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!
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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!!
1000 Words #3
Hello, hello- today’s post is for a recording from May 28. Haven’t had a chance to get a decent recording more recently, and at this rate, I feel like the next recording will be the last for this piece.. just more progress on the piece from the prelude to the main theme’s first appearance, and this time we go to the end for the first time (on camera, at least).
1000 Words #2
This is a progress video of the first half or so of 1000 Words, I’d say with about three days of practice? I was working on another project for most of last week and was waffling on this piece but I finally sat down and started learning properly. There are still some rough spots but overall, progress is coming along!
1000 Words #1
This is a first read (and also first.. listen?) of 1000 Words from FFX-2 from earlier this month; I only clocked in like 10 hours as a kid and unfortunately never went back to the game but I know the plot vaguely and FFX also still hurts my feelings so HERE WE ARE!! I got a new piano book and was browsing through things to sightplay and I stopped after the first 30 seconds or so because 1) I was too distracted getting emotional over the chords to READ and 2) I wanted to record my very first sightplay for this. I actually also had not listened to this AT ALL before playing, so.. it was an interesting sightread..
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!!).
Gods Bound by Rules #2
Hello!! I meant to update last week but I ended up.. not having any drive to do anything due to the Situation so here we are now. I was able to use my new mic for this and also a new recording angle?? I tried using my front-facing camera this time but it’s so hard to get the shot lined up perfectly while looking up at the camera.. my neck.. Anyway I’ve made some progress on the sixteenth note passage.
Transfer Complete
After nearly a year on my previous platform, I bit the bullet and bought my own domain- and moved to Squarespace in the process. All posts have been imported properly, and I updated the “About” page and added an “Archive” page.
Happy to have finally made the move and looking forward to continuing to maintain this blog!
I also dropped some cash monies on some new equipment so…. hopefully I can update this blog more often with that. I aimed for monthly updates before but now I want to update at least twice a month once everything comes in next week.
Gods Bound by Rules #1
Okay, first post on the new site, with the shiny new domain!! Still working on fixing up the older posts that were transferred over from the other platform, but wanted to update today with a recording.
Started a new piece from Nier called “Gods Bound by Rules”- I initially wrote it off as one of those pieces that I wouldn’t be able to play due to my hand size, but after several months, I came back to this for fun and decided to try my hand(s) at it (pun intended). Today’s post is more of an overall analysis; subsequent posts will be back to smaller chunks.
Vague Hope - Snapshot #1
Started a new piece as I wrap up Noct's theme because I was getting restless from not learning anything totally new. This is an arrangement from Nier: Automata!! No, I haven't finished Dependent Weakling. I'll finish that.. eventually..
We'll also try something new with annotated score!! This is actually an unofficial transcription so there is a nice, clean PDF I can mark up. There are two recordings today :)