Oh my god, this cover has me in tears. It’s absolutely and breathtakingly beautiful and so bittersweet and I can’t actually come up with the words to do it any kind of justice. With all sincerity, thanks for all the hard work you put in learning all these instruments to bring this gift into the world m.
Aww thank you!! It brings me so much joy to play and fully feel all the emotions that go into the music, and I'm so glad that I can share that with other people. It means so much to me to hear from people that enjoy my work, so thank you!
Each instrument -- the introspective guitar, the somber viola, the anguished violin, and the bright/hopeful erhu -- offers something unique and profound. Together, they paint the picture of Castti's journey from fractured moments to renewed (and reclaimed) purpose. 10/10 axe attacks.
Right?! I think I knew this from somewhere else, but it's my first time. I'm kinda sad I didn't get a viola sooner, because it's such a nice sound! This one kinda serendipitously showed up. 😅
Excellent job on this one! I think this song originally struck me as my favourite of the character themes, and this version definitely did it justice, if not completely outdoing it!
Awww, thanks Luke! They were two instruments I wouldn't have been able to put together until last week, but I definitely want to use them again because they pair so well!
Thanks Wurtzel! I try my best to do them justice. I love the original, but I also wish they used strings for the emotional range in tone and feel. But then again I usually wish that, which is why I play this darn thing.
@@SheaViolin I saw your twitter account, I hope that YT works better now for you. You make beautiful music and I think a lot more people would enjoy what you have to offer if they could hear about it. Maybe doing music of video games that you like but which also have a very active community (like the Persona serie for example?) would help you get a better visibility! Anyway, I hope you continue to do music, what you're doing is awesome !
I have a persona cover in the works actually! I loved Persona 5. Such a fantastic game! When I first got into the video game music cover community, someone recommended that I play it and I picked it up when p5 royal went on sale last year. As for youtube and visibility goes, I don't have much control, it seems. Sometimes my videos will get 100 views and sometimes 1000, depending on how many people clicked it, liked or shared it. Making more videos definitely didn't seem to affect things as views and watch hours steadily declined. And randomly last month, some of my older videos are getting shown around more with no input from me. All the advice is make better videos that people want to watch, which implies that my stuff isn't good enough or people don't want to watch it. Whichever it is, I can't monetize the channel until I figure out how to make something that people want.
@@SheaViolin aaaaah awesome for the persona 5 cover ! As for the rest... Idk, but I think that your music's good so I don't understand either (but I know nothing ahah). I found yours cause I was looking for Octopath's remixes. Maybe a collab with a "bigger name" could help ? But I think I saw that you already did that... I hope you'll continue making music but it is understandable if you stop/slow down. Just do whatever is better for you. ^^
Don't worry, I'll keep doing it! In one way or another. Music is incredibly important to me, and I can't abandon it without abandoning part of myself. If I'm successful at it, I just get to do more of it!
Thank you! It's really hard sometimes to improve on these modern soundtracks because they are already so well done, covers are almost redundant. But I feel as though something I can add that a big studio can't always achieve is a human element and emotional performance. A lot of the tracks have performances that are very well done and perfectly performed and exactly on "the grid," but that saps a lot of what makes music human.
As a parent, her chapter 3 hit me soooooo hard right in the feels. I wanted the theme to reflect a little bit of that, and I'm so glad it helped make your day!
Thanks so much! It's been much harder learning to play than I thought it would be, but I'm getting there little by little. Next week is actually my two year anniversary of playing it for the very first time!
This really was an emotional ride, especially 0:46 worked out perfectly since I didn't even read the description. The melancholic parts with the strings really are very very beautiful. Thanks yet again, the content you produce really is an enjoyment!
Thank you so much! I like to think that the music stands alone as great without the story that goes with it, but like so many things they enhance each other with each others context. Thanks so much for coming back so often and leaving comments! I really appreciate it! ♥
I couldn't see the other half of your reply because for some reason it's not showing up, but I got a notification with half of it. Weird. Maybe yt blocked or deleted it.
