Nikola Cvetkovic Plays OPETH | PIANO WORKS | 2019
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- A compilation with 13 solo piano renditions of Opeth's music.
Not long after I published my compilation with Katatonia piano renditions, I thought that the next logical step would be to cover Opeth as I've been a fan of the band for a very long time. Needless to say that it was a bit tricky re-arranging the songs for a solo piano due to their progressive and complex nature, but I sat down and worked on it until I was completely satisfied. I picked the songs from various periods of Opeth's discography, mainly those that would sound most suitable when transcribed and played on a piano. Probably my most ambitious project to date.
Before anyone asks - I do NOT have sheet music for this, everything was being arranged just by thoroughly listening to the songs and carefully analyzing them.
Hopefully you like it too!
TRACKLIST:
1. 00:00 Coil (Watershed)
2. 03:07 The Lotus Eater (Watershed)
3. 11:58 Demon Of The Fall (My Arms, Your Hearse)
4. 18:12 Burden (Watershed)
5. 25:13 Dirge For November (Blackwater Park)
6. 33:21 Face Of Melinda (Still Life)
7. 41:45 Isolation Years (Ghost Reveries)
8. 45:26 The Drapery Falls (Blackwater Park)
9. 56:12 Marrow Of The Earth (Heritage)
10. 1:00:17 In My Time Of Need (Damnation)
11. 1:05:26 A Fair Judgement (Deliverance)
12. 1:16:23 Weakness (Damnation)
13. 1:20:31 Ending Credits (Damnation)
All songs arranged, performed and recorded by Nikola Cvetkovic
Music originally composed by Opeth
If you wish to have this in your collection, or for other business inquiries, send me an email at nikopiano@gmail.com
Artwork design once again by my good friend Lazar Mladenovic, you can check out his works here:
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Thank you for listening, and please share this with your friends!
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Now I know how I can introduce my children to Opeth without scaring the living shit out of them. Masterful.
Hahaha, that's right
*Damnation is waving frantically*
@@Bellathor very true haha
The music of opeth is scaring.....allways....just listen this version of Demon of The fall.....wicked !
My wife seems to have finally gotten over hearing my 6-yr-old running around the house imitating Mikael’s growls. Just give it some time!
Someone please make sure this ends up in Mikael’s ear... There has to be someone in this group that can reach him to let him know this exists.
tweet it to him
Jason C: totally agree. Mikael needs to hear this
yeah, maybe he'll realize how unique and beautiful music he used to make and stops to produce that shity boring af prog.
@@vaclavgembala6773 you mean the best prog in the whole world? why would he stop?
@@vaclavgembala6773 He produces grreat stuff rn, not sure what you are talking about. Gotta hate people who hate change, and keep longing for the past. Try listening to the new stuff, without the bias. You will probably enjoy it
Even without Mikael's melancholic, etherial, soul-crushing voice, you still captured the magic and even went further! Dirge for november and The drapery falls are peak.. my god! Svaka cast !!!!
Face of melinda, Burden and Drapery falls are sublime. Wish he did To bid you farewell.
Very well done indeed
If you wish to have this in your collection, or for other business inquiries, send me an email listed in description!
Thank you guys for all the great feedback!
ilike your rendition of drapery falls
@@gianmarcobaudazzi78 Demon of the Fall and Drapery Falls are masterpiece renditions for sure! The whole thing is amazing, but those two? Almost wish they had their own separate videos so I could listen to them on loop. :) Harvest next? BLACK ROSE? :D
This is beyond amazing. You should put this on your bandcamp!
Awesome work man
Forward to Opeth
The sheer complexity of this project reveals how Opeth arrangements are utter masterpieces, and the stratospheric talent of Mikael Ackerfeldt and yourself! Mind-blowing musical interpretations you have created. Kudos.
Mikael's talent is beyond words. He literally can't even name 90% of the chords he's playing with he controls the music like a painter controls his canvas. It's impossible to come up with those strange combinations of chords and make it sound so natural and fluid. And Opeth is basically his solo project, which makes it more impressive.
@@soullessSiIencehell nah, opeth is not a solo project, yeah mikeal is the leader but the other band members still play a huge part in their sound
I've been an Opeth fan for about 12 years. Your piano renditions bring out a more raw and emotional feel to the songs, I feel like I'm listening to Opeth for the first time again. I truly hope Mikeal hears this.
