Tackling "The Decisive Battle"
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2026 8:35 pm
I've decided to continue my piano journey by tackling one of my favourite tracks from final fantasy 6!
Here it is! In all its beauty: https://musescore.com/user/28191026/scores/11226331
After not really vibing with the other arrangement I found I found this one and I'm so much happier with it. I made some tiny adjustments so that it matches more closely how it sounds to the original, but for the most part I kept it as is.
It's the first time I try a piece with where the right hand plays various keys at the same time!
Sometimes it's just adding a note of the chord for emphasis, which I could skip, but I decided I'm gonna give it a go to learn yet another technique ^^
But then there's also this bit[1]:
I couldn't help but annotate this bar with the completely accurate music annotation of "OMG" which is italian for "oh my god". I guess I'm new to musical arrangements and this shouldn't be as special but yeah fitting those three notes in there, that are definitely there, that I remember from the original SNES arrangement, in such a perfect way in a score that was already crammed... That's amazing! 
Anyway! I may be posting more things as I progress, I've been working on this for about two weeks now and I've learned the right hand, which I can play somewhat consistently at half the speed. Still a long way to go but when you love the song it doesn't matter how tough it may be!
[1]: No you aren't supposed to recognize this bit just from seeing a piece of music score. That takes years of training. I can't do it either. You just click the musescore link, click on this bit of score and hit play so you can listen to it! "Normal" people like me only know how this bit sounds because I've been studying this music sheet for hours already.
Here it is! In all its beauty: https://musescore.com/user/28191026/scores/11226331
After not really vibing with the other arrangement I found I found this one and I'm so much happier with it. I made some tiny adjustments so that it matches more closely how it sounds to the original, but for the most part I kept it as is.
It's the first time I try a piece with where the right hand plays various keys at the same time!
Sometimes it's just adding a note of the chord for emphasis, which I could skip, but I decided I'm gonna give it a go to learn yet another technique ^^But then there's also this bit[1]:
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Anyway! I may be posting more things as I progress, I've been working on this for about two weeks now and I've learned the right hand, which I can play somewhat consistently at half the speed. Still a long way to go but when you love the song it doesn't matter how tough it may be!
[1]: No you aren't supposed to recognize this bit just from seeing a piece of music score. That takes years of training. I can't do it either. You just click the musescore link, click on this bit of score and hit play so you can listen to it! "Normal" people like me only know how this bit sounds because I've been studying this music sheet for hours already.
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