How Good is Animenz At The Piano? | Pianist Reacts

[@CindersGD]

Animenz making such good music 10+ years ago, and his covers sounding even better in the present. Shows that even if you were the best in the world, there is always room for improvement.

[@AnassPad]

yeah i agree

[@BboyKeny]

I don't think it's possible to learn everything, doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

[@nguyeninhucthang662]

​@@BboyKeny you should try it even you have to spend a year to learn it because playing Animenz's arrangements would significantly improve your skill

[@RealSweepy]

nice profile picture bro, basic bee is one of my favourite bees in bss

[@gcfko]

19:46 yep that's the 3-hand technique that Animenz uses across a number of his covers.

[@thatskyvern]

Man, I can't even perfect Chopin's waltz in a minor. But I'll keep practicing because there's no other way but to keep moving forward!!

[@GamingLife-se9wv]

Dont worry youll get there, last year i was playing that waltz, and now my teacher says im ready for some of Chopins etudes. Keep practicing 👍

[@vhavoc6164]

@@GamingLife-se9wvain’t no way😭 insane progress

[@elvismay3353]

Who’s Chopin?

[@raynesispearl2650]

​@@elvismay3353 wth 👁️👄👁️

[@stonks9755]

its alright man u got this!!!

[@nanashi__nanashi]

You should try comparing his pieces with the original pieces. Your analysis is really detailed and understandable, and I would love to see more videos analysing animenz's piano pieces!

[@Cyclically]

I have no words to describe how perfect his My Dearest 10th Anniversary arrangement is. It's so good.

[@FrodosBeutel]

You are one someone who listenes to his audience alot, thumbs up

[@alexsimper4153]

I think Merry Go Round arr from animenz is one of the best ones he has

[@giblegabite929]

I like most of it but i think the first section with the tremolo octaves is a bit too much, if you know what i mean. It loses musicality and seems more to be for showing off.

[@alexsimper4153]

@@giblegabite929 more than showing off it comes to me like he's being playful with the theme in different ways. Also I know it's a subjective thing but it never loses musicality for me

[@whoyu5221]

Same, it's rlly expressive and technical. Sheet music wildin tho

[@giblegabite929]

@@alexsimper4153 I do agree though that the rest of his arrangement is stunning, it is probably my favourite of his and also my favourite arrangement of merry go round

[@erckupazo]

It’s a good arrangement but I think he’s made much better arrangements

[@ken9638]

More Animenz Let's Gooo

[@sxleong]

Your observations and commentary has made me realize some of the reasons why I love these arrangements so much which I probably would've never figured out myself. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!

[@awilddeformedpikachuappear1068]

In all of my year studying music theory, I would say that japanese artists are breaking the music standards in terms of the western music industry. The amount of unexpected routes they use to compose is just honestly intriguing, it's like they purposefully use reverse psychology. It would be amazing if you would react to japanese artists, they mostly advertise themselves through anime openings or anime endings. It would not dissapoint you in the least, and I think it would be a good reaction video since it would be interesting to see your analysis in their compositions in the song creation process.

[@ljanmistojkovic]

The way he became speechless and was smiling throughout the 2nd arr. It shows just how good that arr is

[@justsomenobodyguy]

Thank you so much for making videos! It brightens my day so much!

[@halilcanarpac6682]

I liked your review a lot. Also he uses the term “three hand technique” as spreading the melody to both hands. Also one suggestion if you are going to make more video about animenz, he generally writes how he made some parts of the arrangements in the description, maybe you can include in your video.

[@jokerstratos3464]

could you react to A Cruel Angel's Thesis - Neon Genesis Evangelion OP [Piano] by Animenz next?

[@Avvaaaaaaaa]

Was about to say that

[@ohyeahyeah7793]

I agree, that's one of my faves.

[@aronaoi]

This one is fucking amazing

[@Hermitcraft_X]

13:48 this piece of music, to me, sounds like Birth, Life, Memories, and Dieing content with what you lived, loved and gave to the world ❤

[@paweszklarczyk2330]

Beeing guest at Your channel I'd say that I couldn't agree more. I know Animenz's arrangements for more than 10 years, and I've learned from him a lot. His arrangements are by default some of the finest pieces of art I've ever stumbled on the Internet (period; I don't want to come into music theory gibberish here). That definitely made me a better pianist. Before I practice a piece I always analyze it - and it helps me a lot to understand what I'm playing, it makes lerning piece by heart so much easier (there is a lot happening in those arrangements). 'My dearest' is one of my favourites (still, close 2nd to 'Kimi no shiranai monogatari'). Tbh I find it one of (if not the most) musically challenging of his arrangements (but also technically not an easy one). / I love Chopin's pieces so the part where he used Chopin's facture is my favourite fragment. / Everything sounds better on Stainway. ;)

[@arapaimagold8088]

But not for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. Yamaha left

[@rashido]

Love this, I could watch you react to animenz all day haha. I feel like the more you watch him the more you appreciate everything he does on the piano :D

[@TraurigeWelt]

I would have nothing against a daily upload of an Animenz analysis.

