Practice Session No.1 - ***** **** (analysis/reasoning)

So basically, I want to keep the name a secret on the title - idk it's not that important probably, but I'd like for it to be exclusive for Patreon supporters to know what my next upload is gonna be.

I chose this song for the next upload because it's a song I really cherish after listening to it on Discord music bot. One of my mods (Mythun) had this playing and I fell in love with it - with this "FIRST TAKE" version and the singer herself.

 Video link to practice session: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17RFcDGjiuCSOZAVXloUIgjVylBALiQmE/view?usp=sharing


The next upload is "Shout Baby" from Boku no Hero Academia and my arrangement will be based on the FIRST TAKE version.

Check it out here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raZ22iX5J18 }

It moved me really deeply. And for someone who's struggling with an unproductive environment, things that shake me deeply are the songs that I need to be able to move forward and do what I can.

This is only my third practice session with the song, so most of it is pretty rough - I do have an idea in my head of how the song should be arranged.

It starts with singular notes, to copy the FIRST TAKE version. I also like how single notes just have the melody "naked" and vulnerable... After that, some background help with the left hand starts, for the verse and chorus.

The second verse I'd like to do a "cross hand" style arrangement where my left hand goes past the right hand. You can see me do this back then from my SAO OP - Ignite arrangement.

I've only improvised and practiced half of the song and I still need to work on the bridge as well as the final chorus which will include a soft chorus before a big finale chorus. Please look forward to it!

Also now that I'm focusing a lot more on Patreon, I hope these type of analysis and practice sessions let you in on how my mind works when arranging.

The lyrics is a big part of why I chose this song. Maybe if you read it, it's only words, but for me I feel it deep in my soul. Some may think it's pretty cringe or sappy, but for me it's quite powerful. You include the singers AMAZING voice... I've just been listening to this song over and over for the past couple of days.

I hope to finish the arrangement the first week of July. On the first week of July, there will be sheets published too~

Shout Baby (Lyrics):

Nothing seems to stay the same
Your hair, the way you smell
The way we struggled when we learned to dance so long ago
All of these times, they're stuck deep in my memory
Only to sink into silence, never heard again

Since when
Was I able to tolerate more like this
Since childhood, people have been telling me
I am such a cry baby

Keep it a secret
What a cruel phrase
My scream is getting scratched out
A typical future, yet so far away

I can tell without asking anyone
It won't reach to that person
Where should I go?
I don't know, so I simply cling to it
Admiration that can take away
The worries from everyday
It won't disappear

I want to change

Because I put everything on hold until later
I wanted to keep protecting our fragile connection

If I were to keep it locked away
It would be as if it isn't there
But do you know that it's not so small that I can forget it?

So when the sun comes up I know what to do
I must put on my strongest face,
Because that's all I could have done
I am a bit confused since I have never been this way

You are in my heart completely
Getting rid of the boring time
I don't know what to do

I didn't want to learn
I wish I had done it differently
It's so fragile
I wanted to deny myself
Like I was doing something wrong
I was disappointed in myself
But everything is so new to me
I still wanted to believe

I can tell without asking anyone
You won't bring me happiness
But there was something else you have given to me

Lies that varnish my daily worries
Make me happy and won't go away

I want to change