How to Play: The Prelude (Final Fantasy) for Piano (annotations!)

This is Final Fantasy's "Prelude," as shown with the program Synthesia and recorded with ScreenFlow for mac. The midi I used can be found here, although I think the site is broken as of Jan. 2010 ( http://www.thefinalfantasy.com/games/ff7/music.html ). While I used the FF7 version of Prelude for this video, I cut most of the instruments you'd usually hear in the song. Thus, this is actually more like FF3's version of Prelude, which you can also find a midi of on the site.

I put in annotations for the notes to play for each pass if it's too fast for you to follow by ear, though it shouldn't be difficult. I'll probably upload a vid of me playing it if the fingering is really that difficult for someone.

I took out all of the extra instrumentals that would usually occur halfway through the song, so all you hear is the harp / piano part.

Made my wallpaper in photoshop, it is 1280x800. You can download it here
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/154427/Background%20V2.jpg

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[againstdew]

What means those letters there?

[Exaiphnes]

@againstdew those were the letters that appeared in my spoon while eating alphabet soup during post-production of the video

[Foaman]

Couldn't you do the left hand, too? :/

[Exaiphnes]

@Foaman it's recommended you roll with both hands, though not everyone needs to play that way

[Exaiphnes]

@brendonian welcome to youtube, click on the "show more" option to open the video description. Here, most youtubers will put info on their video to answer frequently asked questions.

[terodaima]

i love this song

[HomuraHyuuga]

1:22 Synthesia mistake too, lol

[HetalianutcaseXD]

I LIKE! I'm gonna play!

[Britannai101]

@Drewl3l3 yes it is! Best games ever, you should play them!!! But I never knew that it was sooo simple *self taught piano player* XD

[WhiteLotusofRome]

It's really that simple? And I spent so long thinking that it would be difficult...

[Drewl3l3]

That's sooo simple and is that a game?

[ChunSungYoun]

That's simpler than I thought it would be.

[SJVFX]

@Exaiphnes That was funny :D :D Thanks for the upload!

[crazy4sian]

@againstdew You're... joking, right?