[@wolfspain7385]

Its a widely known fact that Animenz has the best left hand in the game.

[@seiryuplays]

Bro, the original OST already made me cry whenever I listened to it, now we have this which makes me bawl my eyes out...Shu...

[@kkev_yt]

I think youd love animenz’s arrangement of kuusou mesorigiwi. Its his most classically influenced arrangement, and has a wicked intro written by him.

[@xN0riumPVP]

amazing! would love to see more of this

[@StupidYTmakingNonSenceUpdates]

I CANNOT, listen to 'My Dearest' without atleast wiping away a single tear.... that end scene... 😢heart wrenching.

[@Handler_1ne]

I really love your analysis! Thank you!

[@kurushimee]

Watching Animenz play lowkey makes me want to become a musician... fr though, after turning 18 the two paths I was interested in most were becoming either a musician or a game dev, now kinda leaning towards the former

[@contessa420]

Excellent review, love animenz’s performances so much

[@firefern21]

I'm loving these analysis videos!

[@xghhjmt]

Please do more of these videos! This series is really informative and fun to watch.

[@landon3772]

Made a comment awhile ago for you to react to these two arrangements. Glad you did!

[@phythe1]

You are one of my favorite piano youtube of all time! I was wondering if you could react to Hikaru Nara by Animenz.

[@nikitachauhan9976]

before I watch the video ill have uk that animenz was the pioneer for anime piano music, he is and always be the goat

[@xEpsi]

great video as always! would sure love to see some more animenz on the channel

[@nwkjoseph]

You might be surprised at how much anime or Japanese music in general makes use of chord extensions.

[@ryanhoffmann4983]

What you say about remembering chords as opposed to melodies is pretty funny, because as an opera singer I'm the direct opposite. I can remember any melody easily, but can not for the life of me tell you which chords were used until I see sheet music lol.

[@rocko0638]

Please react to Richard Yang. He's really talented, he plays Animenz's arrangements and he's a really good teacher as well.

[@soumyadeepbhunia172]

These are two of my favourite Animenz arrangements, as well as anime songs period. I remember when I tried to learn Animenz' Crying for Rain, gave up, and settled for a much more simplistic version of my own 🤣🤣

[@coral6601]

Thanks for giving me so much pleasure and joy !

[@OneAutumnRain]

Great watch as always! I do kind of wish you could listen to the original versions for these reactions as well. I think a lot of what makes Animenz so amazing is his ability to take the amazing themes these artists create and expand upon them.

[@orfrisbee2121]

Animenz is amazing!!! and also you Matthew, since I discovered your channel I learned so much about music theory and about the piano, so I am grateful for that, thank you!!

[@brogancowart3473]

Lol Im pretty sure these may have been the exact 2 songs I recommend thank you so much. That said you seemed to be pretty intrigued with his 2nd song. Like you said at the end he truly is an amazing pianist. I compare him to a modern day Chopin or Beethoven. But thank you for the video made my day!

[@bjartskularAnton]

I would absolutely love a review of his Sincerely video, in my opinion his best and most beautiful piece with tons of different techniques!

[@jonaby2123]

Cateen or Hayato Sumino is one of my favourite pianists that I think you'd really enjoy too.

[@Alcinos]

YOu have to listen to his arragement of Sincerely by TRUE. Such a powerful piece

[@franchleebataan4176]

I like hacking to the gate or the ancinet magus bride

[@nobleplatter7650]

I think you said this in the last video, but he doesn't improv his pieces, you can tell by the way they're structured and the very difficult, specific techniques that he uses, definitely pre-arranged. Still incredible and the reason I love his videos; so well thought out and beautifully voiced always!

[@MilAS829]

Nope I'm pretty sure he does improvise, I believe he's said it somewhere in a video, cant remember which though. In order to make these arrangements you kind of do have to improvise first because it wouldn't make sense to just listen to a song and then immediately write a whole arrangement, it's probably a lot easier to improvise the song first by ear and then write, opposed to writing first. I believe he said something like he improvises on the original song until he makes a satisfying finished product. And if i had to guess then after all of that he would probably write it on sheet music. Regardless, improvisation is pretty much always going to be used, I believe the main purpose of arranging is kind of based around improvising of an original song and making it as creative and original as you can. I'm not saying this as like a gotcha though im just saying maybe you were a little misinformed as to what goes on. An easy example would be his Yoasobi- Idol. The beginning of that arrangement includes a pretty difficult improvised element, as well as the chorus and many other parts. As original as it may sound it really is basically one big by ear- improvisation.

