Rikku’s Theme #1
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Rikku’s Theme #1

This may not come as a surprise, but I haven’t really been playing anything of substance lately… I don’t know what it is, but I can’t seem to stick with one piece for more than a few days. I also just haven’t really been playing piano consistently in general… But, I woke up yesterday morning and for some reason this piece just popped into my head so I went to play it- surprisingly, it’s coming pretty easily to me so I’m hoping I can finish this properly. (If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said this…)

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Vimara Village #1
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Vimara Village #1

WOOOOOOW I’m finally feeling a little more like myself in terms of playing piano which is amazing!!!! I’ve been working on the nighttime version of Vimara Village from “Genshin Impact”- this one is dedicated to my mom because while I was just flipping through a bunch of different pieces, she was like “hey that one piece you were practicing sounded nice, why don’t you keep working on it” and I was like ok. I first gave up on this arrangement early on because I was super discouraged by a specific section… but somehow I overcame it?? More below- and this one has two videos in one since I made so much progress in 24 hours I wanted to capture it.

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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #3
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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #3

Had a lot going on so didn’t get to post this any sooner, but this take is from two weeks ago… and I haven’t played since, so unfortunately I can’t really recall too many of the finer details. But I’ll see what I can do… I do vaguely remember that my max tempo was around 72 bpm but I likely played slower in the take and my metronome is all the way downstairs :~)

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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #2
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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #2

I am officially unemployed / in between jobs (start date April 18), so I’m finally back to playing piano somewhat more regularly now that things have settled. I’m hoping to update at least once more prior to starting my new job… let’s hope that pans out. Anyway, I’ve been making glacial progress with this arrangement and wanted to update before I get too much further. I was off to a pretty good start last month, but I’m now realizing just how much more work is going to go into this and am……. mildly despairing lol. BUT, I think I’ve made some notable progress compared to last time, at least, so there’s that.

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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #1
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Dearly Beloved ~ Concert Paraphrase #1

After many years of being too intimidated to do anything more than timidly sightplay this arrangement, I’m finally trying my hands at it in the spirit of facing challenges.

I’m trying to adopt a more “open-minded” approach to progress updates (as in, obsess less over a good take and capture my progress more candidly and more often) so to that effect, this is a full take of my progress so far, but it’s going to be very obvious what I’ve worked on, which isn’t very much!

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Innocent Age #1
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Innocent Age #1

It’s been a while!! I had a not insignificant case of the holiday blues and just didn’t have much to update.. but I heard this Genshin arrangement after returning to work this week and I just HAD to try my hands at it. I probably could’ve kept this as a oneshot post, but I made a substantial amount of progress in one day so I figured I could upload the first half before tackling the rest of it. This is the original arrangement, and the sheet music only costs about $2!! Very much worth my money.

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TSUYOKU NARERU #1
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TSUYOKU NARERU #1

Every time I think about this song in any capacity, I think of my sister suddenly belting the opening line randomly… this one’s for her. I don’t actually know if I’ll finish this arrangement anytime soon, but I have this recording from earlier this month so I figured I’d post it for now… Fukane arrangements are pretty fun, but the relentless octaves really do a number on my hands so it’s hard to keep at them consistently. Legit feels like I have nerve damage sometimes and it is downright terrifying LOL.

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Musique pour la tristesse de Xion #1.5
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Musique pour la tristesse de Xion #1.5

The Animal Crossing update literally took over my life so I finally am here to update with some older takes from this month- this one is for Xion’s theme, and I’m not really sure how to number it because I worked on it a LOT in the past (right before starting a blog) so it’s not quite like I’m starting from scratch… Anyway, this is a take from a couple of weeks ago after I spent some time knocking the rust off after almost 3 years. My goal for this year was to finish this piece properly (this was before I lost an entire quarter to Depression and other fun things) and I guess I’m on track to meeting that goal?? But I’m also not going to stress myself over a deadline; we’ll see how things go.

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Racing Into the Night #1
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Racing Into the Night #1

IT’S HERE!!!!! The arrangement I thought I’d never be able to play for a multitude of reasons… it is finally here. My good friend gifted me a Fukane arrangement book for my birthday recently and this was the first arrangement in it and SINCE THIS IS MY FAVE YOASOBI SONG (to date), I had to start with this one. It’s… an interesting arrangement and my thoughts have changed in the past few weeks of working on it, but overall it’s been a lot of fun. Here’s the first like 20%- Fukane uses soooo many repeats and codas and del signos… Anyway, please bear with me as I attempt to waffle my way through while minimizing wrist strain lol.

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Lazy Afternoons #2
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Lazy Afternoons #2

Here’s a progress update on this piece from last weekend! I wasn’t really diligent about practicing this piece consistently during the past couple of weeks so progress has been pretty slow, but I’m just about wrapping up the piece as of today, so hopefully I can finish it out this month. This take was from a day that wasn’t quite meant for recording, but I somehow eked this out since I figured the next take would also likely be the final take at the rate I’m going. So, please forgive the wooden playing lol.

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