Waiting for Faith: On Arpeggios

          I never thought I would post something where I'd excuse myself for not posting more often - so I won't. I do, however, feel the need to explain that, though I try to write something every two weeks, there has been a hiatus due to the fact that the PC on which I wrote the draft for "Faith - Part II" went 'bye-bye'. I have not been able to access it for around two weeks, but I can now, so the next post will be published in a few days.

          While I have your attention, I feel the need to remark that, as a pianist, I really abhor arpeggios. They sound nice, but they are really difficult to master, and they are everywhere. They exist in a million variations too, so one has to learn them all over. Every. Single. Time. I thought I had had the worst of it, but that was until I decide to partake "Lugia's Song", a really beautiful piece from the second Pokémon movie. They seem simple enough, but they are divinely awful to play.
          I might exaggerate, but I do not like, to learn, arpeggios. I will master these too eventually, but in the meantime, they are my worst enemy.

Sheet Music and Music Blog

        I have been playing a lot of piano lately, and while being fed up with deciphering Zelda songs on my own, I happened to stumble upon an amazing blog by a Californian musician, Aivi Tran. According to herself, she is a self-taught, school-refined and freelance composer, who has "soft spot for video game music". She is a great pianist, who is adept at transcribing music to sheet. I found in her blog a real treasure of sheet music from some of my favourite video games, such as Zelda, Super Mario Galaxy and Final Fantasy. She's also added demonstrative videos for most of it, and I must say that her level is far above mine (though that does not say much, as I have never pretended to have more than an acceptable level). It is just a shame that most of it is a bit above my level, so even after an eight-hour marathon of Piano playing, I still have a long way to go before mastering pieces such as "Castle" and "Zora's Domain", both from Zelda.
       I have taken the liberty of adding the first page of "Zora's Domain", just to show how amazingly complicated it turned out to be. For the rest, I highly recommend visiting her blog, Waltz for Luma (I intend to ask her what it means).



Ps. I found out what Luma means" Beside being a plant and a species of tree, it is the star-shaped thingies from Super Mario Galaxy. You can see one flying to the right of Mario by exploring the latter link.