Final Fantasy X - Calm Before the Storm (Harp Solo)
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2022
- Shoutout to FFX, the game that accomplished the near impossible feat of making me hate butterflies
Composed by: Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged and performed by: Harpsibored
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This is your story.
StAy AwAy fRoM tHe SuMmOnEr
@@Harpsibored The fact that I read it in the old hag's voice is kinda scary...
@@Harpsiboredyou’re a bad man!
I didn’t imagine how pretty this would sound on a harp!
What I love about your versions of these FF songs is that you tend to keep the emotions of the original versions. It feels like you understand the feelings that Nobuo Uematsu and the others intended to communicate to their audience. When you combine that with your beautiful playing, you make the songs shine so much. Thank you!
That's a huge compliment, thank you so much!!!! Sometimes I imagine the scene the song's from as I play, so maybe that helps 💕
That's just what I was thinking.
A superb rendition. FFX is another one of those special soundtracks, where with every piece of music you can visualise exactly where you'd be if you were playing the game.
Thank you!!! 💕 yeah this song instantly brings up images of an icy blue forest for me. Love it.
Chasing those stupid butterflies for hours. Hahaha. Love this rendition
This was always one of my favorites - something slightly mysterious, ominous, and melancholic about this one. Love your version!
Thank you so much!!! 💖
exactly perfect for that point in the story before seeing seymour, the revelations that happen at mt gagazet between yuna and tidus before progressing to zanarkand
Plot twist: You're the harpist Tidus and his friends meet in Macalania Forest.
Don't those guys disappear or something in X-2 😅
Again, a highly suitable song to be played on the harp, loved it :))
Thank you!!! Yeah I really love how this one sounds on harp 💖
Very nicely done . FFX is full of great music and you as always remind me of the great melodies of the FF franchise. This was a great rendition on all accords :D
Thank you!!! Yeah this is one of my favorites from FFX 💖
Oh I love your rendition of that second part at 1:40 . It was so cute, playfull, funny, and beautiful! awesome work! I didn't know harp was such a cool instrument!
Thank you so much! Yeah in that section I tried not to interpret the song as literally and adapt it to suit the characteristics of the harp. It was really fulfilling to play. Thank you for listening ❤️
An enchanting performance of a lovely song. I'm glad you got to be featured like this. Eager to hear more from you.
Thank you 💖
One of the most beautiful pieces in VGM played perfectly on its optimal instrument
Thank you so much 😭🎵
Seeing such talented renditions if FF songs on an instrument like this really shows how brilliant Uematsu’s songs are. Love your composition here.
Thank you so much!!! 💙
Beautiful track, arrangement, dress and musician!
Thank you 🧡
Don't forget the set dressing. Picking out and putting up different drapes adds to the production.
@@ThomasMHead glad you appreciate my $18 tablecloth hahaha. But I do try to think of which color suits the mood of the song best!
I really hope this gets an extended arrangement. I could listen to this for a long while.
Will definitely extend this one at some point. Thank you so much!
This could literally be in the games soundtrack and fit in perfectly. Awesome
Thank you so much ❤️ if I were Kimahri, I would creepy smile right now
@@Harpsibored lol that scene is so funny. Tidus: "Saaaaad."
Such an iconic track. Very haunting, very mysterious. If only the butterfly minigame was a bit more fair...
Thank you ❤️ I have yet to ever finish that minigame, but Kimahri sucks, so it's all good.
I always loved this one from FFX. Such a mystical and enchanting vibe. Hearing it on the Harp just takes me places, not the annoying cloister of trials, but the good places. 😁 Very nice arrangement and extra magical touches of yours here. The glissando is always a nice technique for me to hear. I am now 100% more enchanted because of your rendition. Awesome performance! Thank you for sharing this. Loved it yah?
