Meidoragon Transcendental Etude - Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid OP [Aozora no Rhapsody] Piano Cover

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The spiritual successor of my “Umaru Transcendental Etude" piano arrangement. It's finally here.
Three years ago, I once arranged a "Umaru Transcendental Etude" ( • 【Piano】Umaru Transcend... ). After many years, I made another anime song etude, so I want to name it "JamesChouAnime Transcendental Étude No. 2". As an amateur piano player, I taught myself a lot of Liszt's works in high school, including his Transcendental Etude series. It can be said that my playing and arranging style was greatly influenced by Liszt. If the Majo no Tabitabi ED - Haiiro no Saga I wrote last December is the epitome of my personal style, then this piece is a challenge to my limit.
In fact, the arrangement was basically finished two or three months ago, but I hurt my hands due to some bad technical methods while practicing and improvising. But this is not necessarily a bad thing, because under the advice of my friend "drunk sashimi", I gradually mastered a reasonable technical system and ideas for music processing, so this time I put some more effort on the performance. Unlike pianeet's Akiba, this song was "tailored" for myself. Although the difficulty is not low, I can still manage to do it.
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Come back to this arrangement. In fact, I played the Aozora no Rhapsody three years ago, It was my improvised tv size. After the rough finalization, I continued to optimize, and even added some new things until the last moment of recording. Therefore, there may be some slight difference between the sheet and my actual performance.
As a whole, I am still loyal to the structure of the original song when arranging. Since I want to call it a Transcendental Etude, all kinds of difficult techniques are necessary. I added a lot of elements to the prelude of the whole piece. Both hands have to play many levels and lines at the same time, and the rhythm is also quite unusual. It can even be said that when I was writing the intro part , I think most people would close the sheet, haha.
For the first and second verses, I can say that I did my best and added various contrasting elements to make the a big dynamic range.
For example, in the second pre-chorus (1:45), I changed the rhythm of the original song to three beats. On the one hand, I was pursuing change, and on the other hand, it was also to pay tribute to my umaru transcendental etude. 2:27 might be the hardest part since you have to play some fast octaves by your left hand in the area of mid-treble part of the piano which is a little bit anti-biology.
The following bridge paragraph is a cadenza full of fun and challenge. I refer to some textures similar to toccata, and let two hands try to play the feeling of four hands. It is very painful during the recording process, because it is not only necessary to maintain several different layers of sound, while playing fast tremolo and octaves. And the first left-hand bass at the beginning of each measure is a big jump that exceeds more than ten degrees. After I recorded this song for several takes, I was really exhausted, so I had to compromise and choose a relatively better one.
In the ending part , I expanded it a bit and wrote a gorgeous hybrid ending with Chopin and Liszt style. And when I finished playing the last note, I made a temporary intention and added a katsaris jump, and then it succeeded in one shot. So I kept this.
It's a bit too much, and it's really been a long time since I madea full version arrangements. I have been busy with the various affairs of the new studio for the past six months. In the future, we may post some interesting small videos related to the recording studio or evaluations of various equipment. I don’t know if you are interested (doge)
Anyway, thank you all for your watching! See you next time!
Sheet:
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Original Artist: fhána
Piano ArrangemenT:JamesChouAnimePiano

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@ActionAdam 2 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who got emotional seeing him use that classic Marasy-esque LH technique at the start of the 2nd chorus? Even with such a classically-inspired arrange, he manages to pay respect to the roots of Anipiano and it sounds so good. Shoutout Anipianists around the world ;-;

@YehPianoCovers 2 жыл бұрын

There's just too much to talk about... Love all the voices you added starting at 0:19. I can hear so many distinct sub melodies, it's very creative! Reminds me of Pianeet. Also noticed 1:45 reminded me of umaru! Very cool reference. 1:05 , 2:17, 3:56 I absolutely love that you arranged each of these differently! I didn't immediately notice the difference between the first two but it was more obvious by peaking at the sheets. Love the detail! 2:50 is just perfection... the peak of 4 hand technique. The changes in camera angles also really help increase the POWER of the section. Thank you for continuing to inspire James! Excited to see the next transcendental etude!

@JamesChouAnimePiano 2 жыл бұрын

Really happy to see such detailed comments! Thanks!

@ActionAdam 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow nice spot with the 3-hand technique! I wouldn't have noticed that at first, glad you pointed it out

@MadPianoLife 2 жыл бұрын

You are a master and huge inspiration every right. Thanks so much for giving all you got with 110% of your spirit, vitality, and passion.

