Anatomy of a Piano Arrangement. Ep. 2: For Faith (Yakuza 4) - Intro, Part 2 

lol you’re too generous to this old lady, thank you haha, much appreciated

thank you so much Louis, I'm glad you like them!!!! Hopefully nobody gets sick of them haha, hence why I'm trying to keep them short lol!!

HAHAHAHA thanks so much I’m glad you’re finding it interesting and hope people won’t get tired of it!! And lol I know what you mean, all good haha

ahh thanks so much Auri, that means a lot!!!!

AHHHH LOVE YA ALASDAIR !!!!!

AHHH SANJESH!!! ❤️❤️ thank you for watching, that means a lot!!!! I hope you’ve been well!!!

@@purpleschala I've been fine thanks! hope you've been well too

LOL THANKS SO MUCH!!!! literally 200% my life motto hahaha

ahh thanks so much for watching!!!

@@purpleschala Thanks for the encouragement. In fact, I've started 2-3 arrangements already, gotten them to ~80% complete...and then moved on to other projects. 😅I get strongly tempted to practice other stuff in that final stage, haha. Part of it might be that I play it and think, "ehhhh I'm not sure I really love this, and I don't know how to make it better". Maybe it's the "perfect being the enemy of the good" issue!

​@@MarcPlaysPiano80% is far more progress than I tend to make. Even if the arrangements don't end up quite "perfect" in your eyes, it would be wonderful to hear them! From there, you could even ask others for insight and ideas, if you wanted!

thanks so much buddy!!!!!

Thank you!

LOL

thank you!!! I'm glad you liked it!

@@purpleschala your welcome!

lol more like persistence 😂 thank you though!

thank you Caleb!!! I'm glad to hear that!

thank you!

LOL IT'S TRUE THOUGH HAHAHA

good evening! (or morning, whichever time zone you're in haha)

@@purpleschala oh i live in the borough of greenwich in london so we're GMT as timezones go, i've dated a few from the states that tell me youre about 5-6-7 hours behind me yet so far in the future ;) lol

Thank you so much Jen! ❤️ If you have any questions please feel free to ask!! Happy to explain any musical terms!!

lol thanks so much for watching all of these, it's very encouraging!!!!! =)

​@@purpleschalaI'm encouraging? It's more like you're inspiring! 👏👏👏👏👏

ahhh omg thank you so much Yuzuki, you're too kind!!! ❤❤❤❤😭😭good on you for keeping with piano and actively trying to improve!! It's really hard to stick with it as an adult so that's very admirable!! as for your question, for something like this where the chords and melody are pretty straightforward, I did it by ear, though the rhythm was a bit tricky since it was so syncopated hahaha. Though for more complicated songs, I'll use a program like AnthemScore, which will analyze an mp3 or wav and spit out a MIDI or xml that you can open in notation software and sift through through the jank to confirm/find trickier chords and rhythmic placements, though it's far from perfect haha it can be a huge time saver depending on the song. I transcribed a jazz collab recently and even with AnthemScore still took me ages to figure out lol OTL

@purpleschala I'm actually not an adult ;-; Lockdowns just made it hard to improve even with my teacher Ah, okay, thanks for your answer!

@@YuzukiSeo0000 haha gotcha! Though a lot of us can def relate to hitting that plateau and feeling like you'll never get better. Really the only way out is through, keep at it!!! =)

Thank you so much Pablo!!!!!! ❤️

it's the basic 2-bar bossa nova rhythm pattern: www.bossanova-gitarre.de/en/the-clave/. The 3-2 clave starts with a quarter on beat one, 8th on the and of 2, quarter on 4, etc. You'll definitely know it when you hear it, many Jobim standards like Chega de Saudade employ it.

oh wow I guess YT isn't allowing exterior links lol, well in case you can 't see it it's basically this variant of the bossa nova rhythm pattern: | 1, &2, 4 | 2, 3 |

@@purpleschala I've only ever worked on ear and feeling, i'm self taught but i cant understand theory unless its explained to me by someone else and you have my respect and rapport already. Do you have a Patreon or something i can refer to? The way you broke down transcribing the Y6 tune, a bit of Kiryuuuuu-chan, to piano was enlightening to say the least :) i could do with the help on theory, feeling only goes so far lol