Yeah, probably because I added an URL to my own webspace to a flac file of the piano recording I did, lesson learnt. I had the motivation to play the part at 1:46 which brought tears to my eyes, doesn't work as well on the piano honestly, strings are just the gold standard when it comes to melancholy for me. However, the second half was that I appreciate your work a lot, the effort and thought you put into it and your skill is quite awesome from my perspective as well. So it's all well deserved, really ❤
Ah that would explain it. Thanks for taking the time to re-type that! I know Nishiki wanted to use different instruments to differentiate the characters, but at least it gives me an opportunity to re-imagine them since they can all be super emotional on strings :) But I might be biased....
Yeah, RUclips being weird. No worries, quite honestly, I am glad that you answered again, I was really a bit confused at first whether the comment was deleted by RUclips or you since I didn't get any notification whatsoever and it's also not available in my comment history, that's really bad not to even inform the user from a UX point of view, but that's just me being a developer and RUclips being RUclips, I guess. Back to the topic: I must admit I didn't know the original so your version was the first one I listened to, I took the time to listen to the original version afterwards, and I liked how the instrumentation works out in both versions. The dark flute in the original gives me these solitary vibes - the scenery of a lonely girl sitting alone at a campfire near a forest and playing this tune on her flute in slight rain. But that's just my wild imagination. I think it's actually a nice touch to give each character its own instrument, guess I have a new game series I need to try out. Quite honestly? I wouldn't even call it bias and given by the amount of people admiring your work, you are doing something really well here :) Looking forward to hear more and I beg your pardon for this novel I wrote!
The worst was when I had to buy a left handed guitar and learn all the parts with both hands. There was absolutely no movie magic. Thanks! I really like this guitar too. It plays so nicely and sounds great!
Thanks so much for checking it out and leaving a comment! I try to feel everything super deeply when I'm playing and put all of that into the notes, and I'm glad when that comes through!
I try to make the music worth listening to even without the context of the story. :) Thank you for coming back and listening and commenting so often, I really appreciate it!
I really love how much emotion you can get out of strings. I've only dabbled with woodwinds but I think I may branch out into guitar or violin one day. @@SheaViolin
@@theoriginalWiREP they say it takes about 5 years to learn violin takes 20 years to learn. 😂 I love it so much, though. Consistent practice, a little every day, is what will get you there. Best of luck!
Very good arrangement you made, it really captures the somberness of its theme. The expressiveness of your erhu, guitar and violin playing is always great to listen to, nice work!
I love the tone on this instrument so much. I have a couple other acoustic guitars, but none of them have the clarity, punch, and playability that this one does. Thanks so much!
I know how that can be for sure. I'm glad you're through it, because no one needs that in their lives. I'm surviving! Getting back to school and routine with the kids helps!
Sometimes I end up playing these songs so many times by the time I finish recording that the chills wear off for me, but I was still getting them with this song even at the end of mixing. Thanks so much!!
Thanks CA! I'm not sure, to be honest. It does have a different timbre to it, more like a bassoon as compared to the others, so I think it could still be a different voice in my arrangements. I'll have to experiment with it and see what kind of textures I can get with all of my violin shaped objects. 😂
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Casti is the light we seek on humanity's darkest hours
Definitely! Her theme is so poignant and beautiful
Q: How do you play Castii's theme on an Erhu?
A: with THESE HANDS!!!!
Hahaha 🤣Thanks Erik! Such a great game
Q: Can I take a break? My fingers hurt!
A: NO MERCY! ONLY PAIN!
I really love how this theme starts off so sad, but turns hopeful. It really encompasses Castti's character and her journey.
It really is a wonderful theme that brings back all the feelings from the story and character. I'm glad I was able to convey that in this!
@@SheaViolin after listening to so many of your covers, I don't doubt your ability at all.
Oh my god, this cover has me in tears. It’s absolutely and breathtakingly beautiful and so bittersweet and I can’t actually come up with the words to do it any kind of justice. With all sincerity, thanks for all the hard work you put in learning all these instruments to bring this gift into the world m.
Aww thank you!! It brings me so much joy to play and fully feel all the emotions that go into the music, and I'm so glad that I can share that with other people. It means so much to me to hear from people that enjoy my work, so thank you!
