I Stole From These Songs to Make an Original One

[@Tarro57]

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[@Raman-jz8dz]

What’s the name of the program you used to compose the song?

[@Tarro57]

@@Raman-jz8dz FL Studio!

[@Raman-jz8dz]

Thank you!

[@temonos]

I am pretty sad that you made this super great music and just 6.37% of the people who watched the video are subscribed to your channel , that's sad , and also a lot of them skip the video. I just wish you a good luck man,keep going (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

[@yurfacemakesmelol]

spotify plspslslsplslplspslpsl!11!11!!11111

[@NotActuallyElias]

this is a pretty great song, feels like some sort of cinematic buildup. really like the idea of "if i plagiarize enough things at the same time then it isn't plagiarism" LMAO

[@Tarro57]

100%, I would probably never try and sell this song, but it was a fun exercise in borrowing many things to make something new. Thanks for the kind words :)

[@SuperIsaiahOST]

As someone who makes original stuff, no matter what you do you're inherently gonna be "plagiarizing" from other stuff you've heard. That's all music is, combining and altering a bunch of concepts you already know.

[@thespeedyyoshi]

@@SuperIsaiahOST especially with 12 defined notes/tones

[@SuperIsaiahOST]

@@thespeedyyoshi HOW DARE YOU USE THE D NOTE, MEGALOVANIA DID IT BEFORE YOU!

[@NotActuallyElias]

@@SuperIsaiahOST lmao ofc, i just was making a funny comment on the quote at the beginning of the video i wasn't implying that tarro was plagiarizing if that's what you thought

[@realsmasho]

a hollow tale is such a genius name and it actually fits

[@Tarro57]

Thank you! I felt really clever about that lol

[@siiriheikkinen2071]

Funnily enough, theres a Undertale x Hollow Knight comic called Hollowtale, its not complete yet, but its still a really good comic in my opinion.

[@dr.elementalist]

@@siiriheikkinen2071 If HollowTale were a Show, this would be the theme song.

[@siiriheikkinen2071]

@@dr.elementalist defenetly!

[@LunaStarlun]

@@dr.elementalist You mean game?

[@olimar7647]

Honestly, during the breakdown, I was thinking that the "Heartache" was way to recognizable, but you actually managed to weave it in a way that it blended into the background so smoothly and became something entirely new! Was not expecting that

[@indianruckus6412]

This is crazy because recently had the same idea of making an original track that combined phrases from different songs

[@Tarro57]

Do it! Its such a fun little practice, and if you ever make a soundtrack, its also nice practice for using leitmotifs!

[@gamerlyphantomlike4102]

hyperlink from seeks cool deltarune fnf mod:

[@Gaming_Musician]

You've probably heard this a lot, but you my good sir are very underrated. I've not heard of you until I saw this video in my recommended, and I'm just going to say I won't be surprised if this video (and channel) does really well.

[@frederikraeker]

Yeah true

[@zhy5641]

Yea.... this video kinda fiddled away into nothingness, no one seemed to watch it. Very sad times. /s

[@xxgraphitecontrolxx4538]

This may work for the comic "HollowTale" as an intro to the comic. It's where the knight appears on the surface in undertale and joins Sans and Papyrus on their wacky adventures.

[@lavenderisdedagain4554]

This song combined with the song title: gives me the vibes of it’s the dramatic build up to the final fight, and there’s this hopefulness to it as the hero prevails, only for this bittersweet melancholy to follow them through their supposed victory. Perhaps they lost all of their allies already to the previous battles, maybe they’ve realized to get to this point and scale in power they have lost all of their own sense of self and humanity- and now things can never truly be the same again.

[@ldkWhatToWriteHere]

A sacrifice that changes nothing is a hollow victory

[@herothecrow994]

I've always been a huge sucker for crossovers and mashups, especially when it comes to music. And as a fan of both Undertale and Hollow Knight, this was lovely to listen to.

