Originally I watched this video when I was in High school 16 years ago and learned this song for a girl that I had a crush on. I spent 2 weeks after school learning this song, but unfortunately the girl never had the time to listen to it (or she never wanted to hear it), so I never got to play it for her, but I learned how to play this amazing song which I was happy with! Fast forward and I am now 33 years old and I brought out my piano again to learn how to play for my two daughters aged 2 and 1 month. Thanks for providing such an amazing tutorial on how to play this and i'm looking forward to learning this song all over again.
This song is basically the reason I am learning the piano. Thanks for posting this tutorial. Ive only been playing for 6 months and ive got it down now :)
This is the best teacher around here: you show it many times, slow, and very clearly. Most of these guys who have done "Learn To Znarkand" vids just play it through and say: "Now you do it?" Just how lame is that? Thanks, man, this is going to help me learn it.
wow its so amazing to come back to this video...I'm the one who requested him to play this..and look at this.. almost one million views.. amazing :)..thanks again ryan for taking my request and teaching me my favourite song to play.. much love!
I'm trying to practice with my left hand, I was trying to learn Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts, but I think it's a bit fast for me. I love how he teaches WHEN to play your right and left hand it's super helpful so I know when to combine the two when playing. Thank you for the great tutorials!
Dude around 4:56 you made a cut where you jumped an entire octave. I played it wrong for about two weeks until I reheard the original and found out I was playing too high. Please make a sidenote about it, thx
it's the best piano tutorial on youtube i've seen, because you actually explain it. i know how to play piano, but the when you say the notes, it helps when the vid gets out of sync.
What... I don't even know the basics of the piano, in fact ive nevet even played a song on it before. Yet this song, being ny first, I got it in 8 hours
Started learning this song when I got a keyboard on christmas 2009, learnt the first few parts, and then I put my keyboard aside and didn't play it for around a year. Then I started listening to To Zanarkand again, which in turn got me interested in piano again.. I play guitar, and am a small-time music producer, and had no past experience in playing the piano, but these tutorials are great! Thanks for them, I'm going to go and practice now :)
I'm a 13 year old boy and im so happy that I can finally learn this, it took me about 3-5 days to learn this and im going to watch the secibd and the third part now :) God bless you :D
Just wanted to let you know, this song has a very big resonance with my life, I watched thes to zanarkand videos atleast 10 years ago, I wanted to learn it to play at my Father's funeral. no downers or negativity here, I just wanted to say thank you for these videos, much love ❤✌
I've started whatching this video in 2008, as a FFX fan, and start playing it with a really bad 61 keys piano.. Now because of the quarantine, i've finally bought a 88keys piano and start playing it again. I aint so good at piano (just stadied for 1 year when i was 9) but i'm pretty sure that, thanks to your video, ill be able to learn it. So, after many years i just want to say you thank you very much for this amazing tutorial. Greetings from Italy!
goitans I'm playing this wonderful melody for 2 hour but i can play the first part already...you're very good to teach thank you for uploaded these videos I've searched for a long time :)
i love the internet. I have always wanted to be able to play this song. most memorable ff song in my eyes. I barely know a lick of piano...have not had a lesson and just started....but I have been able to really learn this song thru repitition and watching hand and finger placement. Thanks so much for taking the time to show how this is played...I cant wait to master it! :)
seriously ryan, i love the way u teach. I've learned like 4 or 5 songs just from u alone... I'm right at the end of this part though so could you please re-upload it one more time? thanks man and keep up the good work
This was really helpful. Thanks very much! BTW guys just because you get confused at a certain part of a video doesn't mean there isn't a pause button. Use it and and pace yourself. Rewind and review. Practice. Thanks again!
The tutorial is good. At first I was using this to learn the song, but now that I have the sheet music, I'm teaching myself what to play and using this as a way to see if I'm playing it right.
Hi, it's thanks to you that I learnt this music, this is one of my favorite game, and the first music that I taught the piano. It was 5 years ago, and even today, when I play it, I think of this video ! Thanks you so much !!!! I learn this in 2 weeks, and after the first month, i knew to play it naturally ! (sorry for my english, i'm french) Bye !
