You Will Know Our Names (Xenoblade Chronicles) Jazz Fusion Arrangement

Also known as the "Oh crap, I've been spotted by Rotbart" song.

Finally getting around to doing some more Xenoblade on the channel! This was planned well before Pyra and Mythra got into Smash (rest assured, I have some stuff planned from XC2 as well..), but it turned out to be somewhat of a nice coincidence! I played XC2 first, and actually picked it up on a whim, when I was in need of a long RPG game for some travel I was doing a few years ago. Somehow, it became my favorite RPG, and possibly my favorite game of all time! I then picked up Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition when it came out on the Switch in 2020, and absolutely loved that as well. I'm a bit more partial to XC2 over XC1, but just by a bit!

You Will Know Our Names is one of many many great battle themes in Xenoblade Chronicles, but it probably has my favorite melody out of all of them! Ever since hearing this song in game, my thought was to take it in a Japanese jazz fusion direction, inspired by some of my favorite bands like H Zettrio and Fox Capture Plan, and bring out the intensity of the theme using acoustic instruments! The original track uses a lot of distorted guitar to drive things forward after the intro, so I had to figure out how to translate some of the guitar riffing to piano. It ended up working surprisingly well! The melodic parts, primarily played on horn and trumpet in the original track, translated pretty well to alto and tenor sax. I actually recently got a soprano sax (after filming this video, probably would have used the soprano instead of alto here), and I'm looking forward to giving that a whirl on some tunes!

One other small addition is the snare drum I'm using - I picked up a Yamaha Recording Custom steel 5.5" x 14" snare drum, and I loooove playing it! It has such a nice attack and volume. Still definitely working on my drum technique, haha, but I'm happy with the progression here.

Hope you enjoy this! As I mentioned earlier in this little writeup, I do have some XC2 stuff planned, and you'll see it when it's ready :)

♫ "You Will Know Our Names" from "Xenoblade Chronicles" composed by ACE+
Mix by @JuliaHenderson

SOCIAL MEDIA:

[AlexMoukalaMusic]

Ah yes, Immovable Carlos.
The minion of the true last boss, "Looker, the Divine"

[VanessaVersus]

Immovable Carlos has some terrifying energy

[FamilyJulesX]

The prechorus now sounds like Shulk is trying to seduce me with a Xenoblade/Careless Whisper crossover

[SkywardSquittle]

*Engages Immovable Carlos*
Reyn: “ARE WE INSANE!?” (intherain)

Haha, love the camera angles as well.

[iidiot]

Shulk - THE FUTURE IS OURS TO DECIDE
Immovable Carlos - How about no ._.

[TruExtentChannel]

insaneinthereynmusic

"Man, what a buncha jokers."

[eliascavanagh]

My therapist: Immovable Carlos isn’t real. He can’t hurt you.

Immovable Carlos: 1:03

[insaneintherainmusic]

Audio glitch has been fixed! That SYOS alto mouthpiece you see is no signature, just one of the several test models that SYOS sent me! Still figuring out what I’m looking for in an alto mouthpiece.

[downtownelijahbrown]

0:18 "Lv. 251" very clever Carlos

[LetsPlayFree]

The best side effect of a smash release:
Carlos makes another masterpiece

[rhiannonbamford]

Fun fact: There really is an enemy named Immovable Heir Carlos! It's found at level 150 in Xenoblade 2's Challenge Mode and it is very not fun to fight!
Loving the Zohar shirt btw

[VideoFeverShow]

The moving camera adds a great visual energy that you rarely see in these kinds of videos. Overhead piano cam doesn’t hurt either.

[ChristopherMoom]

Does "You Will Know Our Names" refer to the multiple Carloses in the video that are playing the song

Jokes aside I loved this arrangement, especially moments like 4:48, the real reason Immovable Carlos is immovable is because he's too busy jamming out to this song

[Insaniot]

mfw Immovable Carlos starts to move

*mfw* *he* *activates* *his* *jazz* *art*

[izzhaus]

I see you sneaking “Engage the Enemy” in there and ᶦ ‘ ᵐ ʳ ᵉ ᵃ ˡ ˡ ʸ ᶠ ᵉ ᵉ ˡ ᶦ ⁿ ᵍ ᶦ ᵗ

[lucasosborne]

