{"id":174675,"date":"2010-01-13T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/13\/nobuo-uematsu-discusses-game-music-past-and-present\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:50:52","slug":"nobuo-uematsu-discusses-game-music-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174675","title":{"rendered":"Nobuo Uematsu Discusses Game Music Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--Begin feature--><\/p>\n<p><!-- for syndication --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9812a_media?id=3756768&amp;type=lg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>How did world-famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu (left) get his start)? What drives him in music creation? What&#8217;s he think about games these days? These were a few of the heady topics tackled by <i>Famitsu<\/i> magazine in a three-part interview with the guy, and the results are more than worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8211; Uematsu got his more-or-less official start with playing music at age 12. &#8220;My sister was learning how to play the piano, so we had some instruments laying around the fast,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That was how it began. I eventually learned that guitars have these things called chords, and as I was playing around with tablatures I realized &#8216;Hey, I could probably play these on a piano too!&#8217; And I could. That was a major shock to me, and really, my piano playing hasn&#8217;t evolved any from that point.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3177591\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did world-famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu (left) get his start)? What drives him in music creation? What&#8217;s he think about games these days? These were a few of the heady topics tackled by Famitsu magazine in a three-part interview with the guy, and the results are more than worth the read. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}