Tatakau Monotachi [Final Fantasy VII]

[unholyrpr]

I know you won't give sheet music but out of curiosity, did you by the piano sheet music, or did you find a file and use that?

Either way it was play extremely well and I hope to be able to play this piece one day.

[lildero]

Yer a wizard harry

[SuperGabriellz]

How long did he practice it ?

[demonchildling]

Very nice! What sort of microphone or camera do you use to record your music?

[bionicdragon5]

That's awesome piano playing!

[Madara757]

nice thumbs meup if you think so

[cybergeekkid]

PLEASE tell me you have some sheet music for this...

[bonitachika792]

Tight!

I don't notice the mistakes that much since I'm not really a piano player and don't know much of how it should sound like. It sounds awesome to me.

[mireiyuX]

well u made some mistakes....but this song IS really difficult, i also played it on the piano, so i know ^^'

once i gave the sheets to my piano teacher....and one week later he told me that he really had difficulties playing it.

actually he didn't play music like this, so it maybe was more difficult cause hes not used to this sort of music XD

but that was the moment when i though: there u got it! it actually IS difficult and its not only me that screws up!

[davtenfan]

mireiyuX? where did you get the sheet music?

[Spickyjoe]

if you have the sheet music is it possiable that i can get a copy?

[rexal6]

how long did it take you to learn how to learn piano+tatakau monotachi

[Shizuo89]

Essa música é fantástica. É um dos melhores tocando essa música no YouTube.

[KANON300]

bonita musica... algumas horas o som parecia fora de sincronia com a imagem. estranho.

[slashzaku15]

this video has inspired me to learn piano

[PumpaBeno]

Some parts were different from the original sheet, however some sounded cool.

[cinaonly]

where i can get that partitur?

[LazyKoreanKidd]

can someone help me out with the pedaling of this song ? i know a bit of how to use it , but for this song it's just too much for me . any pointers ?

by the way i only have a right sustain pedal . thanks !

[Orbital431]

too fast from the original tempo for my taste, but excellent! :D

[PianoSensei90]

you've been playing this song for a year? Probably only like, 10 minutes a day or something :P I just took a break from another 4 hour session of tryin to master the damn song.

Seems like you're still not quite sure of the fingering for a lot of the parts, but overall, it's still pretty good :3

[NoctisFFvsXIII]

awesome!!! O_O

[cosmicgirl910]

AWESOME!!! isnt this piece supposed to be the ultimately hardest of all the ff pieces whatever? haha you made a lotta mistakes but other than that YOU WERE AWESOME!! i like the tempo!

[uploadingmyvideos]

"correctly" the hardest piece to play is One Winged Angel - however OWA has several simplified versions making people forget how difficult the original can be.

[QuangPingDelTorro]

According to several pianists that plays both these (piano Collection)pieces, Fighitng is slightly harder.

But I think it might be from person to person.

[Vyszeamy]

I agree with you.

Fighting is consistently hard throughout the piece.

One winged angel is hard at some parts, and at those funky goofy parts - it get's easy.

what i mean hard is, hard to master*

[QuangPingDelTorro]

Hehe good to hear another confirmation :p

I have only played the first page of One Winged Angel. And the 2 first pages of Jenova.

I play Those Who Fight full out, and it's seems harder. But OWA gets different later on, so I will see for myself one day :p

[Vyszeamy]

haha it does . i've tried both. except for Jenova (out of question)

and i think that Fighting is rather hard to master, with the handful of notes.

OWA has it's own specialty however.

[ZMagikNinjaZ]

oh he's older i didn't know, years make a difference =]

[ZMagikNinjaZ]

i think w3sp did a better job but you still played it nice

[GermanSeabass]

Oh, yes he did. Granted, he's a coupla years older and a full music performance major :)

[dragondark123456]

wow it's really good!!

If someone know also the version of w3sp and want to do a comparison....

[piyenne25]

I dont think he's playing really fast. I actually like his tempo.

