How Good is Animenz At The Piano? | Pianist Reacts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I react to Animenz' piano arrangements. In the previous video I made reacting to Animenz, several comments were dissapointed that I didnt react to some of his arrangements...so in this video I do exactly that!
My original reaction to Animenz:
• Animenz' Most Crazy Pe...
Animen'z Videos:
My Dearest: • My Dearest - Guilty Cr...
Crying For Rain: • Crying for Rain (Kawak...
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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.
yeah i agree
I don't think it's possible to learn everything, doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
@@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
nice profile picture bro, basic bee is one of my favourite bees in bss
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!!
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 👍
@@GamingLife-se9wvain’t no way😭 insane progress
Who’s Chopin?
@@elvismay3353 wth
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its alright man u got this!!!
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!
You are one someone who listenes to his audience alot, thumbs up
19:46 yep that's the 3-hand technique that Animenz uses across a number of his covers.
More Animenz Let's Gooo
could you react to A Cruel Angel's Thesis - Neon Genesis Evangelion OP [Piano] by Animenz next?
Was about to say that
I agree, that's one of my faves.
This one is fucking amazing
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.
Thank you so much for making videos! It brightens my day so much!
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.
I would have nothing against a daily upload of an Animenz analysis.
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
Excellent review, love animenz’s performances so much
amazing! would love to see more of this
You are one of my favorite piano youtube of all time! I was wondering if you could react to Hikaru Nara by Animenz.
I really love your analysis! Thank you!
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
Please do more of these videos!
This series is really informative and fun to watch.
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...
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!
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.
@@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!
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
Its a widely known fact that Animenz has the best left hand in the game.
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 ❤
Please react to Richard Yang. He's really talented, he plays Animenz's arrangements and he's a really good teacher as well.
Thanks for giving me so much pleasure and joy !
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.
im a huge fan of both pianists present in this video, i love your chanel, please keep going 😍😍
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 🤣🤣
Please more Animenz reaction videos🔥🔥🔥
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.
I would absolutely love a review of his Sincerely video, in my opinion his best and most beautiful piece with tons of different techniques!
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!
i absolutely love your vids, it gives me so much motivation to keep practicing piano.❤
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
great video as always!
would sure love to see some more animenz on the channel
I want to see you doing your own arrangement of My Dearest!
Merry go round of life by animenz is my favourite
incredible insight 🔥
Nice video!
Cool video ! Can you do Kyle Landry ? He has incredible skils
You might be surprised at how much anime or Japanese music in general makes use of chord extensions.
Loving the analysis for animenz , hope you can do more! I suggest checking out sincerely and snow halation
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.
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!
I hope you'll react to Grand Escape by Animenz
Since you like Harmony and Melody so much you have to check out his arrangement of "Hanezeve Caradhina".
That's a melodic masterpiece!
Awesome video. Keep it up!
Next ''Hasit Nanda'' please
Love from India
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"
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.
Animenz - Bios, please check this out!
I really like Styx Helix from Animenz. Would be a nice reaction :)
omg!!! loved it!!!
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.
Omg when you started playing S Club 7 ❤😊
Please react to Animenz - Guren no Yumiya next!!
MOREEEEEEEEEE
Please react to Studio Ghibli songs performed by Animenz!
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
If you like the my dearest kind of arrangements you should check out his sadness and sorrow or snow halation.
You should react to his piano covers of Reluctant Heroes and Sincerely
you should react to chris luan as well his performances are crazy as hell
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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!
Great video, I really like the analysis. The camera placement did cover his hands on the piano unfortunately but great video nontheless.
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
Please react to wings of piano, may favorite piece of music in piano 🙏🙏🙏
@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?
could you react to merry go round of life cover from animenz and cruel angel's thesis cover by animenz?
Can you do Peter Bence?
Please react to Animenz - attack on titan OP, guren no yumiya / Shinzou Wo Sasageyo.. you definitely wont regret it, it’s amazing and epic piece
do the same for Patrik Pietschmann please if that's possible he did so many greater arrangements than the one you've reacted to especially his own compositions such as "journey of life" "immaterial" etc ... Flight of the silverbird is quite cool, star wars theme etc etc even the one from frozen let it go, oogway ascends, how to train your dragon
Next time try comparing his arrangement with the original song and see what crazy stuff animenz added😂
React to animenz’s Sakayume it’s peak music
Next up: Howl's moving castle :)
what if you did a golden hour cover? without strings and special effects.
