Here's my video game saxophone cover of You Will Know Our Names from Xenoblade Chronicles featuring ArtificialFear! I'm Sab and I love saxophone and video games, so now I make covers that combine two of my favorite things!
Can you tell I'm enjoying Xenoblade?
When I heard this tune in game, I knew I had to cover it! There's a distinct battle where it really catches you off guard and terrifies you. I really wanted to keep the intensity of the original and push myself to explore other genres.
It was so awesome getting to work with Artificial Fear! He is a killer guitarist and trumpet player! I knew he would be perfect for this collab!
This song is all over the place and really pushed me in terms of arranging, mixing, editing, etc. The biggest thing was I wrote original lyrics for this! I feel like the melody doesn't kick in for awhile in this tune. There was a stream where my wonderful friend Adriana Figueroa talked about how she would sing \"so you will know our names\" at the end of the song when she played through the game. I took that and ran with it haha! I really wanted to have the lyrics be more thematic to life rather than specific to the plot of Xenoblade Chronicles. I had a lot of fun writing the lyrics and consulting some friends about it!
Another thing that was different in this cover was my solo. I normally improvise all my solos, but really struggled when I was practicing some ideas. So I ended up writing out the solo, but I'm really happy with it!
I went a little crazy with the video editing haha! I messed around with different border patterns and learned how to do masking in Premiere Pro!
Overall, I was so excited to work on this cover over the past month and really excited to work with ArtificialFear on this. I can't thank him enough for absolutely shredding!
Hope you enjoy this cover of #YouWillKnowOurNames from #XenobladeChronicles
Lyrics:
Thinking of what got us here
All these foes that caused everyone fear
We've come so far, so we can't lose
This is the time to change the world
We'll fight them all
Until we've seen the last of them fall
Fighting for victory
To save our home colony
That is what we fight for
To save our friends
And al the lives that came to an end
So you will know our names