This is an amazing tutorial... even if it was confusing at the end, i still stuck to it and learned it... now its just the matter of being able to put it all together smoothly so it sounds great. Thanks soooo much for the tutorial!!! YOU ROCK!!!!
amazing dude your one of the best piano players i've ever seen...cheers from greece for making a lesson for that beautifull song...i'll give it a sot even though i know very little about playing piano.... :) good job!
Mate, thanks for putting this up, you dont have too but you do so thats cool! Nearly got this first section down. Been at it a good week now! Never heard this song before i clicked on your page! Thanks again!!
I have posted message here before, returned back since I didn't have KB those days, now I'm back! The B part is extremely difficult, due to I never too any piano lesson or anything. But at least I got all the notes and am currently mastering the B part. Thanks for the great tutorial, some notes were bit hard to catch though, but at the moment the best tutorial.
Est time to learn: 3 days Reality: Took me a year almost >_> Learnt it a long time ago, just reminiscing, thanks for the tutorials on these songs. Hope you'll make more tutorials at some point in the future.
me and my family loves this song. i usually do not play piano but when i found this i started to try. now my family is really happy about that ^^ thank you so much! (sorry for my bad english)
hi... you are one of the best teacher out there and i was wondering if yo could make a tutorial on aerith's theme or maybe tifa's theme from final fantasy 7... pls you r the best and there are absolutely no tutorials out there so pls! :)
I'm the kind that is too lazy to start with the basics. Maybe your tutorials will help me play it by ear on some other songs. But I'm going to watch all your tutorials for sure. Thanks.
Hey man, great work. I'm a big fan of your tutorials. You've got, by far, the best piano tutorials on TH-cam. I know you probably get people asking for songs all the time, but when you get the chance, listen to Zzyzx Rd. by Stonesour. It has a great piano part, and nobody on TH-cam has a tutorial for it. Just give it some thought. keep up the great work!
I love this song and I l ove playing the piano and I thank you very much for giving this much better instruction on how to play it. YOu do a good job and I want to learn more from your videos!
You like the same music I do! Linkin Park, The Fray, and now Final Fantasy OSTs! Your tutorials are very helpful. By the way RoxasnRiku, if you have a 61 key keyboard, you should be able to set the notes higher on your keyboard if you need to. This guy is using an 88 key keyboard.
thks u so much for showing this tutorial(for free!). its the best tutorial compare to all the others. really really appreciate this. thk u! this song is simply fantastic and beautiful. i am going to work hard to master this piece (even though it looks very difficultT_T im just a beginer, but i can play if i practice hard right?! thk u again! ^^
this is great I just discovered that I learn much faster thru watching tutorials than thru reading sheet music, Im just slow at it lol, but by watching I can learn a song like in an hour whereas with the sheet it takes me a couple of days =)
I've never really played piano before but luckily have a full keyboard around. Thanks to this video, in a day & a half I've perfected this much of it. Now time for 2. (:
Thanks for putting your videos on youtube, ive always wanted to learn this song, and u made it easy for me :) Thanks .ive also learned No One by alicia keys becos of you. cheers pal.
hey ryan all videos are extremely helpful and easy to understand. THANKS...could i suggest the lesson to the song "I Tried" by bone thugs n harmony ft. akon?? i've been trying to figure out how to play it and none of the lessons posted on youtube are helpful enough.
this is indeed a beautiful song. I have pretty much no experience in piano but you've taught me the first couple of seconds of To Zanarkand - thank you very much :) But I have a question - my old keyboard has 49 keys. how many are needed to play the whole piece? thank you!
haha omg i remember when i asked you to learn this for me and teach me..i didnt think you would do it!!... i so love u for this..you dont even understand.- stizz
im just a beginner at piano. im talkin i managed to learn a little bit of Apologize on piano yesterday and thats it. and i have to admit ur lession is kinda hard to follow cuz i dont konw what all the notes are and all that. and its hard to see every key ur hittin cuz sometimes ur hand covers it a bit. do u know of any programs that teach piano. something like powertabs or something. Im a guitarist so thats y i know bout tabs. but now i wanna learn piano.
