Michishirube - Violet Evergarden ED [Animenz Cover]

Hello everyone!

As promised, here's my cover of Animenz's Michishirube. I really like all of his arrangement of Violet Evergarden's songs so I will definitely learn WILL some day. I want to move away from ballade style pieces for now since I've been playing them for the past few months.

I tried a new mic position this time using an XY configuration, similar to Ru's old mic set up (not sure what she uses now since I can't see it in the video). I really like how the recording turned out, especially at 4:02 as the treble really shines above the bass. It even sounds acceptable on my iPad which is a first - I normally don't like how my recordings turn out when listening to it there.

Anyways, about the piece:
For the most part, this arrangement was quite straightforward but enjoyable to learn. However, the run at 2:50 was quite hard to play and I kind of cheated by skipping 2 notes 😅.

I was supposed to upload this a whole week ago but I listened to Animenz's original video and realised my pedalling was all over the place, especially at the section starting 2:00. For example, it's better to hold the pedal down at 2:03 than follow the staccato written in the score, the same applies at 2:14 for the upwards right hand arpeggio.

At 4:02, you really just have to hope for the best and focus on your right hand mostly haha. I'm quite lucky to have gotten it the first time during recording since I practiced it quite a bit. I found that the Fazioli treble was a bit too sparkly for that section so I had to really control how hard I was hitting those octaves.

Lastly, my favourite part of this arrangement would definitely be the introduction, starting at 0:14. It sounds really warm on my piano and makes me want to play it over and over.

The next video will be Everyday World from Oregairu!

See you then ˙˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