Fortree City – Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
About game/music
This is “Fortree City” from “Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald” developed by Game Freak, released by The Pokémon Company.
This is composed by Morikazu Aoki.
He also composed “Abandoned ship”, for example.
This song is played in Fortree City, a city where houses are built on trees.
It’s also the city where the sixth gym is located.
It’s my personal favorite town, with its unexplored landscape.
Analyzing
bar 12~13:
- iv in major key (other Tabs include this)
- one of the so-called “subdominant minor chord”, which include b6th in the scale.
- It’s nostalgic or romantic.
- Typically used following IV.
- It’s borrowed mostly from parallel minor, but also from Mixolydian b6 (in this case, ivM7)
- Other examples are the following songs.
- Candy Constellation – Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
- Badges – Pikmin Bloom
- National Park – Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver
- Cobalt Coastlands 1 – Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Marine Tube – Pokémon Black2/White2
- Shopping in Wakeport – Mario & Luigi: Dream Team