神原駿河 - the last day of my adolescence (花物語 ED) Piano Transcription
Channel: Mushyrulez
Date: 2014-08-17

Hanamonogatari's ED, the last day of my adolescence (featuring Suruga Kanbaru), released by Miyuki Sawashiro someday (tell me when!).

Transcribed and synthesized by Mushyrulez on Saturday, August 16th, 2014.

Sheet music available on Sheethost:
http://sheethost.com/sheet/35ur1E

Thanks for 100,000 views, everybody! That's like, 2000 views a month! Wow! Exclamation marks! Also, I turned the volume up again! That 1:32 squeak actually has 127 velocity (which is the max); although I could raise the mixer volume even more, it'd feel inconsistent (since my previous transcriptions wouldn't have a raised volume), and the difference is pretty marginal, so I'll just leave the volume stuff at this.

I tried pretty hard to get the beginning down to the last note, but after that totally unexpected rap session and finding that Kisakina already transcribed this, I kinda stopped trying. Normally, I'd artificially extend roots of chords to mimic some sort of pedalling, but I just had no energy to do that with this one, so this is what the sheet music MIDI actually sounds like, for once. This definitely isn't a transcription I'm proud of, but at least it's done.

Other than the few notes at 0:05 (to try to mimic Suruga's heavy breathing) and 0:22 (which should actually be in the left hand, but I can't reach), I limited the right hand to only the main melody line. I think it worked well enough; the transposition at 1:10 kinda makes up for the lack of big melody octaves and the harmony doesn't feel too unbalanced. For the 0:38 rap section, I kinda just did whatever and plopped a bunch of random Es into Finale. I'm sure other transcriptions will have a much more interesting take on it, though frankly the rap section was pretty boring :/

Of course then, the left hand is the real star of this transcription. I didn't really add much—the guitar, piano, and bass submelodies all naturally flow into a piano reduction—with notable exceptions at 0:33 and 1:06 because there was nothing there. By the way, you're best off playing the top left hand part of 1:03 with your right hand (it somehow slipped me, and now I'm too lazy to reupload this...) As I said, I kinda gave up near the middle, so the beginning is the most detailed, especially at 0:27. If you listen closely, there's a melody in the left hand that I think sounds even nicer than the main melody. After the middle at 1:00, I couldn't discern anything interesting anymore, so I just arpeggiated the harmonies. Yeah, it's boring, but... no, yeah, it's just boring...