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Cloud Smiles

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An honorary addition to my FFVII Remake Demakes series… This piece, ‘Cloud Smiles’, plays at the end of the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children movie from 2005. I transcribed it and put it on the original 1997 sounds.

I guess people may wonder why I would do such a thing… mainly just because I want to, but I guess 1) because I enjoy the ‘warmth’ of the old sound samples, and this is a project to make the newer tracks ‘fit’ in the old game 2) it’s practise transcribing and quite a nice way to really get to know a piece and pick up some arrangement/orchestration tips !

I’ve been realising with the Remake Demakes and also I’ve been making some sheet music of Taylor Swift songs, been doing more transcribing/arranging lately — if I think back to ten years ago how much more confident I’ve got with it..! yay!

[FFVII/R] midnight fireworks, full sound version

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An arrangement of an arrangement! I did a piano mashup of Midnight Rendezvous x Interrupted by Fireworks back in May, and it was one of the first videos to get some views and love on my channel, as well as being a really pretty piece to play. Since then I’ve been doing a bunch of original FFVII style versions of some of the new-composed FFVII Remake tracks. This kind of combines the two. I based it closely on the arrangement I’d done on piano, but got to add more layers in, like the Main Theme, as well as the two main tracks and a bit of Aeris’ Theme.

Avalanche’s Theme (FFVIIR): Piano

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This is a piano version of the new theme Masashi Hamauzu wrote for Avalanche in Final Fantasy VII Remake. This is intended to be a basic piano version, rather than a pianistic arrangement, like the OST piano album that was made for the original……. in honour of which, I’ve done up the sheet music to look as much like that as possible, because that’s fun.

You can download the pdf sheet music here.

Multiple mes!

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This is mostly working on videoing, but a bit of music also for sure… Trying to work out how to film videos with myself playing more than one part on screen at the same time.

Experiment, playing a FFVII tune fairly casually:

Here’s a piece I arranged based on three tracks from FFVII, FFVI and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

And finally here is me x3 playing it “live” altogether! I couldn’t get the lighting 100% perfect and smooth between the shots, but I think it looks quite good nonetheless.

‘A Broken World’ piano and orchestra arrangements

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Hiii so I seem to have posted a bunch of stuff on youtube that I haven’t updated here! For the sake of completeness and because these are quite nice….

‘Return to the Planet’ and ‘A Broken World’ are tracks from the Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack by Masashi Hamauzu that are original to that score – and, as you might be able to guess from the titles, really emotionally charged.

I did a fairly faithful piano arrangement:

And a really reimagined/new genre’d orchestral/soundtrack one:

FFVII R OST demake: Collapsed Expressway

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Another Final Fantasy VII Remake track done in the (broad) style of the original FFVII game. Actually this piece is really such a long way from the original style/genres and I didn’t completely rewrite it to make it fit, but I tweaked a few things and of course used the soundfont, so it sounds kinda like the original. And it sounds cool!

Also a little while ago I did the same with Avalanche’s Theme:

(Which I think actually sounds pretty reasonable as a FFVII era track.)

‘Home Away From Home’ (FFVII Remake) oboe and piano

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I did a quick transcription of another pretty piece from the Final Fantasy VII remake. This piece is by Takafumi Imamura, using themes by Nobuo Uematsu from the original game (Main Theme and Holding Thoughts In My Heart). And I played it on piano and oboe 🙂

Home away from home (in Bb) score on musescore

Throw(way) back whatever day it is

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Heartache

This is an arrangement/VGMix based, loosely, on Zelda’s Lullabye. I made this in 2004 on I think the first version of Garageband which contained nothing more specific for orchestral stylings than “Strings” and “Horns” sounds, couldn’t yet use soundfonts, and had no facility to adjust tempi during a piece!  worked around all that, and loved doing it.  Bits of recorder and oboe and extremely reverby vocal “aaahs” by yours truly.

I think I submitted this as part of uni applications?

It’s all about feeling emotional and nostalgic about video games, hee.