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Thank you so much! 💕 Noted: glisses good, Cloister of Trials glyphs bad. 😂
@@Harpsibored Hahaha you're welcome. Also....I see you made it well over 2k by now. That's incredible! See what I mean? I told you a little bit back that the second thousand subs seems to come quicker, well....this just came at phenomenal speed and you deserve every bit of attention and much more. I'm so thrilled to see you're gaining momentum at such a quick pace. I'll talk about this again at 5k! 😀😃
I have never played this game, but due to a college roommate's obsession with this OST, I have always appreciated this particular piece of music. I saw it in your list of works, and knew I was in for a treat. You didn't disappoint. Thank you!
Your sense of humor is also on point, and keeps making me laugh with your descriptions. I laughed aloud at "making me hate butterflies." Even without in-game context, that's funny. Thanks for all the effort and kindness you put into your channel.
Oh, boy. Well, one day if you play this game, you'll find out why I hate butterflies. Good luck.
Thank you so much!!!!! ❤️
I’ve heard this piece ad nauseum in game and this is the first time I’ve ever heard it in my head in triple meter and it makes so much more sense now lol
Hah, getting through Macalania Forest encounters can be a bit of a drag, but at least the atmosphere's beautiful.
That moment at 2:10 though 😍 Amazing job as always! Hope you're back at full strength soon 💪
Thank you! Yeah this song required a lot more power in the left hand but I was able to pull it off. Getting better I hope 💕
So beautiful. I need to get back to the game, just for the music if nothing else haha
And now you know the name of the track hahaha. Thank you! 💖
This is mezmorizing. It's one of my favorite songs from FFX and you nailed it! Thank you for this gem!
Thank you so much!!! Glad you like it!! 💙
My favorite song in the game. Well done as always!
Same, it's definitely in my top 5. Thank you!!! 💕
One of my absolute favorite tracks from FFX! Funny enough, I already did not like butterflies before reaching the forest 😅
Lovely arrangement! I like the balance of using the LH both for bass and for harmony in the first half. The virtuoustic mid section was a nice addition!
Thank you so much!! Haha, what did butterflies ever do to you?! Although I guess when you think about it, they're just colorful bugs.........
Amazing that this track still reaches to today. It's timeless. Brilliant job 🙌
Definitely in my top 5 tracks from FFX. Weird how this song only plays in dungeon/enemy areas because it's so relaxing, heh. Thank you!!!
This soothes my troubled soul ❤ one of my favourite pieces of ff music and now my favourite iterations of it . Bravo this is magnificent ❤ love from the uk 🇬🇧
Thank you so much, glad to hear ❤️
Checked my subs today and couldn't have asked for more. What a wonderful surprise bday gift, thanks so much
Whoa HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎈🎁 Hopefully you spent today seeing a performance of "I Want to be Your Canary" in which absolutely nothing goes wrong. Cough
I only recently came across your channel and I'm so glad I did!! FFX & VIII are my favourites and your arrangements are incredibly beautiful, I could happily listen for hours 😌
FFX and VIII are in my top 3 whoo! (can't top IX for me but I still love em) Thank you so much!!!
I feel like I need to play this game again now.
Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories!
amazing!!
Thank you ❤️
This is so gorgeous, and it's wonderful to see you making your way (downtown) back to playing more tricky pieces again 🥰
I love this, and I'm so happy for you 💚 And congrats on stealing the show at VGM Together! 💃
Thank you 💚💚💚
Perfect and magical
Thank you 💙
Beautiful
Thank you ❤️
Wow! I'm not sure where to start there is so much I would say to you. Firstly this is one of my fave pieces of music ever I'm also obsessed with final fantasy music and consider Uematsu a modern day musical genius! Saying that I'm sure he or few people can play a harp like this!!! You are an angel. Absolutely flawless playing like you are one with the harp. I think if I was straight I'd want to marry you! So glad you decided to pursue this. Simply beautiful ❤️
Thank you!! One of my fave pieces from FFX 💙 I felt the ethereal quality of the song would really suit harp
Beautiful ♥
Thank you 💕
Goosebumps....just made my morning. RUclips algorithm did me justice. Subbed.
Yay!!! Thank you!! ❤️🎵
Gorgeous! Well done!
