Melodies of Life (Final Fantasy IX Piano Collections)(Nobuo Uematsu)

This is the incomparably beautiful theme, Melodies of Life, from Final Fantasy IX. It's my all time favorite Final Fantasy theme ever written! Hope you enjoy! -Kara
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[@DianaBelliniOficial]

I feel like all of us who are deeply touched by FF music are one family....

[@xseyerxsmash2863]

That´s true....specially because most of the people who don´t play VG´s are missing lots of amazing songs just like this one. And for the ones who do know about FF tracks and happly enjoy them.

[@yeoldmedic7572]

I feel like final fantasy is the perfect name to for the music and art created in this space. Cause for many of us its hard for us to go back to that nostalgic place . the final fantasy before we take what we've loved and bring it to the real world. 🌺

[@MossyMos]

yeoldmedic: Fun fact, the first game was named Final Fantasy because they thought that would be their last game (they were running out of money). Luckily the first made a ton of money and now we have a treasure trove of beautiful music. I especially love Nobou Uematsu’s piano pieces.

[@yeoldmedic7572]

@@MossyMos yes I love that tidbit! I was just playing eyes on me I'm a guitar player and multi instrumentalist. This music is very special to me and I want to create great melodies of my own some day. I mean I do everyday, but maybe get them to the masses as well :)

[@MossyMos]

Do your best and have fun with it. That is what I am doing on piano. Take care.

[@Demoncradle]

I played this arrangement for my older sisters wedding, she marched down the isle to it. Years later played it for a dear friends funeral service. No other song from the series has as much emotional impact as this one in my opinion. You played it better than I ever could, my friend would be smiling at this this. Thank you 🙏

[@somejock4396]

That's a lovely story. If I ever get married I would love to do the same.

[@annekathrinesonnichsen]

There is no better song to do so

[@lemon0189]

Nostalgic. Once I was a kid and traveled the world of Gaia and Terra with Zidane and friends. One of the best FF songs ever made. ❤

[@vivianriver6450]

You're younger than me. I traveled the world with Terra back in the day.

[@brunocardoso1512]

I just played FF9 for the first time. I am 28 years old and I felt like I had played this game before. I definitely loved it It impacted my life forever

[@daisychain2889]

Alone for a while, I've been searching through the dark For traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart To weave by picking up the pieces that remain Melodies of life, love's lost refrain Our paths, they did cross, though I cannot say just why We met, we laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye And who'll hear the echoes of the stories never told? Let them ring out loud 'til they unfold In my dearest memories, I see you reaching out to me Though you're gone, I still believe that you can call out my name A voice from the past, joining yours and mine Adding up the layers of harmony And so it goes on and on Melodies of life to the sky beyond the flying birds Forever and on If I should leave this lonely world behind Your voice will still remember our melody Now I know we'll carry on Melodies of life Come circle round and grow deep in our hearts As long as we remember

[@jonbelljon]

Love it

[@edward8691]

Omg, I cried again ! Your performances is not just playing piano song but more like an epic art work . I can never play like u, noble, beautiful, calm, strong. All those positive emotions bring me up high and peace…thank you Kara, wish one day you could visit Toronto😢

[@KaraComparetto]

thank you

[@eiendeflowlight]

i fell in love with this song when i was in middle school seventeen years back, now you made me fell in love again...

[@KaraComparetto]

I wish I had known this piece since middle school, it took me so many years just to hear it the first time! And now I'm in love too :)

[@MarkTuson]

I still think of FF9 as "one of the new ones", and this comment reminded me that FF9 came out over twenty years. Fuck, now I feel old.

[@benst.hilaire8695]

@@MarkTuson Right there with you.

[@Carson9121]

When my son was first born I played this song while I was driving to get everybody food by myself. I've never cried so hard in my life. This song is very moving and had hit the deepest parts of my emotions. 💕✨

[@aeron0828]

"Our paths did they cross, though I cannot say just why.. We me, we laugh, we held on fast, and then we say good bye.." That line is sooo deep!

