How to Make Your Own Video Game Music

How To Make Your Own Video Game Music

Links to Songs:

Main Theme:

Cave Water Level:

Mario Water Level:

Boss Battle Theme:

Hey Guys! Here is my beginners guide to making Video Game Music. A lot of the concepts here are super simple to understand and easy to figure out, and my hope is that you will use this to start your music making journey. Don't give up, music making is hard but with enough time and dedication, you can do this. Some references I used are Zelda, Minecraft, Celeste, Dead Cells, Skyrim, God of War, and a ton more. I hope you enjoy this tutorial, it took me over 18 hours to create and honestly I am pretty proud of it. Don't forget to like the video and subscribe, it's much appreciated!

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro

0:30 Important Things to Know

1:36 Let's Get Started

2:36 Main Theme and Basic Chord Concepts

8:20 Dungeon Theme and Instruments

11:12 Boss Theme and Transitions/Composition

13:05 Full Boss Battle Theme

[jasonhaug]

Dude the fact that this was after two months of making music is incredible. The chords progressions are complicated, but you create them in a way that makes it look easy. Seems like a natural gift that you have. Keep it up man, thanks for the video

[taten]

If only, my talents are in other fields. Something about music just doesn’t click in my brain like traditional arts. It’s always very impressive to me to see good lyricists and musicians.

[AdamDeVoix]

I just finished the Main Theme section and oh my gosh, has this been so helpful! As someone who's been intimidated by composing my own music, I feel super thankful I found this video! You broke it down into easily understandable components and I created a piece of music I ended up being super proud of!

[hollyfindlay]

Damn, we write boss themes totally differently. I really go hard in the more metal and funk directions, where as your was super chill and grand feeling.

[KingDiamondzTTV]

Apox is Soo gifted ✨🔥 I still come a year later to just vibe out to his boss theme he made 😂

[AndrewPate]

Thank you so much for making this video, this video is what keeps me making music whenever I think about quitting music I just re watch this video and it gives me the inspiration to make more music and to keep going thanks.

[ErinYousling]

That boss theme was amazing though seriously lets give this man some appreciation ❤

[musicbarber]

It’s been 10 months and I know you a Beast now 🔥

[ezrancool]

Thank you for this, I have been working on an indie game with my friends and this helped me make some bangers.

[DriesW]

Ive been playing the piano for a couple years now so this is pretty easy for me to detect if the music feels good

[tzimisce]

This was a perfect introduction. Thanks so much for the video, you're awesome!

[PieYT]

This is amazing!!
Your videos are great, so I'm sure it won't be long before you reach 10k
Thanks for the guide, this video was actually really useful

[unknownjf]

About the say in the opening, its really ok because people love most of koji kondo (a nintendo composer) songs, but looking a bit you can realise that he made this a lot (the most famous example is overworld 2 from super mario world)

[lazdiot]

Thanks for this video. As an amateur composer, I am gonna improve myself with it. So far I posted two of my compositions in my channel, one of them is a character theme, and the other an area theme. Would like to develop a game and make soundtracks for it.

[mino]

From what I have seen you will grow big if you keep this incredibel level of content and maybe sometimes use a topic that is a bit more mainstream but stil thank you

[jbgamezofficial]

Thanks for inspiring me to work on a solo project; I’m excited to make this now! Much love. <3

[mike]

More please ! WOW!!!! Amazing vid. My favorate game music : ninja gaiden (nes), chrono trigger, saga frontier, ninja turtle games ( 90s), and FF 7. Secret of mana.
Working on building my " genre" templates so i can jump in whatever type of game or song .

[swalscha]

Love it, thanks!

If you want to continue on this topic I personnaly would be interested in a video about how to varying music theme and use Leitmotiv to emphasize a character apparition/moment.

[norp]

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[absolutezero]

My first song was insane. I haven't been able to achieve anything on that level yet but I'm trying so hard. Thanks for the help