Piano Collections : Final Fantasy X Piano Collections : Final Fantasy X is a piano arranged album of tracks from " Final Fantasy X " , performed by Aki Kuroda . The liner notes have the tracklist in mixed Japanese and English , a picture of Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu watching Aki Kuroda play the piano , a profile of Kuroda and messages from Hamauzu and Uematsu . Liner notes ( translated from the original Japanese ) . The first time I met Ms . Aki Kuroda was a year ago , when she was the pianist at Rikki ' s live concert . Ms . Kuroda began formally studying classical piano when she was little and went on to graduate from the piano department at Tokyo University of Arts and Music , and yet her forceful tango piano performance at that show really surprised me . She seemed to play the Argentine tango more with her blood than with technique , which could I think be considered the more profound approach , and the result was truly splendid . As " Final Fantasy " is a series which blends various music genres together , I thought it would be good to have a performer who didn ' t incline towards any particular type of music and had a number of performance styles to hand , and so asked Ms . Kuroda to play for this album . Please enjoy Aki Kuroda ' s World to the fullest . And I would like to thank Mr . Hamauzu for his spectacular arrangements . You ' re a man who ' s going to go far . For someone like me , who usually relies upon MIDI , confronting the staff music for a piano score is an arduous process . You can ' t bury clumsy progressions in the mix , or alter the surface of the music with other instruments . You can ' t predict the results until the occasion of performance , when your sheet music is given interpretation . So you have to prepare the score with every bit of thoroughness and precision . It was a trying experience but , as someone who came to composing late , participating in such a musical project was a valuable opportunity to amass skills , for which I am extremely grateful . I ' ve always appreciated the value of chances to darken staff paper with dots , and so accepted this job with a positive outlook . At any rate , this was the most difficult project I ' ve ever worked on . I had previously been given the responsibility of using the piano to encapsulate the world of " SaGa Frontier 2 " , but when the title is " Collection " , the meaning changes subtly . Rather than adapting myself needlessly to listeners ' tastes , I was cognizant that to express my own integrity as much as possible , I needed to deploy my power without discrimination against any tendency . But the unusual consistency in my attitude here gave me nothing but trouble . I couldn ' t hide my irritation in my lack of ability . If I hewed only to established piano collection tradition , I would live or die by skills yet untested , and even if the results sounded " like " a particular style , they wouldn ' t hold up when compared to the real thing . Yet if I stuck only to my strengths at the expense of everything else , the result would depart from the connotation of " collection " , and ignore the possibilities afforded by live piano performance . And while this was a rather hard choice , no matter how many avenues I explored or how much studying I attempted , I soon wound up with nothing but rage . I tried to absorb those techniques with which I lacked experience to the point where I could say they were a strong point , but the time I had to do it in was brief . My head filled up over many days . To take up the double - edged sword of carrying out my true intentions , or a lesser blade that would not exhaust my confidence ? I finally arrived upon the aberrant path of taking the double - edged sword and sharpening it into a blade of truth . And Ms . Aki Kuroda ' s expert performance gave me confidence that my decision was the right one . I never expected at the start that I could do something that would be so satisfying . I thought of chalking it up to my dislike of studying , but it was really thanks to the depth of feeling that music itself possesses , a lesson I will carry with me always . From the bottom of my heart , I thank everyone who gave me this wonderful opportunity . Sheet music . Published by Yamaha Music Media , the " Final Fantasy X Piano Collection Sheet Music " book contains the sheet music for the tracks on the " Piano Collections : Final Fantasy X " album , plus a slightly different version of the " Final Battle " with an added section . The pieces are arranged for solo piano and the difficulty level is from intermediate to advanced .