C418 - Alpha (from Minecraft Volume Beta) - Piano Tutorial 

The most beautiful way of saying: “you’ve beaten the game. Now go play it again”

SMB Minecraft Soundtrack Progress: 100% Complete! ✅ = Done! ⬛ = Not Done ❌ = Not transcribable Volume Alpha (Released as Pianocraft Volume Alpha) ✅ Key ✅ Door ✅ Subwoofer Lullaby ✅ Death ✅ Living Mice ✅ Moog City ✅ Haggstrom ✅ Minecraft ✅ Oxygène ✅ Équinoxe ✅ Mice on Venus ✅ Dry Hands ✅ Wet Hands ✅ Clark ✅ Chris ❌ Thirteen ✅ Excuse ✅ Sweden ✅ Cat ✅ Dog ✅ Danny ✅ Beginning ✅ Droopy like ricochet ✅ Droopy likes your face Volume Beta (Released as Pianocraft Volume Beta) ✅ Ki ✅ Alpha ✅ Dead Voxel ✅ Blind Spots ✅ Flake ✅ Moog City 2 ✅ Concrete Halls ✅ Biome Fest ✅ Mutation ✅ Haunt Muskie ✅ Warmth ✅ Floating Trees ✅ Aria Math ✅ Kyoto ✅ Ballad of the Cats ✅ Taswell ✅ Beginning 2 ✅ Dreiton ✅ The End ✅ Chirp ✅ Wait ✅ Mellohi ✅ Stal ✅ Strad ❌ Eleven ✅ Ward ✅ Mall ✅ Blocks ✅ Far ✅ Intro Update Aquatic ✅ Axolotl ✅ Shuniji ✅ Dragon Fish Nether Update ✅ Chrysopoeia ✅ Rubedo ✅ So Below ✅ Pigstep

A little something: Minecraft is such a... I can't explain it. If makes you happy and angry at the same time. You die, but you respawn, and rush back hoping that your hard earned items haven't been lost to the creeper that exploded, or the lava that was in the nether. It makes you not want to play when you lose progress, but then you wake up the next morning and you just can't wait to get back on your console/PC/ect and just play. You wake up at 6am, and just play and play. You spend so much time... And then you look at the clock and it's already 2pm. You look back at your world but you have only managed to make little process. But that's the fun of it. You spend so much, earn so little, but you KEEP PUSHING. You want that full diamond armour, that Elytra, that super creeper farm, that big mansion that you want to build. Minecraft is a game that makes you cry, laugh and play with friends. That nostalgic feeling of spawning in a new world with nothing. You are either with friends or yourself. Either way you start bashing that tree. Then maybe about a year later, you look back on all your progress and think "I've done it." You want to play more. But eventually... We all place our last block... Kill our last creeper... Use our last portal... Kill our last Dragon... Mine our last Diamond. Then we close Minecraft. And we never open it again. Until our child asks us one day "What is Minecraft?" And you smile, a tear comes to your eye, and you think back to when you used to play. You say to them: "A game that makes you happy and sad. A game that you love with everything you have." Then... Well I'll let your imagination do the rest. After all, that's what Minecraft is all about. Thanks for reading if you read all of it!!

My wish has been fulfilled

Hand's down, the best Minecraft song ever .

People: Sweden is the most nostalgic ever! Me, an intellectual: Alpha

alpha is like every single minecraft music mashed together

Alpha is my fav song on the mc soundtrack. It’s really inspiring and emotional. Perfect for when you just wanna lay down after a rough day of school and completely drown in fantasy and stories. It’s my favourite thing to do.

I can play up until 6:03. This is such a cool song, yet it's so hard. Now four weeks later, I've finally memorized and successfully completed the whole thing. This song is beautiful. Truly a work of art.

