Sealed Vessel (from Hollow Knight) - Piano Tutorial 

No cost too great. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Born of god and void. You will seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams. You are the vessel. You are... the Hollow Knight.

I do agree that the most replayed at 0:00 is where the song starts to get really good.

The most emotionally charged piece in the soundtrack brought to life so beautifully. Gonna go cry, now. Well done.

Damn... I'll be honest, I've never even played the game. I felt this track on several different emotional octaves.

You can almost make out the story just through the music itself. This theme is truly a masterpiece.

Holy crap, the moment phase 2 hit I got chills This was absolutely phenomenal

Was thinking yesterday "man I hope this guy does sealed vessel", absolutely made my day today

Beautiful. I was gonna cry, but then i remembered that i have No Voice to Cry Suffering.

This is my favorite hollow knight piece, this is arranged so well

The hollow knight is one of the saddest gaming characters I think. He had dream nail dialogue before it got cut, that said “Do not think. Do not feel.” Which is just so sad. He knew he wasn’t perfect but still tried everything he could to be hollow. And then when he is corrupted, he fights with every last ounce of strength to end himself, stabbing his stomach repeatedly. Sad bro

The way the very end fades from the boss music into the intro music in a kind of sad way was the most bonechilling thing ever in a video game for me

Amazing how Larkin can change the mood from tension to tragedy by just getting rid of the sticado and a tempo change. Amazing piece

I just started Hollow Knight the other day, just got to the City of Tears. It’s so good!

no notes to play

This whole boss fight was so emotional and was composed incredibly well. I almost cried when I fought the sealed vessel for the first time. It was heartbreaking.

YES I REMEMBER FIRST DISCOVERING THIS TRACK YEARS AGO AND RUNNING TO SHEET MUSIC BOSS TO REQUEST IT DAILY, ON EVERY VIDEO, ACROSS TWO ACCOUNTS (i like the game, screw you) I'VE LEARNED IT NOW BUT OH MY GOD MY WISH HAS BEEN FULFILLED, THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

Oh my god, they really layered the White Lady's theme over the Hollow Knight theme at 4:18. How did I not notice that before? I'm getting all the goosebumps rn.

I was listening to this soundtrack today and thought to myself, “man I kinda want to learn sealed vessel on piano.” And then you drop this bomb.

You're saving a land that has suffered too much, but you have to defeat a monster, or rather a sibling, that's felt just as much pain. And this is what you hear. Beautiful.

This song is by far my favorite track in Hollow Knight. Perhaps even my favorite video game song, period. And that’s saying something, I listen to a lot of game OSTs. Nothing else boasts the emotional weight and force of every note, like a struggle against an impossible battle that you can’t walk away from alive, yet you know you have to keep fighting. Such an epic juxtaposition to THE Hollow Knight, a being meant to be entirely devoid of emotion. The song alone is enough to tell you they never stood a chance against the Radiance, it could command fear and suffering from an inanimate object. This is the theme of the Radiance, the Infection, a being nothing could ever truly stop. Until you.

I love how this music portrays the emotions throughout the fight and tells the story. The intense feelings of the start of the fight when the player has to fight the Hollow Knight, and the transition into the sad and cold sounding chords of the second phase that speak the story of the Hollow Knight’s past, and that the Hollow Knight isn’t really the big bad final boss, but what lies inside him is what truly has caused the plague.

1:33 best part, change my mind

I- you know what? I can't even comprehend how good this is. Literally my second favorite hollow knight song and it's so amazing, I've got to learn at least the melody and memorize it on the piano.

0:02 Fight starts (moment of the first scream) 1:15 The Hollow Knight stabbing himself for the first time 1:33 Beginning of the second phase 3:52 End of the fight / Beginning of the end cut scene (The Hollow Knight / Sealed Siblings - Ending)

Great to see actual comments instead of “day X waiting for Y” Amazing arrangement btw love it!

No voice to cry suffering, no mind to think, but a beautiful track to express these emotions.

I've listened so many times to this ost: you can feel eerieness and desparation from the melody Of course I listened repeatedly this ost for fun... not cuz I failed against Radiance for 1hr straight...

