Same Melody in 26 Different Genres

Andrew Huang and Dave from Boyinaband already did a few videos like this one, and I wanted to challenge myself by making one as well, but I wanted to go at it in a sort of a different way.

Instead of doing something alphabetically, I decided to just take one melodic motif (or motive) and see how easily it could fit into all these different genres of music. Now, these genres are very broad. We could talk subgenres and styles until the end of time, so I had to keep them fairly obvious. Nothing too niche.

Because of the nature of this video, I'll be delving into "how to" develop the ability to orchestrate your music into a specific genre with several other videos. Hopefully those can be useful to those of you who follow me for tutorial videos.

I also kinda wanted a new demo reel for composition with better production quality and a bit of humor to keep it from being super dry.

Point is: if you'd like to hire me for composition work, I'm ready to go! Especially for anything with a very specific mood or atmosphere.

Here are the genres:

"Epic" Trailer Music
Chant
Renaissance Lute
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Ragtime
Delta Blues
1920's Cartoon Jazz (a variety of old jazz that makes me laugh)
1950's Bubblegum Pop Ballad
1960's Motown
Psychedelic Rock
20th Century Concert Music (much like Ligeti, whom I love)
Disco
Classic Rock (kinda like Boston)
Italo Disco (my guiltiest pleasure)
80's Horror (much like John Carpenter movies or even Stranger Things)
New Jack Swing
16-Bit Video Game (influenced heavily by my constant playing of my Sega Genesis, Megadrive in the rest of the world)
New Age (my wife used to listen to a lot of Enya)
Eurodance (another guilty pleasure)
2000's Rap (blatant Dre 2001 era beat)
Metal (with all the sub genres, what even is metal anymore?)
Ambient Horror (I love Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks)
Dubstep (of the American brostep variety)
Soft Beach Music (the Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz stuff that's still really popular around the Pacific Ocean here)

[prodphonix]

I think YouTube thought it was time, got this thing recommended and I bet a bunch of others are experiencing the same

[abeautifulwhitelie]

i feel like i’m watching a show where they write the main character’s theme into every song on the soundtrack to be played at key moments

[reamanalang]

I still dont have an idea how to distinguish what genre a song is by listening to it nor i dont even know whatspecifically makes up a music for it ti be qualified as any of the genres but this video is great and i can tell exactly that much hardwork is put onto this.

[Nytrus]

this so underrated yet so much effort and talent are seen here deym

[Randomnations]

YouTube algorithm, maybe now is the time you should recommend this gem to everyone

[TheMaximus]

Is interesting how a same tune doesn't sound the same at all in different forms of music.

[StarFlunkey]

Like no joke, this is some musical talent, I study music and by goodness you took easy cliches and made them obvious well having fun. I don’t think people realize how different styles of music have so much to learn. Kudos to your work!

[huesername]

Now if I could only subscribe in 26 different ways...

[yomnaelgerzawy]

I really like the directing and how u changed fonts accordingly! This took so much effort honestly so proud

[NotRightMusic]

I was entertained in 27 different ways!

[NathanPriviated]

the editing from 6 years ago (as of 10/13/2024) is just a banger

[grompz]

Before YouTube algorithm take place, i wanna say hi to those actually found this by search.

[OMIMmusic]

What amazes me is that you seem to have a fitting t-shirt for each genre

[RuthRobbins-ob]

I teach middle school music, and this is great for the kids, who unfortunately are growing up in a music drought. You did a great job without words!

[broncoxy]

this feels like these main themes of a character whose leitmotif carries him through the most random places and situations, always to be adapted in the music... great job!

[existentialchaos]

That dubstep buildup and the way you only revealed the genre at the drop was very creative.

[ct]

One of the best music related videos on youtube

[CodyCleggMusic]

I can tell you worked really hard putting this together. Great video man!

[bijikedelai]

The hand veins really add the atmosphere on chant genre

[alexchong]

Such high effort video yet so underrated! Not only did you made various different genres for the same melody, you performed and even added special effects to the video like black and white for ragtime and pixelated for 16 bit. Great video!