So I did a lil something different! Instead of singing along to a backing track, I decided to play the guitar part you hear in this cover. Before I learned piano, guitar was actually my first instrument! I'm a bit rusty since I haven't played guitar in a while, but that's exactly why I made this cover to get back into it hehe. Many thanks to my sister who helped me figure out the chords... her ear is so much better than mine that it would've taken me hours to figure out versus the mere 15-20 minutes it took for her. She's a LIFE SAVER haha!!!

As for the song itself, I've been meaning to cover something from Octopath Traveler II ever since I finished it a couple weeks ago. It's SUCH an amazing game omg, I highly recommend it if you love JRPGs. While Agnea is not my favorite character (Hikari is!), she's probably my second favorite tied with Castti and Partitio because of how light-hearted and simple her story is in becoming a dancer. The Journey Begins, which plays throughout Agnea's story, has a bittersweet but hopeful melody that immediately charmed me when I first heard it. I wanted to do a cover because the original lyrics were sung in an invented language, yet the game displays an English translation in subtitles as the song plays in-game. So, I took it upon myself to write an English version because why not XD After my sister helped me with the chords, I spent one night practicing them on the guitar and then the next morning/afternoon writing lyrics that stayed faithful to the original message while matching the number of syllables that the melody had. Then, I whipped together a rough recording of my vocals and guitar playing in GarageBand.

Since the recording process was a 2-day project, it's a bit rough on the edges, but I'm still happy with how it turned out :)

The next video should be Disney-related! See you guys in the next upload!!!!

(P.S. I actually uploaded another version of this cover that only featured me playing the guitar accompaniment last week but unlisted it because I felt like the cover deserved its own lyric video... also, my perfectionism hated that the thumbnail didn't feature art like the rest of my recent videos. I view every YouTube video I upload as a mini opportunity to practice my musical and artistic passions, so I just had to scratch that creative itch before it got worse, you know? The art took me a couple days to finish. Full-body drawings are hard, and it doesn't help that the ruffles on Agnea's dress are a nightmare to draw haha).

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Lyrics:

It is time that we part ways
But goodbye I shall not say
As the seasons come and go I’m sure we’ll meet again someday

Though we’ll be a thousand miles apart
May this song I sing live in your heart
Let it comfort your days when you are blue

My love, as one
You and me, let us sing
La la la la
La la la la la la

It is time that we part ways
But there’ll be no tears today
For the skies that stretch above us both will always stay the same

Though we’ll be a thousand miles apart
May this song I sing live in your heart
Let it comfort your days when you are blue, my love

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