. . . Are we seriously not going to talk about how his hands are showing while he plays? I love these videos, not just to listen to the music, but also they seem like excellent tools to try to learn piano. I love imagining what it would be like to play this myself, and while I am familiar with the guitar hero concept, that doesn't mean I've ever been any good at it. I sometimes mime piano keys while I watch or listen to this channel, and THIS video not only showed that I was ridiculously wrong, but what the actual positions of the hand are, which fingers are hitting which keys, the traveling of the hand, even motions for rapid notes, IN ADDITION to the video showing which keys to hit in the first place! THIS is the brain hack to get someone to play piano, it'll still take lots of practice to learn those movements and the coordination to pull it off, but it literally has the correct movements on screen to pause, slow down, rewind, whatever to help you out. My eyes were glued to his hands the entire video. I love your channel and wish you all the success in the world, and would deeply appreciate adopting this style going forward. Many thanks friend. tl;dr: showing the hands in the video is good.

My friend played this piece at a concert and the whole crowd reacted to how emotionally beautiful this piece was and I could only think that if the crowd reacted like that without knowing the story of the game then what would would it be like if they did. This piece is a mix of hope, tragedy and remorse and one of the most beautiful things I've heard in a long time.

I actually play The Hollow Knight without sound and just music. The boss at least. And to hear the piano version is absolutely magical.

Best piano song ever. This is my words

Probably my favorite game music of all time. Sets the mood perfectly

I love this piece I can still hear the ear piercing scream

Jeez... I've been waiting for this for... Frankly a long time. Rarely do I get chocked up with emotion but Hollow Knight is one of the few game that truly got me *invested* and *captivated* and *awed.* I wish I could go back to the day I discovered it so that I could play it for the first time all over again. This masterpiece crafted with all the love and attention only indie developers can truly give. This game had a *soul* and a *heart* that few games ever had. This somber melody harbinger of fatality the culmination of a lie centuries old. This tune makes my heart shiver and my soul sing. Jeez I sound so sappy right now but hey what can I say about a game that deserves all the love I am showering it with. Video games have truly managed to connect with those musical strings on my soul and I wouldn't have it any other way!

This is by far one of my favorite songs especially on a piano. This is amazing, when I first heard this song it hit me when I heard it and one of the most beautiful songs ever created.

thank you so, SO MUCH SMB! this is definitely my favourite song out of the entire game, thank you for arranging this.

An evening without music like this is a hollow night indeed

This was really well done, good job! Hollow knight is one of my favourite games out there, and this is probably one of my favourite pieces, next to Hive Knight and Nightmare King.

1:33 If your emotional (Like me-) Then think of this whilst listening to this part (IT NEARLY MADE ME CRY BTW..) No cost too great... (3 or 4 secs pause) No mind to Think... (3 or 4 secs pause) No will to break... (3 or 4 secs pause) No voice to cry suffering... (5 secs pause) Born of God and void... (3 or 4 secs pause) You shall seal the Blinding Light that plagues their dreams... (3 or 4 secs pause) you are the vessel... (5 secs pause) You are the Hollow Knight. *insert Hollow Knight screeching* ._. tbh I thought of this and it nearly made me cry- O-O

Insane how many different themes are tied together here, and how they all lead into and out of each other. A true musical piece to cap of the whole game, calling back so many moments through their respective motives.

I love all the Hollow Knight videos recently, for the next one it would be cool for you to do the Radiance boss theme. I think that would work really well on the piano

YESSS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THISSS

This is the moment I've been waiting for. THANK YOU SMB

Wow that has to be the best Hollow Knight cover so far! Kinda fitting since it's the best theme of the game

The moment we've been waiting for!

What a coincidence, I'm battling THK JUST now! Masterfully made as always

This is the moment I've been waiting for!

Deepest silence in a shell, Given an nail and named Knight, Bound by chain and egg and curse, Hear out prey, reveal thy light! -Prayer to the Pure Vessel

This song gave such a different feeling compared to the broken vessel, broken vessel is sad and also gave a feeling that it is already close to breaking, while the sealed vessel gave a feeling that although controlled by radiance, it still had the power to defeat anyone in its path, and was still trying to control his power. Great job!

I audibly gasped when I saw this in my recommended. Been waiting ages for this to drop!

What we've all been waiting for, godlike as always

No Cost To Great No Mind To Think No Will To Break No Voice to cry suffering Born of god and void You will seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams You Are The Vessel You Are The Hollow Knight

In before path of pain music starts

i can't belive It! i started playing Hollow Knight last week and you are making the piano version of the soundtracks!