[@randommanofinternet3318]

This seems like in like a different route when you stab Undyne The Undying but she really does not want to let you by as you slowly degrade her to dust

[@vadandrumist1670]

Reminds me of someone posting a meme of "here's my game idea" that was just cutouts of a bunch of different games' covers put together, and the first thing I thought was "That's a game I want."

[@Xave273]

This is literally the typical Pirate type song. Half time drums, 6/8, Strings and Flute, great work man!!!

[@mikethegoo]

I like them. I often hear a really nice song and go "if only there was more of this exact vibe, but different songs... I could make a whole list of that"... But there is no song like drunken sailor (for example). If there was, it wouldn't be so special, probably

[@zackbuildit88]

Pirates didn't have drums tho??? Or much in the way of strings????? This is only shanty in time signature

[@mistadude]

@@zackbuildit88 pirates used to beatbox, duh

[@zackbuildit88]

@@mistadude yeah but what about the strings and drums

[@zacharysimmons4115]

Bro I dunno where you're getting your info but most pirate ships did actually have a dedicated musical group, usual with things like, yes, drums or fiddles, plus flutes and concertinas. They were called 'musickers,' and a big part of their job was providing entertainment on long voyages as well as hyping up the crew during boarding actions.

[@buh3746]

the UNDER KNIGHT, he attak he prottec, but most importantly, he is UNDER YOU

[@razzon226]

What if someone made this a combined boss level, where you play as Frisk, against all three trying just to prevent you from advancing, Toriel so you stay safe, Undyne so the monsters are free, different Hollow Knight bosses because... well, they're infected, and the two games' mechanics switch between each other so one second you're dodging fire and spears and the next you're dashing and slashing at the HK bosses

[@Hapetiitti]

Hooooo boy, this was an intense listening experience! I had full-body goosebumps from the start of the breakdown through the entire video, and it just kept getting worse as the song progressed. My hairs are still standing up as I'm writing this! This went straight to my study music playlist and got you an instant subscription! I'd like to humbly request an extended version of just the full song, so it'll be more convenient to keep in my study playlist, and I'd like to thank my brother for sharing this video with me

[@Deerfoxer]

This song sounds like a perfect one for an intense but somber lightsaber duel for Starwars like Obi wan and Anakin's fight on Mustafar in episode 3. Very good work on this!

[@threadedsilk]

Haveing played both of these games to death and loving them so much this nearly brought me to tears.

[@FaradaysDelirium]

This sound like something that could legitimately play during HW/SS credits And that’s saying something

[@chrissysonicutdrloz]

Um, wow. Heartache still jumps right out. Hollow Knight is pretty recognizable. Love how you transitioned between those two. I don't think I would have ever figured out that was BAATH if you hadn't told me. The whole thing altogether feels like a totally original song.

[@sylbeth808]

Omg, it fucking slaps, I've been out of the music world for so long but as soon as I started listening, I couldn't help but follow the tempo as I did in my music lessons so many years ago. Yeah, 6/8 is amazing. It really reminded me of Determination from Octopath Traveler somehow. You've made me want to get in the Discord and get into music again, darnit! Thank you so much for this 💖

[@sodakcmusic]

Somehow didn't see this video for a few hours, but it does not disappoint! Nice work as always, Tarro!

[@Tarro57]

Soda you're a real one! If anybody sees this comment and hasn't gone to Sodaguyz channel, please subscribe to them!

[@kingsalver]

@@Tarro57 will do

[@dgecko]

Thank you so much for your participation on VGM Lounge and contributing some amazing music to the challenges... this is just the first of hopefully many!! Being able to watch your process is so good, really helpful for others who would like to join in the fun of making their own original VGM inspired music! .... To everyone watching, do join us if this sounds like you! :-)

[@Midrule]

1:48 slight nitpick. I'm assuming you're using an ensemble patch for the strings. That sounds like it's in the viola range more than the cello

[@b.austenexcell9224]

the thing is that this song would fit perfecly as hollow knight boss music

[@LyricMammal]

Nice drums bro, most tracks I listen to drown them out, but this one I could actually hear and keep track of them.

[@dummy_1457]

this would make for some epic boss battle music.

