The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #534: Musical Interlude - Trying to Figure Out Music from Legend (1985) Part 2
03 November 2025

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #534: Musical Interlude - Trying to Figure Out Music from Legend (1985) Part 2

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In today's episode, I'm continuing what I started last week, working out "The Unicorn Theme" by Tangerine Dream from the Legend soundtrack. 


I worked out some of the basic notes last week, and this week I'm adding more as well as the left hand chords.  Though not recorded in the podcast, while I was wrapping up the mixing of what I'd done, I remembered one of the other verses I'd forgotten.  I did most of this in Bandlab, the DAW I've been working to learn this past fall.  This ended up a great project to showcase the strength of a tool like this since I didn't need to rehearse the piece over and over until I could play it mistake-free like before.  I could play and record little segments, one at a time, and essentially save my progress as I was going along.   I may add to it in the coming weeks as I work out other parts of the theme, but I am pretty happy with what I managed to cobble together so far!  

This theme was definitely one of the influences behind the sound I was trying to create when making The Thirteenth Hour soundtrack, so it's actually long overdue that I finally try to figure out how to play it.  I'm actually not sure why I didn't try before!

Thanks for listening!

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Once Upon a Dream, the second Thirteenth Hour soundtrack, is now out in digital form and on CD!  


It is out on most major streaming services such as Bandcamp, Spotify, and YouTube Music.  (If you have no preference, I recommend Bandcamp since there is a bonus track there and you will eventually be able to find tapes and special editions of the album there as well.)  The CDs are out now!

-Check out the pixelart music videos that are out so far from the album:

-->Logan's Sunrise Workout: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SM1RgsLiM

-->Forward: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VgILr1TDc

-->Nightsky Stargazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0p3jKRTBo

-->Aurora's Rainy Day Mix: https://youtu.be/zwqPmypBysk

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