Omg that erhu hits right in the feels, just where it needs to that it doesn't quite in the original 😢😭
💜 Thanks Annalisa! I love how it turned out. Her song needed a little more loss and pain to really feel authentic
Each instrument -- the introspective guitar, the somber viola, the anguished violin, and the bright/hopeful erhu -- offers something unique and profound. Together, they paint the picture of Castti's journey from fractured moments to renewed (and reclaimed) purpose. 10/10 axe attacks.
Thank you! This story was so powerful, and I'm glad that my sound painting conveyed that for you!
Picked this game up only but a few days ago. Your covers gave me a shove in the right direction ❤
Awww, thanks! Have fun with it! I love these stories, and the songs hit even harder with the context of the game :)
This is so good! So happy RUclips recommended you’ve video to me!
I'm glad it did too! Thanks for coming and listening to my music! :)
Wow erhu and viola compliment each other really nice!
Right?! I think I knew this from somewhere else, but it's my first time. I'm kinda sad I didn't get a viola sooner, because it's such a nice sound! This one kinda serendipitously showed up. 😅
augh...the tone is god-tier level as always...!!!
Thank you!
How does this not have more views?? This is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! Amazing job! ❤
I'm glad you loved it! I still have a pretty small channel, and I don't know how to make thumbnails and titles that people want to click 😅
I love the melancholic feel of the viola!! So good! Also HOLY when the violin comes in it's SO AMAZING!!! I got chills at the end!
New Viola, who dis? Jk 😜 thanks Will! I love the way the instrument sounds, and I'm excited to use it more! Thanks so much!
VIOLA
Eventually you're going to have alll the instruments 😆
Sounds great, lovely variety, this is a beautiful song and you really bring it out 🥰
I didn't keep it a secret on purpose! But now it's had its public debut. More textures to play with are always fun! Thanks Roph!
Wow, this is what I call a fresh proposal and not just a song cover, I really like the flourishments you did here and there
Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it!
Excellent job on this one! I think this song originally struck me as my favourite of the character themes, and this version definitely did it justice, if not completely outdoing it!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
This is beautiful! I love the deepness of the viola paired with the erhu. Really cool blend ✨
Awww, thanks Luke! They were two instruments I wouldn't have been able to put together until last week, but I definitely want to use them again because they pair so well!
This is so beautiful, what a delightful listening experience !
Thanks so much Hashel!
Such a beautiful arrangement! I don't often say this-- especially with OT pieces-- but I enjoyed this more than the original! Excellent job!
Thanks Wurtzel! I try my best to do them justice. I love the original, but I also wish they used strings for the emotional range in tone and feel. But then again I usually wish that, which is why I play this darn thing.
Very beautiful work
Thanks Duhem! I love how this song plays with the emotions of the character and really captures the feeling.
Works perfectly with your instruments, nice job!
Yay! Glad you liked it!
Gorgeous arrangement and performances!
Thanks Sean! I feel like the tune did most of the work here, I just applied a little bit of interpretation haha
Beautiful performance as always
Thank you! 💜
This is beautiful, you really captured the emotions of her story, it is added to my playlist of when I want to wake up with poetry ❤
I'm so glad it came through in the music! Her story was so poignant. Thank you!
@@SheaViolin I saw your twitter account, I hope that YT works better now for you. You make beautiful music and I think a lot more people would enjoy what you have to offer if they could hear about it.
Maybe doing music of video games that you like but which also have a very active community (like the Persona serie for example?) would help you get a better visibility! Anyway, I hope you continue to do music, what you're doing is awesome !
I have a persona cover in the works actually! I loved Persona 5. Such a fantastic game! When I first got into the video game music cover community, someone recommended that I play it and I picked it up when p5 royal went on sale last year.
As for youtube and visibility goes, I don't have much control, it seems. Sometimes my videos will get 100 views and sometimes 1000, depending on how many people clicked it, liked or shared it. Making more videos definitely didn't seem to affect things as views and watch hours steadily declined. And randomly last month, some of my older videos are getting shown around more with no input from me. All the advice is make better videos that people want to watch, which implies that my stuff isn't good enough or people don't want to watch it. Whichever it is, I can't monetize the channel until I figure out how to make something that people want.
@@SheaViolin aaaaah awesome for the persona 5 cover !
