OCR00800 - Chrono Trigger 'The Trial in Concert'

[orkybash]

Chrono Trigger 'The Trial in Concert'

I am honored to start off the review thread for this remix. Simply put, it is AMAZING. The only disadvantage to it showing up on Overclocked is that it's been around on other sites for a while, and the bitrate had to drop in order to get it under the filesize limit here. But if you download one CT remix from this entire site, let this one be it!

[OverCoat]

I am so glad this got put up! I remember another solo he did of the Trial a while back. The old one was more progressive and got better, however, this one starts off with a bang and gets even... bangier? Oh well, this is still awesome. The Trial is one of my favorite off the Chrono Trigger soundtrack and I am delighted that the song gets some recognition.

YOU MUST ALL DOWNLOAD THIS!

[Xaleph]

This is so INCREDIBLE

you must download this asap!!

ASAP

10/10

he is an incredible pianist, dl this now!!! This is what pianists love to hear when they listen to piano, not yanni, but something like this!!! I think that ghetto lee lewis would agree, we've all had 10-14 years of piano lessons, competitions etc etc... THIS IS A DOWNLOAD!!

[Steffan Andrews]

Thanks for the reviews everyone!

[WhalePorn]

Very very very cool. Good job spekkiosaurus

[Ghetto Lee Lewis]

Congratulations Spekko!! In contrabution to this magnificent achievement, I'm posting my review I wrote on vgmix.com a few weeks ago (also in one take). Of course, the quality of the vgmix.com version would be better because of the higher bitrate. It's barely noticeable though. I'm just glad you posted the whole thing instead of just half of the song like you said you were going to. Well, here is the review in its entirety. Keep in mind, however, even a review such as this can't possibly do justice to this song. This review and others can be found at vgmix.com

http://www.vgmix.com/songview.php?songid=896


One of the best (if not the best) solo piano version of a videogame song I've ever heard. Spekk plays like he's had a lot of Classical training with his playing. He has a style reminiscent of some of the great romantic composers, i.e. Liszt, Chopin, etc. His playing also takes on more modern characteristics of style as well, i.e. impressionism (i.e. Debussy), ragtime (Joplin, Gershwin-ish). However, most of the Romantic-ish composers did very little of actual improvisation. For an improvised arrangement, Spekko's version of this song has amazing structure.

Technique: From rapid octaves and stride playing to two-handed arpeggios, Spekk shows amazing mad skillz at piano playing. He manages to keep a level of excitement and drama throughout the piece.

More about the actual piece. The song begins with ragtime-stride stlyle playing. At about 0:38, the song begins to pick up tempo a bit and maintain a free-er style of playing. Spekk builds up the tone a bit and adds some nice little arpeggios at 0:58. He then takes a lighter approach to the piece, with some very stylish trilling at 1:03. At 1:18, he picks up the heavy tone, building up to an angrier style at 1:40. The angryness drops off at 1:51, however, transitioning to a calmer, but still involved style, with some extended arpeggios at 2:06, but then going into a softer more sensitive, yet more emotional mode of playing, picking up both the volume and intensity at 2:33. However, the piece quiets down again at 2:56, eventually fading to a nice soft ending at 3:14.

The piece is far from over, however, for at 3:17 the main melody starts again with a bit more foreboding intensity than it had originally. At 3:25 the song gets a bit crazier when Spekk begins playing rapid alternating ocataves with the left hand, while the right hand plays brief sections of the melody (with added arpeggios, although still keeping the rhythm in the left hand) to introduce the theme at a more rapid pace at 3:38. That section breaks of at some rapid arpeggios at 3:48 to introduce the second theme, still played rapidly, but with a bit less energy (the left hand playing 2 or 3 octaves higher). This time the right hand fills small sections with trills rather than arpeggios. Probably the most noticeable flaws in Spekko's technique arrive at 3:58, while fumbling with a very small number of notes. However, he doesn't let that slow him down, and continues to build emotion and drama to a brief burst of energy at 4:03, which elapses to a spasmic sort of theme at 4:08, which transitions with more extended arpeggios at 4:14, which levels off at 4:18, with calmer playing of the original theme, yet that keeps a foreboding intensity until it climaxes with arpeggios at 4:44 (that begin a bit spasmically), leading back to a slower, yet louder and more intense rendition of the main melody at 4:47, which builds to a mad octave sub-theme at 5:07, leading to some very long, (it's madness) very rapid arpeggio playingplaying at 5:16 which continues with small sections of part of the melody until 5:36 and drops off into some more quiet playing. At 5:51, a descending melody begins and speeds up to even more mad arpeggios (both hands, up and down, insanity at its best) at 5:53, which drop suddenly at 6:08. Thus begins a very fast, octave-alternating, very interpretive, high-energy rendition of the main melody, which calms down a bit at 6:33, only to begin more rapid descending arpeggios at 6:37. which continue for about 2-3 seconds. Spekk then begins the emotional portion of the melody (with much emotion), which builds until 7:22. The rest of the piece finishes with some quiet playing, and simply winds down for the finish at 7:43

Wonderfully amazing, especially for an improv. piece. 9.6/10. (lack of points due for lack of quality, not played on a grand piano, subtle errors and flaws in technique)

I admit to messing with this song a bit on my own piano, but I couldn't play anywhere near this amazing for this song. Spekkosaurus has got some serious mad skillz.

:)

[MKnight]

I love this awesome piece of work. Pretty fast pacing piano work. its on my top ten list. (i downloaded the OC Remix one not the VGMix one)

[PlatformerMastah]

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[Seith]

It's here, it's there. It's all over the piano smorgasbord. One time it's soft, emotional, sad, provocative, another time it's peppy, campy, delightful, another it's rushy, silent-film-y (at one point, I picture goofy firemen at the bottom of a burning building holding one of those trampoline thingies while a lady screams and flails her arms out of a window with flames licking out around her :) )

[and Poisonpikachu too!]

Damn man, I'll eat my hat this is so good.

When I listened to it at first, I couldn't speak. Still, I don't know what to say. Its beautiful, its classy, its first rate.

I'd tip my hat to you, good sir or madam, but I'm digesting it now.

[Asterin]

I simply cannot believe you played this entire piece in one take. Spekko, you are quite simply an amazing pianist. The piece is long and excellent, faithfully recreating the original Chrono Trigger theme while successfully creating new piano elaborations. I am a huge fan of piano pieces, (perhaps since I play piano myself), and this is probably the best piano-only OC remix I've heard.

[phase cactus]

i have problems with the file. my winamp doesn't know how long it is
and stops somewhere between where it thinks the end is and where it actually is

[McVaffe]

I don't usually post reviews but I gotta say this thing is incredible. Even though I like to do the occasional piano stuff myself I couldn't even dream of doing anything like this... at least not without the years of effort that Spekk has spent harnessing his piano chi. It's nice to see people still practice the piano now and then, the results of such long term effort are apparent here. I don't think I'd be out of line in hoping for a similarly fantastic follow-up to this song =)

Kudos man, awesome, awesome work.

[Hobbes]

i have problems with the file. my winamp doesn't know how long it is
and stops somewhere between where it thinks the end is and where it actually is

Yeah - I had the same problem, but I'm just gonna redl it and hope it works this time.

But from what I've heard, the song is really great. REALLY great. The extent of my musical knowledge comes from playing piano (except for a few year stint playing tuba in middle school), and I always love it when people do remixes on the classic solo piano, all old-school style. What impresses me is that this was done in one take... that's pretty tough to do.

But yeah. Download this if you enjoy music that's good.

[LewsTherin]

Awesome. Simply Amazing.

[neostormx]

I listen to this masterpiece more than average. So much skill is involved. Amazing.

[EntroPi]

Ok. This is just... one of those pieces where you sit there like a deer in the headlights for minutes after the song's over - and it's not on repeat.

I'll post here what I've posted at VGMix... I'm lazy. Enthalpy and entropy - two very important parts of the universe.
Anyway... I think it still holds it review quality, although I don't like some of the way I've worded some things. But, the message is the same.


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Playing
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The song argues for itself here. Spekkosaurus is obviously an extremely talented player - the parts especially at 1:40 etc. show that all too clearly. But what makes the playing so much more meaningful is the next part.

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Improv
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He goes in with a melody and basic idea of the original CT piece, and comes out with this. This, my friends, is gold. This makes the track 100 times more commendable. And he covers about 7 minutes and 50 seconds with this. He is able to do so many subtle variations on a theme and make it fresh all the way through. Plus - plus he takes the original to places where it never went before. 5:20 is a good example of this. And 5:53. And... see? So many place it would be too hard to talk about it. This is where the TALENT is, people.

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Arrangement
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This song reeks of style. It is style bliss. Style rapture. It totally capture the mood of a 'trial' with just a simple piano solo. Improv falls under here too - incredibly done. All the tonality is preserved - chords / arpeggios etc. perfectly chosen. Syncopation INCREDIBLY done, down to minute details. Dynamics? Check. Perfect tempo control? Check. Just the right amount of fills at the right time, done the right way? Checkmate!


I could say a lot more about this piece, folks. But it's when I really realize what Spekko's done with this piece that I am left completely speechless...

I would have preferred more stereo separation and a better recording setup overall. But there's not much he can do about that, so...

A must download - I don't care what kind of Spam you eat, this guy knows - and loves, obviously - what he's doing.

[Ignis]

I first heard this from VGMix and wow. DJP was right. Spekkosaurus has skillz. After hearing it a few times it makes me wonder how someone's fingers could move so fast. Bravo.

9/10

[Rychan]

Hmm... I must say this didn't strike me at first. It seemed kind of unexceptional and unemotional. I have listened to it several (uh.. 50) times sense as it grew on me. Definite thumbs up. :) Keep up the excellent work.

[VicksCornatto]

I just have to say... let this be a good example how slow things come up... I love this peice, and heard it like 3 months ago when speiko uploaded it to VGmix, but with that aside...

I said this before and will say it again... I really hate myself for not being able to play the piano like that, and furthermore... with this level of skill I recomend that Speiko would make a piano version of all the songs in CT. And make a cd, and sell it... I know copyright is a problem, but I belive he should try to find out if he could possibly do it... I really think speiko could pull it off... (I would buy the cd in a second) !!!

of coarse... 10/10

[black duck]

Mad props for this song.

It does, however, remind me of a silent film-- the whole evil guy (curly moustache and all) pinning the damsel on the train tracks, and then the wimpy protagonist saves the day.

Nicely done!

[ella guro]

The fact that someone can sit down on the piano and have this come out just amazes me. Still, if I'm going by how well the actual arrangement is, I'd have to only give it a 7/10 or so. I know it sound blasphemous for me to say that, but I just felt the need to be technical. Because, as much as I'm wowed by his mad skillz, it's just not something I can really sit down and listen to.

I dunno, perhaps I'll give it another go...

[Impeesa]

Most excellent work. While I agree with one of the earlier posters that a better recording on a proper grand piano would have preferable, I also think at the same time that it just wouldn't be the same without the saloon-style tone that the upright gives it. :)

--Impeesa--

[Majin GeoDooD]

I said this before and will say it again... I really hate myself for not being able to play the piano like that, and furthermore... with this level of skill I recomend that Speiko would make a piano version of all the songs in CT. And make a cd, and sell it... I know copyright is a problem, but I belive he should try to find out if he could possibly do it... I really think speiko could pull it off... (I would buy the cd in a second) !!!

wow that would SO rule... i'd also buy that in a second..

I've yet to listen to the remix, it's up next in my playlist, got Beatdrop's new FF8 remix on right now, cool schtuff :).. But i enjoy CT music and piano remixes, i'm sure i'll love it

*edit* After listening to it, I have one thing to say...

HOLY AWESOME!

I need to grow two more arms so i can give this four thumbs up, so for right now, two thumbs up. Awesome job!

[A.N]

this is my first reply ever, i wasnt gonna ever reply on a board on this site,but after hearing this, and ALL IN 1 SITTING, i had to create a account just to say congrats, thats some crazy talent you have.

i hope to hear some more....

Truly amazing... really 8O

[artemisjaeger]

Simply astonishing. I've listened to many of the piano arrangements on this website, and this one takes the cake. I would say that it's the most professionally done and shows all of the elements of a real classical piano arrangement. If a random lover of classical piano listened to this, they wouldn't think for a moment that it could be from a video game, and much more would also love the song. It also encompasses many differents styles, keeping the song interesting for every moment. Suspense is another element - while I was listening, I knew that the same thing wouldn't repeat more than once if any times at all, so I wondered constantly what was going to happen next. In all, this song is worth the download for people that love piano, and many of those that don't will still enjoy it.

Congratulations Spekkosaurus, this is some amazing work.

[HiddenFox]

This has always been one of my favorite arrangements, and always well be. I'm afraid there's not much for me to say that hasn't been said already, but I figure this deserves another good work comment!

[Keithius]

I absolutely love this. It is so much fun to listen to - I can't hear it enough. Truly the work of a master - I'm duly impressed that this was done in one sitting.

Of all the remixes on this site, I'd give this one a standing ovation.

Bravo. :)

[Homer]

It brings me great pleasure to even hear a song without bass drum playing on this site. I absolutely LOVE this song...If this song was the last one on Earth to listen to....I guess that'd be just fine with me....(bad commment)

[mern]

I haven't played Chrono Trigger in years, but for some reason I remember this tune. Very enjoyable interpretation!!

[Straziante]

I can honestly say that this is the best piano remix of a video game song I've ever heard. I sat and listened to this about 4 times after I downloaded it. It's been on my playlist since I saw it was newly posted. I'm more of a drums and guitar person, but believe you me, I mean it when I say I wish I could do what Spekkosaurus did on this song. Amazing. The playing is so well done, it's easy to forget it's a solo piano when you're listening to it. "The Trial in Concert" is perhaps the best candidate for a closing track on an OCR mix CD.

[Blak_Omen]

To do something like this on one take is very amazing. Good solid piano work here and fans of Chrono Trigger music will enjoy this. Although I didn't like this as much as gutzalpus's Time's Scar piano rendition this comes a close second.

There are however a few problems - it sounds like his piano needs tuning (or perhaps it is just my ear), and there are minor glitches in the piece. I feel that if he had perhaps sat down and written it out and worked it out, it might have taken this piece to a new level. BUT having said that, I have to state again that to do something at this level on one take is incredible.

Good work!

[Tauron2K]

Woooow!
This Remix is absolutely great!
This is one of the best piano-rmxs i've ever heard!
The only Problem is that this RMX gets a bit boring after 5 minutes but thats really not important.

[John the Elfy]

*Bows down before spekkosauraus* This has to be my favriote peice here at OCremix. It's a peice like this that makes a paino freak like me jump for joy. If there where more peices like this at OCremix, I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably be the happiest man in the world. and it's peices like this that make me wish *I* could play paino.

[dilbert627]

BEST.PIANO.MIX.EVAR.

EVAR.


And as I'm now trying to pick up playing the piano again, I realize how much I suck :p.

[Carbon Dog]

The sheer skill is what is most amazeing about it, from 6:08 to about 6:30 is a prime example of that, it's beautiful, totaly beautiful most likely my afvorite mix on the site :)

10/10

[Blak_Omen]

Dude, it's piano! P I A N O! Please don't make me angry by mispelling my favourite instrument.

[Spy_vs_Spy]

I can't say it enough... what an incredible remix! the first time i heard it, i knew it would be my favourite remix so far... and it still is!! Heck, i'm not even Russian, and the tempo still works great! ^_~

kudos Spekkosaurus, and thank you very much!

[The Colorful Mage]

I love piano, and can play it very well. I've been learning for five months, and I can play many great songs such as Fur Elise, the Entertainer, and Symphony #5. But Spekkosaurus is just amazing. Could you e-mail me the sheet music at deadhead90@bellsouth.net ? Thanks!

[Solid Krono]

Yes, I'd have to say that this is one of the best piano remixes I've ever heard hands down. It really is incredible what Spekkosaurus has done with one of my favorite CT songs. Consider this a delayed "great job"! :wink:

[TyRTtI]

Perfecto! The piano was very nicely recorded! Btw, are there any other remixers besides gutzalpus and spekkosaurus who play the piano very well?

[Kapik]

This is amazing. 10/10

P.S.
kLuTz and McVaffe are realy good piano players as well.

[zircon]

Spekkosaurus, I'm a classical pianist who has been playing for about eight years now, striving to attain a level of mastery in all aspects of the instrument. Listening to this remix, I must say you are truly a genius that has gone far beyond that level of mastery. This interpretation, from a musical and technical standpoint, is flawless. It brings to mind the Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, the first and third movements of the Pathetique by Beethoven, and the style of Rachmaninoff. I am especially astounded at your accuracy and mastery over the instrument- dynamics, tempo, and all. I'm working on a dramatic FF piano battle medley that I am trying to record live, and it is extremely difficult. However, you have done a more difficult arrangement (dare I say) perfectly.

I have but three questions.

First, did you use sheet music while playing this? Or did you have it all planned out in your head?

Second, what was the kind of piano you used, and what recording software/hardware did you use?

Again, I cannot get over the beauty of this masterpiece.

[Dj Orange]

Heeheehee! What fun! I can just picture this being the background music in a silent movie. My favorite CT mix, Spekkosaurus. My fav.

[Ax]

I love this. It's huge, but worth the download. I'd also like to add that it ends perfectly. About 15 times.

[Vlad Tepes Drac]

I agree with Zircon on what he said. You are really a TRUE genius with this piece. Currently your's and Crono's Symphony are my two ultimate fav songs on this site, and my favourite songs out of all that i listen to (i listen to lots :P)

This piece was so moving, it is indeed flawless and a great masterpiece. The air and feeling it gives to me cannot be easily created by any other piece. This one is very unique and so awesome.

Hearing things like this makes me wish that I took piano lessons when i was younger.

And i am also wondering if you did it from sheet music or just off the top of your head? And if it WAS from sheet music, then I hope you could give a link to it or something as i would be SOOO DELIGHTED to be able to have the notes to this piece and once i get around to learning piano this would be my number one piece I would want to play :D

Keep up the awesome piano skills
Cant wait to hear more of your Remixs!!! Ill be looking forward to it!

-Vlad

[dilbert627]

Hearing things like this makes me wish that I took piano lessons when i was younger.


AMEN. Actually, I DID take piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit. STUPID MOVE THERE. Now I'm trying to get back into it some, but working near full time hours kind of cuts down on free time for practice unless you're highly motivated (and I'm not).

[Eccles]

Its a very good piano arrangment, there's no denying.
Its a very VERY good piece of playing...

but its too looooooong.

As good as it is, I found myself wondering "Will it ever end?" after a brief while...and kinda stops it being as good a track it could have been if it was shorter.
And this doesnt go away after a couple of listens through.

Nevertheless, Its still good.

[zircon]

Its a very good piano arrangment, there's no denying.
Its a very VERY good piece of playing...

but its too looooooong.

As good as it is, I found myself wondering "Will it ever end?" after a brief while...and kinda stops it being as good a track it could have been if it was shorter.
And this doesnt go away after a couple of listens through.

Nevertheless, Its still good.

This is relatively short in comparison to other classical piano pieces.

[Eccles]

This is relatively short in comparison to other classical piano pieces.
True, but other piano pieces have more variety in them.

Again, I stress this isnt a bad track by all means...but I find it a little too long for my tastes

[zircon]

I would say that's subjective. I found this just as interesting as other classical piano pieces I play. While perhaps not as epic in scope as the Pathetique, it's a VERY good single movement. Plenty of variation, superb playing.

[Carbon Dog]

Too long?
Can the Grass be too green?
Can the Sky be too blue?
personaly, I would have loved to see it longer, but I'm afraid that if it was, some harm might come to those magical fingers.

[lightwarmth]

*jaw drops* this is amazing. Absolutely amazing. PLEASE ARRANGE MORE PIANO PIECES! WOW!

As a piano arranger myself, this is truly awe inspiring/making me totally feel like I amoutn to nothing. Great job!

[LateralSnowflake]

I challenge fans of Chrono Trigger to play THIS SONG during the Trial Sequence and turn the volume and color intensity settings on your TV ALL THE WAY DOWN. Then...you will TRUYL experience the beauty, grace, and style this piece has to offer. THANK YOU SPEKKO!

[smallestfry]

IN-CRED-IBLE!

I love it! One of my favorite tunes from CT. Definately captures the absurdity of the trial.

[Silveranth]

One of my few favorites in ct! It makes me wish I could play piano like that! Such musical genius!

[Lord Veovis]

Holy crap this is good! And he did this all in one take? That's just insane! I like the Russian sound of everything. It feels as if a lifetime of emotions have been put into this masterpiece. The increase in speed around 3'30 is done very well. Then it slows down some, slows down more, speeds up.... this is my favorite piano solo remix. 10/10

[Dionyseus]

Simply amazing, and that's all I'll say about this piece.

[EvilFreya]

I can't believe that this is the only "The Trial" remix here. That's a really cool song, and this remix proves it. This remix is absoluteley gigantically spectacuarly amazing. I couldn't find anything good enough to sum it up with one word. It's THAT cool.

[SixthFlyingMan]

Hmm.... I don't think it was too long, any more than the game was too long. Both could have been twice as long, and still been incarnations of perfection. At 3:15, I was disappointed; "Over already?!?" But then it came back, sounding almost like something I would hear as a "Tetris" background, probably because it was so heavily Russian. There were some parts horribly dissonant, but that was part of what made it all so excellent. That's the "bite" of the song, and the whole thing would be crap without it, just like a daquiri would be crap without the bite that the rum gives. Unfortunately, my download cut the song short at 7:21, which really sucked. Kudos, Spekkosaurus! Now I HAVE to listen to those EB remixes of his, too.

[CC Ricers]

Good job, Spekio! This is a very good interpretation of the theme. I like the somewhat rough texture of the piano sound. The dramatic climbs, the sudden slowdowns, it sounds like I'm playing Chrono Trigger through one of those 'newfangled' stereopticons, and it's 5 cents per half hour! Oh crap, can Crono save Marle from the oncoming train?

[SirRus]

The things you can do with the piano are simply amazing. Wow.

[hjalfi]

Fabulous. Truly. It's got structure, it's got style, it's literate, it shows a deep appreciation and understanding of what makes music, and yes, it's got mad piano skillz. It's just the right length, too.

What it doesn't have is a download link! Where can I get it? Preferably better quality than 64kbit stream... the artist profile page just points at mp3.com, which is defunct, and there's no other information. Someone said that this apparently came from vgmix.com, but I can't find anything there, either...

[Aruthra]

What do you mean, there's no link? It's right there on the song page, same as always.

[Slayer of Mortals]

Absolutely amazing. Stunning. I am listening to it right now in awe. I have a few friends who are damn good at piano but this song just completely 0\/\/nz00Rz them. Excellent, excellent job on this one. 5/5

[hjalfi]

Yeah, there is a link --- just finished downloading it. I was misled by the fact that for some bizarre reason my mouse pointer doesn't indicate that it's a link when I hover the mouse over it... very bad form on the otherwise quite well-designed ocremix site!

But I now have a copy. Of my very own. Yay!

[jordex]

Nice, I love it!

For some reason, this is exactly what I was expecting from reading the title.
Hmm... What is there to say about this piece... It's very... good... DL it!

[Moo2u]

Without a doubt my favorit solo piano mix on OCR. Very fast, fun, and even a bit hectic. Very nice job.

[cobaltstarfire]

Holed cows, this is a pretty awsome song. I love the piano :D

I think it's pretty remarkable that you rapped this out too, can't beat a good piano ditty... *goes off to be a dork elsewhere*

[Jabberbox]

it carries on wonderfully, and when its fast, its "exciting and suspensful" and when slow its "dramatic and meaningful"
just how this style of composition is supposed to be :D

[polar-]

Nice song, but the piano didn't sound too good in this piece. It was a little too thin imo. Also the dynamics wasn't very good.