Michael Jarrett I was thinking this exact same thing. I’m actually getting a bit teary eyed at some parts. Just like the first time.
Same feeling here. I somehow overplayed the original ones and always longed to feel the indescribable emotions I had when I first discovered Opeth again. Guess I finally managed to!
I'm a nursing student going into my last year of study before I get my RN. I do a lot of studying with TH-cam playing music in the background and THIS will be in heavy rotation along with Hans Zimmer movie soundtracks. This is simply gorgeous stuff.
I've been doing the same stuff with Heroes Orchestra, and Dryante Zan's covers - google them if you wanna hear some cool stuff. :)
28:44 my favourites chords in Opeth history 🙏
I'm so glad TH-cam exists, otherwise stuff like this wouldn't be heard as far as it is, svaka čast, brate! Čestitam ti!
This is nuts. Hearing the songs hundreds of times kind of numbs me to the sheer genius of the works, but this is like hearing them for the first time again. Thanks Nikola!
Gobsmackingly good! As a long-time Opeth fanatic this is a gift from...well...heaven I suppose. I can't imagine how much time Nikola has spent arranging these pieces but the results are wonderful. It only reinforces my belief that Mikael Akerfeldt is freak musical prodigy to say nothing of Nikola's prowess. My wife was listening in the background and yelled out "Is that out of tune?" to which I replied "Absolutely not, what you're hearing is dissonance". I love Mike's 'bent' sense of harmony. Brilliant Nikola.
If you ever do a part two,
Benighted, harlequin forest,to bid you farewell, heritage, faith in others....anything Opeth is good haha
White Cluster Also.
Creedence and Melinda also :-)
Yes, Mikael must know about these masterpieces.
Where can I buy this!? I need to have this in as good a quality as possible and on repeat, forever.
So glad you did Dirge for November, my dude. My personal favourite Opeth tune.
Longtime Opeth fan here. Loving this, and wish there was more! Moonlapse Vertigo next time please!
OMG moonlapse vertigo would be amazing.
@@OmegaLulz666 Probably my favorite Opeth song. It showcases pretty much everything they can do in my opinion.
Absolutely beautiful. I especially love the Dirge for November arrangement. That song is one of the closest to my heart; it found me many years ago during a rather dark time in my life. One of my favorite lyrics come from this song: "The mere reflection brought disgust." It has stuck with me ever since.
I listen to this at least once a month. Thanks for doing this man!
Your renditions are equally fantastic Sam. I've been watching them for years.
Please do a pt2:
1) Ghost of perdition
2) Windowpane
3) Benighted
Hope leaves
Patterns in The Ivy parts 1 and 2
The whole heritage album
Harvest
generally speaking: WE NEED MOAR!!!111eleven
Lotus Eater sounded like an epic final boss fight from some lost and obscure arcade game. :) Very intriguing atmosphere. Loved it as much as the original.
This is the most beautiful thing ive ever heard
The drapery falls cover...is so beautiful. I had to instantly go to that song. You did it justice ..and it's Even more mournful with the piano. Thank you
This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. The only thing I want to say is Thank You.
Dirge for november is really awesome for the piano for sure
I'm so happy that this came from Serbia. Well done.
I'm totally blown away. The transcription to piano simply can't be done any better and the level of detail is so impressive that I don't know what to say! This is truly unique and mind-blowing! Thank you for sharing this with all of us! What an inspiration. What a talent! What a way to showcase the beauty of these songs.
Thank you very much for such kind words! Cheers
Za nekih 30 minuta slušanja uspio sam pročitati oko 200 komentara. Šteta što Opeth nije toliko popularan na našim prostorima, sudeći po istima. Večeras sam po prvi put naletio na tvoje ime ovdje i definitivno neće biti zadnji put da slušam tvoj rad. Na nekim mjestima sam pomislio: jao, trebao je ovaj dio malo brže ili malo sporije, sa malo više energije odsvirati, etc. Onda sam sebi priznao u lice: ja sam neko ko godinama sluša Opeth a ti si neko ko godinama sluša i svira Opeth. Mikael definitivno treba da čuje ovu kompilaciju. Uljepšao si mi noć i naredne dane, sedmice i mjesece koji dolaze, čovječe!!! Volio bih da te lično poznajem i da si mi prijatelj, iako to za tebe ne bi bilo ok jer bih te smarao dan i noć oko Opetha!!!! Ponosan sam na tebe jer nisi iz Švedske i ne živiš u Ikei. Budi mi uvijek zdrav i pozitivan a ja idem sad da proguglam sve živo o tebi.
