Sheet music for this arrangement I made in 2021, combining themes from Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core.
I recently made a shorter version into a music box:
final fantasy vii
FFVII Remake Demakes come to Spotify! (and elsewhere)
Very pleased to announce and Original Soundtrack Plus-Minus Vol. 1, the first volume of my FFVII Remake covers in the style of the original 1997 game is up for listening on Spotify! also incidentally the first covers/arrangements of any kind I’ve officially released.
Avalanche’s Theme, Jessie’s Theme, Critical Shot, Run Run Run, together with an original composition.
Continue readingCloud Smiles (FFVII Advent Children) – oboe and piano
The last thing I filmed before Christmas, this gorgeous piece from the end of the Advent Children movie, by Nobuo Uematsu. I watched Advent Children last Christmas Eve, for the first time since it came out (and in the Complete version which I guess I hadn’t seen) and honestly loved it this time round. Also felt like I’d been missing out on the soundtrack all these years. I’ve made a ff7 soundfont version, a music box version, and now…
The first melody is on the oboe in the full orchestral version too so I wanted to see how an oboe and piano take would sound.
I had to practise that piano part quite a bit!! (And even then don’t expect me to ever manage it live.) And the oboe, phew, a lot of sustaining needed.
Jessie’s Theme (FFVIIR) two ways
Last year I did a bit of an arrangement/restyle of Jessie’s Theme by Masashi Hamauzu from FFVII Remake:
Lately I recorded this in a live piano and oboe version:
Two kinds of music boxes
I’ve definitely ironed out some mechanical issues I was having in music box tape making, and made a couple 30 note tracks I’m really pleased with:
I’m also though trying out making pretty short and loopable ones back on the 15-note box; sounding something like a mini box with cylinder you might buy.
These are a lot quicker to make, obviously because they’re shorter and lesser in scope, but also specifically because it’s 15 notes all the diatonic ones of 2 octaves, it’s not too hard to write notes straight on and get a feel for where the notes are. (The 30 note box has a wider range with some chromatics, but only a few notes, all the chromatics in the middle, only tones towards the top etc — so it’s hard to glance at the grid and appreciate where a note might be. Though I’m sure you can learn it too…) But yeah, even though the tone of the bigger box is… mwah, beautiful… the smaller one is actually still very sweet and idiomatic and we can do things with it.
flowers ~
Kind of on a roll after Cloud Smiles … Earlier I finished up a piece that I’m not posting quite yet as it might be part of something bigger, and then I did a couple of ‘warm up’ sketches. This is one of them arranged two ways, with the FFVII soundfont again. (Yes, exactly like Aerith’s Theme and Flower Blooming in the Church.)
[FFVII/R] midnight fireworks, full sound version
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
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!
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.