This is "Only My Railgun", from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, originally by fripSide, arranged for three parts atop the official instrumental. It's a super fun song, not something I'd normally sing, but it has a lot of really great harmony. It doesn't fit my voice at all, though. XD
Do make sure that when you sing this, you have proper breath support. Due to the speed of the lines and the repetitiveness of the notes on the chorus, it's very difficult to maintain the necessary energy to get through the entire thing. The notes aren't difficult to remember, unlike perhaps some of the arrangements I've posted in the past, yet I think this is a much more difficult song to actually record than the others.
As far as the track mix goes, the melody exported really soft, so you'll want to adjust the other tracks with that in mind. Regardless, drag the instrumental down to about 50%. For listening altogether, the other tracks being at 80% will give a decent mix.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Parallel Hearts
This is Parallel Hearts, the opening for Pandora Hearts, composed by Kajiura Yuki and performed by FictionJunction. I really tried to go through my recordings library and pick something non-Kajiura, but there really wasn't much to choose from once I eliminated all of Kalafina and FictionJunction! Since this one is pretty complex, I picked it anyway.
The applet has it for five parts, but it's completely possible to combine the overlaps into Keiko or Kaori's lines and make it possible for a quartet to sing. In fact, FictionJunction, a four-part group, has performed this live perfectly fine. The only reasons why they're split into the overlap track is because of technical issues with recording the lines. The only line that can't be combined into Keiko's part is the last chorus. "Bokura wa" can be sung by Kaori's vocalist, and the rest of the melody can be put back on Wakana's line. (This is how it's sung live.)
To listen to it altogether, drag the instrumental down to about 50.
I haven't got a lot of feedback on these arrangements, but I hope they're helping you all record beautiful covers! Please share your creations with me! If you have any requests, let me know!
The applet has it for five parts, but it's completely possible to combine the overlaps into Keiko or Kaori's lines and make it possible for a quartet to sing. In fact, FictionJunction, a four-part group, has performed this live perfectly fine. The only reasons why they're split into the overlap track is because of technical issues with recording the lines. The only line that can't be combined into Keiko's part is the last chorus. "Bokura wa" can be sung by Kaori's vocalist, and the rest of the melody can be put back on Wakana's line. (This is how it's sung live.)
To listen to it altogether, drag the instrumental down to about 50.
I haven't got a lot of feedback on these arrangements, but I hope they're helping you all record beautiful covers! Please share your creations with me! If you have any requests, let me know!
Saturday, December 1, 2012
godsibb
This is godsibb, from Kajiura Yuki's Xenosaga Episode 3: Also Sprach Zarathustra soundtrack. The original vocalist is Itou Eri. I've arranged it here for three voices atop an instrumental. This instrumental was never officially released, but you can find it online, probably at canta-per-me.net. Don't quote me, though. I'm not 100% sure anymore, since it's been a long time.
This one also seems to be pretty decently mixed volume-wise for some reason. If anything, drag the alto down to about 70% to listen to it all together. It's not the most polished of arrangements either, but due to the repetitive notes in the harmonies, it's a bit challenging to keep in tune. I don't like using auto-tune, so I have to use my own vocal control to achieve that.
Unlike pretty much every other vocal arrangement I've put up here, I found this one actually loops correctly. I think importing the audio in as wav instead of mp3 solved a lot of my problems. Before, they wouldn't be in sync and I'd have to add silence at the beginning of some tracks until they were. No longer!
This one also seems to be pretty decently mixed volume-wise for some reason. If anything, drag the alto down to about 70% to listen to it all together. It's not the most polished of arrangements either, but due to the repetitive notes in the harmonies, it's a bit challenging to keep in tune. I don't like using auto-tune, so I have to use my own vocal control to achieve that.
Unlike pretty much every other vocal arrangement I've put up here, I found this one actually loops correctly. I think importing the audio in as wav instead of mp3 solved a lot of my problems. Before, they wouldn't be in sync and I'd have to add silence at the beginning of some tracks until they were. No longer!
Friday, November 16, 2012
EXEC_CHRONICLE=KEY/.
As with the last one, this is also an a cappella arrangement. This time, it has five vocal tracks. I think maybe with a tambourine for percussion and a violin playing some counter-melody, this could also work for a performance, though it'd need a quintet!
I should probably explain the song, shouldn't I? This is Shikata Akiko's EXEC_CHRONICLE=KEY/., a song from Ar tonelico 1, sung by the character Misha. (The game and soundtracks incorrectly put an underscore instead of an equals sign. Due to the rules of Hymns in the Ar tonelico universe, the creators have insisted the underscore there is a mistake.) Rather than being in Japanese, it's in the language "Hymmnos".
This is actually a very very old vocal split, the first one I ever recorded with the intention to share as parts like this, so it's not very polished. I didn't know much about the Hymmnos language at the time, so there are many mispronunciations.
