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Hi, long time no see! Been about five years since my last real cover. Took a long break in which game development was my main hobby (see rhythmdr.com). Turned out to be loads of fun, using music skillz and programming and creativity and game design!

But it's also fun to get back into piano covers. Heard this song I think a few years ago, and I liked it and thought this would be perfect for a cover. It's one of those slow buildup songs (see: Sometime Around Midnight by Toxic Airborne Event, Trees by INXS, and of course MCR's Welcome To The Black Parade) that lends well to making the arrangements and harmonies more and more complicated as the song progresses.

So I've been working on this arrangement for like six months now on and off throughout uni. I just really wanted to make sure I could capture the dynamics of the song, especially in the post-chorus buildup, which every other piano cover of this song on youtube seems to have skimped on. There was a lot of tweaks and changes throughout the last few months to try and make the dynamic changes really come out.

The original also has a very sparse and satisfying quarter-time kick-snare, which I tried to simulate by timing the release of the pedal on beat throughout the song lol. You'll hear it as a muffled bass kick in the video. I like to think of it as the piano equivalent of fingerstyle drumming on the guitar.

For the most part I've tried to keep it as faithful to the original as possible, especially in keeping the left hand bass line going throughout the verse instead of it decomposing into generic root-fifth-root stuff. But after the buildup I added a melody of my own in the right hand as the left hand plays the original syncopated theme! Started out as a coordination challenge, but as the melody got tweaked again and again I thought it ended up actually fitting quite nicely, haha.

And finally it goes into crazy arpeggios. The fun thing about arranging is you choose the difficulty of your covers! And this section was a good challenge to say the least.

Enjoy! And hey if you like music (lol, "If you like breathing you'll love this!") I have some rhythm games I've been working on for the past few years for free over at http://fizzd.itch.io !

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Recorded in Churchill College, Cambridge University on a Steinway. Roland R-05.