Learning set by set Set 1: 0:03 Done Set 2: 0:27 Done Set 3: 0:42 Done Set 4: 0:56 Done Set 5: 1:10 Done Set 6: 1:38 Done Set 7: 1:55 Done Set 8: 2:07 Done Set 9: 2:23 Done Set 10: 2:43 Done Set 11: 2:55 Done Set 12: 3:07 Done Set 13: 3:17 Done Set 14: 3:27 Done Set 15: 3:49 Done Set 16: 4:04 Set 17: 4:19 Set 18a: 4:45 Set 18b: 4:52 Set 18c: 5:06 Set 19: 5:21 Set 20: 5:40 Set 21a: 6:03 Set 21b: 6:10 Set 22a: 6:27 Set 22b: 6:41 Set 22c: 6:55 Set 23a: 7:09 Set 23b: 7:23 Set 24: 7:37 Set 25: 7:51 Set 26: 8:06 Set 27: 8:21 Set 28: 8:36 Set 29: 8:54 Set 30: 9:09 Set 31: 9:25

Who else came not because they want to learn this on piano but because they want to HEAR this on piano?

Chills. Literally gave me chills. This is the most underrated piece from the soundtrack, and you did such a good job with it! Well done!

"The best things aren't always the ones you appreciate at first but it's when you look back at them you can truly see what they did for you." Thank you Notch and the Dev team at Mojang for making the best part of my childhood, and thank you c418 for making that childhood sound so good.

This piece brings back so many memories and feelings that words simply cannot describe.

This piece is a love letter from c418 to Minecraft

People said no human creation are perfect But they are wrong This is music is perfection

Part of me feels like a lot of people don't have the patience to listen to this all the way. But I have four times, since yesterday. And it just gives me Goosebumps with how amazingly beautiful it is. And how well it was done. I'm not sure how They manage to recreate these songs so magnificently, but it's absolutely gorgeous.

oh. my. god. you have no idea how much joy this song brings me. from the very first time i beat minecraft in 2014, to today, this song never fails to bring back so many memories i would kill just to relive. this is the most beautiful arrangement i’ve heard for alpha. you’ve done it more than justice. thank you, so, so much.

I love how the song is named alpha when it is coming from an album with the word beta in it

this is genuinely one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. It feels so adventurous. Like it tells a story, one of up, downs, journey, come-up, passion, lessons learned, wisdom, love... I honestly can't explain fully how this piece makes me feel.

I see the player you mean. [PLAYERNAME]? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game. Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen. They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons. What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen? It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the [scrambled]. It cannot read that thought. No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game. Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes. But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear. It reads our thoughts. Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream. And yet they play the game. But it would be so easy to tell them… Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them from living. I will not tell the player how to live. The player is growing restless. I will tell the player a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance. Give it a body, again. Yes. Player… Use its name. [PLAYERNAME]. Player of games. Good. Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change. We are the universe. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a player. The player was you, [PLAYERNAME]. Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometers away. Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience. Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story. Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third. Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen. Let’s go back. The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother’s body, into the long dream. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Let’s go further back. The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player’s body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by… Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks “electrons” and “protons”. Sometimes it called them “planets” and “stars”. Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. You are the player, reading words… Shush… Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breath faster and deeper and realized it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive You. You. You are alive. and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player’s eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream and the universe said I love you and the universe said you have played the game well and the universe said everything you need is within you and the universe said you are stronger than you know and the universe said you are the daylight and the universe said you are the night and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you and the universe said the light you seek is within you and the universe said you are not alone and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code and the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up. ~The End~

Beautifully done. Do you think that after the Minecraft C418 series is done you could check out Terraria music too? Some of it might be difficult, but y'all are incredibly talented.

The first time I listened to this song, I cried. I remember, even all these years, I remember that moment. This is from a veteran of Minecraft. Minecraft will never die.... it’ll just respawn

This version and interpretation is so accurate, sheet music boss. I am learning it in segments and I’m at around 2:57 now (I started and went till 1:44 as the first segment) I’ll keep this updated until I learn the song. Edit: 2 weeks later I’m at 3:49

This song is like the ending of a movie or a show you never wanted to end and it says "Thank you for watching" It makes me feel nostalgic Minecraft alone is very nostalgic but its music is even more this is probably one of the best songs in the game and fitting for the end since well you've done it all you gone everywhere but you still want to play since it's very fun and for its music it makes you a bit melancholy Happy but sad and since we've gone through so much these past years minecraft always made us a bit happy throughout time and will forever be a game that everyone has loved. Years upon years someone will see it's old minecraft 360 disk and say "What is this" Boot it up and play it continuously until the end and hears this tells all his friends they play it and it becomes like 2013 again A year that we all liked there was good and bad but minecraft will always be a nostalgic game no matter how much hate or love it will always be *Minecraft.*

Is it normal to have your eyes water hearing this? Like god damn this music is really good on piano.