[@nobleplatter7650]

@@MilAS829 that makes sense, I just meant he probably doesn't sit down and improv the whole thing in one take, there's obviously written revisions. My fault though!

[@MilAS829]

​@@nobleplatter7650 Yup no problem. Just wanted to clarify just in case. I also used to think that he literally just created them and didnt use any improvisational elements but now I know because I started learning some piano myself and figured out some of the terminology

[@erckupazo]

@@MilAS829he doesn’t improvise, at least fully… he makes the arrangement and gets a team of transcribers to transcribe his music afterward to make the sheet. He used to completely make the sheet before playing but he found it too exhausting.

[@MilAS829]

@@erckupazo Like i said it's not really an argument it's just a fact. Lots of his arrangements use improvisational elements. You can argue that the melody and chord progressions aren't improvised as they are given by the original song, but whatever animenz does with those is mostly improvised. If he were to take a chord and arpeggiate it or turn it into fast runs, as he does with a good bit of his arrangements, that would be an improvised element. Again I'll use Idol as an example, the beginning is very obviously an improvised element and includes a very quick right hand arpeggio run up and down the keys. Yes there are original elements in his arrangements but Animenz knows how to make a really good balance of improv-classical- and original elements. Even if he were to write and then play, he would still have to experiment with how it would sound and would probably improvise and touch up certain parts to make it better. In fact there's another good arranger who goes by Akmigone who made a video on how he improvised and arranged his awesome How To Train Your Dragon arrangement.

[@gustavopflegerrebelo8776]

im a huge fan of both pianists present in this video, i love your chanel, please keep going 😍😍

[@mixedmaniac7957]

There's a lot I'd recommend from Animenz. But an interesting one is his "Grand Escape" cover. Overall, it wouldn't count as one of his top pieces. However, the madness in his mind at the start always blows me away. Any sane person would hear the 2 instruments at the start and spilt em between the 2 hands. Animenz? Naah... man kept both instrumental melodies (2 different melodies on 2 different instruments, both somewhat fast paced) in the right hand and then goes onto play the vocal melody and it's chord accompaniment on the left hand at the same time (functionally playing 3 melodies and 1 accompaniment all at once). It's not impossible or anything just... man heard that and said "I want it all" and so he did. I would also probably recommend "Guren no Yumiya". I'll stop here for now before I recommend half his catalogue.

[@OrcaStrike02]

Was really hoping you’d take a look at more of his arrangements, especially kawaki wo ameku, amazing video! Also, not sure if you would do reactions to non piano videos, but I would definitely recommend the original version of kawaki wo ameku by Minami

[@neeksu9482]

Is it crazy that I thought that was a painting of Dr Phil behind him for 1.7 seconds

[@ayeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeye]

incredible insight 🔥

[@combatseawolf]

I want to see you doing your own arrangement of My Dearest!

[@skriezeedits]

i absolutely love your vids, it gives me so much motivation to keep practicing piano.❤

[@enderhalt]

Merry go round of life by animenz is my favourite

[@MrBassestar]

animenz didn't call Crying for Rain the spiritual successor to his Unravel arrangement for nothing lmao, this left hand is a nightmare, I gave up on learning this arrangement for now

[@AhmadChoudhry-f9k]

Awesome video. Keep it up!

[@alekyap3143]

Amazing video! I'd love to see you react/dissect some more Japanese music like Zutomayo's Study Me. They just do music genres so differently and fresh over there!

[@pockelstv]

Cool video ! Can you do Kyle Landry ? He has incredible skils

[@Hamza77-dz1ck]

I would recommend reacting to phyxinon, he/she is very skilled with arrangement and piano playing. My personal favorite are "Weathering with you" and "Wings of piano"

[@raphaelstettler1294]

Please more Animenz reaction videos🔥🔥🔥

[@micaiahesteron1424]

This guilty crown remake was also beautiful considering, if i remember correctly, it was a hard time for him so it carried a lot of emotion through this piece.

[@Angel33Demon666]

I could do with so many more of these analysis videos

[@TheDusty1920]

Instant like! Animenz is the GOAT

[@cwhong2179]

Request for reaction to SLSMusic! He's another anime pianist who is very good at reharmonizing, style switching and medley arranging. You can go to his 1. Demon slayer OP Jazz version or 2. Weight of the World 12key medley. 3. YOASOBI medley (JFYI: the second one is actually game OST rather than anime music,and YOASOBI is a Jpop vocalist-composer duo)

[@HowardCrazy2000]

Try Extra Magic Hour - Amagi Brilliant Park OP!