[@astra3631]

とても好きな曲です。演奏に感謝。

[@RayMak]

So extremely beautiful

[@ushbag]

It’s a good song too ;)

[@leandrodominic5822]

Dunno if anyone cares but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can watch all the new movies on instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my gf for the last couple of weeks =)

[@ramonridge8839]

@Leandro Dominic Yup, I have been using instaflixxer for months myself :D

[@jadcasen8995]

@Leandro Dominic yea, I've been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :D

[@diegosolis9681]

Final Fantasy IX's soundtrack is without a doubt in my heart the most beautiful soundtrack Nobuo Uematsu has ever written.

[@JonathanKoops]

I can tell by the way you are playing you’ve played the game! There’s a feeling in the way you are playing it that only a true fan of the music would be able to capture, and you nailed it! ❤💐

[@omega42587]

these songs bring back so much nostalgia it makes my 30 year old ass cry. especially seeing them performed. amazing job.

[@KaraComparetto]

Yesssss the nostalgia is sooooooooo strong with this one!!

[@porthioskanan]

There are so many Final Fantasy songs to choose from. The list is endless. But this song is so hard to listen to, especially the lyrics resonate with me so much. I met my wife 14yrs ago in a Final Fantasy 12 forum. We shared our love for Final Fantasy games and music. When she passed away Jan 2022, this song "Melodies of Life" describes so perfectly the love I have for her. May she go to the sky beyond the flying birds - forever and beyond. (My dearest love). I know you've put the piece out for 6yrs, but I come to listen often to this song and shed my tears all over again.

[@KaraComparetto]

Awwww 😢❤️❤️❤️❤️ I’m so sorry for your loss and hope this music gives you good memories of a wonderful person in your life

[@porthioskanan]

@@KaraComparetto The Final Fantasy music has the best gaming songs out there. And the way you play them with such passion and emotion. I can't help but listen to your playing with passing memories of my most wonderful wife in my mind. You are a great pianiste Ms Comparetto. The only thing I did for my wife was to make a video with the melody "Love Grows" FFVIII.

[@TuANHuY_KHHOA]

The artist is like a beautiful painting, pure and full of life.

[@DreamDaddie]

So happy I have Final Fantasy IX on my phone now, so when I get the urge to play I can just play it anytime.

[@muhammadridzuan3446]

This game ff9 are clasik game rpg game bro i.are same are me

[@stolaszirkel5603]

This piece will always have special space in my existence. Your video was suggested by KZbin's algorithm while I was working. So I first heard the difference of your interpretation and the offical recording which is selled. I was a little bit confused, because the official recording is (in my honest opinion) too soft. Then I saw the recording of this track and I saw your eyes. And after that I recognized that you're played it for yourself and not for the fans of FF9. "Thank you for playing." Thank you.

[@KaraComparetto]

Aw thank you so much 😭😭❤️

[@chrisrounds1242]

Great performance. Final Fantasy 9 is my favorite and 1st in the series.

[@tramistanicolasbasualto.l7247]

Vuelvo a mi juventud escuchando estos temas ff9 lleno de sueños...gracias😢

[@ayrmont]

x2

[@shirokomorebi2944]

This made me cry tears of joy and nostalgia. Thank you for this, this song doesn’t just remind me of the game but the lessons I learned as a kid from it and the sweet memories of my loved ones. It’s so nice to see how this song has touched many others’ hearts as well❤️

[@justlilygrace]

I cried. Beautifully played.

[@ricardomartins4513]

Every Final Fantasy game is the same, you'll play and enjoy with the botton of your heart, then you finish it and feels like an orphan till the next game, i think this game was my favorite, but than you play the next and feels the same, great video, greetings from Brazil.

[@AllBeFlat]

This legit made me cry. Thank you for this.

[@RafaelSilvaLivroDorri]

Yep... I am definitely in love.

[@egonwilhelmbremer-strauss2607]

Your playing is beautiful, and so are you. I wish you would sing this, and especially "Eyes On Me" - I imagine your voice is equally lovely.

