Recently finished learning “Dirtmouth” from Hollow Knight on the piano.

During the learning process, I was happy to see that my speed at understanding and memorizing sheet music has improved. This piece took only perhaps half as long as similar-complexity pieces I memorized earlier.

The piece itself was quite lovely. The structure felt very poetic, kind of reminiscent of a Chopin Nocturne. I really look forward to see more of the composer Christopher Larkin's work, and I'm afraid that this recording didn't do it 100% justice quite yet.

This is my first attempt at doing a visual recording of playing the piano, it felt kind of nice, although very nerve-wracking as well. I have to say, the Hollow Knight plush that came as a prop for the video turned out to be quite cute :)

The piano version was arranged by the pianist Laurence Manning. It was a fun one to play.

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