Finally. Alpha. I been waiting for this moment

Is this the player you mean?

To quote Jonathan Young "I said I'd do it."

If the algorithm brought you to this video, or if you just searched it Then we all have something in common We all have a bit of our souls inside that game, and in that very song for a bunch of us We are all bound by the nostalgic vibes, the long hours spent creating, surviving, stopping for a few seconds when aria math plays, or when beating the game, not willing to press that escape key. Years after, this will remain, deeply anchored, like the memories of a friend you lost contact with but always thought about. This song is one of the best thing that could happen in a lifetime.

Bro this song is genuinely on of the most beautiful piano pieces I’ve ever heard

I legit started squealing in excitement when this popped up in my notifications. This is my favorite song from Minecraft and I've been hoping for this ever since I found this channel and now I think I just might explode from happiness I think I'm actually going to cry oh my gosh I love this thank you so much

Without a doubt, the most beautiful piece of Minecraft's OST

Guys, I'm gonna cry. I love this game, I love this song and love the feeling. Thanks to all of you out there reading this, much love and much minepeace.

Alpha is one of C418's masterpieces, glad you did this one Sheet Music Boss ❤

im expecting for someone to put the entire credits poem and get thousands of likes

Sweden, Minecraft, and Alpha.. one of the most nostalgic and emotional music pieces of C418

Even if it wasn't for minecraft. It would be one of the greatest masterpiece ever created

4:57 that half diminished dissonance to the resolution makes my heart twinge for some reason.

...And the game was over and the player woke up from his dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up. Edit: this was not by me, this is the last few words of the end poem when you beat the dragon

easily one of the most beautiful pieces youve recreated on this channel but im still waiting for Cynthia's theme

I would do anything for some lessons or anything so I could learn this. Truly beautiful. I just got out of my bed at 1 am to try and learn on my keyboard. Inspiring as well

9:02 if you hear the original it sounds like actual heaven music, it's just beautiful

One of my three all time favs -Sweden (obviously) -mice on Venus (beautiful and nostalgic) -Alpha ( a mix of all the songs)

By far, one of the best compositions I've heard. And now it's on piano because of you, and it sounds amazing.

i used to play this song on piano and my childhood cat would always sit next to me when i was playing. i dont know why but i always associated this song with him and i just realized now, three years later, that you uploaded this the exact day he died. And the universe said i love you

"I see the player you mean," "r̵̨̮̝̄̎̕d̴͇̎͑͆t̴̠͈̆f̷̹̉͘͜ḡ̴͍͍̕y̶̪̓̑4̶͍̼̌͐?̶͚̝̣̽̓" "Yes, take care, it has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts."

I love how this song has aspect of a bunch of other Minecraft songs Namely Minecraft, Moog city, and Sweden are the ones I recognize

Me: “im gonna learn this” My mental health: *please no*

Finally what I live for and I've been waiting for a long time and it's beautiful. Congrats on almost 2M

the music goes from tapping the keys with 0.00000001 newtons of force, to dropping 30 ton weights on the piano from 3 miles up. a true masterpiece.

Just in time for 2 million! i don’t normally comment on these but the look on my face when i saw this video was priceless like the game and its soundtrack itself. Im so glad that you guys made tutorials for the minecraft ost, i dont think i could thank you guys enough. Congratulations on 2 million subs and here’s to 3 mil! :D

My house nearly burnt down yesterday and this is making me even more sad ;(

Ah SMB is showing his dominance again. What an alpha male

It brings back all the memories:)

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Finally you did Alpha and It's worth it to watch this tutorial you made @Sheet Music Boss

Happy 2M subscribers SMB!!! BEEN WAITING SO LONG!! CONGRATULATIONS

WHEN DID YOU GET 2M SUBS!? I remember you having almost...a thousand? GG then :) Edit: I listen to Alpha so many times everyday on Spotify, the Sweden part in the end always gets me :)

thank you sheet music boss, it’s everything i’ve ever dreamed of

This is a beautiful song and more people should know about it.