[JessChaotic]

wow total schön..ich hörs mir gern an

[linkwot]

slow down

[sjkoller490]

Amazing, such a good song, very well played!!

[JeffDmn]

it's ok but you play really fast...

[l4st1st4nd1ng]

In fairness to his playing style, speed isn't really a factor. When this was played for Advent Children, the speed is almost identical. (Maybe a few bpms off here and there).

Either way, the player has amazing talent, as this isn't an easy piece to play.

[OdinakaJesus]

1:52 - 2:10 epic <33

very very nice played <3

[Atergia]

its not bad but its a bit fast

[AnimefreakKuraiko]

wow O.O

du bist der wahnsinn!!

und das soo schnell

;) ich wünschte ich könnte wenigstens halb so gut spielen wie du

[ShaolinLand]

amazing

[hellomyst]

aaaa

[GermanSeabass]

aaaaaaaa

[vicariousli]

bbbbbbbbb

[GermanSeabass]

ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß

[vicariousli]

ccccccccccccc??? LOL

[GermanSeabass]

I see what you did there.

[vicariousli]

ahh haha genius yes>? like your fingers lol jesus christ how do you that man

[Roxas240]

i'm trying to play this piece too its darn hard anyway good played and the "no i don't give you sheet music use google" is funny xD mach weiter so! 5/5

[KingdomHeartsPianist]

Is there a difference between "Those who fight" and "Tatakau Monotachi" ??

[GermanSeabass]

Mhm, one's in Japanese, one's in English..

[Bestenette]

er.. u missed out a few notes...

[phontasia]

You made a very good effort... but you alter the tempo many many times in the song. That's the only complaint I have. I played this song as well for around half a year.

[sakurita2000]

I love last part of the music *¬* and minutes 1:55-2:10, is really amazing!!

You did a great job!! n.~

[Onizuka4ever]

You played very well. Do you know Kevin Aprilio?

[GermanSeabass]

Nope, and his version's too slow for my taste, although more accurate..

[Rokkstarr23]

This is amazing!

can you send me the link or info about where you got the sheet music?

[kimahri88]

I'm sorry, this was just not very good. It's a hard piece though. I salut you for trying!

[monkeyboy0105]

sorry but this isn't that good. you have the fingerings great, but the music isn't there. Also, your tempo is all over the place.

[swordyboyakon]

i dont' know why yer getting all the thumbs down, you were just giving a genuine and objective opinion. must be the fan boys.

[mikinomaster]

Well, when YOU can do a better job, Please- do let me know...sorry.....

[GermanSeabass]

Interesting how many people shut down constructive criticism. I completely agree - this is an old video and I hope to redo this amazing song some time.

[PhasmatisApparatus]

If you think the tempo is all over the place, you obviously haven't heard the Piano Collections version of this song.

[AikaTenlo]

I have to say, you're the best at performing these wonderfully conducted pieces by Mister Uematsu. I think you matched the speed of the song just right, and no matter what, I believe you're the greatest performer of this piece. I'd like to hear more from you, especially pieces from FFVII!

[ciputatman]

search for " kevin aprilio " play this song.

might change u'r opinion tho.. :)

[bb0ysmiley]

w3sp.

[hrabiam]

OMFG :/

[shares5]

:O i love this song :D

[Tama300]

copmo se llama este genero musical??

[cosmicgirl910]

OMG YOUR FRKN GOOD!!!! AHH HOWD YOU PLAY THIS!?!??! AND WHY WOULDNT YOU GIVE US THE MUSIC SHEET?? AHAHA!! BUT STILL YOUR GOOD!!! i tried top look it up on google! AND I THINK I FOUND IT! :D BUT ANYWAYS.. YOU MADE AL OT OF MSTAKES, BUT THAT MAKES YOU SO GOOD!! AHHH!! your cool... XD

[Dr4gondice]

Surreal...

[finaldarknight]

Good showing. Bravo! I really don't have much of a gripe with the way you've played this piece however it feels like this piece is moving a bit too fast in some places and some notes are a bit off however it's a pretty solid memorization. One thing that concerned me was at the piu mosso in the coda (the only place where there's a piu mosso) was that you were speeding it a bit more. Other than that, great showing and I'd love to see how well this turns out in the coming future!

