UnAlive – Calliope Mori [piano]

I. General thoughts

Thanks for watching! :)
I'm sorry it took longer than usual. I had a hard time including all the melodies I wanted to without sounding too bad. I hope the effort was somewhat worth it.
In 1:45 (b. 79), the right hand is muted. I honestly don't know how why that happened, sorry for that!

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II. In-depth comments (if something this boring interests you lol)

As always, this arrangement is pretty faithful to the original. The secondary melody in the right hand during the verse (0:23, b. 17) is just a transcription of the piano in the original for example. The same goes for the bassline in the chorus, which is just the violin in the original (0:55, b. 41). The first two verses and choruses are nearly identical apart from a few notes I inserted. Now, I know the violin obviously cannot play that low, but here's the reason I did that. I deliberately made the first two choruses a bit easier by having the violin melody as the bass and let the right hand only play the main melody, so essentially only two voices. That way I can let it culminate in the 3rd chorus (4:07, b. 182) by having the violin melody as the highest one as intended, a few bass notes to give to give the whole piece some foundation and lastly the melody Calli sings sandwiched in between those. Additionally, in 4:43 (b. 211-212) or 4:51 (b. 215) I changed some notes to squeeze in the lines "もう戻れない" and "In Death, I’m somehow more alive" if you listen closely.

I basically just described "three-hand technique", which is something I vastly prefer over just arpeggio, octave or even chord spamming. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if you like it, then go for it (arpeggios are good, but a bit overused imo, also I'm not good enough at those yet). In my arrangements you'll mainly see those things during the last chorus or short instrumentals.

Since the first two verses are arranged super simple (the left hand literally only plays one note, which faintly follows the rhythm of the drums), let's talk about the 3rd one. It's the only time I used arpeggios here for over one bar (I just stole it from Chopin). Should I have gone double-time?
I honestly don't know the time signature. I originally continued with 4/4, then thought of two bars of 4/4 followed by one bar of 2/4. 5/4 or 10/4 was also an option for me, in the end I just chose 3+2/4 on a whim. CaptainMeow suggested 3+3+2+2/4, which in retrospect also sounds pretty logical. In the end, it's probably best to just use 10/4 and call it a day :D

Lastly, the Pre-Chorus (3:57, b. 173) is definitely my favorite part. I always love it when the melody is played in a lower register than usual with the left hand while the right hand plays a soothing accompaniment. It's the section where everything is played softly before the forte hits one last time.

If you've read this far, then big thanks for that! Honestly! Please tell me if you did, I usually spend a lot of time writing these.

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III. Credits:
◆ Vocals, Lyrics, Rap and Direction: Calliope Mori (@moricalliope)
◆ Producer, Engineerer: Elliot Hsu (@Leigendar)
◆ Music Video: Nonoru (@nonolu41)
◆ Subtitling: T-chan

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