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Kingdom Hearts III (2019)

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Hello, this is my piano arrangement of the Theme Song from Kingdom Hearts 3, originally composed by Utada Hikaru. This video is based on the Japanese version "Chikai" from her Album "Hatsukoi". The English version "Don't Think Twice" is also sung by her, but has some differences to the Japanese version. (As far as I know, there is only a short preview available of the English version at this point.)

So, with this video, I return to my roots as far as making videos on YouTube is concerned. If you remember my first activity back in 2009 on my old channel, you'll know that Kingdom Hearts music has played a big role in it. The summer of 2009 was very exciting for me, including my discovery of piano arrangements of Kingdom Hearts music that other musicians were uploading to YouTube, and then finding out about the official Piano Collections book that was released, and I was very excited, even though I didn't know much about Kingdom Hearts itself. Then I actually played Kingdom Hearts 1 that summer because I wanted to find out what these games were all about and because a few friends had repeatedly told me about these games over the years, and I got even more excited for the music. I still don't know the franchise itself too well, but because that summer was such an important experience for me, I had always wanted to get back to playing music from it over the years, and now with the impending release of Kingdom Hearts 3, it's finally a good time to do it.

The amount of work that I had to put into making this arrangement caught me off guard. At first I foolishly thought it wouldn't be much work, but then I found myself in a world of trouble. The song is actually super complex under the hood and I had to go for some compromises, both for the recording as well as for the arrangement itself. Perhaps I'll make another version sometime in the future. Hope you enjoy this anyway! Also I have some ideas for a parody or satire version of this song, but that would require me to learn some other stuff from scratch in order to pull it off.

The cutscenes that I used in this video are taken from the official Kingdom Hearts 3 trailers.

Recorded in July 2018

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