ok. i was thinking of getting a keyboard so i can continue playing piano. i didnt know you have this video! now i DEF am getting a keyboard. im obsessed with FF lol ty!!!
hey about the part at 4:50 i have sheet music for this and the left hand does in bass clef C,G,F sharp, E then C and you're doing what i do so im not sure which one to use rerspond when you get the chance! you rock
I'm learning this song from this video but it goes so slooow. However I'll keep practicing, because you said that beginners (like me) can also learn this. Thank you, you made this tutorial!^^
Hi Ryan, I have been following you for a few years now. I have learned a bunch of songs from you! Thanks for that! :D I have a question regarding this song. I noticed that in 5:33 of this song, the left and right hand are played a bit differently than in the original song. I have watched a few playing video's on TH-cam and noticed they play it like you do. Is this how it is in the original sheet music? Because if you listen close, you can hear a difference in the original song.
@starkizzlers I found several versions of the sheet music, but none coincided with Ryans. I think he plays it by ear, so that's why it's different. The piano collections version is the one that's closest to his I think.
@Jekiterio If there is anything I have learned from the instructors I've heard speeches from, it's that finger placement can jump out the window and you should play however you feel comfortable. Not what everyone else says is proper.
The end is really confusing, a clear explanation of that would be quite welcome. Despite from that, it's a great vid, I mastered the first chorus. Thanks for sharing so much videos for free!
Originally I watched this video when I was in High school 16 years ago and learned this song for a girl that I had a crush on. I spent 2 weeks after school learning this song, but unfortunately the girl never had the time to listen to it (or she never wanted to hear it), so I never got to play it for her, but I learned how to play this amazing song which I was happy with! Fast forward and I am now 33 years old and I brought out my piano again to learn how to play for my two daughters aged 2 and 1 month. Thanks for providing such an amazing tutorial on how to play this and i'm looking forward to learning this song all over again.
Love this, thanks for sharing!
2020 corona virus and this is what’s keeping me sane thank you!!!
amen!! same here 2020 got me going coo coo
I learned how to play piano from these videos in 2010…I’m 29 now…cheers to the new decade of appreciation
This song is basically the reason I am learning the piano. Thanks for posting this tutorial. Ive only been playing for 6 months and ive got it down now :)
This is the best teacher around here: you show it many times, slow, and very clearly. Most of these guys who have done "Learn To Znarkand" vids just play it through and say: "Now you do it?" Just how lame is that? Thanks, man, this is going to help me learn it.
I finally learned this first part after 9 years lmao
Thanks
Better late than never! :)
LMAO ME TOO
Lmfao
That makes me proud I learned it so quick this is like one of five songs I ever learned and this one took so much time and dedication lol
wow its so amazing to come back to this video...I'm the one who requested him to play this..and look at this.. almost one million views.. amazing :)..thanks again ryan for taking my request and teaching me my favourite song to play.. much love!
Rewatching and learning this during quarantine after 12 years lmfao!
I do have a newly recorded 1 hour tutorial for To Zanarkand at www.PianoKeyz.com =)
Learned this 17 years ago when this video first came out, I thank you TH-cam gods I found thus video again because it is SUPERIOR!!!
Ty! I have newly recorded tutorials now at pianokeyz.com in my course
oh i remember hearing this song while my brother was playing it, haha. its really pretty! nice tutorial!
I'm trying to practice with my left hand, I was trying to learn Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts, but I think it's a bit fast for me. I love how he teaches WHEN to play your right and left hand it's super helpful so I know when to combine the two when playing. Thank you for the great tutorials!
Dude around 4:56 you made a cut where you jumped an entire octave. I played it wrong for about two weeks until I reheard the original and found out I was playing too high. Please make a sidenote about it, thx
it's the best piano tutorial on youtube i've seen, because you actually explain it. i know how to play piano, but the when you say the notes, it helps when the vid gets out of sync.
3 days, my ass! It's taken me 6 years and I've only just made it past the first chorus!
What... I don't even know the basics of the piano, in fact ive nevet even played a song on it before. Yet this song, being ny first, I got it in 8 hours
Me too man
Never played piano befor - wanted to learn this - bought a piano - started practicing. This tutorial helped a lot! Thumbs up! Thx!
