: June 2022

Piano Lesson with Richard Yang – Concert Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved – Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections

This is a piano lesson video on Concert Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved from the Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections. This is a impressive-sounding piece that’s not actually too difficult. Here’s my recording of this piece. In order to follow…

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The Cat Returns – Become the Wind – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi

The Cat Returns

This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…

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Complete Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections (1st Edition)

FFXI

Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections, music by Naoshi Mizuta and Nobuo Uematsu, played by Richard Yang. This album is actually the first edition of the FFXI Piano Collections, the less popular one compared to the previous FFXI Piano…

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Kingdom Hearts – 12 Concert Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections

Concern Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved = Rachmaninov (Concerto No. 2) beginning + Chopin Etude (Op. 25 No. 12) + Liszt (repeating notes section) + Horowitz-style ending. It sounds pretty difficult but it’s actually not too bad. This took…

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Tales from Earthsea – Therru’s Song – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi

Tales from Earthsea

This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…

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Complete Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collections

FFX-2

Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collections, music by Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi, arranged by Hiroko Kokubu, Masahiro Sayama and Febian Reza Pane, played by Richard Yang. FFX-2 Piano Collections is an important step-up from the previous Piano Collections…

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Kingdom Hearts – 01 Dearly Beloved

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections

Dearly Beloved, the main theme in Kingdom Hearts, serves as a great opening to this wonderful album. In fact, this album both opens and closes with this theme. After recording the Final Fantasy XV album, it’s no surprise…

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Spirited Away – The Name of Life – Studio Ghibli Piano Collection, arr. Makiko Hirohashi

Spirited Away

This series of music from Studio Ghibli is based on arrangements by Makiko Hirohashi. All the Ghibli Studio animated movies really capture our imagination and they bring so much of our childhood memories to life. The music is…

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Complete Final Fantasy X Piano Collections

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy X Piano Collections, music by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano, played by Richard Yang. To the susprise of many, I have actually never played any Final Fantasy game. But for FFX, I did watch…

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Kingdom Hearts – 11 The Other Promise

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections

The original recording of The Other Promise is way too slow for my liking (and all available Youtube recordings I could find). This should be the only version that’s MUCH faster than the original. The feel makes much…

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