I play the piano, and a bit of games. Since July 2013 I'm practicing pieces from the Piano Collections series of Final Fantasy. With the good equipment I'm uploading my visual recordings of them here. The first pieces are all from VII. Once it is finished I will do the other books.
You may find it's a bit messy here... Videos in not very uniformed types... I started the account initially for posting my piano solo transcriptions of the soundtrack of James Cameron's AVATAR. Another topic occupying much space here is the arcade game Motherload. By now there's little chance for me to follow these subject.
Gaming isn't the greatest part of my life, and I can't do excellent on it - there are too many people did those videos way better. The music contributes the popularity of FINAL FANTASY; this could be the bridge linking the two aspects of mine.
In measures 33-40 of On the Riverbank, I would have loved to hear the whole and correct harp part. It is wrong in measure 39 and absent all together in measures 36 and 40 (And in the recap) The correct harp part would make measures 36 and 40 a little trickier but the jump in 39 will be a 5th shorter.
I just discovered this now and ordered the piano sheets immediately. What fantastic arrangements and brilliantly played. That Square has made these not-dumbed down arrangements available is just fantastic. What an underrated genre games music is!!
I managed to learn all the melodies for the soprano and alto lines, but not the bass because I was having a hard time hearing the notes so I couldn't figure it out the bass melodies. Having the sheet music at the time would have made my life so much easier, but at least I got to train my ears a little bit. Sheet music is cool because I can analyze the chords, I can play the melodies, but I don't know the harmony, you know? Now I'm going to study the sheet music to see what the harmony is. Man, you got the Castle Cornelia melody right! There was this other sheet music where the middle melodie was wrong and I could tell because, well, the notes were wrong. But you wrote the same notes I'm playing because I learned by ear, but I didn't write the music down because I'm lazy I guess. But comparing what I play with what you wrote it's matching 100% .
Shiro Hamaguchi is the best arranger for Uematsu's music period. Wish they would hire him for more albums. He ushered in the "golden era" of Final Fantasy arrangements.
This album taught me to appreciate pianos in the most magical of ways. Absolutely love this whole compilation so much that I used it as part of my daily practice in teaching myself to play. ❤
I don't respect the official piano collections of Final Fantasy. Those arrangements of Nobuo's work take far too many liberties, altering the flow in drastic ways - and adding elements that I feel simply do not maintain the spirit of the original works. So I appreciate this. It's a huge improvement- albeit, not perfect. Sometimes, these renditions overstep their bounds. I honestly wish we could just get the full discography 1-10 of Nobuo's work as CLOSE as possible to the original compositions. But we never did get that. Arrangers can be very effing annoying... they just have to put their stamp on anything they touch and end up invariably tainting the source material. Anyways, a long winded way of bi***ing but also saying thanks!
I forgot to mention how many of the classics are also tragically missing from the FF piano collections. I will never not talk smack on how those were handled by Square. This also helps close the gap. Again, thanks!
No way lol. Just like others here, I'm amazed this exists. I've searched for all kinds of sheet music and played a lot of the Piano Collections across the series but never heard of this. This is a treasure trove of some of the best that I'd previously never been able to find.
This game is just appeared in my mind and i remembered for the good, old midi soundtrack so just typed in yt and found my self here! :) I was really not know how to play it properly back then, but sure it was fun. :')