As for the rest... Idk, but I think that your music's good so I don't understand either (but I know nothing ahah). I found yours cause I was looking for Octopath's remixes.
Maybe a collab with a "bigger name" could help ? But I think I saw that you already did that...
I hope you'll continue making music but it is understandable if you stop/slow down. Just do whatever is better for you. ^^
Don't worry, I'll keep doing it! In one way or another. Music is incredibly important to me, and I can't abandon it without abandoning part of myself. If I'm successful at it, I just get to do more of it!
awww yeah the erhu is so stunning on this one!
Thanks donut! Slowly getting better at it 😆
You succeeded marvelously at elevating the emotion in this piece. Transformative arrangement. Thank you.
Thank you! It's really hard sometimes to improve on these modern soundtracks because they are already so well done, covers are almost redundant. But I feel as though something I can add that a big studio can't always achieve is a human element and emotional performance. A lot of the tracks have performances that are very well done and perfectly performed and exactly on "the grid," but that saps a lot of what makes music human.
this is so beautiful!!!!
Thanks so much!
Absolutely beautiful!! Well done :))
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you liked it!
Beautiful! Love the viola!
Thanks Cierra! It's been really fun to play the past few weeks :)
You just made my day! Castti's theme is my favorite and she was my favorite character/story in the game! Amazing!!
As a parent, her chapter 3 hit me soooooo hard right in the feels. I wanted the theme to reflect a little bit of that, and I'm so glad it helped make your day!
Ok, I’m a sucker when it comes to the Erhu.
New sub, keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! It's been much harder learning to play than I thought it would be, but I'm getting there little by little. Next week is actually my two year anniversary of playing it for the very first time!
This really was an emotional ride, especially 0:46 worked out perfectly since I didn't even read the description. The melancholic parts with the strings really are very very beautiful.
Thanks yet again, the content you produce really is an enjoyment!
Thank you so much! I like to think that the music stands alone as great without the story that goes with it, but like so many things they enhance each other with each others context. Thanks so much for coming back so often and leaving comments! I really appreciate it! ♥
I couldn't see the other half of your reply because for some reason it's not showing up, but I got a notification with half of it. Weird. Maybe yt blocked or deleted it.
Yeah, probably because I added an URL to my own webspace to a flac file of the piano recording I did, lesson learnt. I had the motivation to play the part at 1:46 which brought tears to my eyes, doesn't work as well on the piano honestly, strings are just the gold standard when it comes to melancholy for me.
However, the second half was that I appreciate your work a lot, the effort and thought you put into it and your skill is quite awesome from my perspective as well. So it's all well deserved, really ❤
Ah that would explain it. Thanks for taking the time to re-type that! I know Nishiki wanted to use different instruments to differentiate the characters, but at least it gives me an opportunity to re-imagine them since they can all be super emotional on strings :) But I might be biased....
Yeah, RUclips being weird. No worries, quite honestly, I am glad that you answered again, I was really a bit confused at first whether the comment was deleted by RUclips or you since I didn't get any notification whatsoever and it's also not available in my comment history, that's really bad not to even inform the user from a UX point of view, but that's just me being a developer and RUclips being RUclips, I guess.
Back to the topic: I must admit I didn't know the original so your version was the first one I listened to, I took the time to listen to the original version afterwards, and I liked how the instrumentation works out in both versions. The dark flute in the original gives me these solitary vibes - the scenery of a lonely girl sitting alone at a campfire near a forest and playing this tune on her flute in slight rain. But that's just my wild imagination. I think it's actually a nice touch to give each character its own instrument, guess I have a new game series I need to try out. Quite honestly? I wouldn't even call it bias and given by the amount of people admiring your work, you are doing something really well here :) Looking forward to hear more and I beg your pardon for this novel I wrote!
Looked like a couple of tricky stretches on guitar there. I really enjoy the sound of that guitar.
The worst was when I had to buy a left handed guitar and learn all the parts with both hands. There was absolutely no movie magic. Thanks! I really like this guitar too. It plays so nicely and sounds great!
I love the arrangement :) great job as always Shea!
Thanks Luis!!
Beautiful work. Bursting with talent.
