Unlike my last Skate or Die 2 cover, this is arguably the most famous track from the game, the title screen theme with all its digitized vocals and digitized guitar glory! Have grown up with Atari and the NES, when 1990s Skate or Die 2 came out with talking on the soundtrack starting immediately on the title screen, it was impressive despite how lofi the encoding was. EA evidently knew how impressive it was too, as the digitized vocals start immediately upon turning the game on. Pretty bonkers on top of it all, I discovered decades later when transcribing the theme from the title screen that the notes are in the range of a string guitar. Not sure if it was intended to be that way, or an artifact of the guitar digitizing process, but the result is rather heavy!
For tracking, I wanted to recreate the wall of sound from the game, but also didn't have a 7 string guitar handy, so I added a 2nd bass part to fill out the low end of the rhythm guitars. I think it sucked up alot of sonic real estate in the mix, which normally would be a bad thing, but in this case, I think it recreated that over saturated digital guitar sound from the original game. For the vocals, I ran them through alot of distortion and compressed them like crazy to get them similarly noisy but audible. Since there was already so much going on between the bass and distorted guitars, I decided to play the main melody on keyboards. Finally, the crazy 16th note thing that's going on thru the whole song I arranged to be played by tapping. It might be easy to play that part if you're a 10 yr old Instagram guitar prodigy, but it took me the better part of 3 weeks to get it up to tempo!
All in all, this song was a real challenge to put together because of the tapping, but it was an absolute blast to put together such a classic tune!
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