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Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections
No sheet music requests please.
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Here's a wonderful song which was already requested a couple of times: Tifa's Theme. Known from both the game, Piano Collections and the movie "Advent Children".
If you are interested, this song has a special meaning for me. In fact, it was the beginning of Final Fantasy music and consequently a reason for me to purchase a (digital) piano.
In Summer 2006, I was not much into Final Fantasy. I then began to play FF8, and as I was fascinated by the game, I found out there was also a new Final Fantasy movie: Advent Children. It was when I watched the film that I heard Tifa's Theme. I don't know when I exactly got the original recording, but I didn't know there existed the so called "Piano Collections" with its sheet music. The song fascinated me, and I began to transcribe it on my own, based on the original recording. I did quite well, and a few weeks later, I discovered the whole Piano Collection albums. I was thrown into a whole new world regarding music. As I played more Final Fantasy pieces, I kind of felt limited on my keyboard soon, the instrument I had learned 11 years. Finally, in November 2006, I got my wonderful piano, and since then there is no day I don't play on it =)
Yeah, everything began with this song. A wonderful one .
Now let me tell a bit about this performance. I played this time with a bit more mellow piano, which results in a worse audio quality on YouTube. Looks like YouTube doesn't like my mellow piano :o However, if you like my performance, you can of course download the high-quality MP3 from my website (rkton.modcraft.net/), so please don't mind the audio in the video.
It could also be that I overdid rubato a bit, hehe, I played very freely this time. But I like it ;-)
So, enjoy this lovely piece. I hope you like my interpretation!
Greetings
- Thomas