[@KaraComparetto]

Come join a twitch stream sometime :) I sing a lot there and I sing all these final fantasy songs!! twitch.tv/karacomparetto I'm playing today at 2pm EDT :)

[@jasonpoh2222]

still listening in 2019, awesome, well played!

[@13thHeaven]

Thank you Kara.

[@thenewalex]

We are about the same age, I haven't played for around 8 years now, you've made want to get back to it

[@MAGA2024.]

Stunning Kara

[@miguelelgueta5830]

This game was so important to me, in the early 2000's I had a troubled adolescence and I really seek and found relief in videogames, specially the Square Enix games teach me a lot about art, architecture, design and music, I learned about classic music, progressive rock etc. Even if I wasnt the happiest of the kids I remember those times fondly thanks to some of those games, a couple o books, some albums and some movies. I just loves FF9, my personal favourite with FF6 I wish I could listen to you personally cheers

[@michaeltarr515]

My favorite game. This was so beautiful and nostalgic. Im just over here bawling my eyes out while listening lol. Thank you for this.

[@Baucie_Bauce]

Maybe it's just because I played this one and love it but I couldn't stop tearing up throughout the performance... beautiful Thank you

[@eliyashaaleph-iart5926]

Pure morning rain, quivering autumn leaves, and endless reefs of light, so beautifully serenading and free... Pre-dawn starlight, topaz soul, and amber reeds in the wind, and rain-spume lilies of the valley you are, Kara, on the piano and deep in the heart of imagination, liberating a very tender understanding so whole and yet nearly forever alienated, so fully quintessentially beautiful and yet often deeply perpetually painful, somewhat self-orphaned and yet fully winged archetypal longing, overflowing stream, and living image in each one of us among those few in this lonely world who know the Knowings of the stars and aeons and the scathing yet embalming Lone Path of Paths... This play is truly Final Fantasy in the musical hour-glass of eternity, in all its singular beauty, peculiar fluidity, and poignant freedom. Thank you so very much for scaling such strata of silent and musical understanding in your lovely play, for that still moment and moving loveliness of oceans and heavens, and please forgive this lengthy (and verbose) but truly spontaneous adage and poetic reflection.

[@ATownAk]

This song is so underrated. I think because its between 8 and 10 which both have some of the best OSTs in the series its forgotten, at least that's the case for me. I've been replaying this game lately and this song is just beautiful and you played it so wonderfully, thank you!

[@tnix80]

9 is universally considered the best FF soundtrack. For me like half of my favorites are from it alone. And this is the best piece.

[@ATownAk]

​@@tnix80 I'm not sure about universally considered anything in the FF series for... anything! haha. My comment was mostly in regards to how I felt about the song and I definitely was sleeping on 9. I replayed it at the same time I made that comment and I loved it and I think this song is my new favorite.

[@nathanbosley76]

The soundtrack was fantastic. It's underrated because the story was garbage.

[@h3llmag3]

The first time I played final fantasy and it has become my favourite Final fantasy game and the in game character

[@dimitriosgkinis5192]

Since I found this cover, I come back almost every day and listen to it again and again. This is one of the most amazing songs ever written. I wish you knew what this song means to me... Thank you so much, Kara! You are the most wonderful thing God has ever created! "-How did you survive...? - -I didn't have a choice. I had to live. I wanted to come home to you."

[@KaraComparetto]

this made me smile, thank you so much

[@dimitriosgkinis5192]

❤ thank you!! You made me smile, you made me cry, you made me feel... Just, amazing!

[@Naethdren]

This is Shiro Hamaguchi's arrangement, right? Beautifully played, very nice tempo!

[@KaraComparetto]

I think so yes! Thank you!!

[@thibaultbouchet7685]

In your dearest memories, do you remember loving me? The slightly childlike rhythm of this music hides a certain depth. You magnify this in your cover, I'm thankful to be able to listen to this again.

[@brunogama2768]

such underrated musician. love from Brazil.