[destroyer793]

I love this music! I can't decide who's playing of this song is better- yours or w3sp's!

[istantoadi]

best version i hear in youtube xD

[elephantsrock4333]

Holy shit! Amazing!!! I have the sheet music for this, and can barely get through the song, and that's when it's slowed down a WHOLE lot.

[Kazaazz]

where did u get the sheet music for this?  Plz tell me!

[HolySamurai4990]

I have a request! Do you take requests? Would you play Howl's Moving Castle Merry Go Round Theme, also known as the Main theme and play it? It's by Joe Hisaishi.

[shaman4mio]

whats the time signature for this song?

[AliCatt777]

I didn't even know it was posabble for human fingers to play this!!!!! (well i did i was just saying how AWSOME YOU ARE)

[AliCatt777]

OMG! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!! How do you play this!?!??! YOU ARE AMAZING!!! YOU ARE NOW ONE OF MY FAVORITE PPL IN THE WORLD!

[cherrylemonpop]

LOL you were AWESOME!!!! But yeah, it's off tempo at some parts and your piano sounds peculiar @@ All the same, you played the piece beautifully. I'm just about to attempt playing this piece, and you've really inspired me to work harder XD

[Slikvarius]

great song and great player, 5 stars for you, i love your videos =D

[bluefighter4612]

Nicely done sir.

[techno159]

I tink it suck compared to others...although i dun play the piano, the tempo is wrong..the feel is totally not there... i wont comment on the tune as ur piano is really out of tune..

[ilovecupcakes37]

UHM! Excuse YOU! First of all, learn how to spell, because you're insulting an amazing pianist and you can't even spell THINK.

Second of all, I'd like to see you play even as good as him! He did a wonderful job!

Third, his piano is NOT out of tune.

[techno159]

I THINK that u have a hearing problem. Even GermanSeabass said that his piano was out of tune...

"Yes, my piano is (painfully) out of tune"

don't you even read..

and, exactly which part of my comment insulted THE amazing pianist?

[arschgrauviolett]

May I ask how long you need to play a track at that level, I mean you've got a lot of vids at youtube. I think thats damn hard work, thx a lot for your wonderful skill sharing with us!

[silverscity]

your right, i've heard this before first hand played by a master and it seems you are way off.

[Rsuru]

did you forget the coda? because the score that i looked at had a coda in it...

[DudeOverdosed]

you, sir, are a beast!! you did an incredible job pulling this song off...great job =P

[DAORIGINALC65]

I really know nothing about playing the piano, but I could even tell how amazingly difficult that song is. You did a good job.

[bpsmasters]

awesome.

[Sunset17000]

awesome... i think i love your hands XD

you're so good, it's just like art . All the things you do on the piano are so amasing !

and i agree with someone who said : i'd die of happiness is i had your skill !! see ya

ps: sorry for my mistakes i'm french.

[WritherInSilence]

Tune your piano, or die.

[noobone7]

You really have talent... Hope your not wasting it.

Also hope your right hand (which hurts right?) will be better soon.

Keep it up, I really love your piano

[Hinukite]

Ouch...

Not bad playing, but there's just something wrong with it... probably what you said yourself.

But anyway, I like the way how you play

[tenrecc]

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

This is probably the best piano song I've ever heard, partially due to final fantasy being such an awesome game, but still. It's just incredibly amazing.

Purely awesome. Thanks a lot. :D

[BrandedHalo]

Very nice, I'd die of happiness if I had your skill. Congrats on your commitment, too.

[hoof2001]

Fantastic - but me mate Isis pays this even more brilliantly

[Kukuruzas22]

awesome

[pliame]

awesome.

[gaarachibikun]

Very good maestro sound almost like the recording (except a little better and worse @ sometimes)

[SMGxSeshaBeowulf]

you are a piano Prodigy... 5/5 star and fav.

