Chrono Music on Keyboard

[Rocky]

So I've owned both Chrono piano score books for about a decade, and have always wanted to be able to play my favorite songs on the keyboard, which I also have.  Problem is, I don't know how to play the keyboard - at all.  Nonetheless, I finally made myself at least try to learn to play some of them, within the last few months.  And somehow, I've been at least somewhat successful.

I started with my favorite song from each game - "At the Bottom of Night" and "The Girl Who Stole the Stars".  Since those were the two I first worked on and have worked on the most, I've reached the point where I can play at least those two at pretty much the normal speed, with minimal mistakes.  For others, I've been able to memorize how to play them at least, even if I can only play them really slowly.  So here's the list of songs I've been able to memorize:

Chrono Trigger:

-Chrono Trigger
-Secret of the Forest
-The Kingdom Trial
-Singing Mountain
-At the Bottom of Night
-Sealed Door
-Undersea Palace
-Crono & Marle ~ Far Off Promise
-Determination
-World Revolution
-Last Battle

(In addition to these nice quick ones - Goodnight, Huh?!, A Prayer to the Travelers, Mystery of the Past)

Chrono Cross:

-Arni Village ~ Home World
-Reminiscing ~ Uneraseable Memory
-Guldove ~ Another World
-Fragment of a Dream
-Grief
-Beginning of a Dream
-A Narrow Space Between Dimensions
-Magical Dreamers ~ The Wind, Stars, and Waves
-Burning Orphanage
-The Girl Who Stole the Stars

(And these meager ones - Magic from the Fairies, Etude 1, Etude 2, Terra Tower [only because I found a keyboard style that sounded just like those bells, so why not - took all of 3 minutes])

Many of them are so hard to play that it's a stretch to say I can play them - even if I have memorized them.  I've also sometimes been surprised by the difficulty of some of them.  For instance, Determination - though short - is frustratingly hard (because there's a lot of playing 4 simultaneous notes with one hand, not my forte), while World Revolution - much longer - is way easier for me (largely solo notes).  Last Battle basically just has two parts, repeated over and over and over.  But it's so crazy fast, with no pauses, that I can't handle it.  Others really tough for me are Sealed Door, Guldove, Chrono Trigger (one part at least is just too hard for me), and Magical Dreamers is just ridiculous.  I have trouble focusing on multiple parts when their tempos aren't in sync.

The ones I can play a litter better are Singing Mountain, Undersea Palace (oh how I love that song - easily my favorite dungeon music ever), Crono & Marle, World Revolution, Reminiscing, Fragment of a Dream, and Grief / Beginning of a Dream / Narrow Space Between Dimensions (as my favorite part of CC, I wanted to learn to play those 3 together).

Anyway, just wanted to share what I've been working on - I hope to get better at these and more.  It's funny - all I care about learning to play are the songs from these games.  Outside of those, I have no particular interest in learning other stuff.  I just love this music.

[Kodokami]

Nice job. I'm no expert, but I would say that's quite a list for someone who has just started playing.

I've had the Chrono Cross piano score book for quite some time, but... I never make time to even try playing. This makes me feel inspired though. I've always wanted to play Arni Village like in this video...

[Rocky]

Thanks - though, just to re-emphasize, those 20 or so I've merely been able to memorize how to play.  So, I can slowly move through the songs, from memory.  (I can't really read music on the fly, so it works best for me to learn the notes slowly, one by one, using the book, and then try to work on actually improving the playing of it once I don't need to divert my attention toward the book anymore.)  But if I try to play them anywhere near the speed at which they're supposed to be played... well, the end result is riddled with mistakes.

So other than the two I mentioned that I can do fairly well at a good tempo, most of the others are extremely rough.  As a gauge, if the piece in the video you linked was a 10, the two that I can do "well" would be about a 2 or 3, and all the rest would be a 0.3.    Not really an exaggeration, either.  Of course, the video sounds professional, crazy good, so I don't feel too bad.

Probably moving to different songs as fast as I do severely hurts how good I get at them.  I just get frustrated on a lot of them, and find it best to move on rather than dwell in that state.

I'm pretty confident that you could easily learn the ones you'd want to at least as well as I have learned mine in a pretty short time - I'm definitely in the rough draft stage so far.