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.

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 Major
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 90 BPM
Length: 1:53
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Update: WAR!
Composer: Mike Morasky

Likely for consistency, this song uses the same melody as the main theme and Playing With Danger as its basis. Differentiating this song is its lower tempo and note density, instead opting to place emphasis on its chords. To highlight this, there is very little in the way of melodic lines for the song, with heightened importance placed on the drums as it throws in more fills than typical. More melodic parts only really start with the guitar and a few flourishes from the brass. The introduction of such elements segues into a small saxophone solo, which acts as a call-and-response to the trumpet solo that follows. A drum interlude carries the rhythm while acting as a melodic break, before the saxophone carries the song back to its regular parts.

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.