The PERFECT Zelda Piece For Piano | Midna's Lament

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• JA

  @james_crawford · 2 years ago

  The perfect zelda piece...until the enemy battle music rudely interrupts it

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• PH

  @PhacopsDrummer · 9 months ago

  The fact that it's easier to play if your left handed. Is cool because link is left handed in that game.

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• RR

  @Rrruckezzz · 2 years ago

  As a professional musician myself, I want to tell you: THIS IS HOW TO TEACH MUSIC. Big fan of all your content mr. Cornell

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• AG

  @AgentForest · 2 years ago

  This moment of the game solidified it as one of my favorite Zelda games.  So many of the games came with a plucky sidekick, but this game you had an impish little gremlin girl who teased you the whole time, and then she gets hurt.  Suddenly the overworld/field theme shifts into this depressing, ominous, dark version of what it used to be, and you have to race across the kingdom to save her.  None of the other sidekick characters made me feel that much concern.  The song was flawless, and really helped convey how dire the situation was.

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• GA

  @gamergirl209 · 2 years ago

  I mean, it took me almost ten years just to realize that midnas entire theme is just a harmonic minor variation on zeldas lullaby

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• LI

  @liaspooked4980 · 2 years ago (edited)

  To me, Midna´s Lament always invoked thoughts of rain - the repetitious nature of the melody sounded like constant rain falling from the sky, and the beautiful high notes that cut through sounded like a different kind of rain drop, too. The whole song also has that melancholic but somewhat calm and ruminant vibe that rainy days give you (with a sprinkle of hope. Maybe a bit of sunshine breaking through the clouds?). The fact that it`s pouring during the scene where this song plays in the game is perfect, and makes me think that this effect was a deliberate one by the composer

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• DA

  @dabbingperson9236 · 2 years ago

  I love this theme. Shame it gets interrupted by enemies every 10-15 seconds.

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• AL

  @aliss8559 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The cool thing is that echoey "delayed piano" part is the melody of Midna's Theme. So awesome how Koji Kondo did that, incorporating midna's theme motif into the Lament track

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• SM

  @SmoreBread · 2 years ago

  There’s so many references within this piece to earlier Zelda music. There’s the main theme and even Hyrule Field from Ocarina of Time. They weave in so effortlessly that it creates its own haunting beauty.

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• LX

  @lx-icon · 2 years ago

  NO JOKE have been learning this the past day or two and was struggling with the left hand fingering and was kinda annoyed that I was finding something so "simple" so challenging to loop...was quite reassuring to see you spent some time actually discussing it!

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• CA

  @Campusanis · 2 years ago

  Fi's Farewell from Skyward Sword has a really pretty, silky smooth piano part. And I could never quite figure out what's happening in the strings, harmonically.

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• RH

  @rhystil_shadowhelm · 2 years ago

  sonova... Twilight Princess has such a deep, special place in my heart. As a musician having the Zelda franchise be my all time favorite franchise, the music always imprints on me. Just hearing Midna's Lament immediately transports me back to that time as a child, witnessing the events of the story for the first time where this music suddenly comes in and I'm just... tears. Streaming down my face while I wear a big, dumb grin just remembering it all...

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