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Original Song: Hikaru Nara
Artist: Goose House
Arranged for piano: Tehishter and PianoHero
Performance by: Tehishter and PianoHero
check out TheIshter's channel: /user/TehIshter
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Happy New Year Everybody! (well almost lol.)
First, it's been a pleasure to work with my good friend Tehishter-senpai! It felt like only yesterday when I came across his Youtube channel when it actually has been almost 3 years now! It's a dream come true to finally work on this amazing project :^)
Big thanks also goes to Ishter for editing and syncing the audio tracks together, editing the video, and uploading it to my Youtube account while I was knocked out at 4 am lol. Such a nice guy (*cough* ladies).
As for the piece, I really love Goose House's song; it's so upbeat and fun. But we kinda felt that even if this piece was arranged for two pianos, the cover might be still bland. SO, we were wondering if we could implement a classical piece into the song. After some experimentation, I figured that Canon in D would fit perfectly, and wow, it sure did. Add my transition from Hikaru Nara to Canon, Ishter's ethereal transition from Canon to Hikaru Nara, and dun dun dun, we have a keeper! Seriously, the synergy for the Canon insert makes me smile every time :^)
Quite a few of you might be curious to how production went about, because long distant projects like these are very tricky, especially when everything is played by ear. This is pretty much what happened.
1. We drafted a leadsheet to establish chords
2. Think about which piece to insert
3. insert discovered insert piece somewhere...
4. Establish who is playing the melody and harmony for each section
5. Arrange for several weeks.
6. Ishy records everything and sends me his harmonies and melodies in sections.
7. I listen and play along to the harmony and melodies.
8. Rearrange to match.
9. Practice.
10. Record section by section (with specified camera angles) with headphones on, to ensure decent sync
11. Send everything over for Ishy-sama to edit, render, and upload.
Though a long process, we've been actually planning and working since November, so doing everything wasn't too stressful. ^^ As my first collaboration, I definitely had a BLAST doing its; this is actually on of my uploads in which I had the most fun (because I was doing it with senpai :3). I'll definitely will be excited to do more collaborations in the future hehehehe.
Even though it isn't perfect, I hope you guys enjoy this collaboration. We put our hearts into it: from pre-production, to recording, to post-production, we gave it our all!
See ya'll next year, (rofl)
Pianohero