Sweet!! i managed to learn it in 2 days :) thanks a bunch
Started learning this song when I got a keyboard on christmas 2009, learnt the first few parts, and then I put my keyboard aside and didn't play it for around a year. Then I started listening to To Zanarkand again, which in turn got me interested in piano again.. I play guitar, and am a small-time music producer, and had no past experience in playing the piano, but these tutorials are great! Thanks for them, I'm going to go and practice now :)
Thanks for the tutorial. little too fast with the left hand though. It's hard to get those notes right so fast. maybe go note by note next time.
thank you so much ! ;)
haven´t found a video to learn something so easy, you made my life easier x)
I hate it so much when he doesn't explain it. I find it better when they say what key should be played
I'm a 13 year old boy and im so happy that I can finally learn this, it took me about 3-5 days to learn this and im going to watch the secibd and the third part now :) God bless you :D
bro please talk more because you didn't talk and It got confusing around 6:30 to 7:30
Just wanted to let you know, this song has a very big resonance with my life, I watched thes to zanarkand videos atleast 10 years ago, I wanted to learn it to play at my Father's funeral. no downers or negativity here, I just wanted to say thank you for these videos, much love ❤✌
Thank you for teaching me ❤
You go to fast on 6:02, I don't get anything of the right hand.. :l
are you high? hes going super slow mo
I played this for my family, both my sister and my grandma started crying. :)
Thank you for making this tutorial.
It's so so hard ; ; I'll need to practice a lot to get this done XD And by a lot I mean a LOT D:
Mannnn I learned how to play so many songs because you! Just wanted to come back and thank you!
Appreciate it man!
would be better if he wasn't so confused
the very first song i have learned using this tutorial 10 years ago. Big thanks again my dude :).
Just played the beginning on Garageband on my iPad ... Man, that's the first time I play piano and I enjoy it. Thank you !
I've started whatching this video in 2008, as a FFX fan, and start playing it with a really bad 61 keys piano.. Now because of the quarantine, i've finally bought a 88keys piano and start playing it again. I aint so good at piano (just stadied for 1 year when i was 9) but i'm pretty sure that, thanks to your video, ill be able to learn it. So, after many years i just want to say you thank you very much for this amazing tutorial. Greetings from Italy!
goitans I'm playing this wonderful melody for 2 hour but i can play the first part already...you're very good to teach thank you for uploaded these videos I've searched for a long time :)
Keep doing tutorials like this its very helpful to many MANY people believe it or not.
after seeing this, i actually sat down to play the piano for the first time in years! your a great inspiration! thanks
i love the internet. I have always wanted to be able to play this song. most memorable ff song in my eyes. I barely know a lick of piano...have not had a lesson and just started....but I have been able to really learn this song thru repitition and watching hand and finger placement. Thanks so much for taking the time to show how this is played...I cant wait to master it! :)
Back to 2009, this is the first piano tutorial video on youtube I've had ever downloaded ! .
i'm 15 and am trying to learn this song, i just want to say this helped a million so thanks :)
seriously ryan, i love the way u teach. I've learned like 4 or 5 songs just from u alone... I'm right at the end of this part though so could you please re-upload it one more time? thanks man and keep up the good work
I can't believe I can play this now! Your tutorials are so clear - the easiest to learn from! Thanks so so much! Keep putting out amazing music!
Thank you for this video, I've always wanted to learn how to play this. Do you also have a demo on the FFX-2 intro? It's also very beautiful.
Eternity memory of lightwaves
This was really helpful. Thanks very much! BTW guys just because you get confused at a certain part of a video doesn't mean there isn't a pause button. Use it and and pace yourself. Rewind and review. Practice. Thanks again!
The tutorial is good. At first I was using this to learn the song, but now that I have the sheet music, I'm teaching myself what to play and using this as a way to see if I'm playing it right.
Hi, it's thanks to you that I learnt this music, this is one of my favorite game, and the first music that I taught the piano. It was 5 years ago, and even today, when I play it, I think of this video ! Thanks you so much !!!! I learn this in 2 weeks, and after the first month, i knew to play it naturally ! (sorry for my english, i'm french) Bye !
