Twitch Highlight: Balance Is Restored / Ending (from Final Fantasy VI)(Nobuo Uematsu)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2020
- This is a small taste of what happnes on a typical Twitch live stream! I've decided to start uploading highlights from my live streams, since I play upwards of 9 hours a week on Twitch. This piece from the FFVI OST was recently requested. I had never heard it before and wasn't expecting to play the entire thing (it's almost 20 minutes long!), but the more I played, the more I wanted to play! It hits so many of the great themes from FFVI. Hope you enjoy! I'll also make a TH-cam playlist just for my live stream uploads-- Watch live at / karacomparetto
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"if I like it, I will continue to play... "
* plays the whole thing *
That's me on every song XD
Heh, I was just about to remark on that, too! One simply does not dislike the FF6 ending music...
"ah, then, it probably won't be very good, but I'll continue to listen if I like it..."
* writing comment 17 minutes later *
Yeah, that was incredible for not even having listened to it beforehand. Uematsu is one of those composers without any formal education, so there's unreasonable switches in key and technique all over the place. Even if it's been somewhat cleaned up for the piano books.
@@Zuron It's Nobuo Uematsu we're talking about... Not surprising at all.
@@Zuron Could those changes in key and technique be accounted by the fact that this piece is a medley of 14 separate character themes plus the finale?
As a complete non-expert, I wonder how feasible it is to combine the huge diversity of musical styles from all the character themes into one continuous composition, without having some significant shifts along the way.
It's nice how the ending is basically a full FF6 medley.
I like 7 best but 6 has more remarkable ending and themes.
It's a medley of the themes of every character, arranged a little differently from the original versions, with the Final Fantasy main theme in the end.
I love the transitions the best!
Every transition reminds me of their character's own theme
Soon as Celes's theme starts playing, I tear up every time, especially in this piece as it transitions into Locke's theme.
How I feel at that Shadow theme..
Just happened to me ... 5min45... epic...
Yeah, it's unfortunate (though very reasonable) that the piano arrangement doesn't replicate the part from the original piece where Celes and Locke's themes play in harmony for a few bars when he dives to save her from falling. It totally sounds like the two themes were written intentionally to harmonize, even though there is no clear parallel between the two. They just fit together and it sounds like magic.
I just star crying when Edgar's transitions into Sabin's and stop.... at the very end. maybe. This track perfectly expresses the payoff for actually sticking together and working through your issues even when the whole world collapses round you, and almost all different themes and pieces are rranged in a way that reflects how much they've been through and worked out together. To the unitiated, it's a nice beautiful track. To anyone who finished FF6 it's just..... :,)
Oh man, I’d forgotten how the end theme goes through each characters’ theme music as they get their closing scenes... Right in the feels!
incredible, Uematsu drew a sistine chapel with a bunch of crayons, this beautifull music in 16 bits sound....
Oooo that's a nice way of thinking of it!
Manuel Alejandro Lares Aldrete that’s an amazing description of what he accomplished
That was Jeremy Jahns opinion about FFVI music in his game review XD
But totally agree with that, Uematsu is a musical genius 🙂
FFVI had the BEST soundtrack!
I think I might be in agreement with you there! :O
Absolutely no doubt it
God, this song... What an epic journey FFVI was, in actual fact. I never knew video game stories could be so layered. It just had the best, most engaging storyline I had ever seen.
Thanks for bringing those memories back for a moment, Kara.⚘
Which is why the FF7 remake, FF9 and FF12, all of the FF4 remakes.... It's all good and all. But the true masterpiece to some of us is FF6. I rate FF6 on the level of the original Starwars Trilogy, that's pretty top notch in my book. What an awesome performance by Kara too. Gotta start watching her streams if I can eventually.
For real. FFVI was the pinnacle of the 16-bit JRPG and this soundtrack was arguably the pinnacle of Nobuo Uematsu's career. He's said a few different times it was his favorite OST of the series and he poured his heart into the dozens of themes. The way this ending song pulls them all together is just a perfect representation of the masterpiece that was FFVI.
I smiled a little at the "Is there an orchestral version" bit, considering the original 16-bit version was rendered so beautifully despite the sound limitations. I consider FF6 to be Uematsu's finest work when it comes to telling a story with music. The crazy part of it all is "Balance is Restored" is essentially the 2nd half of "Dancing Mad" a four piece movement that lasts 17 minutes. So combining both gives you around a 38 minute conclusion and send-off to the story.
