Seriously! This looks like exactly what I wanted to hear. Motif and theme repetition throughout the whole game. Nobuo is fantastic at this. That flipping chart dude! I’ve done this with ff8 in my mind.

☃️❄️🩵🤍🩵

Do you have any simple sheet music for this?

I'm in the thick of it and everybody knows

Lurking in the darkness is part of the Main theme family,isn't it?

this may be a bit of a stretch but it almost sounds like cid's theme is a mashup of tifa's theme and the opening/credits motif, not sure what the thematic implications of that would be though.

I think the more I dig into the Final Fantasy series soundtracks, the more I hear 1) the deeper connection between Aerith's Theme and the main theme, and 2) the connection between Aerith's theme and the other themes that relate to it in other mainline entries composed by Uematsu: Julia, Memories of Life, etc.

WHY and HOW am I just now finding this masterpiece?!! I have a sleep playlist of my favorite, most relaxing songs from the Final Fantasy series- I’m not ashamed to admit most of them are from VII.

Are there any sheets for this?

as usual this arrangement and how it is played is very impressive!

what an incredibly good take on this song!

never have I been so happy to receive a notification despite forgetting to turn on the bell like an idiot! I cover I am very happy to hear and an error I have corrected!

C'est vraiment superbe ! Tout l'arrangement autour du thème et la finesse avec laquelle tu joues. Bravo !

Great cover! By any chance would you have the sheet music for your sheik/zelda lullaby arrangement?

Why did it take 5 years for this video to come my way? This is fantastic!

The King is BACK! I’m working on a long form video series analyzing every track in FFVII Rebirth and I plan to discuss your FFVII music analysis video in an upcoming episode. Truly inspirational to me.

Always loved this arrangement, beautiful execution. Nice to see new stuff!

wow, how did i just randomly find this

Something I noticed in Tifa's theme is that when the melody comes in, there is a measure shortly after when the little backround notes do a different movement then they do in the rest of the song. I think it sounds a little like the main theme. Also right after Aerith's part in the northern cave, the 5 notes in the melody afterward feel similar to the end of cosmo canyon.

Hi there, fantastic video! I'm working on a video essay on Final Fantasy VII with a heavy focus on it's story and I find how the game uses Leitmotifs to reinforce/remind players of certain themes absolutely fascinating. Would you mind if I borrowed some of this analysis for my own essay? With full credit given to you of course.

Incredibly detailed analysis! You could honestly pick any Uematsu score and find the same detailed level of motifs, which is a credit to his genius. My favorites are definitely FF6 and FF8, but all of them are so carefully constructed and deeply satisfying. I think the same can be applied to a lot of Yoko Shimomura's work, Miki Higashino (Suikoden series), and Yasunori Mitsuda.

I think there's a part of "Trail of Blood" in "One Winged Angel" around 2:38.

This is awesome... subscribed

One minute in: I’m just an amateur, I don’t know nothin’. Five minutes in: See this b*tch? This b*tch is in Dorian mode!

You can add one more track to the "main theme" category. "Premonition" from FF8. Not kidding, Uematsu reused the exact same melody there :)

Love this theme. Awesome arrangement.

It's looser, but I would definitely argue that either the JENOVA theme alludes to the opening/Lifestream motif or the other way around. JENOVA's main melody follows the general shape and extends the ascending motion of the Lifestream motif, and has the same descending triplet at the end.

This is a great video, I’ve always loved ff7 score and its use of leit motif, but this video has made me notice examples that I didn’t even know were there after all these years, like how did I even miss the Shinra theme hiding in the main battle music I must have heard both thousands of times, Aeriths theme in the northern crater music is a good find too. all so obvious now it’s been pointed out. this is why I love Nobuo Uematsu

This is amazing! There're too few views for such great music :(

what a neat little cover of this song this is!

one of my favorites songs and this is a really good version of it!

this is still so amazing!

I'd add a reeeeally long arrow from Those Chosen by the Planet to Sealed Book from Final Fantasy V because they sound the exact same 😂😂

For whatever reason, this immediately made me think of Suikoden! Love it! Now if they'd only hurry up with those remasters! Maybe a Xenogears remake/remaster could happen sometime??? 🤔 😅😅

I love how even in the comments, people are discovering more and more. This soundtrack has always been one of my favorites, and this video highlights exactly why it is. I hope in the future, you dive into Remake/Rebirth's soundtrack, because I feel like in Rebirth especially, there's a lot of additional motifs/flare to some songs. Great video!!! The oppressed section is really interesting. It's such a unique group of songs with different feelings. Never thought If You Open Your Heart and It's Hard to Stand on Two Feet, Isn't it? would be so similar.

Beautiful arrangement! That "A" on the melody with the F major chord becoming minor is so beautifully sad. Doc, have I mentioned you are the best?

Yasssss, awesome! Welcome back =)

You can't forget that 3 tracks come from past Final Fantasy games! "Prelude" is the title screen track from all the previous games, "A Great Success" uses the victory theme from the previous games, and "Staff Roll" includes the Main Theme of Final Fantasy, which was in every game before except 2.

Still one of my favorite renditions of this. Thanks!

That it took 5 years for this to find my mind is a bad indictment of the algorithm. This is great work, my friend.

so wonderful

Beautiful

Waiting for the remake/rebirth analysis - that'd be a challenge!

This is fantastic. This game is definitely due a replay some day.

I absolutely love these kind of graphs and analysis! I realized recently that in Mako reactor, the synth at the beginning takes the motif of the main theme in Locrian (or starts on the 5th of Phrygian bc of the pedal tone, but I hear it as Locrian because of where it starts and the minor with flat2 and flat5 combo). What do you think?

Brother, instant like and subscribe. I woke up this morning thinking “I want to watch a video ABOUT the music of ff7”. I typed in “final fantasy 7 music”, saw only videos of different tracks, added the word analysis to the end, and boom, you made literally that exact video, which my now be my favorite ff7 video of all time. Thank you so much for doing this kind of work. Additionally, I’d like to add something about J-E-N-O-V-A; you have it listed in orphan tracks, but I think in the middle of the song there’s a callback to Sephiroth’s motif (did I say that right? Not as read up on music theory as I’d like to be); not a nitpick, just an observation, albeit a selfish one based on me just wanting to hear some of that goat of a track in this video as well. All in all, I know I’m 4 years late on this comment, but bravo, 11/10.

So beautiful, I'm new to this game and am so in love with it and the music themes. Currently playing BoF I on the snes emulator on the Nintendo switch.

This should have millions of views.

I'm placing that beauty on the "trans awakening" playlist.

this is incredible, i was wondering if you plan on transcribing this? or if there is music sheet already available, cheers!