@AkiPiano 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo!! It sounds so much better and refined than when you teased it in your past streams! I had no idea this song allowed so much variation and creativity; all other arrangements of this song mostly sound the same, but yours is really unique! Definitely one of my favourite arrangements of yours :))

@mt2r-music Жыл бұрын

This just made a huge fan. Brilliant arrangement. So many variations and creative choices while still not loosing the feeling of the original at all. Probably one of the most underrated performances on the platform.

@juneyoo 2 жыл бұрын

THIS is the kind of arrangement that I wish there were more of. I know most people won't have the eyes to appreciate something like this but I hope you know all the little details really do make it great. You managed to take my breath away with a pop song, how great is that? So wonderfully idiomatic and well-thought out at every moment unlike most transcriptive covers on this site. Bravo!! edit: also, that last note... so risky and so cheeky... lol

@spyous7884 Жыл бұрын

Animenz

@AkiPiano 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been waiting so long for this. Can’t wait!!

@mathilliterate 4 ай бұрын

holy cow this is severely underrated this is not just an arrangement but an actual unique art piece!

@YoungbloodPiano 2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculously underrated performance. Amazing work James!

@Kenkousan 2 жыл бұрын

Ngl when I listened to it for the first time I thought I was a bit excessive especially with the number of techniques being used. But the more I listen to the arrangement, the more I grew to like this style 💯 (this is my 40th time listening to it lol) this far exceeds Animenz's old style and you now have your own style which I'm 1000% on board with 💕 keep on going and someday (or even soon 👀) you'll be part of the big threes of anime pianists 💪

@arima6934 2 жыл бұрын

OMG it was so good ! Thank you for this arrangement ! I really love how you develop your style over years with all these techniques and everything.

@ma_sa_0122 Жыл бұрын

曲は色んなアレンジあるけど、よりによってEtudeとして編曲する発想も曲として完成してるのもすげぇ…これ練習曲ってマジ…？何をどうしたらこんな形容出来ないくらい技巧も表現も舌を巻くような演奏ができるのか

@MarkSchwaeber Жыл бұрын

This was absolutely amazing!! I can't believe everything you added in and how you performed it. You did a fantastic job maintaining all the sub-voices, for example in the prelude section and up until the first chorus. There are so many little details, references and techniques. I loved the four-hand-technique starting at 2:49 so much, it put so much character into your peformance. I can say that you absolutely smashed it, dude. This is criminally underrated; it definitely deserves the title "Transcendental Etude", not only because of the arrangement itself, but also because of your performance. Bravo!

@zeepichashbrown4676 2 жыл бұрын

YES I've been waiting for an amazing cover of this for ages. I'm absolutely loving the variety of styles used in this. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS

@JamesMcAllister Жыл бұрын

Wow, this deserves more views. You are insanely talented and I love the arrangement!

@CaaziPianoSheets 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved the rhythm from fhana songs, amazing cover, I love the voices :>

@user-xd1hc7sv8p Ай бұрын

Some inspirations? 3:04 waldstein 3rd on LH 4:24 chopin sonata 3 finale ~ op.10/8 ~ Scherzo no.2

@AndySG7 2 жыл бұрын

DUDE THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!!! I just love your arranging style

@LisztGOAT 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for Liszt, but looks like i found another work of art

@egi.theodore7136 2 жыл бұрын

Animenz got Unravel, James Chou got this play!!! Cool work mate!

@HayashiStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit THIS is the kind of arrangement I want in my life. Bravo sir!

@fleq6542 2 жыл бұрын

James, I have been following your channel for a long time. Pretty much from the beginning. This was different. I can tell that you put considerably more effort into this arrangement and video production than what you normally do. While I really enjoying your arrangements, this is the first one that gave me chills. Unlike your improvisations, it was very well constructed and balanced, with a big dynamic range. It's not only the arrangement, the production quality is actually quite good. I really hope that going forward once in a while you upload something like this!

@rrickymaa 2 жыл бұрын

BROO THIS SI INSANE!

@ollir9352 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like animenz-level stuff. Amazing!

@casualplayer2575 2 жыл бұрын

It's way over that lol.

@co0okie Жыл бұрын

@@casualplayer2575 true

@VinLudens 2 жыл бұрын

Wow Transcendental Étude No. 2 indeed, the insane speed does not seem to help matters lol but overall just phenomenal, both the arrangement and the performance! (and seeing short studio tours sounds like fun)