Analyzing "Fiery Pursuit" Genshin Impact OST | Basterd's LFA (Layman-Friendly Analysis)

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Next up, we have Fiery Pursuit from the Genshin Impact Realm of Tranquil Eternity soundtrack. That's the Inuma, I think. Right. Once again, everybody, this is a bastard ZF, a layman friendly analysis. I'm a professionally trained musician, composer, and my objective here is to explain things in ways so that you don't have to be one to understand what is happening here musically. So, if you like the sound of that, make sure you're following the channel, subscribe to the channel, whatever time you use, like the video, share, leave a comment, turn on notifications, become a member. Once again everybody, don't forget to join the Discord server, join the Patreon, subscribe to the gaming channel, how to request songs even the live stream members getting early access to the content. I have a spiel for this and a bunch of other things later than this video, so stick around for that.

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[00:00:51]With that, let's go ahead and do this fiery pursuit. Hell yeah, guru.

[00:01:02]Okay, we start with and we've done from realm of tranquil eternity. Of course, this is Japanese themed. We're using Japanese traditional instruments. We are starting with two shami sens over here, which is basically the Japanese predecessor to the banjo. I will kill on this hill. This is what the instrument is. So, we have this awesome two- stringed instrument. We have two of them. One of them is playing from below uh on the lower range. One of them is playing on the higher range. And we're getting this really cool initial double melody giving us our initial motif.

[00:01:36]Motif being the smallest version of your musical idea. The CDS from which everything else comes from. So yeah, I firmly believe um no I think the shamisen is three strings. I think um it's just that one of them is really really really really thin. I think anyway point is we're having a shamisen.

[00:01:53]They're having two shamisins. Yeah, it's a three string instrument. Uh, and we are taking that over here with this. Um, let me go back a second and see where this goes.

[00:02:04]Okay, that's a cello. They're giving us a very quick Yep, it's a cello violins.

[00:02:18]Okay. So, as you can hear right now, part of the motif is very much this gallopingesque rhythm, right? Da da da da da da da. Very, this kind of galloping motif is very common in Mongol music. You know, the kind of like the Mongol music is Mongolians, very very much uh horse themed. Uh this one over here, seeing that on on Japanese, really cool, especially because, you know, it gives you that sense of like the the trot and um and the charge and everything. We are bringing in orchestral elements, of course. We are bringing in an orchestra. The orchestra.

[00:02:51]Let me just bring the image that we always use. Orchestra of course being one of the largest ensembles in existence.

[00:02:58]And of course we are doing several things. One, we had the violins, the cellos coming in at some point, giving us a little bit of a stinger there.

[00:03:07]Stingers usually being like oneoff things that little details that you add that very rarely uh come back. And then we are having now a flute doing a partial doubling to one of the shamisins. Doubling being when you have more than one instrument doing the same thing at the same time from a um doing the same thing at the same time. Like that's it. In this case, the flute is going this very very high. So let's see.

[00:03:30]You're doing gen. Nice. Neon, welcome today. How you doing? So yeah, let's see where this goes.

[00:03:37]We're moving the nice.

[00:03:42]So, we're doing variations on the motif on top of this. And we're making sure that we are moving around, engaging in some partial sequencing. Sequencing being a way that you can develop your material in which you repeat a musical idea, usually a melody from a new starting point. As you heard over here, we are moving, we're moving the notes around like we're moving, we're doing the melody, then we're starting it from a new point. Doing that, then starting it from a new point. That is sequencing.

[00:04:09]An example that I always give, right?

[00:04:11]Like I can have this melody over here and then um if you repeat this idea from maybe a different starting point like you can sequence it however you want really. So right now we're doing something like that but you know in a way cooler way with this. Let's see where this goes.

[00:04:36]And we include now a call and response from the trombones and the French horns.

[00:04:45]Call and response being a musical conversation. Right now you can hear it.

[00:04:50]We have the low trombones I think with the tuba as well giving us those first notes and then we are having I think it's the French horns with the trumpets giving us the response right up there.

[00:05:01]Right. For example, the trombones are the ones back here, the tuba over here, French horns and trumpets. So, we're having basically the full brass section involved over here, and they're basically having the trombones, the tubas, they're playing part of the part of the chord, and the French horns, trumpets are playing the rest. So, we're having the full chord playing throughout a a bigger range. Let's see where this goes.

[00:05:26]Nice.

[00:05:28]Changing the chords and Okay, so we bring in another variation.

[00:05:40]One of the shami sins is still doing the same thing. Now we are bringing one of them giving us this variation over here uh with some with a poly rhythm. So we're engaging now in a poly rhythm.

[00:05:53]Poly rhythm meaning rhythm like multiple rhythms. We're having rhythm against rhythm. Uh, and in this case, we're having one of them that is displaced a little bit with a partial elongation.

[00:06:04]Elongation being a another way that you can develop your material in which you do a slower version of something you've done before. In this case, we're taking like the uma moment and we're playing a slow version of that, giving us some hits with some doublings, and we're engaging in a poly rhythm with that. As I said, polywithm being um when you have multiple rhythms, the most popular and easiest one to understand is the three versus two because usually this is in the context of a the poly rhythm is in the context of multiple rhythms that are clashing with one another. So the three versus two, you have one part that is doing twos. One two one two and the other one doing threes. 1 2 3 1 2 3 together.

[00:06:45]So we're having something like that, but of course way cooler, way more complex.

[00:06:49]Let's see where this goes.

[00:06:53]We're having the flute there giving us those stingers there. Nice. Let's see.