Oh, thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!!
This is immersive and so emotive it hurts - the pizzicato transition hit me upside the head so hard LOL
GREAT work!
Thanks so much for checking it out and leaving a comment! I try to feel everything super deeply when I'm playing and put all of that into the notes, and I'm glad when that comes through!
Best cover I ever heard!
thank you so much!!
So beautiful 🤩I didn't know this music theme but that was wonderful !
I try to make the music worth listening to even without the context of the story. :) Thank you for coming back and listening and commenting so often, I really appreciate it!
Shea this is so gorgeous! You are making me want an erhu for myself now haha. Keep these amazing covers coming!
Thanks so much Tera! Just a fair warning, it's really really hard to learn 😂 I haven't taken down my first cover with it, but it's embarrassing now 😅
This is a beautiful arrangement! The string instruments work so well :)
Thanks so much! I love how much intensity you can build and release with strings. It's probably why I was drawn to them in the first place.
I really love how much emotion you can get out of strings. I've only dabbled with woodwinds but I think I may branch out into guitar or violin one day.
@@SheaViolin
@@theoriginalWiREP they say it takes about 5 years to learn violin takes 20 years to learn. 😂 I love it so much, though. Consistent practice, a little every day, is what will get you there. Best of luck!
an amazing cover! love how all 4 instruments were played!
Thank you! I really like the feelings in this one!
@@SheaViolin you are welcome! they were good feelings!
Very good arrangement you made, it really captures the somberness of its theme. The expressiveness of your erhu, guitar and violin playing is always great to listen to, nice work!
Thank you! I'm glad it comes through!
Incredible!!!
Thank you!! 💜
很喜歡你對這首曲子的詮釋方式，謝謝分享。😊
You're welcome! I'm so glad you liked it!
I love this. And you got a viola. How cool.
I've got a little more expressive ability on it than the cello for now. It was definitely fun to put it in this mix!
Acoustic guitar is highkey my favorite instrument, and I'm happy to hear you cover Octopath's soundtrack with it!
I love the tone on this instrument so much. I have a couple other acoustic guitars, but none of them have the clarity, punch, and playability that this one does. Thanks so much!
Very pleasant for the ears, thank you =)
I'm glad you liked it! This was definitely an emotional adventure. :)
Lovely ✨
Thanks DoA! How've things been for you lately?
@@SheaViolin Been in a dark place but have come out of it recently, thanks for asking. How are you ??
I know how that can be for sure. I'm glad you're through it, because no one needs that in their lives. I'm surviving! Getting back to school and routine with the kids helps!
This piece sent me to a beautiful place. You are amazingly talented!
I'm so glad! Thanks for listening! 💜
Nice arrangement, plucking on many emotional 'strings' 😉
Thanks so much Thomas! I appreciate that you take the time to pun-ish me in the comments. Puns are dear to my heart. ♥
That was phenomenal! :D Love your playing ^___^ Chills every time~
Sometimes I end up playing these songs so many times by the time I finish recording that the chills wear off for me, but I was still getting them with this song even at the end of mixing. Thanks so much!!
it's crazy how good you are.
Aww thanks! I'm just trying to make the world a little more beautiful with my art. :)
좋은음색
Thank you!
Okay, challenge for next month: Make something ugly. Something that will not make me tear up by it‘s pure beauty
hahaha I'm not trying to scare everyone away from my channel! I'm glad you liked it!
Beautiful instrumentation - sadly, I haven't played OT2 yet and can't compare this to the original but this rendition sounds lovely.
Thanks Brendan! sorry no accordion this time ;)
@@SheaViolin np, there's always next time. ;) Congrats on joining Viola gang!
Yay Violas! It's been fun to play, even if it is just a student instrument ;)
Absolutely gorgeous! Are you still going to use the octave violin now that you have a viola? Beautiful performance!
Thanks CA! I'm not sure, to be honest. It does have a different timbre to it, more like a bassoon as compared to the others, so I think it could still be a different voice in my arrangements. I'll have to experiment with it and see what kind of textures I can get with all of my violin shaped objects. 😂
Ending of chapter III
Just saying
Right?! All the feels. I had those images in my mind when I was recording this one.