No way, I never thought of it as a "second part of dancing mad"! That's a super interesting way to think of it. I'm going to have to listen to them together I think.
@@DavidTimothy The game starts off with "Omen" in where half of it is essentially a mixture of the Empire Theme and Terra's Theme, so in my mind the proper thematic bookend to that is Dancing Mad and Balance is Restored; more so considering that opening notes of Omen is embedded inside Dancing Mad before the Kefka fight, and the end of Dancing Mad is actually presented as sad and somber; which tonally does fit into the beginning of Balance is Restored.
How she can sight reading and can still be expressive like at 3:55, is amazing.
Something that’s incredibly difficult while sight reading a piece (besides simply playing it) is being expressive. You still manage to throw some expression in there. Not only is that indicative of your skill, but I appreciate your familiarity of the source material. Nice job!
Yes I was so pleasantly surprised as I encountered themes I knew!
I am absolutely gobsmacked that this is purely a sight-read of the piece. Sure there were a couple mis-plays, but overall an amazing job! it's just another testament to your skill. ;)
Thanks for sharing!
thank you marc! Sightreading is what I enjoy most, so I do it all the time :)
Kara Comparetto the best part was seeing you enjoy it as you went. :)
@@KaraComparetto How do you sight read so well??
@@xBobz99 The same way you get to Carnegie Hall :^)
I played that game so much in my teens when it just came out on the SNES
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You touch me right in the feels.
This is just worth listening to every day, until I die. Fave game of all time. Kara, I’ve heard this ending theme probably 30 times. It never gets old. It’s a masterpiece. Someone once said that having Nobuo Uematsu compose this amazing music on the Super Nintendo was like having Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel with crayons.
I really recommend watching the ending of the game with the visuals that go alongside this piece. They really pushed the limits of the SNES with that they did with this piece, the graphics capabilities, and storage space that was available. A true show of respect for the player who pushed through the game to get then smacked with this. They did this at a time it was still very common for end of the games be done with very little effort, at worst just being the same Game Over screen you'd get if you lost all your lifes. Then in contrast you have this... you've come to the end of your journey and still would like the game to go on as it's been good, but then you get this that bids you farewell. And it just surprises you by going on, just like you'd like the game to go on, and it teases a few times where it could end yet does not, but when you get to the very end you know now it is getting to the point that you have to let go. The End.
Thank you for bringing back the memory of completing the game for the first time!
Christ yes this is relatable. After the ending I just sat there for like an hour while the Crystal Theme played over the end screen, being sad that the game was over. And even the Crystal Theme playing on a 30 second loop was evocative enough to nearly bring me to tears.
This is the only game I ever finished that I genuinely felt like I was not done playing and I refused to accept that it was over.
Celes' theme starts playing and I start crying....happens every time. And then it happens again at Shadow's theme!
GREAT! Love when you play anything from FFVI! Thank you a lot for this one, since it's pretty rare to see it played. Keep the FFVI goodness coming please!
The only words to do this justice are "Thank you, so very much."
14:54 please stand up to our national anthem. Jokes aside thank you for playing this. FF6 is the best FF ever created and one of the best ending theme ever 👏👏
Wow this brings back memories. It’s one of the most memorable pieces of FF because well you had to sit through the whole thing for one, but they also had these great character montages that were shown throughout the ending. Thanks for this Kara :)
That's how To Far Away Times from chrono trigger is for me!!!
ending theme really brings everything together so nicely on, imho, the greatest rpg of all time
I play this all the time for my boys. They know every character's name and theme, even though they've never played the game.
The music is worth standing on it's own. Props marathoning through this masterpiece!
wow... I can't even imagine being able to sight read like that
The best ending song of the FF series! Nice play, Kara!
What an incredible talent you have to sight read and play this so perfectly. Truly remarkable.
I love this game and music.
I think it's amazing how you can pick up any piece and even songs you've not heard of before and play it with such precision and passion.
Thanks for entertaining us!!
Instant nostalgia when hearing this. I mirror everyone's sentiments: FFVI is one of the best games ever made. The music alone was incredible
@Kara I'm glad you didn't stop. As you played, I slowly remembered. If that was your first time playing that piece everything is even more impressive by x100
Oh, absolutely beautiful!
