The Everlasting Guilty Crown - Guilty Crown OP2 [Piano]

Sheet music → In a way, The Everlasting Guilty Crown symbolizes the end of a long journey because it’s going to be my last piano arrangement for the Guilty Crown Anime series. I personally regard my Guilty Crown piano arrangements as my favorite works, because they are all written in the so called “special-type” arrangement style - piano pieces with a highly individual character. It’s not surprising that most of these songs are composed by ryo (supercell) because I really admire his ability to compose these brilliant melody lines, which is always touching the deepest part of my soul. Arranging The Everlasting Guilty Crown was probably one of the biggest challenges I was facing this year because I wanted to surpass my former self again and take the meaning of “Anime piano arrangement” to the next level. One of the most distinct characteristic of the original song is the piano ostinato (a rhythmic pattern, that is repeating the whole time in the background), which is being introduced in the beginning of the song. For this arrangement, the piano ostinato is only vaguely hinted in the left hand at 00:28 and it also appears in the right hand in 00:59. It only starts to develop during the intermission in 01:43 until it finally reaches its full bloom in the second verse in 02:08. This is the moment where The Everlasting Guilty Crown is really starting. From this point on, I was trying my best to carry the spirit of the original song through the second half of this piano arrangement. But the turning point of the entire piece is the calm before the storm in 04:38. In this short moment, I was reflecting all the past arrangements I have created, all the struggles I had to go through in order to continue and my constant obsession with perfectionism. So I utilized everything I could think of to make the final chorus count, be it three hand technique, fast right hand runs, or multiple voicing. The original piece has an unexpected “open end” in E-major chord and the unfinished chord progression is yearning for a musical conclusion. I wanted to give this arrangement a grandiose orchestral finale and as a result I used a B major key for the first time. The piano ostinato is being played again in fortissimo and the piece ends with four B major chords to give the final chapter of Guilty Crown a fitting ending. Well then. Thank you for reading my story behind the creation of this arrangement. The Guilty Crown piano pieces I have arranged so far have influenced my arranging career like none other and with each of them, I was discovering a new path and it has helped me to develop my arrangement style substantially. Euterpe (2011) was my first big experiment with an improvised music structure and creating an individual finale. Bios (2012) was my first project to utilize the full sound potential of the piano with a powerful Rock-style piano arrangement. My Dearest (2013) was a summary of all my classical music knowledge and my most ambitious fusion between the world of classic and pop. Departures (2017) was my first arrangement with jazz elements and it was written in the “orchestral” arrangement style. The remake of My Dearest (2020) is a continuation of my old (2013) arrangement and showcases a further refined “orchestral” style with a more nuanced melody phrasing. And now The Everlasting Guilty Crown. A “story telling” - focused arrangement, with everything I have learned so far as an piano arranger. These 5 pieces represents my YouTube history the best and for some reason, I can’t help but feel nostalgic. 10 years on YouTube, it’s really been a long time. To all the people who have been following me on YouTube during these years: Thank you for your continuous support. I am really glad that the Anime piano community is steadily growing on YouTube. The new generation of Anime pianists is being more active than ever and I am really happy that the term “Anime piano” has been acknowledged by many people in the world already. Thank you for these 10 years, for giving me encouraging comments, for contributing to the Anime piano community and most importantly, for listening to my piano playing. Animenz - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow me on Twitter! Follow me on Facebook! I am using Instagram as well! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Piano arrangement by Animenz Original Song: The Everlasting Guilty Crown Anime: Guilty Crown / ギルティクラウン Published by: Aniplex (2012) Composed by: ryo Performed by: chelly (EGOIST) #TheEverlastingGuiltyCrown #GuiltyCrown #Piano #Animenz