[ZzikoO]

Magnificent!!! Great playing!!!

[ZzikoO]

Magnificent!!! Great playing!!!

[tommyk77]

google "ffshrine" and you will find the sheet music. the site is ffshrine.ffshrine dot org or com or something like that

[Ruthlessvalor]

w3sp, MMleung, and you are all equally great at this song

[weblywoobly]

fantastic! very very very skillful playing..arch your hand a little more and loosen up a little (tricky for the staccatto bits but yeah lol) and then your right hand wont hurt so much..keep up the good work :)xx

[chilladog]

GENIOUS!!!! Uebermensch!

[jovitorio1]

5555

[jovitorio1]

5555

[kengho]

I will trade 1 year of my life to master this song. Germanseabass you are simply marvellous!! 4 thumbs all up. Encore encore!!

[areeb10000]

OMG YOU HAVE 4 THUMBS!!!! wow thats cool i only have two so i give him two thumbs up p.s. is it easier to play video games with 4 thumbs ? o.O

[5throth]

hahahahaha it only looks that way

[areeb10000]

lol must be cool

[marrrrrrrrrrrrrek]

wow

[ggseries]

i tried it and failed.. my piano skills obviously need imprvement..

[Sephiroth300492]

"Fighting" FF7 Piano Collections

[hybridgreyrainbow]

I hope you know I'm very much in love with you. =DD I wish I could just keep you in my room, and make you play forever! MWAHAHAHAHA! <3

Keep it upppp

[FMAfanFMA]

All that was running through my mind while watching this was the Loz and Tifa fight scene in AC XD very VERY good <3

[Randominess]

My piano is worse, none of the notes make sense...

[tuberofyoutibe]

SO HARD! my hand is now broken from trying this+jenova

[musemaniac2]

Fantastic! Well done!

This really makes me want to play that piece, but it took me about half an hour to get through the first 8 bars...

[angela38ay]

Congratulations!!

[NappyAlpha]

WOW SimplyAmazing

[kokonoamoon]

greeeaaat =D

[seamusfinnigan2000]

it is harder than jenova!

4 flats kinda make it harder. hehehehe.

damn!! gotta back to my piano!!

[omar12331]

some day ill play like you ;D

[brainsleech]

Me to!

[dessinger]

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[YokoKisaragi]

Wow, you found this harder than Jenova? I can't play Jenova to save my life! XD I guess different songs are easier for different musicians.

[GermanSeabass]

Heh, I learned this before I even touches Jenova. They are both very challenging pieces, but I find this one harder, as it relies on speed and precision, whereas Jenova is primarily precision.

[YokoKisaragi]

Ah, that makes sense. I'm much better at this one than Jenova though. I think it's because this one is more single notes whereas Jenova has many REALLY fast chords... which I'm bad at. ^^;

[Hakijagu1]

I used to be able to play that... ;~;

But then i stopped, cause my arms hurt like hell.

[GermanSeabass]

:D that sounds familiar...

[kootzyyy]

that was amazing!!

[Antolewa]

I didn't play the game but I loved this song very much..

[wusara94]

how long have u bin playing piano?

[yumdumplings1]

I LOVE this song! I think I have the same piano, Shimmel right? Great job!!!!

[GermanSeabass]

Yup! They're wonderful uprights!

[XAytherxRedictusX]

I think everyone agrees with me that although your right hand is in pain your music still sounds magically great.

[CherryNahme]

Magic Fingers!!!!

[Midair]

wow 5/5 man!

[KillaTequilla83]

O-O OMG UR(woop caps) ur awesomse .___.

[sydman]

sounds like u are rushing. still good tho 4/5

[DeathbirdOfWar]

thats the actual speed ... Oo 5/5 to me...

[karishii93]

Hey your really GOOD!!

And It took you a YEAR?!

I Love your Piano,and Awesome job!!

~Lenne~

[Darkflare21]

dude... your scarilly good... if thats even a word lol... im only like grade five on my guitar... that must be at least grade eight...

