Transcribed from track 2 of Eminence Symphony Orchestra's image album, "Promise"; originally composed by Tenmon for Shinkai Makoto's "5 Centimeters Per Second"
Transcribed from track 2 of Eminence Symphony Orchestra's image album, "Promise"; originally composed by Tenmon for Shinkai Makoto's "5 Centimeters Per Second"
Recorded with a Tascam DR-05 portable stereo micClannad After Story - Toki wo Kizamu Uta (official piano arrange) - Cover & Sheet Musicchardsixteen2020-08-26 | Well, it's been a while. Taking a brief break from extended hibernation to transcribe a song that I've loved for a very long time! I only recently discovered this official arrangement after rewatching the series with the gf, and was surprised to not find any sheet music for it, and only one cover of it on YouTube (that I could find). It's an absolutely magical arrangement of an already exceedingly beautiful song. Jun Maeda you composition god (s/o Ryo Mizutsuki for the original arrangement).
Was it fortune or misfortune that Clannad + After Story was the first anime series I ever watched? It definitely raised the bar impossibly high for all anime that I would watch afterwards. There are many slice of life anime, but few depict the transition from youth to adulthood as poignantly as C:AS. Many moments that I had glossed over before now hit very close to home. True timeless masterpiece.
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Original song: from Toki o Kizamu Uta / TORCH Piano Arrange Disc Piano used: Casio Privia PX-160GDHotarubi no Mori e - Kanakana Shigure (Piano Cover & Sheet Music)chardsixteen2015-09-05 | Short, simple, bittersweet - the essence of the film rolled up into a beautiful three minutes.
An explanation of how I notated the piece: every measure consists of 2 chords being played alternately in each hand, so it's redundant to notate all 6 repetitions every measure. Instead, the first 2 measures are notated literally, and the rest simply tell you what chords to alternate between in each hand.
A tip for playing this: favor the lower notes of the right hand. The fluttery, hazy sound of the piece comes from the higher notes of the left hand and the lower notes of the right hand alternating and clashing. So really try to bring out everything in the middle, and subdue the extremes.Your Lie in April - Yuujin A ~Piano Solo~ (Cover & Sheet Music)chardsixteen2015-09-05 | Shigatsu wa KImi no Uso OST - Track 33
Again, a few transcriptions floating around for this already, but none are quite right as far as I saw.
Sync seems to be better this time!Your Lie in April - Watashi no Uso ~Piano Solo~ (Cover & Sheet Music)chardsixteen2015-09-04 | Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso OST - Track 5
A couple of transcriptions are already floating around for this piece, but as far as I can tell none of them are quite right. No shortcuts were taken with this transcription, so watch out for left hand jumps and hand trades :P
Making this recording was amusingly complicated. This is my first time recording on electric, and obviously I want to take advantage of the line-out capability to get a clean recorded sound. So the first pass involved recording video while using the piano's built-in recording functionality to record the sound (if I use line-out here, then I won't be able to hear myself playing in real time). Then, I plugged the piano's stereo out into my computer's headphone jack, and played back the piano's recording while simultaneously recording that sound on my computer. And finally, I sync up the recorded video and audio on my computer to produce the video that you see of me playing.
Now somewhere in that process, the video and audio became out of sync. I suspect this is due to how the piano stores recordings - it probably stores them as MIDI (or something like it), and so when playing them back, it has to rely on its internal clock to sound the right notes at the right times, and this clock/timing might have drifted. So when I use my computer to record what is stored on the piano, I may not be guaranteed to reproduce exactly what I played.
What I really need is a headphone splitter - then I could record from the piano using line-out while simultaneously listening to myself in real time through headphones. But alas ^_^
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Also, this anime ... if only it had gone lighter on the slightly pretentious monologues and questionable comic relief. Because that ending. Wow, that ending - perfection, easily one of the most beautiful things I have ever watched.White Album 2 - Shizuka na Fuyu no Yoru (Piano Cover and Sheet Music)chardsixteen2014-02-19 | Track 2 - 静かな冬の夜 (Quiet Winter Night)
5 Centimeters Per Second Eminence Symphony Orchestra 2nd try - new mic position for better bass, now has video! (from webcam, synced with mic audio)5 Centimeters Per Second - Oukashou (Cherry Blossom Extract) - Piano Coverchardsixteen2013-08-26 | A simple yet staggeringly beautiful composition from Tenmon. Worked off of Sperion's transcription: http://sperion.web.fc2.com , but took liberties in how I actually played it. Recorded with Tascam DR-05 portable stereo mic!Clannad - Rivulet (Piano no Mori) - Cover and Sheet Musicchardsixteen2013-08-23 | From the piano compilation album of songs from Clannad and Tomoyo After. Sheet music: drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-zQkdH4geEYi1paFVzdC15S1E/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-Qm2nag88JN06K0BSo81kHA Recorded with a Tascam DR-05 portable stereo micClannad - Dear Old Home (Piano no Mori) - Cover and Sheet Musicchardsixteen2013-08-23 | From the piano compilation album of songs from Clannad and Tomoyo After. Sheet music: drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-zQkdH4geEZTFuQnY4ejdKNGc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-EL-FeAW82VKG5O5q_hbOyg Recorded with a Tascam DR-05 portable stereo micMITSO Concerto Competition audition - Ravel Piano Concerto mvmt 1chardsixteen2013-02-06 | with accompanist!Yiruma - The Sunbeams They Scatter (Cover)chardsixteen2012-08-21 | Third recording of this song in yet another different setting - this time, a church!Rachmaninoff - Vocalise (Violin and Piano)chardsixteen2012-08-09 | I'm on the piano, my friend Amy is on the violin, and we're at a church! I probably should have put the lid down.Tangled - Waiting for the Lights (Piano & Guitar Cover)chardsixteen2012-02-20 | Piano sheets: drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-zQkdH4geEOXFYRVlpLWVkbGs/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-G7o5KKlf_4OPL2VMMC6_Fw
This is a *classical* guitar - not acoustic. Nylon strings y'all :) Also wider and flatter neck, so a little easier on the first-time fingerpicker.The Last Airbender - Flow Like Water (Piano Cover and Sheet Music)chardsixteen2012-01-02 | Sheet music: drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-zQkdH4geENVhoVjdxWkFTdTQ/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-w4-L9IuxiQmefBzUIXPKGQMatilda Soundtrack - Piano Suitechardsixteen2011-11-04 | A suite of piano arrangements of 4 tracks from the Matilda soundtrack: I. Newborn II. Teardrop III. To the Library and Beyond IV. Adoption