http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7iL979r68

As a recently decided Music Composition major, I thought I'd do some practice and throw this together. Took me several months, because 1) I was new at it, and 2) I wanted to make it the best I could

And yes, the guitar solo (2:20-3:10) is a real, live guitar haha. Got the owner of a local music shop to record that for me.

I thought I'd share it as I know I myself was always waiting for a decent arrangement of this song, and thought maybe others were too!

I would LOVE to take requests from anybody for any Final Fantasy song :)

-OtaConnor

Pretty nice job, I like it..... You are right on the description: quality should be improved a little... Anyway, good work for a start, at least for me.


I would LOVE to take requests from anybody for any Final Fantasy song :)

-OtaConnor
Happy to hear that :D

I'd be really interested to see what you can do with Final Fantasy VII: Crazy Motorcycle & Final Fantasy VIII: The Stage is Set :)

Oh man I have had fun playing with those before :D
Right now I'm working on Bombing Mission... but getting back to crazy motorcycle DOES sound ideal, I do have buttloads of new guitars I'm dying to try out ;P

Nice work, I heard a little bit of Kuja's theme near the start and the sound quality didn't bother me that much

This is great! Thank you for sharing. :D And since you're taking requests I'm going to throw in some myself:
FF IV: The Mystic Forest
FF IX: Stirring the Forest

Thanks Lemur! And yup, it actually goes from the Dark Messenger opening, to a small violin section I wrote, to Footsteps of Desire. Crystal World, to Dark Messenger again, and ends in Kuja's theme :)

And AcidBeast, do you mean the Mystic Forest from FFVI not IV? IV's dungeon theme was "Lurking in the Darkness." I will add Mystic Forest from VI though, I always thought a solo violin could carry the melody beautifully.

I've got Crazy Motorcycle, and Mystic Forest now set under requests. Subscribe to my youtube and if you want to catch them when they're up :) I'll be checking in here with progress now and again too.

Fantastic. :) And yeah, of course, I meant VI. My bad.

Really great :)
The voice in the back scared me a little in the beginning but I like it.

and if you have time why not try something on FFVI's decisive battle theme :P

Sounds good to me. Even the sound quality is for sure not bad.

Thanks for the great feedback guys! I got a list down of the requests now :) I'll fit in all that I can!
Just finished Mystic Forest, it will be on youtube within the hour! (Knowing YouTube maybe longer :P)
I will be working on Crazy Motorcycle next... I'm picking through my instruments and trying to make the best guitars that would fit it. AKA epic guitars, of course!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCzhaM1K3E Mystic Forest is done :) Sorry for the bump, but thought I'd let you guys know!

Very unexpected and creative changes you made there. Interesting listening. And you say you're new at this?

I'm not a fan of FFVI's music, but I must say I like what you did with that song..... Can I make a question? Have you considered releasing your remixes? I'd like to have your Crazy Motorcycle version as my cellphone tune :D

@nothingtosay: Thank you! And yup, been teaching myself music for the last 6-7 months or so.

@Leon Scott Kennedy: Thank you as well sir! And I've considered it for sure- first I'm trying to get myself out there a little more. However, as of recent I had a thought I'd like to act upon- which is the following: anyone who would help promote me via forums, amvs, and things of the such, I'll give MP3s of their choice to them.
So it might be a little bit until I release tracks individually as MP3s. While I work on my website (personal site for music, that isnt youtube or facebook) I will put them on the site. If you have any interest in helping promote some for some MP3s shoot me an email at [email protected] :) I'll even send a few complimentary songs I have not put online yet.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/OtaConnor-Studios/243651460991?ref=ts
That is the Facebook music page. I suggest joining the page if you want to keep track of what I'm working on and when things are coming out, and all that fun stuff. Much easier way to work with requests too, as I'll be putting polls and songs up on it too :)