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Final Fantasy I – Prelude on Piano

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Speak of the Devil…

I know, that was quite fast. Since I was in the mood for recording; I thought I’d upload this, as a “why not?” kind of thing 😛

This all started with me messing around with FF X’s Prelude, which I then fiddled around with until it was as close to Final Fantasy I’s prelude without searching for the actual sheets. Final Fantasy I and II: Dawn of Souls is what got me into the Final Fantasy frenzy, but I quit at FF IV, jumped back in for half of VIII, then left and came back for FFX. Now I’m gone from FF again; don’t ask me when I’ll return. Maybe I’ll play VII once it releases on Steam, to judge if it’s really as good (or bad) as everybody says…

You know what’s sad? I took about 5 years to beat Final Fantasy 1. I didn’t know that I had to go back to the Chaos Temple after having gotten all 4 Crystals, instead I was in the “Waterfall dungeon” or whatever, with 50 floors; manage to go through all of them twice. Suffice it to say: Chaos was a huge joke 😛

Anyways, enjoy the video:

Maurice Ravel – Prélude

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Well guys, I know there’s been some delays and I’m very sorry for that.

T’was working a lot on my gaming forum/blog (will reveal at the end of this month) and that made me very tired. Hence, I wasn’t able to upload a new video for like a month. (Make that 5 weeks.)

I’m very sorry for this. Some of you may have thought that I’m dead, but I’m not. School has been very busy as well and just trying to get time in to relax doesn’t leave time for taking 10-30 takes to get a nice recording of a song.

Anywho, been practicing this song for a while now. This song was originally used for sight-reading tests of Grade 8 Piano students. I didn’t do it as a sigh-reading thing… I just played it like I normally would.

The middle part of the song (where the hands go over one-another) is the hardest. The way to learn it? Practice, practice and practice.
As we all know, practice makes perfect – it’s even been shown if you practice a task for 1’000 hours, you will get very good at it. Now, don’t forget that it isn’t all in time. If you practice for more than 2 hours, then you’re doing something wrong. After 2 hours, your mental capicity and concentration gets very low; which translates into not much progress any more. (Might even hinder progress at times.)

 

Enough rambling talking…
I’m sure you’re here to see the next song I uploaded. It’s a short classical piece and-

You know what?
‘Ere ya go: