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Nutritious
Justin Medford
NutritiousMultimedia@gmail.com
http://nutritiousmultimedia.googlepages.com
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Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy IV
Anxious Heart (FF7), Main Theme (FF4)

This song was originally created for the Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core arrangement competition at Squaresound.com (it placed 6th, which seems to be the only place I'm allowed to attain for their competitions ). This is somewhat of a sister mix to my previous submission, Full of Courage, for the FFIV project since it utilizes the same source tunes. Anyway, I'll go ahead and paste my sub letter to them below:

I haven't heard any of the Crisis Core soundtrack, so I decided to stay in familiar territory and remix a piece from FF7. Anxious Heart was an easy choice for me because of its moving chord progression. I decided to go for a much more mysterious and hopeful feel in my take of the original. You'll probably notice that it eventually leads into the FF4 Main Theme briefly as things crescendo. This was actually somewhat of an accident on my part as I was intending for the piece to lead into the FF7 Main Theme. When I was writing it out, I inadvertently began writing the FF4 Main Theme instead. I later realized what I did and changed it to FF7, however, it didn't fit the mood or style nearly as well as FF4. So, I ended up keeping the FF4 theme in the final version.

-Justin

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You keep working hard, you'll place higher. You don't sound deflated, but of course I'll say you shouldn't be discouraged if you've felt that way.

http://tzone.org/~llin/psf/packs2/FF7_psf.rar - 104 "Anxious Heart"
http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ff4 - "Main Theme" (ff4-07.spc)

The brass could have used some more oomph, and some of the higher bowed string articulations sounded pretty fake when they were exposed, so there were some flaws. But this was otherwise a creative and effective meshing of the two sources. The overall treatment feels more BGMish than attention grabbing (not a negative), but short and sweet, I'm down.

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