[@kos1piece]

Geez.... Who's cutting onions?!

[@nethermir2169]

Why do i get teary eyed when listening to this song. It’s like having the flashback of all good memories I had when I was a kid.

[@jonathanstein6056]

Another beautiful rendition! I had no idea there were so many people who are as entranced by the music of FF as I am. 😅

[@arctantica8946]

Coming back and listening to this after having finally finished IX, I started crying as soon as the first note came.

[@ayrmont]

T_T

[@grt002]

I keep coming back and listening to your performances of the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger music. I think we can all agree that the emotions/memories behind it are deep and meaningful. Thank you for posting these for all of us to enjoy. I appreciate what you do and truly enjoy your musicianship. I hope I can see a live performance sometime.

[@redribbonzx7207]

It's been a while since I heard this melody. One of the sweetest RPG game.

[@corkt554]

I love this game and your performance! Its makes me calm felling. .

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you so much! This piece really is relaxing. I've listened to many different versions and they are all so touching!

[@niemphatthanhphat194]

I am a Buddha. In my land, I use this song of yours for my great sermon for the sentient beings there. You will be a Buddha in the future because of this immeasurable merit. OM AH HUM.

[@jimmy8525]

so beautiful and deep. thank you very much, this song means a lot to me. thanks 😊

[@pepo8139]

When I listen to you I do not want to be disturbed by anyone, I want to let me out of time and return to my 14 years when I was playing Final Fantasy all afternoons! Sorry for my bad English and thanks for the moments you give me, greetings from italy! kisses

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you, and your English is fine! :D hahaha I love knowing people get that nostalgic feeling when listening to these covers. Good memories!! Greetings from New Hampshire!!

[@kobarsos82]

I have not played this game, but you can never go wrong with the genius of Nobuo Uematsu. I can sense an immense amount of beauty coming from this composition and its even further enhanced by your talent on those notes. Thank you.

[@simontangmusic7076]

This is SO good!!! You make that melody sing out, good rhythm and dynamics. This is how the song should be played! Well done! 😊👏

[@KaraComparetto]

+Simon Tang Music Thank you Simon! Your comments mean a lot to me! I am so honored!

[@michiminchu]

It's more than a decade since the last time i heard this song. Thank you for this beautiful melody, it's truly "Melody of life". A voice from the past, joining yours and mine. Adding up the layers of harmony. And so it goes, on and on. Melodies of life, To the sky beyond the flying bird - forever and on.

[@syowa170]

素敵！Beautiful!

[@MrMorbitron]

Dropping by to let you know that I am watching this again. Every so often I let your channel auto play in the background whilst I surf photography and machinist forums. This one is probably top 5 ;)

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you Cory, and look almost 10k views! The most on any of my videos :)

[@Ivan-es5xx]

it brings back memories...those good old days of amazing JRPG period....

[@MarcusKappe]

Good job kara I end up listening to your music for hours, my cat Evie also likes your music.

[@KaraComparetto]

Tell Evie I said hi! That's so sweet, and thank you so much!

[@CaptainCrunchOwns]

Every blue moon I stumble upon a song that takes my breath away with its beauty. This is definitely one of those times. Absolutely extraordinary piece and playing! Thank you.

[@KaraComparetto]

aww thank you so much

[@Raz0rbam]

Amazing. One of the most beautiful melody ever.

[@Ara_Arasaka]

What a perfect composition... the pacing and pausing. The pressure on every key is just right... Not to mention the motion of your body pushing in to the keys. You can tell you *really* love this song for what it is. That you loved this game. That it all meant something to you. All through music. Heck yeah. You nailed this one.

[@erenyeager7562]

so nice ill save it to playlist... thanks for sharing...you are so talented...

[@stuartwilliams7371]

Nailed it. Such natural playing, not forced at all in any way, such a pleasure to listen. Thank you.

[@jdgw7293]

wow, better than the original You have such a feeling.

