“It was a virtual cut-and-paste job from one harmony to the next, resulting in a boring, mildly satisfying piano piece. A computer could have written it. Mine practically did. That’s how easy it is to compose a bad prelude. Still, it took me five days and I turned it in overdue. I got a B plus. Nobuo Uematsu wrote the prelude for Final Fantasy (FF1) in under three minutes, as a filler track, to satisfy a last-minute request from the game’s director.”