Peaceful Sleep (NieR: Piano Journeys) (SHEET MUSIC/MIDI) (Patreon)

Peaceful Sleep (NieR: Piano Journeys) - piano transcription

Composed by Keiichi Okabe Arranged by Sachiko Miyano This is from recently released NieR: Piano Journeys album, accompanied by a concert tour, where the pieces are live performed by Benyamin Nuss. I am actually attending the one in Berlin, which I am pretty stoked for! This might be the only piece I am actually able to perform from this album lol, as all of the other arrangements are quite advanced, some well beyond my ability. To say a few about the album, overall it's great, definitely one of the best piano albums released by SQM in recent memory and has quickly become one of my favorites. I was originally under the impression that it's fully arranged by Benyamin Nuss, so I was surprised to find out that's actually not the case and it features a total of five arrangers contributing two pieces each, with Mr Nuss performing all of them. I was also pleased to find out that two of them are Sachiko Miyano (who arranged this piece) and Natsumi Kameoka, who were behind both Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections, which to this day might be one of my favorite VGM piano releases. All of their arrangements are great, funnily you can almost pinpoint exactly which these are and they are very reminiscent of some Kingdom Hearts arrangements, both stylistically and in terms of applied arranging techniques. As I said, the arrangements are very advanced, upon the first listen I almost thought they are even slightly overplayed at times, but they did grow on me upon further listens. They frequently venture into some improvisatory territories/reharms etc, which might be indicative of the "Journeys" title. I'll definitely give a couple more a shot, but not sure how many I can actually properly perform, so I might go back to making a couple scrolling sheet videos, we'll see :D MIDI files & Sheet music is available on my Patreon (public post, no need to sub!): https://www.patreon.com/zakid #nierautomata #nier #videogamemusic