[@wannagofast9805]

This is just so beautiful. .. :)

[@edwinbowen781]

Love you playing you are a dear!also love ff7! Coolness ! Would like my daughter or son to play in the future be good you're friend lewis!

[@KaraComparetto]

❤️❤️❤️

[@zekethep1umber]

First time hearing this piece. it is definitely one of the most beautiful FF songs. you play it better than the original. thank you

[@KaraComparetto]

I'll never get over the beauty of this piece, I play it for all kinds of things, for myself, for weddings, for concerts, it never gets old :)

[@GuitarFable]

Subscribed :) i listen to few video and i really like how you play and the music you play ! ;)

[@jcotedc]

15 years have pass since I´ve played this game and It still gives me the chills. You earn a new suscriber

[@TSGOrgan]

Amazing quality, production and talent on display!

[@うのし-i3c]

FFIX is my best beautiful memory in my life. from Japan

[@aubreystonehill1955]

This feels like a solitary walk and soul-capture in the morning rain. A heavy yet embalming cascade of crimson memories almost forever lost and orphaned. Soulful wings almost too broken and fragile, yet fully spread and quivering on the horizon of silent understanding and painful memories. The Aeons are perpetually and melancholically drenched almost without residue this way for the sake of certain rare (even perfectly Platonic) soulmates. Eternity (and Agape) discovers itself again and again in the paradox and pain of such wakeful, forceful, and infinitely tender star-strung souls. Thank you for the lovely composure and for the presence of such a pure synthesis of feelings in this splendid piano play, very close to the original. (This reminds me of another Japanese song by Mayumi Itsuwa, "Amayadori".)

[@KaraComparetto]

Wow thank you!!

[@xseyerxsmash2863]

Kara....another beautiful FF song, enriched with your beautiful talent and style. This song has too many emotions hidden on the notes and I could see that you went through all of those when playing it like on: 2:45 This is one of my favorites of the whole FF franchise. I´ll never get tired of thanking you for sharing your passion and talent will all of us. Even my Baby Girl adore your music since you always lull her to sleep peacefully. Keep amazing us with your music and talent...

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you soooo much!!

[@源頼朝-o6z]

I heard your play in Japan . You and your play are very very beautiful ! I'm proud of that you played Japanese music! Cheer up!!! Please hear "reunion " in FF 10-2. It is so romantic song!

[@KaraComparetto]

Aww that's so sweet, I love hearing where people are listening from, and all the way in Japan!! I love this Japanese music too!! :) And I will check out your recommendation too!

[@Michael_Dominic]

ive watched quite a few of your performances over the last hour and i believe everyone has drawn at least a few gasps and tears, so thank you for your evocative, heart felt, and soulful playing. your heart is clearly in every note.

[@Michael_Dominic]

8 months later, back again.

[@erikofskullisland3987]

I don't know how they do it, sometimes. The perfect topping off of the leitmotif. "Love's short refrain." Thinking of Vivi, and all the other personal story archs of the characters: rips the tear out of the eyeball.

[@jackyluong9618]

One of my favorite songs. Thank you for sharing.

[@penguinjonesesq]

That is the single most beautiful thing I've ever heard. That swell gave me goosebumps.

[@matthewrileymcleanwilkinson]

Nobuo is King. And Kara is my way of vicariously having a Garnet in my life.

[@edward_dantonio]

I was very happy to find myself at this youtube page tonight!

[@hexadecimate2139]

I absoulutely love this song, but even more so, your arrangement of it. Uematsu would be proud :)

[@ItsAnGoose]

This might be my new fave from you. It's 7 am, waking up and got this on. Perfect!

[@RaxiazRedux]

I am gonna cry right now, it's so beautiful...

[@danielbartholomew9096]

It is a very beautiful theme. I know the music so well, listening to you play, I can sing along with the words. I have played it while driving. and I am listening to you now while I work on some school work. Music without words (although this does have words) helps me so much when I am trying to concentrate and write.

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you Daniel! I hope the beautiful melody didn't distract you too much haha. I find if I'm listening to something familiar while I'm trying to concentrate on something else, I can't focus! But I suppose we are all different :)

[@mysticmallachi777]

A beautiful rendition.

