Playing With Danger (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"

"Playing With Danger" is track number two featured on the Team Fortress 2 Official Soundtrack and track three on The Orange Box Official Soundtrack. The track plays during Trailer 2 and is one of 33 different main menu start up themes. '"Playing With Danger" is also the track heard from the various map introduction videos, and parts of it are used as audio cues for the Dueling Mini-Game, Casual Mode level ups and Main Menu alerts. A loop of its percussion-only part is used as the background on the main class selection screen, with an electric guitar playing a modified E minor harmonic blues scale; one note for each individual class.

Guitar transcription

The following is an abridged transcription of the song.

Playing With Danger     
                     
time = 4/4          | 
Standard E-tuning   | 
 
(c) Mike Morasky / VALVe 2007                   

					         E Major
                                              Clean Guitar
       Fig. 1                     Fig. 2                     Fig. 1                    Fig. 3
e ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------|
B ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------|
G ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------|
D ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------|
A ||--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------------|
E ||--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--------------6--6--5--5--|--0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--5--5--5b6--5b7--|
 
      Fig. 1                     Fig. 4
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --0--0--0--3--3--3--0--0--|--0--7--7--7--6--6--5--5|
    
                                              Tremolo/Vibrato Guitar
      
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------3--2--|
    --4--3---------2--3--4--3-|--4--3------2--3--------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|
    --------------------------|------------------------|

                                                     Piano Melody

       Fig. 1                          Fig. 2                         Fig. 3
    -------------------------------|-----------------------10--9---|--9--8------13--12--|
    --12--11-------12--11--12--11--|--12--11-------12--11----------|--------11----------|
    -------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|
    -------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|
    -------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|
    -------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|

Trivia

• Like several of the tracks in the soundtrack, "Playing With Danger" uses the same chords and tune as the "Team Fortress 2 (Main Theme)". Both songs are also in the key of E Major, feature the same guitar part, and feature the use of the blues scale.
• The track's arrangement and composition strongly recalls The Battle of Algiers by Ennio Morricone.