[mag311]

gr8 job!!! Luv ya piano!!

[tjrussell90]

Unique Approach.

[kite2920]

soz only just found the vid lol very good i love this music

[hellspiano89]

for a year of practice id say EXCELLENT WORK IT WOULD PRAOBALY TAKE ME TWO YEARS LMAO but nice job ^_^

[red3pants]

I've been trying to record an arrangement, and i must agree, your camera placement is really appropriate. I can't seem to find a good spot. Ah well.

[Hufflewolf]

Wow, this is really good. (: My favourite FF piece. Good going!

[shadowkat95]

it's not "fighting". It's "those who fight". But great job!

[ipodnanoman]

impressive, great feel for the piano! 1:50 - 2:10 is my fav part.

[ktno1]

Me too! It's also the only part I can play :)

[dolmae]

wow, i really love your style and watching how you play! omg i have such a long way to go *_* fabulouso!

[Sykoze]

P.S. I love your camera placement XD

[Sykoze]

Unfortunately, this song is a lot easier on guitar... I've wanted to learn piano for a while, but I'm much too poor to actually do it XD

[Tiki767]

you say JENOVA comes close to this in difficulty? JENOVA wasn't that hard for me... it just took a while lol. This looks MUCH harder. You did an excellent job with it!

[DemonInsanity]

Holy crap amazing-ness on a STICK O-O. Nice!!

[VintageAerith]

You've inspired me to learn this one. xD I anticipate carpal tunnel syndrome/tendonitis in my future. Oh, my poor hands! (as with anyone who attempts this piece!)

[senshomaru]

wo wgood job i know im learning the song right its bloody hard to play it up to tempo

[BurntSocks]

Damn buddy you got some skill, I've wanted to learn the piano for a long time. Great piece too.

Just curious, can you play Eternity from FFX-2 the piano collections version? If not you should learn it :) Another great one from FF.

[jcorteling]

i love this piece of music, but cant find it anywhere, can you send it to me pleeeease?!

at jcorteling@hotmail[dot] co [dot] uk thanks

[roflcopterw00tmonger]

Damn, that is quite extraordinary! Nice one

[DearlyDiscorded]

Ugh...I feel your pain. . .

This piece causes latic acid fementation in your hands...which I though it was impossible for that to happen. I couldn't type for days after the first two pages

I stopped playing this song about three months ago...After my piano test I can't wait to complete this song...XD I have about...4 more pages to go...

[GermanSeabass]

Hahah! First, I love your username. It's made of win and such~

Yes, this piece is more of an exercise than a performance piece - a bucket of icewater comes in rather handy after playing it. Best of luck with the last four (the hardest) pages :D

[sinsshadow]

Nice job :D Its a BIT outta tune xD Go get it tuned

[Arachlord]

Nice! great! excellent! beautiful!

[lieaway]

Loved the slurs on this one!

(Why must all the great pianists on YouTube have out-of-tune pianos? =P)

[amysagoddess]

thats great. cuz I sure as hell can't play more than the first couple measures of this song.

[cobaltblade4]

dang, that is NICE. i can understand your pain >.> i practice the song too. After playing it just a few times, I couldn't even lift my spoon at dinner. All the octaves have distorted the bones in my fingers... For all of you out there who plan on starting this song: if you don't have at least a couple of years' experience with the piano, don't even try this. or if you do, good luck. its at least 7 pages long with repeats and stuff. Keep up the good work.

[keve07]

God, I tried playing this song for a good half a year before i decided to give it a rest. I think i'm going to get back on it now...

[MetroidMan15]

This actually reminds me of when I was watching FF7 Advent Children and Loz was fighting Tifa. AWESOME FIGHT. Look it up. Loz vs Tifa. Trust me, you'll get a lot.

[whiteelf75]

thats cuz its from that fight

[fantasykingdom1227]

I wish that I could play like that. I suck at this song, and I've been playing it for six months.

[ClayKlot1]

geez I've been trying to find a video of someone playing this for a year already...

and here it is :D