"Prelude to the Champion" (Champion Cynthia) [Part I] Solo Classical Piano feat.

Cynthia plays Cynthia! I always envisioned that Cynthia was the one playing the epic piano music before her battle - with the Year of Sinnoh, I figured it was time to make that vision a reality, with the help of @Kara Comparetto!

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Cynthia is my all-time favorite Pokémon Champion. She is a total badass, and holds, in my personal opinion, the hardest team to beat in a Champion battle in any Pokémon game. To me, her character is so well-developed, and is also one of the most interesting and lore-intertwined Champions in any Pokémon game. I could keep gushing about Cynthia for so long, but I’ll stop there, haha!

I knew that for the Year of Sinnoh, I’d have to dedicate a significant amount of music to Cynthia. I had already arranged Cynthia’s Battle Theme back in 2016, but had never really done anything good for the piano music before her battle! I decided to tackle this piece of piano music, which is one of my favorite pieces of music in all of Sinnoh in 2 parts, this being the first part! I was very inspired by Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C# Minor for this piece, and wanted to arrange the pre-battle music in a way that was very much a prelude, using the same melodic and harmonic material as the super fast piano music, but performed slower and more introspectively. With that inspiration, this arrangement popped out! I am very very happy with this piece of music, and I think it works as part of a greater whole to pay tribute to the awesomeness of Champion Cynthia.

Kara and I met at PAX East 2019, and reconnected at MAGFest 2020! I had known her primarily through her great Instagram piano videos and Twitch streams, and thought it would be awesome to make a video with her! When the idea to create a solo piano piece based on Cynthia’s piano intro music, I thought Kara was the perfect person to pull this off. I did take classical piano lessons for a while as a kid, but Kara is much more skilled then I am in this world of classical piano, and she pulled off this piece so well. PLUS, she actually offered to do a cosplay of Champion Cynthia, which turned out to be so freakin cool. We filmed this video together back in February of 2020, and had a blast doing it! It’s always fun getting to do in-person collaborations; they always generate the best memories! I think the take that we ended up using in the final video was take 4, though I used camera angles from previous takes to round out the video.I’m so lucky to be able to do in-person collaborations with great musical talents, and I can’t wait for the days when we can do those collaborations again!

Stay tuned for Part II! If you were a bit disappointed by the slow tempo of Part I, I think you’ll be quite pleased by what Part II has to offer!

♫ "Champion Cynthia" from "Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum" composed by Go Ichinose

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