This is an amazing tutorial... even if it was confusing at the end, i still stuck to it and learned it... now its just the matter of being able to put it all together smoothly so it sounds great. Thanks soooo much for the tutorial!!! YOU ROCK!!!!
amazing dude your one of the best piano players i've ever seen...cheers from greece for making a lesson for that beautifull song...i'll give it a sot even though i know very little about playing piano.... :) good job!
Mate, thanks for putting this up, you dont have too but you do so thats cool! Nearly got this first section down. Been at it a good week now! Never heard this song before i clicked on your page! Thanks again!!
I have posted message here before, returned back since I didn't have KB those days, now I'm back! The B part is extremely difficult, due to I never too any piano lesson or anything. But at least I got all the notes and am currently mastering the B part. Thanks for the great tutorial, some notes were bit hard to catch though, but at the moment the best tutorial.
Est time to learn: 3 days
Reality: Took me a year almost >_>
Learnt it a long time ago, just reminiscing, thanks for the tutorials on these songs. Hope you'll make more tutorials at some point in the future.
me and my family loves this song. i usually do not play piano but when i found this i started to try. now my family is really happy about that ^^ thank you so much! (sorry for my bad english)
Mate, best keyboard tutorial ive seen out on youtube =]
cheers
hi... you are one of the best teacher out there and i was wondering if yo could make a tutorial on aerith's theme or maybe tifa's theme from final fantasy 7... pls you r the best and there are absolutely no tutorials out there so pls! :)
awesome best tutorial vid i've seriously EVER seen this really breaks things down. Good for the people like me.
WHOA! I never knew you were into these kinds of songs, THANK YOU!!1
I'm the kind that is too lazy to start with the basics. Maybe your tutorials will help me play it by ear on some other songs. But I'm going to watch all your tutorials for sure. Thanks.
Hey man, great work. I'm a big fan of your tutorials. You've got, by far, the best piano tutorials on TH-cam. I know you probably get people asking for songs all the time, but when you get the chance, listen to Zzyzx Rd. by Stonesour. It has a great piano part, and nobody on TH-cam has a tutorial for it. Just give it some thought. keep up the great work!
I love this song and I l ove playing the piano and I thank you very much for giving this much better instruction on how to play it. YOu do a good job and I want to learn more from your videos!
thanks very much, this helps a LOT in stead of how I was trying it myself by just listening to the song.
Almost got part one now
You like the same music I do! Linkin Park, The Fray, and now Final Fantasy OSTs! Your tutorials are very helpful. By the way RoxasnRiku, if you have a 61 key keyboard, you should be able to set the notes higher on your keyboard if you need to. This guy is using an 88 key keyboard.
BEAUTIFUL! - It's an awesome piece, and I love learning it. Thank you!
Thank you for this! For today, I memorized and got the feel for the first half of the video. Hopefully I will learn the second half tomorrow!
this is a great song i remember learning it along time ago gud job ryan just reminiscing
this song is soo great!!! I love it soo......
I have to learn it, but I need 6 or 8 hours^^
anyway....you're the best Ryan!!
Awesome, I'm done with part 1, just gotta practice. Thank you for this Ryan.
thks u so much for showing this tutorial(for free!). its the best tutorial compare to all the others. really really appreciate this. thk u! this song is simply fantastic and beautiful. i am going to work hard to master this piece (even though it looks very difficultT_T im just a beginer, but i can play if i practice hard right?! thk u again! ^^
you´re awesome!!!
i wanted to learn this song since i´ve heard it!!
Thank you!
thanks alot!! you're a great teacher, this vid. really helps me to learn the song!
wow! your a fantastic teacher and you've helped me learn it so quickly!!
I love your videos!
I've learned almost everything
I know from you.
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YOU...ARE...A...Ledgend! i love this song and i hav been trying to learn it Thanx so much!
Thank you so much! I learned to play this song! You are a great teacher! THANK YOU!THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Your website for the sheet music doesn't seem to be working...