Thank you 💕
Incredible work.
Thank you 🥰
This is incredible, absolutely love your channel!
Thank you so much 💖
Amazing!
Thank you 💙
This was my favorite ost in ffx, you did so great like always!! Pretty soon my sleep/relaxation playlist is gonna be nothing but your videos lol
I'm honored to be on the sleep playlist 💤💕
beautiful
Thank you 💕
Thanks for this beautiful nostalgia. 🌹
Thank you for listening 🎶
Another espectacular execution. Thanks to you.
Thank you ❤️
This is beautiful! Thank you for this wonderful rendition of my favorite FF song.
Thank you so much!!! 💙
So gorgeous!!
Thank you 💕
Just beautiful and so atmospheric. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you 💕
Beautiful ❤❤❤. Soothing and relaxing
Thank you for listening 🎵
What a lovely melody!
Thanks dude! ❤️
Wonderful! Crazy talented.
Thank you 💕
Loved it
Thank you!! 💖
Waking up to another banger 😌
Good morning 🌞
I love it, thanks.. you've created something beautiful here.
Glad to hear!!! Thank you for listening! 💙
I remember back when you said harps could be played slowly to cover up mistakes. Look at you now!
An absolutely gorgeous rendition and your strumming is excellent. Thank you for sharing Harpsibored!
Fuck the butterfly minigame.
Lol wait what'd I say? I think it's harder to cover up mistakes when you play slowly. Well anyway thank you very much as always!!! 💙 Catching butterflies and Kimahri can be safely ignored.
Whoa, great job on this one!
Thanks so much!! 💖
You are talented! ❤❤ love this version of this song
Thank you so much!!! 💕
Such a great song for harp. You did a perfect job.
Thank you ❤️
THE FFX song that soothes me and makes me feel so nostalgic for my adolescence when I discovered the game 😍❤️❤️❤️
A huge thank you for your magnificent interpretation on the harp 😊
Thank you so much for listening ❤️ FFX means a lot to me too 🥰
Incredible! It's like I'm back there again 🥹
Thank you!!! ❤️ just hope you weren't catching butterflies
My favorite track from the game, beautiful!
Same, one of my faves too. Thank you 💖
this sound super great and relaxing, love it ! (best ffX song)
Thank you so much! 💕
Wonderful
Thank you 💖
What a beautiful calm. This choice is matching great with the harp and also your talent
Thank you so much!! 💖
Thanks for reminding me (in the best possible way) how much I hate butterflies.
Anytime 🦋💀
Just ran into your channel. This is really awesome to see someone who appreciates the music of these games and plays as beautifully as you. Looking forward to seeing what else you produce.
Thank you so much!! Stay tuned for more FF music 💕 that is my calling
This is such a beautiful and peaceful tune, I kinda hated how the battle theme broke it with the glass crashing and the DUN DUDUN DUDUN every 5 seconds lol. Much better when revisiting the area later with No Encounters on. Love the performance!
Thank you so much! Hahaha ugh I love FFX but the glass breaking transition was overkill. It's like the developers knew they were creating these beautiful serene environments and felt like gamers needed a jolt into hell.
One of my favorite pieces in FFX. What a beautiful take on it, LOVE IT!!!!! ❤
Thank you so much!!! 💙
How only 13k views? THIS is art!
Thank you 😭 well, for a small channel like mine 13k ain't too shabby hehe
Came here from Twitter after stating it’s my fav. FF song. You kick so much ass on this one. I didn’t realize you covered it before. Thank you.
Thanks so much, glad you made it here!! One of my fave FF songs too 💙❄️
This took my breath away
Thank you 💕
Perhaps sometime! To be honest I have other FFX songs that I want to play first but you never know when inspiration strikes.
