The first time I came across Kimi ga Iru Kara on YouTube, I couldn't hear anything special about the song. But upon repeated listenings, I realized that this song is full of unique modulations that one does not typically find in Japanese pop songs. The driving force behind this piece is the key change between the tonic and the flattened fifth (B major and F major and all their related keys). Who would have thought to implement that into a pop song? That is simply genius.
Some challenges in arranging this piece was getting the page turns to be as unobtrusive as possible, while minimizing the number of pages. Also there is a part in the first introduction where I use a triplet. This is to accommodate for the rolled chord that comes right after. There are also some subtle rhythmic differences between my arrangements and the original for the sake of pianistic writing and ease of playing.
Hope you enjoy it. Please rate and comment. Score will be available at my website.
13 comments:
hey..
thanks for the video partiture...
but, can I ask the pdf one???
I search this partiture for a long time...
The score is available as a PDF on my website, as usual. Please check out the work section for scores.
really thanks...
And.. once more...Do you mind if I put your site and partiture on my blog???
thank you.. and sorry for bothering..
My pleasure. I would prefer if you didn't link directly to the PDF file on my website, but if you could link to my website—http://www.audiomuse.ca—that would be wonderful. And no, it's not a bother. I am happy to learn that my work is helpful to others.
Thanks and enjoy. :)
ofcourse not your pdf.
I put the video and link to your site...Is it okay???
And I see that you make another FF partiture too...
A Final Fantasy fans too??
:D
Oh that's totally fine. Please share the YouTube video and my website as you wish.
When I was younger, I would wander the world map just to listen to the music. But I wanted to hear this wonderful music even when my Playstation wasn't on (it was a hassle to set up). So I realized that I could play it at the piano whenever I wanted to hear it. And that's how I got started with arranging video game incidental music for piano.
My style of piano arrangement focuses on keeping as much as possible from the original, yet keeping within the constraints of pianistic writing. While I find the Piano Collections arrangements to be quite pianistic, I feel they differ too much from the original sometimes. Interestingly, many of the original sound tracks are quite well-suited as piano solos.
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates. I upload new compositions/arrangements once ever month or two. Cheers.
Sorry for my late reply.
I've already posted in my blog (and sorry for the background... some of people can't stand to see my background)
Is it okay like that??? I mean the post...
And sorry for my bad English... English is not my mother language...
No need to apologize. I am slow in responding a lot of the time too. It's just the way things work in this busy world we live in.
Your post is great. Thanks for spreading the word of my work to the world. I also realize that Kimi ga Iru Kara is not in the Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collections album, so I hope it will be useful to many people out there.
Your English is fine. May I ask, what is your native language?
Umm... I speak Indonesian, English and Japanese a bit. But sometimes my English is really bad...
I see that you arrange the Kiss Me Goodbye and Fisherman Horizon. And you play it very well... XDDD
I wonder what kind of piano that you used when you play Kimi ga iru kara and Kiss me goodbye... It's kinda different with the fisherman's horizon one.
Actually, the music is played by my computer, so you have reason to believe that it was played quite well! It is impossible to play that cleanly in real life, at least on the piano that I own. Cheers.
Oh, so like that.
I got it.
Thank you.
i cant seem to find the score...
i cant seem to find the score...
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