[00:07:01]All right. Now we have the violins. Oh, you know, we also have a xylophone. We also have a xylophone. Um, jumping in with that doubling with the polythm doubling. Now we bring in the violins as well. Let's see how this goes.

[00:07:18]Nice.

[00:07:20]Nice. Oh, this is really cool.

[00:07:23]Sequencing. We just moved everything around.

[00:07:33]We bring back the brass. We bring back the brass. We can hear the trombones, the tuba, giving us this very oppressive sound. I think they might be doubled by the double bases. These ones over here, the bigger ones. um giving us this really really cool uh we bring the call and response back with the rest of the um of the French horns. And we are now bringing a new elongated version of a new rhythm of the motif. This time just with the flutes and I think maybe the xylophone. Let me Oh, harps.

[00:08:09]Just the flutes. Yeah. And there we go. We bring back the shami sins.

[00:08:17]new version.

[00:08:21]Oh, so cool. So, yeah, we're bringing new variations and in this in this case, since the motif has two main parts, we have the rhythmic partum and then we have the melodic parta which is um uh which is really cool, right? So we can because of this divide this motif into two and have one of them focusing on the rhythmic aspect while we are having the other one basically chaining the melodic aspect in exchange.

[00:08:48]And what a combination we get dude. It really gives the best of the is genius like having like yes I have two two parts of the motif but you can also like sandwich them together. It's so cool. I love it. I love it. And you know what else I love? That's a bad sideway. The Patreon.

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[00:10:36]Yeah. Anyway, let's see where this goes.

[00:10:38]We're continuing with the uh God, we're just moving. Now we have trumpets.

[00:10:48]Now we have trump bones, tuba and French horns giving us this really cool version uh this really cool counter melody while we are having the flutes giving us the new the variation of the rhythm almost like the poly rhythm that we had before.

[00:11:04]Let's see what it does.

[00:11:09]Violins jumping in some scales up and down. Nice. Back we go to the original and Oh, new variation. And this time we are doing the flute rhythm that we had back here. We bringing back the shamisen. We bring the the traditional Japanese flute. I don't I don't remember the name of the of that one. And we are focusing on that. Now we had percussion of course symbols to uh show the the transition between one another. This is so good, dude. Let's see where this goes.

[00:11:50]Nice. Bringing it back down. And back to the first chord. French horns in the back.

[00:11:58]Col response between the brasses.

[00:12:00]Trombones. French horns. Trombones.

[00:12:03]French horns. Oh, this is so good.

[00:12:06]Reaching that climax and bringing things back down.

[00:12:15]Okay, so we bring in Okay, so we are bringing in We're also getting Cotto as well. We're getting a Japanese Cotto on this one. I thought it was a harp, but no, it's a Cotto. Uh the Cotto being this very beautiful. It's kind of a combination between a uh laying down guitar and a harp for the Japanese.

[00:12:33]Really, really cool instrument that um that we get. And we're using it for some quick chords here for added texture. Of course, we are now bringing this new version of the melody with the flutes doing the thing. Let me hear a bit more just to Yeah, we're having the shamisen, the cotto, and the flute here giving us this very quick interaction between them while we are having instruments like the cellos and the trombones and the tubas and the French horns giving us the beat there from underneath uh creeping up basically from it like like fire under your like like like it just is lighting a fire from underneath. Let's see where this goes.

[00:13:18]Nice. And there we go. Bringing the variation from the violins, xylophone, and flute.

[00:13:26]French horns with the ascending line.

[00:13:31]Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:13:34]We're having French horns and then now we started with the French horns and then with the trombones. Now they're giving the ascending line still as a call in response. I really like like one of the things that you can use in orchestration is to use your brass as a way to represent fire and that's what we're doing. We are slowly having this fire creeping up and slowly building up um until it's becoming, you know, all over the place. I love this, dude. This is so good. Like again, say what you will about the state of the game, the music, dude.

[00:14:09]So good. Let's see where this goes.

[00:14:14]building up and taking over.

[00:14:20]Oh, so now we have the French horn at the top. The flames have consumed the entire range now. And um and we're now having the French horn there. We're bringing in a tambourine there to give us an extra bit of rhythm over there. And we are now bringing another rhythmic variation of this. Let's see where this goes.

[00:14:48]Flutes doubling doubling trumpets.

[00:14:50]They're jumping in as well.

[00:14:55]God, so good.

[00:15:00]God, that extra rhythm, dude. Oh my god, the poly rhythms here. So good.

[00:15:05]Nice. Nice. And back to this version with the with the ascending flames of the brass.

[00:15:19]So yeah, we're still getting trombone French horns. Trombone French horns. The French horns still going up. The trombone being the first spark. The French horns being the flame after. This is so good, dude. Let's see how this ends. This is awesome.

[00:15:36]while the uh rest are giving up the beat. Let's see.

[00:15:42]French horns giving the upper runs, building up the instruments with the rhythm.

[00:15:51]We do one bit of rhythmic displacement.

[00:15:55]And there we push back the hitting of the last note and we land this massive machine with one last chord. And there you have it. Oh my god. That was that was a journey, dude. There you go. That was Fiery Pursuit from the Genchin Impact Realm of Tranquil Eternity soundtrack.

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[00:18:54]Just the J for a G and you got it. And uh yeah, there you have it. Fiery Pursuit Genshin Impact. That was a lot of fun. That was incredible, dude.

[00:19:06]Really good stuff, man. Really good stuff. But uh yeah, let's move on. is one.