Brandon Strader

So I've got some (several) candidates: Reminiscence, The Girl Who Stole the Stars, and Another Guldove from Chrono Cross; To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X; Goldenrod City and Vermillion City from Pokemon Gold/Silver; A Sign of Hope from Lost Odyssey. I prefer any of those equally pretty much, cept To Zanarkand since it's received a lot of attention already.

Man this isn't helping. On the topic of genre: at the moment, I'm going through a pretty rough period of my life, so I've been listening to a lot of mellow stuff. Though I'm a big fan of music telling a story so I'm thinking the song should start off more mellow but slowly builds into something that sounds more hopeful and brighter. Solo piano pieces are nice but I think the method you go about accomplishing this should be up to your discretion (i.e. surprise me).