Here’s my latest video, a piano arrangement of the track ‘Quiet Withdrawal’ from the game ‘Tormented Souls’. It was requested by someone who follows me on YouTube – I love the game and the soundtrack, so was happy to agree.

Piano arrangements are always interesting, as they usually involve taking multiple instruments and condensing them onto just the piano. How the instruments transfer depends a lot on the skill of the arranger. The original composition has lots of string swells – I’m not sure how well I captured that aspect of things, but I’m happy with the result overall.

Hello, everybody.

This week’s video was made by request – someone commented on one of my other videos, a piano transcription of a piece from the game, Tormented Souls. They asked if I could do the same for their favourite piece from the game and present it in a way that it can be learnt. I’m happy to take requests for making piano arrangements – I can’t promise that I’ll do every single one that I’m asked to do, but will take all of them into consideration.

The original piece has some tremolando strings that I found difficult to work into this arrangement – in the end I included them as single notes, though I’m sure someone with more experience of making piano reductions of orchestral works could find a more inventive solution than I did.

Hello everybody, just a quick mid-week post.

I had a request on YouTube to create a ‘tutorial’ video for something that I played and I’m looking for some feedback. Tutorial in this meaning was having the notes coming from the top of the screen and landing on the keyboard, as is a pretty popular way of doing things.

I’m curious to know how people find it – the person who requested it said it was perfect for their needs, but I’m going to be making more videos like this is the future and would like to know how easy it is to follow for other people. Does the glow around the falling lines detract from the clarity? Are the colours for each hand easy to follow? That kind of thing.