Noir — Melody

こんにちは！

High quality audio: http://pacman.mulabs.org/mcv/aud/Noir%20-%20Melody%20%28mcv%29.flac

As far as I remember this is the second piece I learned on piano (first was Noir's "Snow" which will be coming soon).
I chased after it for long time, yet still I couldn't find it on any soundtrack from Noir nor anywhere else.
So I decided to play it myself as a last resort. Of course at the beginning I couldn't play it like this.
After about 1.5 year of practice and several recordings I finally recorded it. :-)
And this is my ONLY performance I really like.
This piece is anime version of Melody from Noir episode 17.

I learned most of notes from PDFs available on the Net, but last chords were wrong on the music sheet.
On anime they were muted by seiyuu, so I had to remove monophonic voices from anime audio track to get to the chords.
Complete music sheet compiled with Lilypond is available here: http://pacman.mulabs.org/mcv/sheet-music/Noir%20-%20Melody/

• Composer: 梶浦 由記 (Kajiura Yuki)
• Piece: Melody — anime version
• From anime: Noir

Tech:
• Digital piano: Yamaha CP-33.
• Routed through Behringer XENYX 1204FX mixer for its DSP set to "church" reverberation. I was not satisfied with audio plugins, so I used mixer's DSP (Reverberation
type is critical for this piece.)
• Recorded with M-AUDIO FireWire Solo soundcard on Ardour DAW.
• As a sequencer I used Rosegarden, yet I still think it sucks harder than a black hole, but well, I don't have too much choice under GNU+Linux. ;-)

Original video: http://pacman.mulabs.org/mcv/vid/pno/Noir%20-%20Melody%20%28mcv%29.MPEG4.avi

Sorry for low quality video but this is just a low-end JVC camera.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• noir
• melody
• yuki
• kajiura
• anime
• piano

[luisdent]

i'm not sure about sequencing, but for recording have you tried ardour?

[mcvspam]

@luisdent I use Ardour2/3 for recording.

[raulcgard]

is the m-audio sound card good? for using midi between the keybord and the pc?

[mcvspam]

@raulcgard It doesn't support MIDI. For audio - it's very good.

[snipercounty]

JeanDobry! (sp) very well played my friend

[mcvspam]

@snipercounty Dzień dobry! :D

こんにちわ！ そしてありがとう！

[tac2rnjane]

this is the most beautiful cover of Noir's Melody i've ever heard!

[HolyQuack1]

i enjoyed that.

[JennySpooks]

Beautifully done.

[Disconnectx]

what do you think, is the greaded hammer function or the cp- model in general playable for a beginner?

[TakanashiYuuji]

Amazing!

[LillyC68]

Beautifully played... thumbs up for you,

Lilly

[milkeatscereal]

@raulcgard get the firewire solo...almost prestine music

[aznplucky]

noir has some really nice music for piano. wonderful playing on this song, i thoroughly enjoyed it. :)