Could you post another link for that sheet music please?
this is great I just discovered that I learn much faster thru watching tutorials than thru reading sheet music, Im just slow at it lol, but by watching I can learn a song like in an hour whereas with the sheet it takes me a couple of days =)
You mind doing a tutorial on Final Fantasy 7 Main Theme Piano Collections?
You're an amazing teacher on youtube lol.
I've never really played piano before but luckily have a full keyboard around. Thanks to this video, in a day & a half I've perfected this much of it. Now time for 2. (:
OMG you so totally rock!!! Thanks for teaching piano online! Keep it up seriously you totally rock!!!
Thanks for putting your videos on youtube, ive always wanted to learn this song, and u made it easy for me :) Thanks .ive also learned No One by alicia keys becos of you. cheers pal.
hey ryan all videos are extremely helpful and easy to understand. THANKS...could i suggest the lesson to the song "I Tried" by bone thugs n harmony ft. akon?? i've been trying to figure out how to play it and none of the lessons posted on youtube are helpful enough.
this is indeed a beautiful song. I have pretty much no experience in piano but you've taught me the first couple of seconds of To Zanarkand - thank you very much :)
But I have a question - my old keyboard has 49 keys. how many are needed to play the whole piece? thank you!
haha omg i remember when i asked you to learn this for me and teach me..i didnt think you would do it!!... i so love u for this..you dont even understand.- stizz
When I get a new keyboard this is what I shall be learning, great tutorial ^^
thank you so much for posting this!!!
ive been having trouble learning it on my own ^__^
im just a beginner at piano. im talkin i managed to learn a little bit of Apologize on piano yesterday and thats it. and i have to admit ur lession is kinda hard to follow cuz i dont konw what all the notes are and all that. and its hard to see every key ur hittin cuz sometimes ur hand covers it a bit. do u know of any programs that teach piano. something like powertabs or something. Im a guitarist so thats y i know bout tabs. but now i wanna learn piano.
thankyou :) this is very helpful
ok. i was thinking of getting a keyboard so i can continue playing piano. i didnt know you have this video! now i DEF am getting a keyboard. im obsessed with FF lol ty!!!
That was great! I prefer the one at that's played at the Intro of FFX, though. Are there any videos on that one?
OH MY GOD!!!!
I thought you'd never do this
Thank you so much
hey about the part at 4:50 i have sheet music for this and the left hand does in bass clef C,G,F sharp, E then C and you're doing what i do so im not sure which one to use
rerspond when you get the chance! you rock
I learned it!! Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial! :)
I've always wanted to play this. :D
Awesome tutorial. I'm sure this will come in handy.
Thanks for putting it up!
love it, never expected you to teach it
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It's really helping me a lot! Keep it up!
I'm learning this song from this video but it goes so slooow. However I'll keep practicing,
because you said that beginners (like me) can also learn this. Thank you, you made this tutorial!^^
this is awesome. its a beautiful song.
is there any way you could post a tutorial on how to play "eternity" from final fantasy X-2?
Hi Ryan,
I have been following you for a few years now. I have learned a bunch of songs from you! Thanks for that! :D
I have a question regarding this song.
I noticed that in 5:33 of this song, the left and right hand are played a bit differently than in the original song. I have watched a few playing video's on TH-cam and noticed they play it like you do. Is this how it is in the original sheet music? Because if you listen close, you can hear a difference in the original song.
Could you remake this video in the same way your newer videos are made? With the write up and all that? I loved the write up, it’s so helpful.
@starkizzlers I found several versions of the sheet music, but none coincided with Ryans. I think he plays it by ear, so that's why it's different. The piano collections version is the one that's closest to his I think.
@Jekiterio If there is anything I have learned from the instructors I've heard speeches from, it's that finger placement can jump out the window and you should play however you feel comfortable. Not what everyone else says is proper.
The end is really confusing, a clear explanation of that would be quite welcome. Despite from that, it's a great vid, I mastered the first chorus. Thanks for sharing so much videos for free!
i agree i loveFFX and i LOVE this song. thank you thank you thank you so much for doing a tutorial
Nice tutorial! BTW, are you playing straight from the book or do you improvise here and there?
this is a really cool song, and great how u explain stuff