That's right. I made dumplings, soup, and chocolate chip cookies today. Not mixed together. That would be disgusting. Inbetween cookie batches in the oven, I recorded a couple songs - all totally random categories.
First up: Mosaic from Shiki. This anime was GREAT! It's another vampire one. And let me just say this, I am NOT a Twilighter or a Twigh-hard or whatever the hell you call the people obsessed with Twilight are. I dislike most of the vampire shows that are out on TV right now. ANYWAY..Shiki. Yea, awesome, creepy anime ^^ One of the highlights of my summer. lol.
To follow one creepy anime, let's go with another semi-creepy anime. Kuro Shitsuji!! Otherwise known as Black Butler in English. Definitely one of my favourites and a highlight of 2011. So much so that I actually watched this series THREE TIMES. Yes..THREE! BOTH SEASONS. lmao. I'm sure all you Kuro Shitsuji fans out there know the reason why. X3
Anyway, the song's called Si Deus Me Relinquit and it's by Taku Iwasaki. You may know him from his music in Rurouni Kenshin, Witch Hunter Robin, R.O.D, and more. I was so happy to find the sheet music for this on TweedleDee's channel. Sorry that I can't play it as well as most people on youtube though. I guess I just need more practice on this one. Gotta give me SOME credit though. Before recording this, I hadn't played this song for a good 6 months or more.
Now for another sad sounding song. Roxas from Kingdom Hearts. I absolutely LOVE the whole piano collections from this game! Massive amounts of clicking, I must warn warn you - mistakes too. Definitely need to practice this more! I don't remember where I got the sheets. They're scans so I'm sure you can just search for them and you'll be able to find them. And to answer your questions, no, I have not played any of the games. At the time of its release, I wasn't interested in playing it. I'm more of the Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, Tekken kind of gamer. I did play the odd Final Fantasy game (only 2). lol. Without further ranting about Disney/Square Enix, here's the video:
Saved the best for last: VERSAILLES!! My favourite visual kei band EVER. I just jumped head first into this group after seeing a promotional ad for their album Jubilee in an e-mail I got from CD Japan. I love their costumes, music, and how good they are live. That last bit doesn't mean I actually saw them in concert since they've never come to North America. I saw their live sets on youtube. SO amazing!
This piano cover of Serenade isn't complete. It's basically just the first 2 verses and my playing the chorus twice as well..then I end it. I was transcribing (or rather, copying) the notes from the full band score that I had found in a forum. I never finished it 'cos I had other things to do..and the band score was maybe 11+ pages long. It was difficult even though I was just copying notes. I'll finish it one day..maybe. I'd like to play some of their newer songs; songs from their Holy Grail album. Also, there's a song from Jubilee that I wanted to get sheets for. The song is called EPISODE and someone on youtube had it transcribed. All I had to do was PM her with my e-mail address and she'd send it to me. Yea..I don't have it. Unfortunate. Maybe I'll figure that one out sometime. WHOA..hang on there, back to Serenade. THAT'S that song I'm playing in this video. If you watched the music video, you'll find that they have some pretty wicked costumes and that Hizaki makes a pretty girl. And that Kamijo (the lead singer) seems like a bit of a creeper. LMAO.
Versailles actually got me into listening to A LOT of other j-rock/visual kei bands. Some of those include Matenrou Opera, Mannequin, Exist+trace, Blood Stain Child, LM.C, and so many more.
Before I stray off topic even MORE, here's the video:
Thanks to everyone who gave me requests. I'm still looking for sheets for a couple of them. Plumb, Roberto Cacciaglia, ande Peter Bradly Adams. So if anyone has these, can you please help me out and send them to me or let me know where to find them? Thanks! Keep those requests comin'! I'll do my best to fulfill them all. ^^
Goodnight, readers and listeners! :)
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