Hi Kara. I'm a Heavy Metal drummer here to tell you your channel is perhaps my favorite music channel on this platform. Your music is honest. I dig it:)
Fabulous 🙏. I once rented this game and finished it in two days in order to see (and hear) this ending and its wonderful integration of the character themes. Gracias
that smile arournd 3:18 kinda makes the whole thing even better, and it is all fantastic.
i´m speechless, wonderful and amazing, I always remember every single melody in FF VI become the great ending theme, I´m very tankful whit you for bring the memories again, hope you keep bringing us your magnificent talent and the great music you play.
Thank you so much
@@KaraComparetto no, no ,no, thanks to you for be amazing, and simply for existing
1 minute in revisiting this and I got goosebumps. Thank you Kara for playing this piece (even for 11 bucks!), and Nobuo Uematsu for composing such a beautiful creation!
Music is life
Only $11, what was I thinking?! 🤣🤣🩷
@@KaraComparetto 🤣it's deflationary, ages like good wine.
Brilliant sight reading especially considering this piece is a compilation of motifs. Love your performances. Thank you for making this!
I had played the game once before on the SNES, and my second time finishing it was a year ago playing the co-op mode with my dad (Also the SNES version). Playing the game with my dad made me appreciate the SNES Final Fantasy games way more, since the SNES games were the only mains ffs that you could experience the brilliant stories with someone else! This cover is amazing, and took me back! Thank you!
Aw I enjoyed reading that!! Thank you! :)
This was the best ending to any FF series. Absolutely gorgeous, thank you
You really looked like you were having a good time, congrats it sounds marvellous, I never counted how long was this song until today wooow
I share this with everybody I know who loves music, even if they've never played the game, and I have seen it being tears to many eyes. It's my favorite game of all time, and this song is so evocative of the entire story, and your incredible skill and joy makes it a wonderful celebration of what music can be. Thank you so much, Kara Comparetto! 🌹🌹🌹
Whoa... This was incredible in so many ways that is too difficult to put in words. I broke with tears in many parts of your play. Thank you so much ❤
oh wow thank you
@@KaraComparetto I have not, but be sure I will! I only need to hydrate myself before try other shot of your plays of Master Nobuo Uematsu music! Thanks again, Kara!
haven't seen all the videos on this channel, but this has to be my favorite. I always comes back to it after a little while. it's so good, and fun watching her discover the soundtrack as it goes.
Oh yeah that part was fun! I had never heard it before but loved it right away. Hope you also saw my video of the full FFVI soundtrack :)
Im glad this is a thing. I can see the pages in the book flipping and then cyans sword. "Faithful retainer to his families liege. With the strength and courage of 100 men"
Wow! Once again, you show all your talent. Sight-reading this is not an easy task! Congratulations on that superb rendition!
I've seen some of your videos before but I've never commented on any of them.... Until now! Final Fantasy VI is my favorite game of all time and I can't even tell you how many times I've listened to the soundtrack! Hearing the ending theme on piano... I am speechless because it's beyond magnificent! Surely I was not the only one who had the ending going through their mind while listening to you play! You've gained a new subscriber!
P.S. For your question at the end about an orchestrated version. You've heard of Distant Worlds, right? There are currently 5 albums out and it's on the third album.
Something crosses one's mind here like a passage of soul and eternity known to a Final Fantasy pilgrim. It's a sweet lone brook, a beautiful winter bird, a deep starry night in the forest, a ravishing long walk in the rain, an ancient midnight sun over the sleepy blue ocean, and all that spontaneous laughter, the dawning lovely presence, and the mercurial musical liberation. Thank you Kara for letting us behold you and your gifts of light and expression, you're the artist and our hearts are the piano within the piano and the forever quivering strings.
6:36 = cold shivers, such nostalgia
You've never heard it and rendered it this correctly? wow. The opening was perfect, some parts were a bit rough, but still very impressive.
Thank you! From years of classical training i can do a decent job of anticipating patterns haha!
This made me cry from the first moment... çç I could see all the range of emotions inside you, while you was playing and listening to the music for the first time... It was wonderful to watch and listen! You're really talented!
I'm in love
Thank you Kara for this! I'm glad you decided to upload highlights; I can't really fit watching live streams in my life, so it feels good having those..!
I'm glad to, it is nice to be able to share here with those who can't make the streams. I'll be doing it more regularly!
Again, i really enjoyed this sight reading interprétation of yours,lovely.
