Federation of Windurst, from Final Fantasy XI

Others on YouTube have played this piece and much else from the soundtrack of Final Fantasy XI, in some cases beautifully and with great feeling. As you can see from the comments that appear with some FFXI videos, the experience of being in Vana'diel with this music has been an emotionally potent one for many of its online community.

As unworthy as this performance is, I wanted to show my progress. Also, I would like to give a shout out to Ziha, Dozzizi, Haikaru, Trizabella, and Xionraserei. Great to have played this old game with you.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• final
• fantasy
• xi
• piano
• remora
• celestials

[Yanoyato]

I just started to play it myself. =) Do you play the first variation of the left hand with the fingers: 5 2 1 2 1 4?

[weestro7]

Hey there! Yes, that's the best way to play.

For learning the piece, I would recommend the video by Darshada. Have you seen it? It is excellent and uses a good angle for observing fingering.

Actually, I first learned this piece by playing the left hand 5 3 2 1 2 4. If you can believe, I tried to learn it that way for a long time. Finally I decided to use what I saw on Darshada's video, and I was surprised to discover I could learn that 2nd-finger crossover in relatively little time.

[EffortsatImprov]

Hey Tom!! You're really going for it, I love it! Great to see and hear you play so fluently. What is his final fantasy? am I right in thinking it is a bit like World of Warcraft? I played WOW for a while! BTW I haven't seen you on this piano, it sounds nice, I hope to hear more from you and this piano soon. I'm working on a new piece myself, by York Bowen. York Bowen was Professor of the Royal Academy of Music for 50 years! so it's VERY serious music lol!

Cheers,

Mike

[weestro7]

Thank you for the very interesting comment. Really you're very kind. Yes, this game was released around the same time as WOW and is the same kind of online game. A lot of folks my age and younger grew up playing the (single-player-only) Final Fantasy games, and so when FFXI came out it drew a lot of attention. If you enjoyed WOW, you might want to keep any eye out for the next Final Fantasy online game, to be released late this year.

//pushes imaginary glasses up bridge of nose

Shweet!

[weestro7]

@weestro7 Disappointingly, it turns out that FFXIV is not a good game, at least at this time. Maybe later they will improve the game via patches so that it approaches the greatness of FFXI. However, I must say that as a big fan of Uematsu, the composer, his work in FFXIV does not nearly approach his best.

[Klangzauberer]

And it's also great to see your parents' living room wich reminds me of your stay in Germany which time I really enjoyed.

[weestro7]

Achknowledged bro. :)

[rolipoli]

wow, your technique has improved light years!

[EffortsatImprov]

Thanks for telling me about the game. I had a very very brief play with EVE but thought it was too complicated. I just wanted to fly around and shoot at things and I couldn't even move an inch!! so I delete it.

I see if Final Fanasy appears in the Apple Store (yes I'm a Mac user) and check out what it says about it.

Mike

[Yanoyato]

Awesome! =) *****5 and favorated

[ejnyebejnye]

Its cooooooool!! I liked it very much, going to my favourites :)