I usually dont like high Tones, but in this - thats makes the Differenz. It's So beautiful... :)
Thank you 🎵
damn this is inspired. great work
Thank you so much 💕
The most talented woman on the internet. Loved this T___T
Nahhhhhhhhhh. Thank you so much though 🥰
Love this… I could put this on repeat all day. Final Fantasy has always been part of my life, but you just made it more beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!! ❤️ Same, die-hard FF fan here since age 12. Can't get enough of the music. Btw, here's an hour long extended version of this if you want: ruclips.net/video/Fe0K1tShxxw/видео.html
@@Harpsibored You just made my upcoming weekend reading time that much more special. Thank you again, you truly belong within the realm of Final Fantasy!!
Great work once again! Love listening to these. I end up getting your version stuck in my head! You've inspired me to remake a FF song!
Thank you so much 💖 ooh which FFX song?
@@Harpsibored I'm thinking FFV Fate in Haze. One of my favorite retro ones. If I try to remake a newer one it will just end up sounding worse 🤣
@@OomptzMusic oh oops I misread, thought you said FFX. Love Fate in Haze ❤️ that's my favorite dungeon theme. Go for it!!!
stupendous work, this sounds fantastic. love what you did in the B section with the right hand octaves
butterfly minigame indeed is ass
Thank you!!!! ❤️ yeah I like how that section came out pheww.
Kimahri can easily be ignored in FFX.
splendid :)
Thank you ❤️
Nice !
Thank you ❤️
Amazing 👏 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 💕
@@Harpsibored your very talented 👏
I'm admittedly not a huge fan of FFX, but I must also admit that the soundtrack is great! This track in particular is dripping with, I dunno, mystery and intrigue? You captured it really well here!
Thank you so much! Hah, which aspect of FFX didn't speak to you? Was it the 200 lightning bolts?
That's an excellent question, for which I should really have an answer, haha! 😅
I'm honestly not really sure. There are certain things that bug me, though that could be said about any FF game...
-I'm not a huge fan of Tidus (or Wakka, Jecht, or even Yuna to some extent). I suspect it's more to do with the voice direction. I wonder if all dialog was just delivered by text, if I'd like it more. I'd love for someone to release a mod that disables voices so I can test that hypothesis.
-I also don't like some of the things like the lack of free exploration with the airship, which probably just makes me sound like a grumpy old man.
-I *hate* blitzball!
-And yes, haha, I definitely hated the 200 lightning bolts!! Weirdly, I had a ton of trouble with that but no trouble with Tidus's chocobo stuff. Probably makes me even more of an oddball when it comes to my FFX experience.
There's more, but I'm not sure it should add up to my utter apathy about the game. It's not like I was anti-change either, since I quite liked FFXII (though I hated XIII)!
@@ryandude3 Understandable, it was the first FF with voice acting so there were definitely some clumsy moments. But overall I thought they did a pretty good job. Lulu and Auron definitely had the best voice actors IMO. I think Tidus's voice actor was trying really hard to portray his more outgoing disposition and it ended up coming across as whiny sounding somehow. But I give the guy credit for his effort!
Weirdly, I also hated blitzball my first playthrough. And then the second time I LOVED it. The thing about blitzball: the introduction of the game is AWFUL. They force you to play in the story when your characters have zero EXP or abilities. You're almost doomed to lose and can't do shit. So a lot of people start off with that impression of blitzball and never go back to it. But if you give it another try it's pretty fun IMO. Pro tip: fire all of the Aurochs and recruit free agents who are better players lol. Sorry, Wakka..
Yeah, I definitely think the cast did well given the context of their situation. Hell, I *love* James Arnold Taylor's work overall, especially his perfect Obi Wan! I suspect the voice direction is largely to blame, though even then I agree that Auron and Lulu stand out. Resonant Arc's recent series on FFX dove into some of the dev history and how surprised James Arnold Taylor was at some of the direction he was given. Speaking of that series, it really made me appreciate how cohesive the story is and how well it was delivered compared to FFVIII, which I love despite its frequent inability to convey important story beats effectively... Makes me think that if I can get over (or disable) the VA, then I'm in for a treat.
