Final Fantasy IV (DS) - Theme of Love/Tsuki no Akari (piano arr. by Audiomuse)
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- Ok so I confess FF4 kinda ranks near the bottom of my favorite FFs and Theme of Love has been covered to death that I've just gotten really jaded with it lol. However, as Israfelcello and I were planning our cello/piano FF ladies' themes album, we couldn't not include Theme of Love, as it is technically Rosa's theme. As I was hunting around for fresh versions of it (I kind of hate the Piano Opera version; too over the top for my taste), I stumbled upon Vincent Lo's unique arrangement of it (www.audiomuse..... As he is one of my favorite arrangers, i had to check it out, which led me to the DS version of the song sung by Megumi Ida. I was absolutely captivated by it--it was an entire half step lower, there was more motion, a flute solo, a new intro, a darker, more subtle, understated sultry vibe and suddenly I FELL IN LOVE WITH THEME OF LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN LOL. Israfelcello was slightly--rightfully so lol--indignant at being presented with the new six flat version of Theme of Love (as opposed to no flats/sharps in the original ahahaha) but I'm glad he was similarly won over by this version so we will be doing it for our album, be on the lookout for it on his channel! I took Vincent's version and expanded it to accommodate that flute solo (which will be played on cello lol)
Check out our ongoing FF ladies' themes project, Women of the Crystal! A cello/piano album due for release in Dec 2018, we have Lightning and Ovelia up so far, with more to come!: • Ovelia's Theme (From "...
愛のテーマ、切ないメロディーですが、相手を大切に思うような気持ちになります。感動しました。
Easily the best version I've heard. You have really good taste, by the way; I suspect most people would play it at a much slower tempo and the result would be kinda saccharine. You on the other hand know how to make the music emote with an impressive grasp of subtlety. Um, if that makes any sense at all.
no that makes perfect sense and it's actually a very insightful compliment that means a lot to me, thank you so much!!!!
You are so right, that intro makes it way better
I'm glad you think so too Jimmy!!!!
this distilled version pulls a lot of the schmaltzyness out and instead gives a decidedly more meloncholyish purer piece w better pacing and highly effective balancing out of the drama w a hint of sweetness ...and you get it...really. he doesnt overplay the sentimentality in the arrangement, its refreshing , when overdone, it just ends up an ooey gooey syrupy mess in most hands. nice work up ; I agree w you on the play out of some themes and I've been a big fan of Vincent's work for a while
great video kuppo!
**disclaimer I'm not anti schmaltz just a proponent of tasteful schmaltz, lol
awww man. I really appreciate that so much, thank you!! HAHAHAHA i hear you man, I definitely didn't mean to knock the vast majority of people who love to ooze all over this theme, because I too definitely got my schmaltz on with Theme of Love as an impetuous 20 year old lmao but these days I'm older and it feels more nostalgic to me than overly romantic. Vincent is just fantastic, a gem! I'm glad you know of his awesomeness too!!!!
This is perfect. Such a beautiful song played so brilliantly. Thank you for opening a door to memories I had forgotten of playing this game!
awwww thank you so much! Vincent really did a wonderful job on this arrangement and the vocal version of such a well known theme is my favorite version, it feels so nostalgic. I hope you're enjoying the FF4 pixel remaster!!!! =)
Yay! Just as I was about to go to sleep new video! Now Ill have the sweetest dreams thanks to your music! Great work as always purple! ^^
aw thank you Miguel, that makes me happy! Thank you always for listening!
@@purpleschala Noo! thank you for giving us those amazing pieces!
Keep coming back to this and listening over and over. Gorgeous theme and rendition of it.
AHHH you're too kind omg thank you!!!!! ❤️❤️ such a pretty arrangement and that lowered key signature just gives it a more contemplative vibe.
@@purpleschala It does! I learned the base tune from the game by ear on marimba in D minor, but by nature of a video game track it just repeats the two sections really. This arrangement really brings a lot more out of it and makes me wanna learn it... Or adapt it a bit at least!
@@matthewfera2954 AHHH PLEASE DO!!!!! I would love to hear it on marimba omg
@@purpleschala I'll do what I can! I'm so picky about what parts to cover in regards to harmony/counter melody and I can't quite cover all a piano can! But I'll do my best and get back to you!
omg i really wanna play this version!! I got so tired of hearing/playing the original one so i stopped caring for this theme but WOW, this is sooo pretty!! your playing is also perfect here!!
amazing chance i had to watch covers, just weeks ago i download it in my car then today also i decided to check nice cover, good catch for just 3 days, at least felt someone sharing it saying this is for you hehe :D
Beautiful arrangement!
The refrain at 2:15 brings such a new melody than I’m used to listen...