Phenomenal! Really love your music, thank you for playing :)
thank you Jeff! I'm still streaming on twitch, you should come sometime! Wednesdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm EDT :)
@@KaraComparetto I've subscribed to your channel! Haven't had a chance to watch when I see you're on, but hoping the stars align for that soon :) Thank you again.
@@jeffhoyt6005 thank you Jeff! Hope to see you there! Saturday at 2pm is my next one :) I'm cosplaying Snow White this week!
First time ever seeing this, and the best part is her expression within all the themes and the shift in musical tempo, for my lack of musical terms. It's such a joy to see a musician who have never heard of Uematsu's music and how they try figure out his inner workings of piecing music together lol
It's moments like these that really captures Uematsu's music genius, I'm pretty sure, something that he wanted to achieve when composing music for the world!!
So uplifting. The best feelings. :)
Hopefully one day we also get a full chrono trigger soundtrack video from you.
But even without that you already have done a lot of amazing work from Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda so expectations are already exceeded. ^^ Cheers.
Started tearing up at mog's theme. Could tell you had fun during that part and it came through in the playing, making it sound even better.
Of course you'll like it... Kara !! :) Impressive play on sight btw, bravo and thank you so much !
Chat trolling her with a 20 minutes piece xD Each theme transitioning to related characters is such a nice touch. Like Relm & Shadow. I love how cheery she gets at the Mog transition, and her face at the dramatic transition (these are the right notes chat, I promise) xD
Man watching you play through this and seeing the sheer joy in your face as you move through the themes is just so awesome. I've been an avid FF fan since I was a little kid, and have always loved the music as a musician myself, and I'm so glad that there's people out there like you that geek out as hard as I have. Keep up the good work.
Just the beginning of that song brings back so many feelings from my younger years. What a gorgeous story and soundtrack. Very well performed as well! Thanks for posting this.
Epic work Celes! Thank you so much for posting this, so many great memories.
I have to watch this again after your hard earned victory for beating FF6 on your twitch stream the other day,Kara! You did awesome and made me want to play the game again on my Super Nintendo mini! Again, Congratulations!
Also, your talent at the piano is awesome as always!
i love how this channel is just flooded with video game themes, the best kind of osts.
My favourite ending music FF VI of all times
I finished playing FFVI for the first time yesterday. I searched for an orchestra version of the ending theme. Your video appeared on the top results. You did a good job!
Orchestral fantasy channel
Playful and spiteful Kara is the best Kara. I love the good natured ribbing of the viewers!
Wow, this is unreal, Kara. Sight-reading has always been a huge struggle for me personally. Your videos are very inspiring. Congrats on the fantastic performance!
Love this one! I'd mark this one down for a revisit.
oh absolutely!!
I wish Distant Worlds would orchestrate this piece. I just got this video recommended to me, so I've never seen you play before, and your skill blew me away! This is the first time I've seen anyone cover this entire song! Beautiful!
You are awesome. Thank you for doing this in its entirety.
Oh my goodness! TH-cam feed recommends correctly!
I love it when you said you'll play but if you don't like it you will stop.
That smile when you were playing smoke volumes! Amazing job!
Thanks for playing this piece! Great job!
Oh, my... I think my heart melted on the Celes theme bit. So good, Kara.
You are incredible. I can’t believe you just played that whole thing sight unseen. Oof, feels.
すばらしい。オリジナルも加えられてる。惚れてしまいました。wonderful. You also have your original in this music.
I had forgotten how amazing this song is. Thank you Kara!
Holy hell! That was astonishing. I saw what you were going to play and immediately thought there was no way it would be in its entirety... Oh how wrong I was. Bravo!
Hi!
I just stumbled upon this post and am absolutely amazed by your sight reading.
I'm currently scrambling to get a good copy of FFVI to play.
I love final fantasy music.
Especially FF3 (VI)
Thank you!
This is awesome!
✌💚🎸💨
I. Could. Not. Stop. Smiling! :D This is a song I've listened to on repeat over the years ~ who did the arrangement? / where can one find the sheets? --- p.s. this is the fourth time you've brought tears to my eyes, and I literally just discovered you hours ago
this is the original sound version sheets, I think you can find them online! sorry for my 3 years late answer lol I realized I didn't like or respond to any comments on this video back then, ugh!!
Wow, brought me to tears. Well done.
Brilliant stuff! A lot of that looked genuinely fun to play
I enjoyed this so much!
