Why Animal Crossing Music Sounds Nostalgic 

Yeahhh I'm a bit disappointed too when I didn't see new leaf on the timestamp 😥 But hey...maybe it is for another video?

The new leaf 7am track though

Funnily enough, New Leaf has my favorite OST of the entire franchise, but its title screen is my least favorite... 😅

I would love to see a full video on new leafs soundtrack. Especially the more bittersweet nighttime tunes like 7pm and 1am

New Leaf doesn't attempt to evoke the same kind of feeling that WW and Population Growing! manage to achieve. PG and WW feel more like you are a child, or coming back to your hometown after a long time away where everyone just kinda knows you. City Folk is where the change started towards becoming a bit more metropolitan, the instrumentation especially is more modern and focused around motifs, which works for the game as it's not about being cozy at home with your neighbors but is instead more of a city building and planning game.

oooh I hope he does a video about this, the starting town themes and what they have in common! Unless he's done it before, I don't know but I love how the starting themes sound so cozy and kind of bittersweet that you're leaving but it's still home.

​@@DogOnAKeyboardI believe he has one on pallet town.

A lot of vgm (historically) is just parts taken from full songs and arranged differently

I know, I couldn't tell you just how excited I get when I open up discord and see a notification next to the 8-bit server. it's crazy.

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@@benjamindover8221 it was still popularized by maximillian

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me too, i havent played in like a year

Ikr 😂

7pm is also a great one.

@@dizzynarutofan100 ohhh yeah absolutely agree

I don't even know where to begin learning all of this theory. I want to start somewhere but it seems very daunting and overwhelming.

You might be onto something, based on his transcription E natural isn't in any of the chords or melody. I do feel like if you were soloing over these changes an E natural would sound better over the first 3 chords at the start of the song but that's obviously subjective

Songs are written in either a major or minor key, that's what you put next to the clef. When soloing over the progression, thinking in F mixolydian might make sense, but on the trascription it would mean that you have to indicate a Bb key on the clef, or its relative minor. The simplest thing a musician would assume by looking at this is that Bb is the home chord, but it clearly is not. In my opinion this is counter-intuitive. It's much easier to indicate F major and let the musician understand that the scale of F myxolidian can be used, since that E is flattened every time. This is a much broader topic. Let's make the example of the most used mode after the trivial ionian and aeolian: dorian. The most common dorian progression is vi - II. Have you noticed that everyone writes it as vi - II? Say we are in A dorian: if one were to follow your approach, you wouldn't write it like this, since you wouldn't indicate a key of Am on the clef, but rather a key of Em. Then the progression would become ii - V. They are both equally valid - the latter doesn't have non-diatonic chords while the first has the II instead of the ii. In my opinion, vi - II makes more sense for two reasons: "home" is indicated very clearly as A minor (which is correct); and the non-diatonic II would act as a signal, like "uh-oh, this is no ordinary Am". In fact, the natural flavour of II is to give that dorian vibe. Let me know what you think.

Definitely

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Idk how to define nostalgic but when i played the original way back in 2001, i remember finding the music very comforting and homey

Nostalgic isn’t exactly the word I would’ve used at the time but the Wild World/City Folk theme always stirred a unique feeling in me from the first time I heard it

Good question. For me it's the latter, I played the original as a kid in 2003. So it's nostalgic for me in that sense.

Oh I'm coming at you alright. With a hug because I agree. But that's mostly nostalgia talking.

dunno, sounds pretty sus to me

Sounds normal to me. I think he probably knows the word borrow it's not exactly uncommon

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@@partylikeits1066 He says it how it's spelled, like bore. I remember there were a few years when I started saying the first syllable of "buried" the same as "burrow" because they're spelled the same and thought I had been mispronouncing it. Only after a few years did I look it up and realize my original pronunciation was correct. I figure something similar is going on here.

@@stevenjones8575 he's Canadian, the way he says it is the standard pronunciation of borrow in Canada. Think about the stereotypical Canadian way of saying "sore-y" for sorry, it's the same as that, there's nothing "incorrect" about it

@@Calyylac That makes sense. Didn't know he was Canadian. Thanks.

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