No. There plenty covers of it, this song is overrated.
make me believe it dude, most over rated music doesnt make my heart explode every time i hear it.
my fingers are too short to play his pieces... T-T
React to Tokio Myers!!
animenz is the goat
late comment but you need to listen to idol
I recommend Animenz Hikaru Nara
You should see phyxinon
You should checkout Animenz Idol
can u react to ninelie of animenz. It is the best
Do hanezeve caradhina Animenz
Animenz is a really great pianist! But I think the arrangements by Patrik Pietschmann are even better because they are not that difficult but chilliger. Please do the same vidoe with Patrik´s arrangemts of "Flight Of The Silverbird" , "On The Other Side Of The World" and "Hedwigs Theme"!!!
Chilliger?
@@pajamamc1713 I meant chillier
@@CaesarPianoMusic ah ok!
Do u have a discord server?
phrasing
30 minutes ago lol
You should react his Opening 1 from Mirai Nikki
Listen to the original of this arrangement , its better in tempo,rhythm and it has more colors to it. heres the link th-cam.com/video/Pi8xsZXibIc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9A2lMVBZYub2A3WM
Thanks me later
Please do a comparison of this 2 versions
Speaking of unintelligible music waffle, here goes. Personally, he's a very good pianist no denying that and he has some very good arranging techniques but it's very boring. After the first climax it was fairly predictable and too many times I was thinking especially in the first piece, end the piece already. As a composer/ arranger myself too much for a listener to be truly dragged in and take it all in. I am not coming away from that performance going wow that performance touched me, I am thinking, great pianist wonder if he could tone it back a bit because my head will be saw after two songs. Chopin for example had great ability to show what he was capable of without being too much. It's hard stuff to play, but after his runs or outbursts of emotion I like to call them, he scales back and makes it far less predictable. The double arpeggio for example he did for one of the variations near the end, after the first two I was bored and it was predictable there wasn't any fluidity to it, it just was one bar of melody then flashy arpeggios then back to the melody and then back to the arpeggios, what am I going to say next? This verbal outline should tell you if you're getting bored of what I am saying good, that's his music. Theory, absolutely fine, technique great, dynamics great as well, just his arranging skills are a bit over the top and show off too much. Where is the beauty in simplicity. Where you don't show off and it is more accessible to say intermediate pianists, you can still be effective without putting them through a twirling rollercoaster where you get tipped upside down, Sprayed water at, do the loop the loop all while listening to heavy metal. I'm sure you get the point. So I disagree, he's decent. Nothing amazing and wouldn't choose to spend anytime studying him.
Honestly I'm not sure what more you want from an arrangement of a pop song.
Also the impressive thing about his arrangements has always been how well they capture the sound and feel of the original song on just a single instrument. The texture, rhythms and dynamics are always on point and it really feels special to listen to knowing every detail of the original song.
@@hachikuji_mayoiI don’t want more I want less that’s rather the point. It’s called not over icing the cake. Now without a direct comparison that seems good.
@@hachikuji_mayoi True a lot of ani pianists add stuff to embelish the original songs
I guess maybe you're a pianist first and foremost, and an anime fan second. Or maybe you don't even watch anime at all. I get your point that piano purists may find them over-arranged but for the rest of us anime fans, his arrangements never fail to capture the souls of the original OSTs. And most of us would've heard the OST first, and use that as the benchmark for comparison. We don't care that much for musical theory to be honest 😂
I think Merry Go Round arr from animenz is one of the best ones he has
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.
@@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
Same, it's rlly expressive and technical. Sheet music wildin tho
@@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
It’s a good arrangement but I think he’s made much better arrangements
I have no words to describe how perfect his My Dearest 10th Anniversary arrangement is. It's so good.
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. ;)
But not for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. Yamaha left
You should react to Guren no Yumiya by Animenz next
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!
YOu have to listen to his arragement of Sincerely by TRUE. Such a powerful piece
I like hacking to the gate or the ancinet magus bride
I think youd love animenz’s arrangement of kuusou mesorigiwi. Its his most classically influenced arrangement, and has a wicked intro written by him.
If you are gonna react to My dearest, you can’t missed out on The everlasting Guilty crown 😅