Hats off
Ruby your playing is spellbinding ~
And I agree, arrangements base on Tsuki no Akari does give a fresh angle to the tune, I love that version, glad you like it too ^^
AHHHHH YOU'RE TOO SWEET THANK YOU SO MUCH
I recently finished replaying the ds version of this game and finally noticed that the theme of love is different in that game than the other versions and kind of ended up liking it better so it is nice to see you cover it while doing your own thing as well, as always it sounds great and I love the way you play I listen to a lot of piano players but no one sounds like you and I cherish that
AHHHHHH I LOVE THE KEY OF THIS PIECE, IT MAKES IT SO NOSTALGIC AND ROMANTIC, LIKE IN A RESTAURANT AND SOMEONE IS PLAYING THIS 💙💚💙💚💙💚
I found a saxophone cover on this and I loved it so much, I'm so glad you played this! You sounded amazing and beautiful!! Keep it up, I love your work so much!💛💛
YESSSS!!!!! I love your descriptions, and omg that is exactly it, it's just really subtle and chill, like being played in a restaurant AHAHAHA!!!! THANK YOU SWEETIE OMG i'm really glad you can sense it's a different feel in this godawful key haha. worth it though! :)
Just discovered your channel you combine two of my favorite things piano covers and my favorite jrpgs
You are amazing!
aww, thank you very much! those are my two favorite things as well hahaha
Oh hi, Ruby! Nice job on bringing out the melodic lines, and also the material you added in the middle is very fitting. I only discovered your performance of this piece recently (it was a delightful surprise). Please do let me know if you record any of my arrangements in the future--always happy to see my arrangements brought to life.
This was absolutely breathtaking! I LOVED the intro. 💕
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Lovely, simply a masterpiece of an era; you did an amazing job as always
thank you!!!! and yes indeed, very well put. =)
OMG I LOVE FFIV!!! Thanks so much for this cover! ❤️✨✨
aw you are so welcome Rachel, thank you so much for listening!!!
OMG ALL MY FEELS!!! Makes me miss playing this on DS so much!
CONRAD!!!!!
purpleschala it really does feel different! It's like when I played Chrono Trigger on DS and they added in the extra timelines at the end that linked to Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross @^@
AHHH CONRAD I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATED THOSE EXTRA DUNGEONS IN CHRONO TRIGGER OMG!!!!!! it was like they took pieces of all the different dungeons and slapped them together and the result was this rambling, ill-designed mess that was just not fun to play at all!!!! especially given how brilliantly designed the original dungeons were in CT! and the retconning was so awkward ugh! of course my that didn't deter my obsessed ten year old son, he maxed them all out hahahaha
purpleschala yeah the retconning of the story felt awkward to me as well, maybe since Radical Dreamers wasnt too known. The Dalton fight was really interesting though since I've always wondered where he went LOL and the Dream Eater battle kept me on my toes! That's great it didnt stop him, I remember being at it nonstop ugh how I love that game
OMG THAT DREAM DEVOURER BATTLE AND ENDING ok ok so that was one battle/ending I was down with, it was interesting to see how Schala ended up absorbed into Lavos, and that ending was so depressing but explained really nicely what happened to Magus as a result! lol my son was SO frustrated by the battle I went to look up strategies online and we found that glitch you could exploit where you heal him over a six-digit HP and he dies as a result of the counter being reset to 0, he absolutely LOVED that hahahaha!
Your rendition here messes me good and proper, so sad, fucking beautiful playing. It’s great to see the flare you bring to it, like you’re petting Bahamut or somethin wondrous. Love that cello collaboration you’re doin as well. Huzzah.
aw man you're too kind lol petting Bahamut!!!!! lmao that's giving me more credit than I deserve! Thank you again
Nice song and piano playing
thank you!
Yep. I like this arrangement more than the original too.
i'm glad it's not just me. this version honestly deserves more love. Bless Vincent for making such an awesome piano arrangement of it.
That's very impress.Thank you so much.
2024 still listening ❤
thank you so much! that means a lot!
Another winner. Have you ever listened to Celtic Moon? It's a Celtic/Irish folk music rearrangement of the FFIV OST. I had the CD years ago and used to play it a lot.
I have!! i just discovered it recently in fact! it's absolutely wonderful, a charming take on the OST!!! i wish they would do more stuff like that.
I really like Trojan Beauty played on the violin. It's very relaxing. I really love the implied symbolism of the song, too. Beauty can kill, it will swallow you whole - but what a grand death, eh? ; ) It's like it could be about Dorian Grey-like narcissism, or falling for the beauty in others, or both.
I do agree with it being overdone but I definitely welcome another take of it from you. Thanks once again!
awww thanks!!! i appreciate that
@@purpleschala You're very welcome!
Ff4 has a special place for me.. i am such a sucker for love triangles. I can compare this game to macross plus....
Now for your arrangement...
Gdi this feel so poweful, it actually made me tear a little, specially at the latter part of this piece.
Really lived your arrangements!
chaudblaze15 ahh I cannot take credit for this arrangement, it was done by the amazing Audiomuse, one of my favorite arrangers ever, all I did was play it hahaha! ❤️ thank you though! AND OMG I LOVE LOVE MACROSS PLUS so much easily one of favorite anime OSTs ever because Voices is so 😭😭😭 and I crushed on Isamu so hard as a teenager hahaha
すばらしい！
This song is too good for this couple. Kain kidnapped my plot device.