One thing I was waiting for that the piano arrangement seems to miss (sadly, but very reasonably!) is that when the Celes theme transitions to the Locke theme, there are a few measures where the two themes join in harmony to celebrate their relationship, and the way their themes blend together in the original soundtrack is just gorgeous. I think it would have ended up sounding like incomprehensible noise for a piano arrangement, though. Setzer's theme already sounded a tad cluttered at the start and that one's supposed to be pretty simple, haha.
This performance was extraordinary, more so for the fact you were sight reading. I wasn't expecting that when I clicked -- I was just curious about how the piano arrangement sounds. As someone who can barely read music, I'm thoroughly impressed. Very glad I stopped by!
Wow....amazing!
Beautiful.
Oh, the song was really good too.
That was great! Please keep doing twitch highlights!
I definitely will!! Thank you!
Her skill is beyond-Comparetto
I don't know of an orchestrated version (other than the original SNES version, of course), but there is a terrific violin + piano duet that was part of the Balance and Ruin tribute to Final Fantasy VI, performed by Schnabubula and Gabe Terraciano. Just search "Balance and Ruin Ending Suite." It's fantastic.
This is FANTASTIC! This is the first actual piano cover of this amazing composition. And you played it so well! What piano book are you playing from?
the original sound version sheets! I think you can find them online. I'm sorry for my 3 years late response LOL!
@@KaraComparetto No worries! Thank you for replying.
It's kind of weird that this was in my recommended videos on my homepage, but this was fantastic :)
beautifully. hands down.
I guess I had something to do with you playing that AWESOME piece 😂 It's definitely one of your best performances ever! 👏👏❤️❤️
Watching her experience all of the transitions is probably the best part, haha.
Ah thanks for playing this one! My favorite final fantasy by far!
Watching you play this song reminds me of exactly why you're my favorite pianist on all of youtube. You played fantastically for that being your first time, but watching you learn to appreciate it more and more as you played was magic.
To my knowledge there is no orchestrated version of this song, and it's a crying shame, because it's one of Uematsu's best songs. My only guess as to why is because it's another 10+ minute song from a game that already has produced The Dream Oath Opera at 23 minutes long, and Dancing Mad at 12 minutes long. If you're performing a concert that lasts 2 hours, and you're trying to pick a few songs from each game, you've got 50 minutes worth of music for FF6 covered by only 3 songs. Throw in the 8 minute long Opening Theme of FF6, and you're at roughly an hour. I think there's just so much already covered in FF6 that it just sits farther down the list. It was almost 15 years before Dancing Mad got it's dues, and this is the song that directly follows that in the game. And I've STILL never heard a good Kefka cover!
Regardless, I wish I could do more than just like and subscribe here on youtube. You're the best Kara!
EDIT: There IS this, from Distant Worlds 3, but it's not the whole shebang.
th-cam.com/video/mshwZAiIjmM/w-d-xo.html
someone sent me this one- th-cam.com/video/Dm1Wr-BeGBE/w-d-xo.html it seems good, I'm listening now! I had so much fun with this one. I should do a kefka cover, although I'm still planning a dancing mad for organ piano XD
@@KaraComparetto Everyone takes way too many liberties with Kefka, Salsa Kefka, Christmas Kefka, Not-really-Kefka. I just want to hear the OST version played by something that's not synthesized!
And that link! OMG Kara, you're the best! Thank you so much for sharing!
@@RicoLen1 you may have watched Born With the Gift of Magic, it's one of the best orchestrated versions of FFVI music. If not, check it out! 🙂
If you dont already know the charnel,i recommend you check out orchestral fantasy,he reproduction game themes with all real instruments in quite faithful rendition
His channel has criminally low subscribers
Brilliant Indeed. As usual, I hit the like button before watching. Well done Ms. Kara.
Very nicely done
lol! you reaction to its length was great!
I never knew people could get this good at sight reading! It took me a month to learn Julia from FFVIII. That was probably about 20 years ago. I still play it on and off but I'm still not great at it lol
Amazing sight reading as noted...wow
I'll subscribe here and follow on twitch, just because of how awesome you playyed this. YOu made an old codger cry.
I haven't heard this since playing the actual game many years ago. I recognized each of the characters' themes as she went through the piece. Well done for a first time and for something she had never heard before. She's a lovely girl too, but that's incidental.
I've always enjoyed this song, as long as it is, it was a huge mash up of everyone's theme songs from the game which I thought was a nice touch.
Such an awesome song and great performance!