[@Streakstarz]

Loving the analysis for animenz , hope you can do more! I suggest checking out sincerely and snow halation

[@jokerstratos3464]

omg!!! loved it!!!

[@ernievz2662]

Nice video!

[@Justmewapiano]

Hello mathew, love your videos man, great video, I just have recommendation for a video idea, since your videos help me so much as a pianist, I recommend doing another “levels” video for improvisation , where you could cover different levels of improvisation, how to start and how to advance , thank you for all the work you do.

[@g2h5j3]

Since you like Harmony and Melody so much you have to check out his arrangement of "Hanezeve Caradhina". That's a melodic masterpiece!

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

Well, makes sense hard to remember as based on actual anime opening songs, so without knowing the song it'll be a bit hard but with musical theory & progression especially with respect to anime Original Sound Tracks (OSTs) would probably make sense

[@thedilatoryvellichor748]

You know, I think it'd be cool if you included some "unintelligible music waffle". People who don't want it can skip it, but I think it'd be interesting to at least hear it since I'd like to know what really lies behind all the arranging/playing

[@fallere8203]

Hi Matthew! Love the video and your content. I'd like to hear your opinions on Animenz's Owari no Sekai Kara, specifically the ending sequence. I think you'll find that interesting!

[@steffentysnes5302]

I've always been under the impression that music was mostly about practise and thats it, never gave tought to the theory and study behind it. Seems i've been ignorant huh.

[@isaacshaw1596]

@Matthew Cawood With the fans sending you there piano play for videos, can it just be audio of me doing some improv or or do you need to see the hands as well?

[@Spydrco]

More Animenz please 🙏. These are awesome! Maybe everlasting guilty crown if it looks interesting to you 👀

[@crypple455]

I think you should react to Animenz Bios and Merry Go Round of Life arrangements, but ill be happy with whatever is chosen because I love all of his arrangements.

[@djdanid6239]

Crying for rain is a masterpiece

[@oo0Ash0oo]

The masterpiece, for me is equal to unravel

[@enochlui525]

I really like Styx Helix from Animenz. Would be a nice reaction :)

[@stefen2157]

Animenz - Bios, please check this out!

[@PrakashParanjape-r1g]

You should react to Guren no Yumiya by Animenz next

[@kaitlync5922]

Omg when you started playing S Club 7 ❤😊

[@erckupazo]

If you like the my dearest kind of arrangements you should check out his sadness and sorrow or snow halation.

[@opulent.octavess]

Next ''Hasit Nanda'' please Love from India

[@F0rbidden511]

Please react to Animenz - Guren no Yumiya next!!

[@Sasukesanimation]

If you are gonna react to My dearest, you can’t missed out on The everlasting Guilty crown 😅

[@alshayyedsaid6213]

I hope you'll react to Grand Escape by Animenz

[@EsdeathxxLove]

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[@X2Musashi]

Please react to Studio Ghibli songs performed by Animenz!

[@JohnDoe-jg7lm]

You should react to his piano covers of Reluctant Heroes and Sincerely

[@Soares-Rodrigo]

I’d love to see a react video on Vinheteiro! He is an amazing Brazilian pianist with more than 7 million subscribers here on YT. Thanks!

[@user-bq8cm3kl3o]

you should react to chris luan as well his performances are crazy as hell

[@starrynight7723]

I wanna recommend anime songs by a composer/pianist name Sawanohiroyuki. He make great epic and emotional music for bunch of anime theme or soundtrack. Here my songlist if you wanna react to it. - Sawanohiroyuki[nZk]: Mizuki- aLIEz first take - Sawanohiroyuki[nZk]: Yosh- Belong first take - Sawanohiroyuki[nZk]: XAI- Dark Aria MV - Aimer x Sawanohiroyuki[nZk]- Ninelie sawanohiroyuki nZk 2019 live

[@zevelgamer.]

Yo Can you react to Czerny's best pieces? I feel like he doesn't get much love. also he has some really good bangers.

[@typicalbeamer1559]

MOREEEEEEEEEE

[@MrNoobGamerX]

Great video, I really like the analysis. The camera placement did cover his hands on the piano unfortunately but great video nontheless.

[@TamaraBrown]

Can you do Peter Bence?

[@SusanooVaL]

i just want to see him react to howl's moving castle

[@Pancake.Rnold35]

Please react to wings of piano, may favorite piece of music in piano 🙏🙏🙏

[@aunn2705]

Can you react to brave shine animenz arr

[@XeroJin84]

my fingers are too short to play his pieces... T-T

[@maxporter2008]

what if you did a golden hour cover? without strings and special effects.

[@laxris6563]

No. There plenty covers of it, this song is overrated.

[@maxporter2008]

make me believe it dude, most over rated music doesnt make my heart explode every time i hear it.