7:22 this part got even better!

That throwback to Sweden at the end... so good

Whoever is able to play this has some mad talent; great video

Is this the credits soundtrack ? Edit : this definitely the credits soundtrack Overused Meme time 8 year old me : beats the ender dragon in creative mode . Minecraft :

Yesss one of my favorite Minecraft soundtracks. I absolutely LOVE this masterpiece. C418 is a genius

Day 2 of telling Sheet Music Boss that they are legit However, I refuse to listen to this song until I earn it. I started a playthrough a few days ago because I've never beat the ender dragon in vanilla. Once I finish, I'll return. Wish me luck Edit: To answer the people who are asking, yes I did beat it

Thank you for finally doing this I've been waiting so long

i've never actually watched the credits to the end. Now is my chance to finally listen to the full song! Edit: After delving into the comments a little bit and seeing the last verses of the end... dialog(?).. i remember that i have, in fact, watched the credits to the end. But i will still listen to this on loop because it's very nice

And the universe said, "I love you"

I would listen to this on Spotify but remember that this is on the beautiful piano channel Sheet Music Boss. Keep succeeding, Sheet Music Boss. 👌👌

Easily the most slept on piece of mc music imo. Def will be my first sheet music download of yours smb ❤

Thank you Andrew, Samuel, and Rafał, for making me cry the way I did when I first heard this music

Maybe Avicci's song's? He was pretty cool artist as a kid I was listening to him with my father

THIS IS LIKE MY FAVORITE SONG FROM THE MINECRAFT OST THANK YOU

Truly a masterpiece.

I don't think you know how long I've waited for this. Thank you so much for all the incredible art you guys make and keep it up!

CONGRATS ON 2 MIL MAN I used to watch your videos for melegonivia Yeah I still suck

absolutely my fav song from volume beta

Me listening to the original Alpha: This is too good, nothing will be better than this This video:

A symphony to the life. Thank you!

"Wake up," Me: Of course.. i will

Congrats on 2mil! This is an awesome milestone! gg!

Yeah, perfect music to sleep

I have made it my life mission to learn this, so that one day, when you can no longer play the game, I can remember the joys it would bring...

Now that the long awaited Alpha from Minecraft is done, can you do Terraria biome songs next? Amazing work you are all talented

I'm satisfied on what I have built in my Minecraft world and I have decided to quite playing Minecraft but this song is just changing my opinion on redefeating the Ender dragon and play Minecraft again.

WOW, I put your piano version with the original and it seems like they remastered the music (it sounds so good)

this song is a whole story, and it’s emotional

when u realize that u r alone in the minecraft world fighting monster for survival going hell and killing monsters again and u go to kill a dragon far far away and beat the game.....the feels 😢

Beautiful work, SMB.

We need a Soviet masterpiece! And my suggestion is Time, Forward by Georgy Sviridov

You have no idea how Long ive waited for a good quality tutorial on alpha. Man i am glad your channel exists

*Day 1 of asking* Could you do *“Song of Storms”* from Ocarina of Time?

For me this is an exceptional track. The strongest emotions of light sadness🥹

Enough to make a grown man cry 😭

Beautiful song

Will you please do Stilbruch by C418? This is one of his more unrecognized songs, but is just as good as some of his Minecraft songs. I know you will never see this, or if you do, you will immediately write it off, but I would just like to ask.

*i cri evertim* But also, thank you for showcasing my favorite track from the game. I love how you've done it here. Brought the spotlight to one of the most overlooked and underrated songs in Minecraft.

Can we get Halo 3 Never Forget? Its an absolutely beautiful soundtrack and i there arent any mainstream piano channels that cover it...