Soundtrack

The demo songs in the soundtrack style. Each is described below, with the features it uses; About Demos lists every demo.

• Shark Score: angry_shark.yml
• Eighties Synth Film Theme: four_wheels_g.yml
• Spooky Funk Film Theme: get_the_traps_egon.yml
• Symphonic Space Theme: not_star_trek.yml
• Analog-Synth Score: strange_woodworking.yml
• Boogie-Woogie Film Tune: very_large_mammals.yml

Shark Score: angry_shark.yml

An orchestral score in the manner of Jaws: two low notes a half step apart, slow at first and faster as the danger comes, the scenes ramping the tempo from 70 to 140 beats a minute and back, with a horn call of its own.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/angry_shark.yml · E minor · 70 BPM · 3:07 · 7 scenes · 6 tracks

ties	tempo changes
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Eighties Synth Film Theme: four_wheels_g.yml

A mid-eighties synth theme in the manner of Axel F, with a hook of its own: a staccato saw lead leaping octaves, a bouncing octave bass in sixteenths, chord stabs and bells.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/four_wheels_g.yml · F minor · 118 BPM · 2:59 · 8 scenes · 8 tracks

chords	chains	ties	progressions
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Spooky Funk Film Theme: get_the_traps_egon.yml

A mid-eighties funk-pop film theme in the manner of Ghostbusters, in G mixolydian, with a two-bar synth bass riff, stabs and a brass hook of its own, and a sci-fi wail for the ghosts.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/get_the_traps_egon.yml · G mixolydian · 116 BPM · 3:02 · 7 scenes · 7 tracks

chords	chains	ties	progressions
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Symphonic Space Theme: not_star_trek.yml

A majestic symphonic theme in the manner of the original Battlestar Galactica's late-seventies television theme, with a fanfare of its own: horns and trumpets over strings driving in triplets, brass chords, timpani and a march on the snare, the opening and the bridge rising from quiet to full by the scenes' Swell.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/not_star_trek.yml · D major · 106 BPM · 3:01 · 6 scenes · 8 tracks

chords	chains	ties	shapes	progressions
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Analog-Synth Score: strange_woodworking.yml

A dark synth score in the manner of Survive and John Carpenter: a held chord broken into a pulsing sixteenth-note sequence by an arpeggiator, a deep bass, a halo pad and a slow square lead, with a hat kept to a Euclidean rhythm by its track.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/strange_woodworking.yml · E minor · 100 BPM · 3:02 · 7 scenes · 6 tracks

chords	arps	chains	ties	progressions	euclid
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Boogie-Woogie Film Tune: very_large_mammals.yml

A boogie-woogie tune in the manner of Baby Elephant Walk, shuffled by a factory groove: a walking boogie bass through the twelve-bar blues, an organ, horn stabs on a dominant seventh and a calliope with a tune of its own.

examples/by_genre/soundtrack/very_large_mammals.yml · F major · 112 BPM · 3:00 · 7 scenes · 7 tracks

chords	chains	ties	grooves	progressions
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