How to compose music for games

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time. We're

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talking Legend of Zelda: World of

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Warcraft Diablo 3, so we're not messing

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around here. and she's going to tell us

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the secret of how to compose really

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great game music.

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>> First of all, we immerse ourselves in

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the world because if you live there,

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you're going to make it sound right.

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>> A really good example is World of

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Warcraft. Look around. Who do you see?

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What instruments do they play?

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There's the the bones, which is an Irish

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percussion instrument. They have that

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clackity clack.

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Then there's the Hebrew chauffear, which

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is a call to battle. It's a ram's horn.

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And when I was recording the high

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priestess, every singer I brought in

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sounded too nice. So I recorded myself.

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She goes

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and the trumpets have this really really

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dissonant. It's almost sounds like uh

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they're firing shots in the in the

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notes.