Happy Final Fantasy music day

by Kyle Orland { Sep 22nd 2006 at 12:25PM }

Why do we play games? To escape, of course -- to free ourselves from our earthly shackles and enjoy a world of pure fantasy, if just for a moment. To that end, please enjoy this quick escape through the music of the Final Fantasy series on guitar, piano and, er, recorder.

Check out our previous Friday music features.

Tags: FF, final fantasy, FinalFantasy, guitar, musicday, piano, recorder

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Zero @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:41PM

Clip 1 - Is that or is that not Ted "Theodore" Logan of the Wylde Stallions?

Clip 2 - Most out of tune piano EVER.

Clip 3 - Spiffy rendition of the song, would have been better off as an MP3 with no video.

Dario @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:52PM

at VID 2!!

STOP THE MADNESS!!! AHHH THE NOT SO GOOD SOUND OF THAT OUT OF TUNED PIANO IS KILLIN FF7 FOR ME!!!

n8dogg @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:01PM

Seriously. And isn't Aeris' theme a bit, I dunno... overdone?

Enycma @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:09PM

This is my friend playing Final Fantasy Decisive Battle in Classic Guitar. Highly recommended!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7DPuYBKeZ0

Evil Closet Monkey @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:11PM

That piano is pretty bad - I'm not sure if it is out of tune of just a poor microphone. My assumption is someone who is able to play that well would not keep a piano in such a condition. I'm going with the piss-poor microphone argument.

RDX @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:13PM

Yep, piano is crazy out of tune. Clip 3- Why is the camera on the guitar dude? The recorder part is significantly more complicated.

Dario @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:13PM

These are really good!

FF7 BOSS BATTLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LS3Acbc1E

FF6 BOSS BATTLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3rcdYuLy4

FF7- VINCENT'S THEME SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2AWSpmUges

Yaktastic @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:14PM

I love the five stringed guitar and "Blair Witch" ending of the third one :)
This whole thing makes me want to put on the advantage and rock out while I plough through spreadsheets here at work
sigh

Gary @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:15PM

Thank you thank you for happy music friday!

My hat is off to all three clips and their performers. I especially enjoyed clip #3. I played it three times in a row. I have a great urge to drink a pint, dance a jig and enjoy the company of my mates.

Bravo!

Vlad @ Sep 22nd 2006 1:59PM

nice recorder/whistle/whatever they used on the Chocobo theme, how delightful. the first one was nice too. and the second one...just get that piano repaired before you burst anyone's eardrums.

Five Element Ninja @ Sep 22nd 2006 2:36PM

I already mentioned this in the last music day post, but back when I was in high school I used to play the Kefka theme on my trumpet all the time. at one point I figured out how to play it on a piano, despite not knowing how to actually play a piano. sadly, I don't have any videos of it. back in those days we got our internet via dialup and I doubt my old 50mhz computer with a 400 meg hard drive could process videos anyway. I guess I could try and make a video now, but considering it's been 7 years since I last touched my trumpet, I doubt it'd go well.

Rootbeer @ Sep 22nd 2006 2:46PM

The first one is either faked or just badly out of sync. I'm leaning towards the former.

The second one: yeah, that piano desperately needs a tuning.

The third one would be better if we saw whomever was playing the melody on the recorder instead. Barre chords are boring to watch.