apiacherie 12/22/20 apiacherie 12/22/20

Shadowlord [END]

Finished “Shadowlord” from Nier earlier this month! I’m happy I was able to reach the finish line with this piece in a relatively short amount of time. It was a fun piece that wasn’t super challenging, but it still offered some hoops to jump through.

apiacherie 12/10/20 apiacherie 12/10/20

A Place in the Sun

A few months later, Alvin and I return with another collab!! This time we played “A Place in the Sun” from Xenoblade Chronicles II- haven’t played the game, but I found this piece in a playlist by chance and when I realized it was just cello and piano, I got super hyped lol. This wasn’t my best performance since I was a bit time-crunched (my bad), but I did hit all the notes so I guess that was my first priority. It was a faster project than the one from before, but it was enjoyable all the same and I learned a lot!

apiacherie 8/28/20 apiacherie 8/28/20

Kairi’s Theme #2 [END]

EDIT: This is the final take for now. There’s one wrong note but otherwise, it was solid enough where I’ll mark it complete.

Last post before the final take for this one! All the notes came back to me, and I worked on refining a few bits. Otherwise, I just played through over and over again.

Andrea Kim 7/5/20 Andrea Kim 7/5/20

Smile Again

Finished my latest “break” piece- this time I played “Smile Again” from ARIA. I don’t know much about ARIA; I only read a handful of chapters when I was a young teen because the art was nice but didn’t get into it, but a friend showed me this piece recently and it was just so lovely I was like “I must learn this someday”.. and then I finished “1000 Words” and was like now would be a good time. So here we are!! Today’s post is going to be shorter than usual since the difficulty was extremely manageable for me, and the piece itself is pretty short.

Andrea Kim 6/29/20 Andrea Kim 6/29/20

Somewhere to Belong

Today’s post is a first for this blog!! I did a COLLAB with my dear friend Alvin and we played “Somewhere to Belong” from FE3H together- neither of us have played the game but it’s no secret that I have been emotionally invested in FE3H since like August 2019 without playing the game, so.. this was bound to happen. (Yes, I’m still eyeing “Fodlan Winds”..) Anyway, I’m posting both Alvin’s full video and also just my piano part so I can talk about both!

Andrea Kim 6/23/20 Andrea Kim 6/23/20

1000 Words [END]

This is a FULL TAKE of 1000 Words, uninterrupted from start to finish. We’ll treat this as a final take so I’ll include both positives and negatives, and look back on the learning process as a whole. This is.. potentially my Final post on this piece but I’m trying really hard to keep practicing and perfecting this, so we’ll see!!

apiacherie 5/9/20 apiacherie 5/9/20

Nostalgia

I have brought a “oneshot” recording of Joe Hisaishi’s “Nostalgia”! This will be the one post for it since I consider this my final recording. I ignored the thumbnail in my recs for a while until my friend sent it to me directly and as soon as I heard that opening Db major7, I just knew I HAD to learn this lol (thank you, Soap!!).