[@DAVID-ANDERSON]

This sound amazing. I could see this used as a boss fight theme

[@bakedbeansman]

Mmm yes, the floor and ceiling are made of building

[@VanNessy97]

Or an animated D&D intro

[@Henrycraft9]

5:37 First time i heard the drop I instantly got chills on my entire body and i dont know why

[@thepogkirb5079]

Wow, I'm blown away! I was not expecting this to be this good. I know it's something that people say a lot, but like, this definitely deserves more likes because this is actually amazing

[@Tarro57]

I love comments like this, like, I genuinely appreciate it. Yes, I've been getting lots of comments like it, but its these comments that make me want to keep it up, so, truly, thank you :)

[@Snukkuri]

this could make a cool bgm for an intense cutscene

[@thandimore]

All I could think of when I was listening was Raft's cinematic story music as you discover a new part of the lore!

[@KittAnimations]

lowkey, this sounds pretty nice, and a really cool song on its own

[@fainfawn7641]

This is amazing! I would love an extended version with some loopable parts to extend phases. It feels like it’d be a boss fight soundtrack.

[@SpadChad]

this was really well put together, so I was really surprised when i saw that you only had 180 subscribers, I thought you would have like 100k or something lol. Keep up the good work though!

[@Tarro57]

lol, believe it or not I had less than 100 3 days ago. And thank you so much for he kind words, I will :)

[@ICNHH]

and now 811 subs

[@supier_men7522]

​@@Tarro57 1.4 K now!

[@Gaming_Musician]

@@supier_men7522 1.54K now!

[@itztommy1619]

@@Gaming_Musician 2.11k now!

[@Benshamman]

This song perfectly fits several things for a video game. A reveal during a cutscene, music for ending, badass scenes, and more.

[@seikoudesu9935]

"copying one person is plagiarism copying 10 people is being inspired and copying 100 people is original" -Some wise guy

[@zhy5641]

100 subs congrats! I’d say the next logical milestone is... 5000 apparently

[@Tarro57]

Lol, I was not expecting the reception on this video

[@zhy5641]

@@Tarro57 I guess the algorithm made a fantastic choice for once. I saw the thumbnail and instantly clicked on it. I was not disappointed, will done! I loved the song, really made me feel like I was listening to a fantasy movie trailer!

[@hralidorgala3796]

Awesome! Glad to see you love Undertale and Hollow Knight, as every person should

[@thegreenlucario590]

When I hear this all I can imagine A hero fighting the demon king and the more damage he deals the more he hears faint whispers, pleas, prayers. It growing louder and louder becoming unintelligible noise all weaving into the song. Later hearing faint metal on metal clashing and the sounds war, pain, fear.... but the one thing he hears, no feels through all of the noise, chaos, lightheadedness of his wounds and exhaustion is the feeling of everyone's hopes hidden by the cacophony, so he must continue to fight, to stand defiant and win...even at the cost of his own life.......

[@manfrgdy]

brooooo the nostalgia. i played the two games a real long time ago and hearing this really brought me back to the good ol days. thx for making this dud

[@notfalsified0622]

I really like A Hollow Tale, it sounds really good! Another possible name you could've done would be like Battle Against a Hollow Heart or something, but i rly like it!

[@slugcatsu]

This was amazing to listen too! I really thought this was a much bigger channel at first, but somehow it isn't. I hope to see more from you!

[@ToaOnichu]

I often find myself chaining different tracks together--often from entirely different IPs--using their similarities. Something in one track would remind me of a different track, so that similarity would link those two tracks together.

[@JD.ThatGuy]

The BAaTH part on the glockenspiel sort of reminded of that one part of the Greenpath song in HK, which makes this work more than it should. Pretty cool!

[@Demonis5445]

awesome song. listening to the sample of BaaTH over and over though felt like a sneeze that would never come

[@muffins901]

this sounds like an actual song you would see in either one of these games (most likely a boss fight), it sounds really good!

