prophetik music ⚖️ Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Hi OCR, Here is a piano arrangement of the song theme of Last Story, composed by Nobuo UEMATSU. I’ve discovered this OST by curiosity about composer on his works, after his collaboration on the Final Fantasy series. I was really touched by this song, so emotional and sad. I’ve tried to respect this in my arrangement, alternating some soft parts and flights, but keeping restrain in the whole piece. I wanted to announce the main melodic line from the first notes (with some variation on the melody). The following part is based on the intro (part 2). Thought for a string orchestra with long notes, it wasn’t evident to adapt in piano. I’ve taken some liberties with this part to give a piano playing more natural. After that, the song starts with the real melody and a rhythm clearer. It was more natural to play this in piano. Enjoy! Guillaume Breakdown Part 1: 0'00 soft (Toberu Mono 1’12 -> 1’50 ) Part 2: 0'30 (TM 0’00 -> 0’50 ) A) 0’30 Soft B) 1’00 Arpeggios C) 1’33 (TM 0’50->1’12) Part 3 :1’52 (TM 1’12 -> 1’50) A) 1’52 : Soft B) 2’19 : Rhythm Part 4: 2'44 More animated (TM 1’50 -> 2’20) Part 5: 3'18 (TM 1’12 -> 1’50) A) 3’18 : Arpeggios B) 3’40 : Rhythm Part 6: 3'50 Culminant point of the piece (TM 2’20 -> 3’00) Part 7: 4'20 Rhythm (TM 3’00 -> 3’30) Part 8: 4’50 Soft (TM 2’20 -> 3’00) Games & Sources Real Name: Guillaume SAUMANDE Game & Songs: Last Story & Toberu Mono (The Flying One) Composer: Nobuo UEMATSU
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 really strikingly beautiful scoring on this original. opening broken chords make sense given the nature of the original. the additional left hand movement at 1:01 is really nice as well. the transition at 1:33 was a little clumsy, but i see where it came from the original. we get the vocal line at 1:52 with a similar backing rhythm and voicing to the opening. there's a fuller section that covers the culmination of the exciting part from the original. after this, we start to get into some recap material. at this point we've gone through the song mostly in a straight line, so i liked that this is starting to recap and explore a bit more. the big hit at 3:39 is rich and initially well-voiced, but it does emphasize that this track probably needs a bit of dynamic compression so that it's not such a huge range. i did not care for how basic the backing line was at 3:53 and felt that should have had more interesting rhythms or voicings given the amount of space in this section. 4:20's the last big blow of the piece, and this also isn't super exciting in what's being played until the big culmination at the end of it - again, i'd have liked to hear either a more complex line than just some chords being comped, or some adaptation of melodic material in there. after this is a very delicate representation of the melody with a beautiful set of arpeggios to back it, and then it's done. the original is really stellar with a beautiful melody line, and you do a great job relaying that throughout. i would have liked to hear a bit more complexity and care with the harmonic accompaniment in a few places, but what's here is well-handled. nice work. YES
Chimpazilla ⚖️ Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Gorgeous solo piano cover of this source tune. I agree with proph, this is very well done. I also agree with his crits regarding dynamic range, what's here is somewhat excessive and it seems like zero mastering has been applied other than a final limiter with a ceiling set to -0.2db. There is also some content living at 20-40Hz and below, which should have been EQd out since that is inaudible and only serves to steal headroom from your master. Mixing crits aside, this is a lovely, emotive and extremely well performed piece. I love it, and so will others. YES
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted April 16 Posted April 16 Don't need to get too deep on details because this is really solid! Secret Uematsu source I have never heard before, and it feels both like and not-like him as well. Beautifully executed arrangement, the source is fully dominant and it's full of the perfect piano embellishments I would expect to hear. Not everything needs to be super complex or virtuosic to be good and beautiful. YES
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