Intruder Alert (Soundtrack)

Team Fortress 2 Official Soundtrack

"Team Fortress 2 (Main Theme)" "Playing With Danger" "Rocket Jump Waltz" "The Art of War" "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" "Right Behind You" "Petite Chou-Fleur" "Intruder Alert" "Drunken Pipe Bomb" "More Gun" "Haunted Fortress 2" "TF2 Saxxy 2011 Theme" "A Little Heart to Heart" "MEDIC!" "Archimedes" "Dreams of Cruelty" "The Calm" "ROBOTS!" "Dapper Cadaver" "Rise of the Living Bread" "Red Bread" "Three Days to Live" "Seduce Me!" "Stink Lines" "It Hates Me So Much" "Misfortune Teller" "Soldier of Dance" "RED Triumphs!" "BLU Triumphs!" "Yeti Park" "Saxton's Dilemma" "Mercenary Park" "Saluting the Fallen"

"Intruder Alert" is one of the song titles featured from the official Team Fortress 2 soundtrack, listed as track number eight. Added in the WAR! Update, it is one of the three songs featured in Meet the Spy, as well as being one of 33 main menu start up themes. It is the fifth track to be added via patch subsequent to the game's release.

Videos

An alternate version added in the Jungle Inferno Update:

Guitar transcription

The following is an abridged transcription of the song. The bass plays the exact same thing, coming in after the intro.

Intruder Alert     
                     
time = 4/4          | 
Standard E-tuning   | 
(c) Mike Morasky / VALVe 2007   

	E Major (Section A)
                                              Clean Guitar
       Fig. 1                     Fig. 2                     Fig. 1                    Fig. 3
e ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
G ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
D ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E ||--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--5--5--6--7--|--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--6--6--5--5--|
                                   tremolo picking throughout song
      A Major (Section B)

      Fig. 1                     Fig. 2                     Fig. 1                      Fig. 3
    --------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
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    --0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--5--5--6--7--|--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--6--6--5--5--|
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      E Major (Section C)                                   (Section A)

      Fig. 1                     Fig. 2                     Fig. 1
    --------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
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    --7--7--7--6--6--6--5--5--|--5--3--3--3--2--2--1--1--|--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--5--5--6--7--|

      (Section A)                                           (Section D)
      Fig. 1                     Fig. 2                     Fig. 1                     Fig. 2
    --------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
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    --0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--5--5--6--7--|--0--0--0--1--1--1--2--2--|--2--3--3--3--5--5--6--7--|

Analysis

Key: E Minor
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 180 BPM
Length: 1:53
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Update: WAR!
Composer: Mike Morasky
Instrumentation: 2 tenor saxophones, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones (3 tenors, 1 bass), electric guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, drumset, percussion

Similarly to the main theme, "Intruder Alert" is in the key of E Minor, and the bass line mostly stays within notes found in E minor (E, F#, G, A, B, C, and D). It continues to use elements of the main theme, but is much faster, with high-energy solos traded between tenor saxophone and trumpet throughout.

This track uses the same chromatic elements as the main theme as its basis, but differentiating is its higher tempo, more excited writing, and its solos which carry much of the melodic content. Though the bass line can be considered the focus of the track and its main foundation, the melody is largely found within the higher trumpet parts while the "groove" is laid out by the rhythm section, tenor saxophone, and low trombones. Over this groove, which also follows a more altered harmonic context than the main theme, high trumpets play longer held notes descending chromatically while trombones punctuate the bass line. After a repetition of this section, with an added "call and response" between high trumpets and a trumpet solo, a tenor saxophone continues in a longer solo. Solos continue to be swapped, as a drum solo bridges the gap between the next section in which tenor saxophone and trumpet trade two bars each. Following that, a full repetition of the first phrase occurs, then all instruments (except solo trumpet and saxophone) play a unison Eb to end the track.

Update history

December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)

• This song was added as main menu music.

May 9, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added an 'Intruder Alert' midi file.

Trivia

• The final note of the track (1:49) is used as the sound cue for each killstreak milestone.
• A percussion part is listed in the official instrumentation, yet no percussion part is found within the official score or its respective parts.