If you don't know about Ar tonelico... I'd suggest you go learn! It's a wonderful universe with wonderful songs. As far as more arrangements from the games, who knows? I have recordings for Misha's Purger, Suspend, and Re=Nation, but I need to fix them up a bit to put in this format. I've created MIDI arrangements for every song in the first game besides Harmonious, but I've also arranged Sphilia. Maybe you'll see another one in a few weeks. I'll try to space them out a bit.
I should probably explain the song, shouldn't I? This is Shikata Akiko's EXEC_CHRONICLE=KEY/., a song from Ar tonelico 1, sung by the character Misha. (The game and soundtracks incorrectly put an underscore instead of an equals sign. Due to the rules of Hymns in the Ar tonelico universe, the creators have insisted the underscore there is a mistake.) Rather than being in Japanese, it's in the language "Hymmnos".
This is actually a very very old vocal split, the first one I ever recorded with the intention to share as parts like this, so it's not very polished. I didn't know much about the Hymmnos language at the time, so there are many mispronunciations.
If you don't know about Ar tonelico... I'd suggest you go learn! It's a wonderful universe with wonderful songs. As far as more arrangements from the games, who knows? I have recordings for Misha's Purger, Suspend, and Re=Nation, but I need to fix them up a bit to put in this format. I've created MIDI arrangements for every song in the first game besides Harmonious, but I've also arranged Sphilia. Maybe you'll see another one in a few weeks. I'll try to space them out a bit.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
ARIA
This is an a cappella arrangement. I think with the addition maybe of a small hand tambourine, this could be performed as-is by a quartet! In fact, that's a dream I have - to sing Wakana's part on this in a quartet. I'm extremely proud of this arrangement, as it is of my favourite Kalafina song--my favourite Japanese song--possibly even my favourite song ever! (Though it has to overcome Nightwish's Ghost Love Score to make it my favourite song ever, and that's a high hurdle to jump.)
This is the fourth Kara no Kyoukai movie's ending theme. The vocal split is based on the live performance included with the Seventh Heaven DVD. The only differences is that I added an extra vocal part to the harmony at the beginning (and every time it repeats). That harmony actually does exist on the recording, but it not performed live. I referred to the official piano book just to double-check it. The other change was during the second verse. Maya (in the post-Maya 3-part performances, Keiko) sings "wakare wo tsuge hohoemiai" as a bit of a counter-melody. As this is not in the recording, I opted not to include it and defer to the original harmony, which is the same as during the first verse.
As far as listening to it all together, if you so wish to, I recommend the volumes to be, from left to right, 70, 60, 90, 100. I don't know why Maya's track exported so soft from GarageBand. It's supposed to normalize them all, even though I manually set the volumes to be a good mix.
This is the fourth Kara no Kyoukai movie's ending theme. The vocal split is based on the live performance included with the Seventh Heaven DVD. The only differences is that I added an extra vocal part to the harmony at the beginning (and every time it repeats). That harmony actually does exist on the recording, but it not performed live. I referred to the official piano book just to double-check it. The other change was during the second verse. Maya (in the post-Maya 3-part performances, Keiko) sings "wakare wo tsuge hohoemiai" as a bit of a counter-melody. As this is not in the recording, I opted not to include it and defer to the original harmony, which is the same as during the first verse.
As far as listening to it all together, if you so wish to, I recommend the volumes to be, from left to right, 70, 60, 90, 100. I don't know why Maya's track exported so soft from GarageBand. It's supposed to normalize them all, even though I manually set the volumes to be a good mix.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Calendula Requiem
Second opening song to the amazing anime "Shiki". The original vocalist is Wakeshima Kanon, who also played the cello here. It's a rather simple arrangement, with only a single harmony track. Still, I hope you enjoy! As always, drag the volume of the instrumental down quite a bit if you wish to listen to the entire thing all together.
I'll have some more complicated songs coming up with 4+ vocal parts again. :-)
I'll have some more complicated songs coming up with 4+ vocal parts again. :-)
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Sis Puella Magica
This is, in my opinion, the most memorable song from Kajiura Yuki's "Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica" soundtrack. The original vocalist was Itou Eri.
Since an official instrumental was never released for this song, you may be wondering where the gorgeous piano came from. There's a wonderful website called Sperion no Sora that has posted an arrangement on this song for piano and two voices. I've used this piano as a base, and recorded the two voices myself for you to learn from. I hope you all enjoy it!
Since an official instrumental was never released for this song, you may be wondering where the gorgeous piano came from. There's a wonderful website called Sperion no Sora that has posted an arrangement on this song for piano and two voices. I've used this piano as a base, and recorded the two voices myself for you to learn from. I hope you all enjoy it!
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