MEDIC! (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"

"MEDIC!" is currently available as one of the main menu's startup themes. It is one of the two songs featured in Meet the Medic, the other one being "A Little Heart to Heart". It is listed as track number fourteen, and is one of the 33 main menu startup themes. It is the eleventh track to be added via patch subsequent to the game's release.

Guitar transcription

The following is an abridged transcription of the song.

Medic!     
F/C Major           | 
time = 4/4 130bpm   | 
Standard E-tuning   | 
(c) Mike Morasky / VALVe 2007                   

					         F Major 
    A    Fig. 1                                   Fig. 2           Fig. 1 (alt.)                          Fig. 3
e ||--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
B ||--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
G ||--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
D ||--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
A ||-(10)------------------------(10)-----------|--10--8--9--10--|-(10)------------------------(10)-----------|-------------8--|
E ||--8--8--11--11--3--3--11--11--8--8--11--11--|----------------|--8--8--11--11--3--3--11--11--8--8--11--11--|--8--10--11-----|
      
  

  B  Fig. 1                                    Fig. 2           Fig. 1 (alt.)                    Fig. 3 
|--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|-----------------|
|--------------------------------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------------|-----------------|
|-(10)------------------------(10)-----------|--11--8--9--10--|--------------------------------------------|-----------------|
|--8--8--11--11--------11--11--8--8--11--11--|----------------|--8--8--11--11--------11--11--8--8--11--11--|--11--10--8------|
|----------------8--8------------------------|----------------|----------------8--8------------------------|-------------11--|

   C
|-----------------------|------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|
|--11--10--8--7--5(s0)--|--1----0----4--3--|

Second Guitar
|--15--14--13--12--11--10--11--12--13--|--16--15--|
|--------------------------------------|----------|
|--------------------------------------|----------|
|--------------------------------------|----------|
|--------------------------------------|----------|
|--------------------------------------|----------|

Alternative

  A
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------------|--5--3--4--5--|--------------------------------------|-----------3--|
|--3--3--6--6--------6--6--3--3--6--6--|--------------|--3--3--6--6--------6--6--3--3--6--6--|--3--5--6-----|
|--------------3--3--------------------|--------------|--------------3--3--------------------|--------------|

  B
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------------------|--6--3--4--5--|--------------------------------------|--------------|
|--3--3--6--6--------6--6--3--3--6--6--|--------------|--3--3--6--6--------6--6--3--3--6--6--|--6--5--3-----|
|--------------3--3--------------------|--------------|--------------3--3--------------------|-----------6--|
|--------------------------------------|--------------|--------------------------------------|--------------|

Analysis

Key: F Major/C Major
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 125 BPM
Length: 2:34
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Update: Über
Composer: Mike Morasky

The song starts out with a strong, resolved C Major chord from a choir section, giving a triumphant feel with little tension. This is soon broken as the choir plays with a more dissonant sound, which introduces the more iconic stylings of the chromatic guitars and brass sections featured elsewhere on the soundtrack. The guitar plays predominantly within the F Blues scale, basing itself around the chord progression C5 D# F5 G#. This could easily be seen as a C Major progression, especially given how the C fits nicely as a tonic, however the riffs between chord changes are more in-line with an F Blues-style scale.

As the song slows down, the guitar fades out in unison with a newly-approaching drum fill and another, more-chromatic guitar. This carries the song into a similar section, now minus the guitar as only the percussion and brass create a more carefree section. After this break, the song repeats, with the guitar joining back in and repeating the same phrases.

Sheet Music

Key: C Major
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 118 BPM

Lyrics

Official sheet music was posted on the TF2 Official Blog on July 10, 2020. Contained in the score for Medic! are the Latin lyrics heard in the beginning. They are:

Nex est totus in ter

Medicus comodo servo

vel nos mo osto tus inter

Ah...

Update history

July 29, 2011 Patch

• This song was added as main menu music to the official game.