Final Fantasy VII: Aerith's Theme - Oboe/Piano Orchestral Cover
319This video is a woodwind and piano orchestra arrangement of “Aerith’s Theme” from Final Fantasy VII! Live instruments include oboe, English Horn, flute, Bb clarinet, and piano.
🎵Original Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
🎵Arranging, performing, editing: Brooke Ferd (“Medllix”)
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It’s been a while since I have done a Final Fantasy cover, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! The phrases are very much fleshed out, because if you’re familiar with the OG version, it’s surprisingly very basic. This song has been remixed/remastered so many times I wanted to really give it a full start-to-finish “narrative." My first big motivation for covering this song was the highly synthesized oboe in the original. It needed some live touch! (Don’t get me wrong, I love the old sound style, it has its place for sure!)
I hit some major writer’s block with this arrangement, and until examining the original composition further I realized how “dull” (not to mean that I dislike the song or think it’s badly composed! Just that it doesn’t have that iconic melodic drive like you see in Tifa’s Theme, for example) the phrases are. It was really a struggle for me to finish it, especially through the video editing phase. Fun Fact: the (super wrinkled…oops) red shirt that I’m wearing is actually PURPLE and I figured out how to change the color smoothly within my video editing software!
To tell you the truth, I’ve been conflicted on whether or not I should upload considering the current events happening in our news right now. I feel like it may seem insensitive to share something unrelated in the wake of everything that is going on. However, so many of us need art and music right now…the nostalgia and enjoyment of video games and VGM has really been keeping me going throughout these three months of BLAH and I hope that others can feel the same.
I still haven’t gotten the FF7 remake, which is funny because PS4 has been my primary console for a while. Right before it was released, I replayed FF7 (the remastered version) and I forgot how good it was. I know it’s cliche all the way but it truly is one of the best FF’s in my opinion! Let me know if you want any more FF covers and which ones! :)
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