It’s nice to hear this song normally without hearingBACKSLASHSTILTEDGE HEALBULLETGIVEMESOMESPACE ELECTRICGUTBUSTER

[Gusildirim]

The title say that we will know their names. And their names are Abnormal Clone Barg, Active Impulso, Affluent Beleth, Aged Leraje, Aggressive Cornelius, Ageless Moabit, Agile Albatross, Agile Barbados, Amber Fischer, Amorous Arca, Ancient Daedalus, Armoured Rockwell, Avalanche Abaasy, Balanced Palamedes, Banquet Vassago, Barbaric Sitri, Beautiful Vagul, Benevolent Aim, Bizarre Ragoel, Blizzard Belgazas, Breezy Zolos, Brutal Gravar, Calm Anzabi, Canyon Valencia, Cautious Balteid, Cellar Bugworm, Clamorous Dablon, Clandestine Apety, Clifftop Bayern, Cold Ageshu, Commander Oracion, Conflagrant Raxeal, Cumulus Danaemos, Dark King Barbarus, Dark Kisling, Dark Murakmor, Dazzling Tolosnia, Deadly Medorlo, Defective Ipos, Despotic Arsene, Destroyer Salvaction, Destructive Bors, Drifter Jutard, Elder Gragus, Elegant Marin, Enchanting Grune, Erratic Goliante, Eternal Palsadia, Evil Bathin, Evil Rhangrot, Experienced Tristan, Exposure Wolfol, Faithful Lancelot, Fate Labolas, Field Altrich, Fiendish Auburn, Final Marcus, Firework Geldesia, Flabbergasted Gerome, Flailing Bracken, Frenzied Bana, Funeral Gorza, Furious Jozan, Gentle Mother Armu, Gentle Rodriguez, Ghostly Mahatos, Glacier Acon, Glorious Buer, Glorious Jurom, Gluttonous Eugen, Graceful Holand, Hidden Gamigin, Illustrious Golteus, Immovable Gonzales, Impenetrable Redrob, Indomitable Daulton, Infernal Crocell, Inferno Heinrich, Itinerant Dorothea, Judicious Bunnitzol, Kamikaze Bune, Lake Magdalena, Lakebed Orthulus, Lazy Bluco, Lightning Ronove, Lightspeed Sonid, Magestic Mordred, Magnificent Digalus, Majestic Clone Barg, Masterful Gigapur, Meditative Varla, Mild Florence, Mining Patrichev, Mischievous Naberius, Moonlight Paimon, Musical Vanflare, Mysterious Barnaby, Mystical Klesida, Napping Volfen, Night Cardamon, North Star Gusion, Obsessive Galgaron, Officer Robusto, Peeling Kircheis, Plump Sprahda, Powerful Eligos, Precious Retrato, Proper Bandaz, Prosperous Zepar, Protective Torquidon, Prudent Purson, Reckless Galdon, Reckless Godwin, Reckless Zander, Revolutionary Bifrons, Roguish Frengel, Sacred Zagamei, Shadeless Matrix, Sentimental Flamral, Serene Imlaly, Shimmering Forte, Sinful Lamorak, Sniper Paramecia, Solid Konev, Soothed Aglovale, Speedy Ramshyde, Splendid Botis, Stormy Belagon, Stormy Widardun, Subterranean Zomar, Sunlight Schvaik, Swift Zektol, Synchronised Gaheris, Tempestuous Edegia, Temporal Gawain, Territorial Rotbart, Trainer Harmelon, Tranquil Morax, Tumultuous Felix, Turbulent Belmont, Unreliable Renzo, Vagabond Allocer, Vagrant Alfred, Vague Barbados, Venerable Daulton, Verdant Bluchal, Veteran Yozel, Victorious Gross, Violent Andante, Vivid Anstan, Wallside Gwynry, Wandering Amon, White Eduardo, Wicked Sallos, Wise Gremory, and Wrathful Orobas.

[EspeonDaydream]

EVERYONE, LET'S GO!!!
this sounds absolutely fantastic!! you did great job!

[domoparty]

i like how despite the camera work looking extremely professional carlos still does his little shimmy when playing sax

[Luxin_Xeno]

"Friend sound startled like 10-ton gorilla with fancy name appear out of nowhere and start playing saxophone!" - the Nopon Archsage, probably

Can't believe they're putting unique monsters with levels in the 250s in the next game, I'm gonna need a bigger mech.