Final Fantasy VII: A Unified Collection of Music

Final Fantasy VII is definitely one unified collection of music and Uematsu was very fond of tying his motifs and chord progressions back to earlier pieces from the game. There is actually a lot happening in that main theme in clouds theme that was already happening in the prelude but we'll get to that in a moment. So I'm going to play the melody totally divorced from the chords, just the melody on its own in the key of E. This is what it sounds like. It's a nice and somehow classic sounding melody. You may remember those 2 chords, the ones I told you to remember in the first 2 are also 1 and 6 minor. They're kind of built around