As for blitzball, you make a really compelling case because you just described *exactly* what happened to me! I hated that tutorial match and ended up just handing the controller to a friend that had already beaten it, haha! After that I tried maybe one or two matches but just wasn't invested. Now you have me genuinely curious... Thanks for the tips!
I think this is just as good, if not better than the original. Something about the harp makes it more mysterious. This version is very fitting for a mysterious place like the Macalania woods in the game where this song plays.
The original is damn good so that is HIGH praise. Thank you 😭
still need to beat this game lol
Graceful performance !!! 😊
Do it.
Thank you!! Hahah yeah get to it! But, feel free to ignore Kimahri
Lovely☺️🎶
Thank you 💕
Oh YES
Oh yeeeeeeeah 🧃
I hate listening to beautiful music with a beautiful distraction.
Then close your eyes and think of the "stay away from the summoner" lady 😁
I completed FFX a bit before leaving Glasgow, ending a years long relationship and moving back to my country, so... listening to you is so melancholic... You are incredible, I love the way you move, your hair, your silk dresses
Thank you so much!!! 💖 hah FYI, this dress is satin polyester. I got cheap.
Yeah I never managed to finish the butterflies. Game is RIGGED
You are truly inspiring (both arrangement and performance) and also cater to my weeby taste in music. I didn't need to be reminded about the butterflies though. I'd rather dodge 200 lightning bolts.
Aww thank you so much!!! Hahaha. I think I may hate both activities equally....actually nah I'm with you, I hate the lightning bolts less. Lulu is slightly less useless than Kimahri.
Tidus il avait un charisme incroyable
Ceci est votre histoire
He was a great hero 💕
damn butterflies
The one minigame I'll never conquer... 🦋💀
Hoooly shit this is fantastic
Thank you 💕
The last good final fantasy game...
Great playing i really enjoyed that 😁
Yeah not gonna lie, I kinda stopped after X haha. Although I did play X-2...🤡
Thank you for listening 🎶
wow, what a beautiful sound. Maybe the rubato and arpeggios are a bit over the top, but that is very subjective
Can't win em all
I have to agree. The arrangements are great, but you lose the momentum of the piece by constantly accenting arpeggios and going off tempo. A big part of Uematsu’s brilliance is his sense of rhythm, and divulging from that doesn’t do justice to it. The compositions speak for themselves - they don’t need the embellishments.
@@sagus_mage Gonna have to agree to disagree, I think going off tempo allows the notes to resonate from the soundboard and give the performance depth/richness despite being solo harp. Pauses are meant for an expressive, contemplative quality. And the gliss embellishments are to emulate the magical, ethereal atmosphere of Macalania Forest. But hey, our tastes are subjective, there's no wrong answer here.
Unless your taste is that Tetra Master is better than Triple Triad. That's just plain wrong.
Its magic
Thank you 💙✨
This is My Jam
So good ❤️
Hope you playing my favorite theme in this game, Kimahri Theme/Mount Gagazet. Maybe not impossible in Harp.
Thank you!!! 💕 I'll admit the Gagazet theme sounds like it could be tricky on harp but ya never know
More awesomeness 👌 Anything Halloween themed on the horizon? 👻
Thank you! Nah I don't have time to execute another new song within a week hah
ACTUALLY...strike that, I got a crazy idea for Halloween. Gonna attempt to bust this out within the next few days. Pray for my sanity
@@Harpsibored haha I shall pray to Yevon for your sanity!
Wow I’ve never been so in love in my life 😅 not much of a simp but come onnnn ❤
I'll take what I can get
@@Harpsibored lol well you are gorgeous. Your taste in music as well as your skill as a musician show you’re an intelligent and caring person. Have you covered “On our way” from FF7?
This sounds amazing on harp! I think I like it better than the original 😍
Did you intentionally wear blue to match with the forest, or was that a happy coincidence? 😅
Thank you so much!!! 💖 hehe it's not a coincidence. I like to try and match the mood of the song with my clothes.
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killed it
(good way)
Thank you!! 💖
This sounds as beautiful as you look in that dress. Both are just breathtaking 💘
Thank you 💙