one summer, walking down the center of the park at 3 o'clock every day. It was fun.

WOW. I can't believe it reached it's highest stretch goal (1,000,000 pounds) within a day! I'm really excited for this. Also, I REALLY want to find a way to record for this game. As you can see from the following tweet: https://twitter.com/ocremix/status/594205870583578624

Why does it say "POOOP" at the top of every thread?

Hey guys, I just finished a new YouTube video--it's an arrangement of Dragon Roost Island inspired by Tetrimino's arrangement of the same tune. Check it out!