[LinearX]

I can imagine this song be played alongside a silent film on an old projector. The villian ties Marle to the railroad tracks while twirling his incredibly long mustache.

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COUNT: (Nefarious laughter)

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MARLE: Help me, Crono!!

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[HershDawg]

I would rate it one of the best arranged piano mixes on the site. Not the best but one of them.

[Heyjohnny]

I Love this song, and it sticks out among the rest of the CT remixes.....there are way too many Zeal techno remixes, although I like a lot of them, there's still way too many. But this song, I love the trial song in the game, and you did a very good remix of it. I actually made a game and had this song going in the background for the beta...and it fit awesomely! (it was an FPS called Heyjohnny)

Thanks for this one spekkosaurus(sp probably wrong)

[Bummerdude]

Did you play this for real? Nah, can´t be,
hehe...yeah...or? Because this was the most
skilled pianoplay I´ve heard.
I´m speechless, nice work with the ivory, Spekkdude.

[M4x0rz]

Okay, I just registered to OCReMix, after having listened to remixes old and new on this site for a year and a half or so.

I'm a pianist, a video game pianist at that, and this remix still blows me away every time I listen, which is pretty damn often for a song. It has inspired me just to learn the note patterns of this remix (by ear) and just improvise and go crazy like Spekkosaurus does here. every second of this piece is just so fucking cool, well-played and almost hair-raising 8)

This OCReMix is godly as far as solo piano goes on this site, and it must be listened by everyone, like djpretzel says highly recommended.

[GregCaldwell]

I believe this to be the best piano remix on the site, and it's honestly some of the best piano I have ever heard in my life. Really it's just brilliant; and I wish Spekkosaurus would have done a few more like this before he quit remixing. Oh well.. I'll still be listening to this for a long time to come.

[MajLink]

Yeah this mix was a really good one, i was very glad to find a panio mix on this song. I always thought it was just begging to be mixed ever since i heard it. Great work and keep the awesome tunes comming!

[the_same_x]

hello, I am new around here, let me introduce myself...My name is Jefferson and I am from brazil, I've just signed up just to ask the sheet of this song, can I have a copy please please?

This is the best song I have ever heard in my life, I just wanted the sheet to play it on piano (I am new playing piano too and I don't think I will get to play this song one day, lol)

[Superrpgman]

Another wonderful remix by another artist who just dissapeared less than a year after sumbitting remixes.

[Steffan Andrews]

Another wonderful remix by another artist who just dissapeared less than a year after sumbitting remixes.

Stay tuned for the FF7 project.

[Steffan Andrews]

Also - stay tuned for yet another OCR site project with yours truly. :razz:

[Lucentas]

Oh wow...to think that this was recorded live, in one take...

I love when pianists just go crazy like this. It's like they have a creativity spasm and explode all over the keys and the result is sheer magnificence.

Now I just can't imagine it sounding any different, even in the game.

I love when that happens.

[tweek]

First off, this is worlds better than the first mix that Steffan sub'd. The piano sound quality is very crisp and full bodied. The performance is spot on. The arrangement is fantastic. I can hardly believe that this is one take, but I don't doubt it. There are some wrong notes in the piece, but the style of playing not only allows for them, but it almost encourages them and it gives the track a great feel. The dynamics in the piece are phenomenal. The changes in tempo are excellently performed. I suppose my one "complaint" comes from the length of the track itself. Being just shy of 8 mins, the solo piano, while very well played, becomes a little repetitive in nature. Not the arrangement, just the soundscape. The source is great, but 8 mins just feels a little too long for me. However, if 8 mins is what you needed to express yourself, far be it from me to say that's wrong!

[OA]

Really nice and varied piano work, and the long play time gives Steffan plenty of time to add in his own touches. I love these sort of extended piano solos, where you can really get a good look inside the mind of a musician. I agree with Brian, the soundscape can get a little samey, but I think it's tempered by the purity of ideas.

Overall really strong. Check this one out.