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The third music style I’ve always wanted to try: Game Music.

Writer: Nate Wang
Nate Wang
May 13, 2025
3 min read

(And yes—there’s a cat at the end! Even Ann-nyo wants to play fighting games now 😆)


I’ve always had a long list of game tracks I want to rearrange—some are personal favorites, some are iconic classics.

Since I’ll be touching some well-known pieces, let me say this upfront: if my version falls short, please go easy on me 🙏🏻


The very first track in this series is a collaboration with Dom @dom112 🙌🏻

Huge thanks to him for being so on board with this!

I still remember our first chat—within minutes, we were already brainstorming all kinds of things we could try together.

When I mentioned wanting to arrange game music, he instantly said: “Street Fighter!”

I immediately replied: “Yes! That’s literally the first track I had in mind!”

Specifically, the title theme of Street Fighter II—probably because of those ♭6 and ♭7 chords 😂

It’s got that nostalgic J-pop progression I’ve loved for over 20 years.


For the arrangement, I kept the original structure, tempo, and classic melody, but added electronic drums and piano.

The piano was totally self-indulgent—I’ve always wanted to try mapping out scales at 187.3 BPM in this style…

And yep, I totally regretted it 😵 Re-recorded the video a bunch of times—because yeah, I really need to practice more 🧎🏻


For the shakuhachi, since the original synth has both high-pitched melodies and low-end rhythm parts,

Dom chose 1.6 shaku (for the highs) and 2.7 shaku (for the lows) to fully express the range.

Given the modern tone of the track, he left out traditional techniques and focused on staying true to the original lines.


In the mixing, Jack @j_ack0831 added some coloring to the drums, made the electric guitar more aggressive and full-bodied,

and applied effects that gave the whole mix a bit of edge—with a subtle vinyl-style lo-fi grain to give it a nostalgic touch.

Just the right amount of dirt to bring the vibe together. 一直想嘗試的音樂類型之三 Game Music（看到最後有貓貓，這次連安妞也想玩格鬥遊戲😆），改編電玩遊戲音樂，想改編的音樂非常多，有的是自己喜歡的，有的是經典的，但因為會改到經典的，所以一定要先打預防針，如果改得不好還請多多包涵🙏🏻！


這個系列的第一個作品，就是跟路可團長 @dom112 合作🙌🏻！太感謝他的大力幫忙了～記得第一次跟他見面聊天時，就聊了很多可以一起嘗試的東西，剛好聊到我有改編電玩遊戲音樂的想法，他秒回我快打旋風🔥！我也秒回ㄟ對欸！我第一個想到的就是這首快打旋風二的標題片頭音樂，可能因為有降6、降7的關係😂，一個20年幾前我就很喜歡的日系和弦進行，所以我們就約好要來做這首音樂！


在改編的部分，我選擇保留原曲的段落、速度和經典旋律，另外再增添了電子鼓組和鋼琴，鋼琴是自己私心想用，一直很想要編看看187.3這種速度和節奏的鋼琴音階，結果搞死自己🤣，錄影片的時候重錄好多次，對不起我就欠練琴🧎🏻！


在錄製尺八的部分，因為原曲主要的合成器有高音的旋律和低音的節奏，因此路可選了一尺六（高音）和二尺七（低音）兩種尺寸和音域的尺八來完整呈現，在吹奏上，因為這次的音樂風格比較現代，所以他就沒有加入一些傳統技巧，而是選擇很忠實的把原音吹奏出來。


混音的部分，子傑 @j_ack0831 在鼓組都加了一點染色，電吉他也幫我讓它更兇一點以及多了一點厚實，最後在整首Mix上用效果器增添一點刺激感，以及模擬黑膠的懷舊感，讓整體又再髒一點點 。



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