A lot of the emotion this piece has is the result of the climax of the music be at the start, and building down from there. It’s the opposite of most pieces, but it exemplifies the sense of sorrow, regret, loss, and failure of a hopeless fight still fought. At the end, all of the intensity is gone, but the sorrowful chords are gone too, leaving you with a feeling of emptiness. The battle is won, the evil is defeated, but the intensity and what was fought for was lost.

The people who requested this every video: *No cost too great.* But seriously, thanks for doing this piece. It’s one of my favorites.

incredible skill in your fingers whoever plays the piano and keyboard someday I'll get there

no voice to compliment how beautiful this music is-

I've played a different arragement of Sealed Vessel on my channe, and in comparison your arrangement sounds much more energetic and grand in the first phase, and the second phase and ending are really cleanly arranged! Fantastic job as always SMB.

Holy shit, this theme is one of my favorites, thank you!

This is my favourite music of this game, because you think this is going to be your final challenge and all you did prepared for this fight, something that the 1st part of the music builds up to it, but nothing in the game could ever prepared you for this fight because the one you think is your enemy in reality is your ally and when you notice, especially with the change of tempo of the music, a part of you doesn't want to finish the deed, but another also wants to finish it, not because you just want to kill but because you noticed the pain of your adversary and who the real enemy is. Great job at playing the music.

Yeees ive waited so long for this

YEEES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, THANK YOU SMB! ❤️

YASSSS!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!

YES, FINALLY. Thank you

Absolutely amazing arrangement, I’ve spent months learning and practicing it and just yesterday I performed it at my school student showcase and I nailed it, filled the whole room with the melodies of tragedy.

That's it, i'm celebrating now

I find these videos a lot more entertaining when I can actually see a person playing it instead of just the notes scrolling down.

To think the most emotional song in this game is for the character that is *supposed* to be empty.

No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Born of God and Void.

YES!!!! YOU FINALLY ANSWERED MY REQUEST!!!

Cool my favorite hollow knight soundtrack, love it, great❤

Yesssss This theme is so good

this song is art

The intro to this song where it sound like a boss and not like pure sadnes is amazing

"Born of keys and notes."

Phase 2 always brings me to the City of Tears

this song will never stop making me so emotional. it's like you can hear the hollow knight's pain and sadness just by listening to it

man i love hollowknight so much. i can hear the slashes and cries during the fight of this piece, and in others like greenpath and fungal wastes i can hear the little critters scuttling about and the mushrooms spurting out gases. the game leaves such a lasting impression that i dont think i could ever enjoy a first time expierence of exploring a world such as hallownest the same way again

i love the beginning, but the change at 1:34 was always my favorite part, sooo good to hear in fight with this part. 🖤🤍

i have seen so many speedruns of this game that i forgot how much emotion is in it. This was enough to remind me of that

I don't think that there can be a boss theme better than this honestly this is too unique, medieval, and epic.

Oh my frickin' god, I was waiting really much for this! Thank you!

All I can think about when I listen to that is all the rage, the sadness, the pain and the despair THK is going through. Everything they have learned... All the efforts... Fell for nothing for they were not perfectly hollow. I feel for this guy. Wish they could've had a better life...

Would you consider "The Grimm Troupe" or "Nightmare King"?

This song is just indescribably dramatic and emotional, my favourite track from a rich world shrouded in mystery

PERFECTION

BRO THE SONG IS SO FIREEEEEEEEEEEE

God granted my wish. This sounds epic. i call it.. Sealed sheet music

wow.... the original theme of the game was already great, but listen it all in piano was just.... incredible, specially when changes to every phase of the song.... just so beautiful

I've been waiting for this for so long. Since I've played HK for the 1st time, end of 2020. And finally we got it 👏👏👏👏

I've been slowly buying more of your hollow knight piano songs. I'm so excited to learn them. Right now I have white palace and sealed vessel :))) I think I'm getting soul sanctum next 😁

This has been said to death but. Love how you articulated the fight and the tragedy. It really emphasis hollownest's tradgedy. And the hollow knight itself. Truely sad

Just the best boss music fromm all games Thank you guys for such an amazing arrangment

Words cannot express how much I love this game and this soundtrack. Beautiful cover

Wow you guys did the path of pain part so well, it sounds so good considering what can be done with 2 hands

Right in the action, the tragedy

YO LFG I LOVE THIS PIECE

THE CHILLS ARE IMMACULATE

thank you so much i love sealed vessel i've been requesting a cover for months and i'm so glad you're doing so much hollow knight content