@@Dwarfplayer Satori Koishi is a youkai who can read people's mind and thoughts, including youkai and other beings. However, this ability makes others hate Koishi for reading their mind and thought, thus Koishi eventually seal away her third eye. But, by doing this she also shutting down her consciousness, and eventually Koishi only existed in subconsciousness. With this, others have forgotten about Koishi's existence. Only people who had met with Koishi first before she shut down her own consciousness remember her.
Jerod actually did extremely well drumming to this (amazing) song blind, not knowing the time signatures. Speaking of the music itself, the transition between the beginning chaotic portion of the track to the massively tonally different part is done well, and the key change that goes back to the chaotic portion using a pivot chord is just great, the way how ZUN combines there musical ideas is so interesting.
I adore this song for its sort of "out of control", lowkey demented vibe. Where the whole first part just sounds unsettling and your ears can't quite keep up. And appropriately, he struggles to adjust to how chaotic (yet oddly orderly) it is - but does a _stunningly_ good job.
Love this theme from Touhou, second EX stage I ever beat perfect (after IN Mokou). The odd timing shows just how much skill the drummer has adapting to it.
Have you even read the music score for it or study music theory? It's in 7/8. The whole phrase in the beginning repeats over 2 measures. The first measure consists of 3 eighth notes, 2 dotted-eighth notes and then an eighth note. The second measure is 7 eighth notes. Then it repeats.
@@RiRiRiPoks 7/8, 7/4, mostly the same, either way there's only two time signatures, and 7/8 (along with 5/4) is basically baby's first irregular time signature (so not that random). That being said I will agree it's a pretty unique sounding 7/8.
Im pretty sure the time signature is supposed to be really messed up, since Koishi's whole thing is messing with the subconscious mind. She can stop people from being able to acknowledge her existence or even really remember her, and the music reflects that.
So, for the first few bars of the song the time is 7/8, and when that part repeats it's still in 7/8, but for the entire rest of the song it's 4/8 (2/4) (4/4)
When he realizes that zun is such a musical genius despite his unorthodox way of doing things to the point not only does this song reversed sound close to satori maiden third eye but reverse ideology a theme from a different game for a girl who can flip things sounds virtually the same reversed or forward.
It's in 7/8. The whole phrase in the beginning repeats over 2 measures. The first measure consists of 3 eighth notes, 2 dotted-eighth notes and then an eighth note. The second measure is 7 eighth notes. Then it repeats.
@@death2go539 I can't tell if this is satire because all 3 are completely different. 15/16 can sound like 7/8, but neither of them sound at all like 4/4. 4/4 is the standard, most music is in 4/4. It's just 4 crotchets in each bar. 7/8 compared to 4/4 has a 'missing' quaver each bar. According to music theory, it should be grouped in sets of 3-3-1 quavers, but modern music generally groups it 4-3 or 3-4, like you would with 7/4. 15/16 is 'missing' a semiquaver, and IMO it never really sounds right. 7/8 feels off, but 15/16 just sounds wrong. This song changes between 7/8 and 4/4. If you try counting 4 crotchets, you'll be able to tell that the 7/8 parts feel like you're counting right, and then all of a sudden you're out of time, while the 4/4 parts are easy to count and make sense to your ears. Like I said before, 15/16 would feel like your heart just skipped a beat and it was meant to be 4/4 but every bar you sort of gloss over the last beat
@@hopechr maybe, but that's still not how it works because the bars aren't alternating, it's 7/8 for a while then 4/4 for a while. Also while you could technically say 15/8 ~ 15/16 at half tempo, but 15/16 would also half all the note values so in a piece like this, it would be pretty difficult to read the music, and there wouldn't be much reason to choose 15/16 and have it at half tempo when this piece's tempo otherwise is similar to zuns other pieces.
@@shwnu2141 Kind of. Some just 'can do that', but I think you can also develop a feeling for it over time with enough practice. Composing yourself helps a lot, too. :P