[@paneonsweirdtomfoolery4056]

I’ve got an idea for a boss fight who would fit pretty much perfectly wiþ

[@4Bakers]

The HollowTale Undertale AU: 👀 This song is amazing OMG

[@memeermon7326]

as a fan of both games I can say with confidence that this is awesome

[@gallikos4266]

This sounds great, I play piano and am trying to get into making music like this as a hobby, so it's pretty inspiring. You're way too good to be this underrated, I'm glad I found you

[@maendreemurr4908]

This an absolute masterpiece

[@ele-ma977]

This song leaves an emotion. I can't describe it, but it's a good one.

[@ram-is-herexd7930]

So I skipped to the full song to see if I can recognize where each part came and I was able to! Which just shows how much I've been playing Hollow Knight and Undertale lol.

[@kingofthefunnyguys]

I love every thing about this song as a hollow knight and undertale fan

[@matthewgd]

that drop was incredible please make more of these videos i love both games to my death

[@ClicStudio]

The video is very well put together and the song is well built, really loved following the process to get to the end result and the end result is pretty darn good too! Great job! However, I’m all for the idea of mixing different sounds and ideas from other genre with cinematic/orchestral music, but the drums felt unjustified here since they were the only thing coming from the dubstep genre, I would’ve added maybe a few synths to at least justify them or made the mixing/mastering more like I would with a dubstep track. Anyways, that was well done!

[@SonicPAJ]

Lol... 8-Bit music theory probably stole that line from the book "How to Steal Like an Artist".

[@kwinter2541]

Hey nerd! I love it! --Undyne

[@lazarack4859]

This is pretty incredible, I think I understand the Daft Punk song, Face to Face, a little more.

[@ThatTNTNonBinaryPerson]

That's a super great song, I felt the Undertale and the Hollow Knight in that, congrats !

[@SheepDeprived]

No joke, I would listen to a ten-hour version of this. It's so cool!!

[@rarebeeph1783]

0:57 That Hollow Knight motif with that piano timbre really gives Homestuck "English" vibes

[@tf12321]

that is amazing, can imagine this in the backround with a boss fight or a dramatic cut seance

[@shadowdemonaer]

This is honestly so good man.

[@TachyBunker]

This is great!

[@ZekeNigma]

I know that this was inspired by Undertale and Hollow Knight, but the song overall reminds me of something from Fire Emblem: Three Houses' OST, since it has a lot of hybrid orchestral/electronic style songs that sound similar to this. Regardless, this was really cool, and I like orchestral/electronic hybrid music too, it's a style that's somehow still relatively unexplored

[@pandalion342]

congrats, you used all the instruments I like in one thing. this is why music is amazing in my opinion actually, because I know how to play maybe two or three (depending on how you classify "play", because I'm absolutely terrible at piano despite being capable of playing multiple songs on it because I only learnt it from learning glockenshpiel on the internets). composers are probably the people I look up to most when it comes to the form of art yall do because I know I'll never understand how you make it sound as wonderful as it does (and I tried, by god I tried, my show I'm writing needs themes for characters and I was sitting in front of my instruments for hours trying things before giving up because that's so difficult). I can understand how writing and visual arts work because I'm "good" at those, I went to courses teaching me how to use references for drawings, my grandma who was a local sculpting legend taught me how to mold the clay, and my dad writes and always encouraged me to write, too. but music? for all that my family has it in our blood (and as a component in our last name), and for all that I learnt multiple instruments and our house has more than what your song has, I'll never understand how to write music like that. it's amazing. wow.

[@exobolt9712]

Dude. The story of this song, the emotion. Taking from such an uplifting heroic song and 2 very SOMBER and dramatic songs to make this piece of gold is something else. The story I get from this song is so good, so clear. This song has the vibes of either a peak fight for the hero or a final fight. Either this hardest challenge theyve faced so far, or the final fight of their whole journey. Theyre down, any allies they have arent doing too well either. The hero is hanging on by a thread, that spark of hope pushing them forward. With one final push, they stand strong against the threat. Whether they surpass it or not we cant tell from the song quite, but you can SO feel the drive to keep fighting till either the hero or the villain goes down Well done Tarro, just freaking AMAZING

[@TomSvoj]

this is amazing a true masterpiece, keep up the amazing work i had chills while listening to the final product you deserve more attention

[@ikec-pw5sb]

"I Stole From These Songs to Make an Original One" That's it. That's my music career

[@Nonexistility]

This sounds more like A Hallow Tale than a hollow tale, but hey man, it's your song. Pretty good 👌

[@Tarro57]

While you may be right in your own way, I just wanted to combine the 2 games names for the title

[@pizzapower3166]

Finally. Someone with appreciation for "Heartache". Also, is it me or those this remind me of Star Wars' Force theme?

[@zombor8249]

Idk but especially the beginning of the song reminds me so much of Pokemon Mystery Dungon

[@Fire-Pixel]

This is awesome, I can even kinda hear parts of what songs you used without knowing them

[@helio3928]

i can really see this as the trailer song for a series of a crossover between undertale and hollow knight

[@yougyyouh7437]

omg the song that i was waiting 3 of my fav songs all reunited ur absolutelly amazing

[@brittlekneesmgee3674]

you took three tragic songs and somehow made it uplifting

[@MinusCriminal]

Hahaha, this is cool as! Great job, man!

[@Akawump]

Look at this man, just like that he makes music.

[@JalenGreen.]

This is awesome! What plugins do you use??

[@rox2382]

wow, that's just amazing man, you just gained one more subscriber!

[@Kimiko24]

Ngl it sounds sooo good 👍 hallow tale would be a good game if it ever was created and this sounds like it would be either the song for story telling or travel music to vibe to

[@SkeleGamer9197]

Oh Hell yeah this video is satisfying to watch

[@sanc3375]

this is one of the best recommendation that KZbin has given to us!!

[@mrtheunknownytquestion4592]

hollow knight and botw have the best soundtracks in history of anything prove me wrong

[@huntercraft5674]

the "how to" channel for audio that i never thought i would bump into LOVED IT!

[@Tarro57]

Thank you! How you enjoy your stay :)

[@huntercraft5674]

@@Tarro57 thank you too for your response! I hope your channel grows further and further!

[@llowkey]

Really enjoyed the video and the song, both very high quality! You’re really underrated and I wish you the best of luck with KZbin

[@LeDave257]

Alternativ Title: Battle against a heartached Knight

[@xandaman6432]

This song is so good. If I ever became a youtuber, if I could that is, I would use this as an intro/outro.

[@domacleod]

Very nice, sounds like it'd be good as a main menu / main soundtrack or trailer music.

[@defaultdance4727]

sounds like entering a new unfamiliar world, very great

[@SombraBranca]

Literaly gave me chills

[@OneroseArts]

So cool! Very good balanced mix. Very satisfying.

[@zoragyt]

Dude this is really cool! I love the concept. Great way to package how you made this song haha

[@TheVoidMachineSystem]

As a massive hollow knight fan, I like this a lot. Very nice!

[@thebubbleruler7748]

Honestly sounds like something straight out of terraria calamity

[@Tarro57]

Straight up thats such a nice compliment. Thank you :)

[@Burning_Marshmallow]

I remember a saying that goes: “Steal an idea from one person, and it’s plagiarism. Steal from ten and it’s inspired. Steal from a hundred and it’s original.”

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

as someone who recognizes all 3 songs sampled this made me happy xD

[@MoonlightMusic75]

TARRO MY MAN, YOU BECAME FAMOUS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@Tarro57]

I KNOW THE VIEWS AND SUBS ARE KIND OF POPPING OFF! Thanks for being here, youve always said such nice things on my vids, you're the best :)

[@MoonlightMusic75]

@@Tarro57 i have been studying the yt algorithm a little bit (instead of studying for school) and i have been thinking of making stuff similar to this

[@silvercandra4275]

This is really cool, but I do think if I encountered this without knowing what it was, I'd still hear the songs in it. I've heard those songs so much, that my mind automatically tries to complete each of the melodies... It's an amazing song though and actually does sound really good.