Pianist-Composer reacts & analyzes "Master of Masters" (Kingdom Hearts OST Soundtrack Music)

00:00 Introduction, Context, & Dearly Beloved 02:39 Reaction starts 05:38 Connection & clip: Final Fantasy 13 08:35 Reaction continues 09:10 Connection & clip: Hamelin's Paganini Variations 11:50 Reaction continues 13:07 Connection & clip: Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2 14:37 Reaction continues 16:55 Reaction continues 22:48 Diving into some of the piano technique 33:21 Reaction continues 35:07 Ramble on how my videos shouldn't be considered informative or educational 39:17 Ramble on VGM's importance despite its limitations 44:44 Reaction continues 48:04 Closing thoughts 48:46 Does it make the playlist?! I miiiiiiiight have liked this one - and the video is pretty extra, be warned. Thankfully, you've got the chapters as usual to watch what you want - I couldn't help sharing some things that I think are awesome, and that this piece intensely reminded me of. There's definitely a few treats throughout the video, and the usual podcast-esque tangents. It's hard not to be tempted to make something like this into a really high-quality, planned and produced video, but as I already struggle with uploading as often as I'd like, I have to cut my losses and just be okay with what I come up with after an hour of filming and about 3 hours of editing and finishing up. I could spend weeks following through on what would be a truly good video breaking down a piece of music like this. So, I hope some of you keep enjoying what I come up with from a bit of extra work, but not letting myself run totally wild (and then you get 1 video a month hahaha). Compromises!! There's probably some blatant mistakes in some of the editing or the cuts, but it's hard to rewatch everything enough to avoid missing anything. I just live with the fact that unbeknownst to me, people might see some embarrassing failure where I forgot to cut some awkward thing out. That's life lmao I actually have ~8 recorded reactions that haven't been edited yet, so that tells you something about how much editing has become the larger part of the process. I'd still like to improve my workflow and be able to get out videos every day or every other day, but for now they're still a little more spaced out and I finish them when I can! --- All musical rights belong to the original creators and we thank them for their wonderful work. This reaction and analysis is a commentary and is transformative to the original media, under free use.