[@TheCheeseslice9]

Don't know how the internet brought me here, but I am thankful. Thank you for your time and expression in this music you share with us : )

[@Farosin]

I can feel the passion when you press each note. It's truly a pleasure to hear you play these truly fantastic songs with such emotion.

[@Benlo]

so beautiful, Melodies of life is one of th best FF theme, can you do the Reborn version of Melodies of Life? it's a really awesome arrangement for this

[@KaraComparetto]

Is that the piano opera version? I have the piano opera version and was actually playing it today, it's very beautiful! I hope to cover it eventually. I absolutely love this piano collection arrangement though, probably my favorite that I've heard :)

[@edwardjaniszewski2890]

"Incomparably beautiful", so well said!

[@florentvauxion3664]

You remember to me Grenat di Alexandros, before she cut her hair with the dagga. Greetings from France. Thank you for this melody.

[@PeteSolar]

this is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time, and you played it so beautifully, thankyou!

[@KaraComparetto]

Thank you Pete!!

[@にしみっこ]

so beautiful!!!

[@KaraComparetto]

Wow thank you so much! This is my favorite Final Fantasy Piece ever

[@SirBaphocat]

Just discovered your collection of Final Fantasy titles, you are amazing! you have achieved bringing about the goosebumps and flooded my head with childhood memories of awe. Thank you and keep up the good work (:

[@KaraComparetto]

Oh that's so good to hear, thank you!! It's the childhood memories that make me happiest to hear about. I have some too, maybe not as many as most of you, but I do remember watching my brother play these games as a kid :)

[@gunz300]

Beautifully played. This is also my favorite FF piece written, at least for solo piano.

[@regentcid4348]

I just discovered your channel, and it is wonderful to find someone who appreciates FFIX as much as you do.

[@AlexBumgarner89]

Have you ever heard of the Piano opera collections for FF music? It has a lot of great arrangements! Look up Theme of Love, Dancing Mad, Clash on Big bridge, Eternal Wind & ect. It'd be right up your alley! I've watched so many of your videos this morning! So happy to stumble upon this channel! You're a gift to us all, thanks!

[@KaraComparetto]

YES for sure I have! In fact a few of the FF pieces I've recorded are from the opera collection. I personally like the piano collections arrangement of melodies of life better, but there are others like You're Not Alone that I would like to record the piano opera version of- since some of them are much better. Theme of Love and Dancing Mad are both ones I really like. The problem with the opera collection is that I don't actually own the sheet music. I don't think it's free online, so I've been getting scans from my brother of each piece XD Thank you so much for your compliments. I hope you'll stay tuned for more! My next FF cover will probably be One Winged Angel (Piano Opera hehe)

[@RicoLen1]

I saw youtube recommend a 'youtube mix' of your piano songs, so I clicked mostly just so I could see what songs they'd put in the mix. A couple hours later I'm still listening, while I do other work on the computer. I heard this song though and wanted to make sure I had commented on this video, and it doesn't appear I have, thus: Kara, Melodies of Life is one of my top 10 favorite songs in all of the Final Fantasy series, and your performance is far and away my favorite performance of this song. I've listened to this song so many times I must be responsible for well over 100 views, if not 500 all on my own. haha

[@nixt4924]

BRAVO!

[@gamiun88]

congratulations Kara, amazing simply amazing performance, if Uematsu-san listen it, surely he would say "arigato Kara-san". And please, play Fisherman's Horizon of Final Fantasy VIII

[@muhammadridzuan3446]

This song are momory game i plays ff9 i Like and miss are lot this game.from Malaysia👍👍😊😊

[@KaraComparetto]

💗💗💗☺️

[@muhammadridzuan3446]

@@KaraComparetto tq u plays this song

[@LlonirTS]

I remember listening to this song when I was playing EverQuest back in high school. The nostalgia high is real.

[@leahm3303]

This brings back so many great memories! Many thanks to you.