LMAO OMG KAIN IS SO HOT I had a crush on him even as a dumpy pixelated sprite (though his profile art in the menu was pretty awesome)
0:12-0:23 I didn't know this song, but I thought I did when I heard what sounded like a clip from The Beatles: Yesterday. "Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say"
I'm surprised you've never heard the DS version of the song. I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks!
"...I FELL IN LOVE WITH THEME OF LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN LOL."
hahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I didn't get very far in the DS remake because I wasn't all that fond of the original so I never heard it before!!!!!! But now I'm in the same boat you were with this version lol!
Sub . This is beautiful
@@Matt-og6qv thank you so much!! ❤️ appreciated!!!
Amazing and lovely! :) I really wanna play this but I can't LOL. Hope there's a Synthesia for this.
thank you so much! I don't work with Synthesia unfortunately but perhaps @Audiomuse might have some tutorials on his website: www.audiomuse.ca/
Perfect. I'm always going to love some nice performance of FF4 OST. It's not one that you explored all that much in your videos. Hopefully I'll be lucky to get more from that :P
Although not my favourite of the series - FF6 is superior - it was pivotal in my interest for the genre. In a sense, whenever I start to play a new game I'm always looking for the same thrill I got from FF4.
haha thank you, that's very astute of you to notice I barely have any FF4 covers lol. Tbh like you, it was definitely formative in my love for the Final Fantasy series overall but not one I hold as dear as FF6 nor can bring myself to play more than twice, not even the remake. I fully respect and understand the great love people have for FF4 but for some reason didn't strike me as deeply as some of the other FFs have; it's possible that it's because I liked only a few themes from the OST. One arrangement I have had my eye on for a while is the overworld theme from the Piano Opera, perhaps I can tackle that sometime soon!
It was great for its time. In a time when games had extremely simple stories - like "kill the vampire" or "save the princess" - it was shockingly novel to play a game where the main character starts out as a villain and goes in search of redemption, and all characters had motivations of their own to cooperate.
But I know it pales in comparison to things that came later - namely FF6, CT and FFT. I hold it dear for what it meant to my 10yo self and for how it paved the way for what was still to come.
The OST is also not on the same level of the ones from the other games I mentioned, but quite a few tunes had that inherent Uematsu quality that would show off in full strength in FF6. I remember spending some time standing around still in some caves only to hear "Into the Darkness", or walking around aimlessly in the underworld to hear more "Land of the Dwarves", just like I did later in FF6 to listen to "Terra's Theme" or "The Phantom Forest". "Battle with the Four Fiends" has a bit of that menacing awesomeness that would hit me later in full force with "The Fierce Battle".
Oh well, I rambled enough. Thanks for that "Theme of Love". One more for me to hear many times to come.
LOL you make a very good case for FF4, so much so that I'm seriously contemplating picking up the original for another go. The DS version felt like a completely different experience. Yes, you're absolutely right in that for it's time, it was quite groundbreaking, and I remember the hype from hearing my peers talking about it when I was in high school. I think that effect was somewhat lost on me because I played 6 before 4 (we got our SNES a bit late) and I remember feeling sort of let down when I got around to 4. But you named some of my favorite themes from 4, especially Battle with the Four Fiends, and the boss battle theme. I think I may have to try to start a new game tonight hahaha.
@@purpleschala I should go back and play the SNES classics sometime. If I remember correctly I finished FF4 3 times, but it was always the SNES version. Maybe I should try one of the fan translations on an emulator or maybe try the GBA version. So many games, so little time for them all.
Darkness!
A listo gracias XDXD
So awesome, I love this version! Is there a tutorial somewhere? (I can't read notes lol)
is there sheet music available? this a best version so far. really original like on the FF IV Celtic Moon with flute. thankyou for outstanding performance.
Any chance you the sheets available? I’d give a lot to play that intro...
I’m pretty late for this but do u have sheet music for this?
I have something to confess... I haven't played any of the ff games.... These covers are still amazing though
Same... Now I am in love with the soundtracks so maybe I should try playing one out!
Never played them either, lol. Still, incredible tunes
hahahaha it actually makes me happy to hear you guys say that, as it shows that these themes have musical merit all on their own without of context of the games, so that's pretty awesome, thank you!!!!! If you ever decide to start playing any of them, my recommendation for a first FF game is FFX. It's a good starting place to get a feel for the series and probably the most well-balanced installment in terms of story, gameplay, music, and characterization.
May I have the piano sheet for this version please? ☺️❤️
it's on @audiomuse's website! www.audiomuse.ca/
@@purpleschala thank u very much ❤️☺️
This is beautiful. Is there any chance i can purchase the sheet music?
link is in the description!!
As long as it's higher than VII and XV...
LMAO WAIT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE
I'm everywhere....like Laguna
omg
this is so touching. Request play Julia and I will act crapling n try to talk to you haha