I knew this would be great but wasnt expecting it to be this well done. You even pulled of all the small nuances and guitar techniques to piano somehow.
If i where to make a request though it would be The Moor and Ghost of perdition.
I transcribed both guitars for the moor to acoustic 12 string before and it sounds really open and diffrent, would love to hear your version of the moor.
Not sure if you've seen yet, but last month he did The Moor on his new Opeth piano cover album and it's sick!
@@anthonycarrero2361
Nice one mate.
Had no idea and going to get on that now.
Commenting a second time because I just finished the drapery falls and 1. Mikael is a complete genius songwriter, one of the best of the 21st century (and 90s). And 2. What a lovely arrangement. The ability to capture the essence of the song through a different instrument and capture all the little intricacies is sublime
16:48-18:05. The greatest!
*DEMON OF THE FALL*
Awesome musianship sir. Difficult to believe these are performed on a single piano with one player. I enjoyed your embelishments. I know opeth music very well. Listening to these reminds me of some of the more radical late Beethoven sonatas,Scriabin and shostakovich.
Really enjoying your playing and musicianship. I hope to see you perform in Liverpool Philharmonic hall very soon.
Thanks for this man. Ive always looked up to you and started doing covers in no small part thanks to you playing Drapery and Demon of the Fall almost 10 years ago now. Im only halfway through and this brings me back all those years. Thank you again - for real.
Thank YOU man! Much appreciated, and love your videos too!
You're great, Sam
The Drapery Falls 😍
Thanks for these amazing covers! I can't get enough. Please let there be a part two with older works of Opeth: More songs from Orchid, Morningrise and MAYH and Still Life.
48:11 is so powerful on the piano oh my god
Wow man ... very accurate !!! 👏👏👏 Fantastic job.
Good thing I had the notification bell on :]
The lotus eaters (craziness) 😵💫😵
Such an outstanding work... Can't hold back my tears :,) wish I could play like you one day. Thank you so much!
PIANO WORKS?
Well, I sure hope it does
Wow! Amazing work. Totally AWESOME...
i've been rewatching that 2009 burden vid forever, never knew there's so much more here, absolutely mindblowing thanks
The drapery falls is just 👌
Burden has been the most brutal thing I have ever listened to. Thanks, Nikola.
Awesome !
I wish this was on Spotify!
Astonishing! Thank you.
Amazing!
Marvellous! Thank you!
That’s awesome!!
Superb!
Wonderful! Thanks!!!
that's just awesome
Chills.....awesome!
That was amazing!
Amazing, I love it.
This is outstanding...my mind is blown. Well done.
fantastic work.
Ending credits and face of melinda are beautiful
Stunning...
Incredible. Thank you
Amazing work!
Amazing, amazing, amazing!!!
Amazing 👍
Awesome......
Beautiful
Truly phenomenal!
Absolutely incredible
Great man! Thanks
amazing work !!
This is spectacular! Truly amazing! Thank you.
Awesome job!Greetings from Greece...
Refreshing, it's great. thank you.
This is incredible
I loved the drapery falls arrangement! awesome work
This is beautiful
Superb....
This is so beautiful I have no words
Thank you so much for doing it
You just made my day. Thanks!
Absolutely amazing man ! Thanks for doing this
Absolutely amazing renditions! Well done!
This is so beautiful
awesome work.
wonderfully done. bravo! you've captured the essence of every song perfectly
Brilliant. Very well done. Love it.
Absolutely magnificent I love this!
Wow... this is amazing! thank you!
This is beautiful man, bravo !
That FAIR JUDGEMENT COVER UGGHHH 😘👌👌👌
This is incredible and deserves way more views!
Very beautful. Amazing !
Kudos to your work🙏
One of the best things I've heard!!
This is so amazingly good, thank you for sharing!
Sounds so dark and beautiful... i love it
A work of art to be sure. Thank you for bringing this to the world.
Thank you.
This is beyond amazing. Very atmospheric
Phenomenal!!!