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03 August 2009 @ 03:21 pm
Solo Piano Arrangement: Kako (Konseki) - Ninomiya Kazunari  
... this must be the first time I've ever put anything like this up online.

That aside! With the lull of summer and some time to spare, I went surfing around as usual and wound up listening to Nino's Iza, Now! concert solo. And fell in love with it. Then I tried looking for some sheet music for it (because I'm not very good playing by ear) and couldn't find any to the extent of my limited ability to search.

So I made some. :D Highly recommend using pedal, so the left hand carries a little more.

PDF + MP3 (MU) | JPEG (MU)

If you take the file, comments would be nice but not necessary (just because I don't always comment, and being hypocritical is counterproductive).

In the first compressed file is a PDF version of the transcription and an MP3 of how it sounded on Finale Playback. The second one is four JPEG images of the PDF, for anyone who's in a sticky situation and can't open a PDF, but right now the MP3 is NOT included in the second file.

I probably will not put up my own playing  - I'm honestly not very good - but if you would like to upload your playing of this arrangement, by all means, just please credit the transcription and send me a link because I'd like to hear someone else play it.

It's my first time arranging anything for solo piano (the only prior experience I have with transcription is a capella vocal work) so if anything sounds off, please feel free to leave any feedback for improvement. I'm also open for some requests at the moment, if anyone wants any.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy! I may do a piano/vocal arrangement, if inspiration comes.

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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 03:20 pm (UTC)
Oh wow, thank you so much! :D I have been hunting down piano sheets for Nino's angsty solos because they're exactly that kind of music I love to play. 8D

I like how you've done variation for the left hand's melody. The song sounds more "alive" when the left isn't just different chords played with eighth notes.

I tried to play it with my fail!skills just now. Is it just me or are those bars where C♭ notes are supposed to be THAT dissonancy? (Okay, I'm guessing that's not even a word but I mean that the notes in those bars don't sound pretty together. 8D;;) The right hand sounds just fine but when you add the left, it sounds a bit weird. However, the whole thing sounds good in the mp3 so my piano
might be out of tune, as well as my ears. :D

Gah, it's hard enough to write regular English but now I had to use weird music terms. I think this comment sounds more gibberish than English. 8D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 03:47 pm (UTC)
You're welcome! Made the sheet music for the exact same reason. Angst away, little child...

Thanks for the feedback, too - I just ran upstairs, sheet music in hand, to try and figure out what was wrong with the C♭bars. My one conclusion: Nino writes his melodies that way to confuse people like me. XD Sorry, I don't even know what that chord in those bars actually is, I just clicked in some notes on Finale, thought 'hey, that sounds like it' and went with it. ^^"

Don't worry, I understood every word. Even 'dissonancy'. :D
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 09:45 pm (UTC)
Kako is Nino's the most angsty solo song ever. 8D It sounds like not only Nino got his heart broken but that Ohno the girl shattered it into pieces, beat him up with his own guitar and called his hair style girly.
Yume is the second saddest solo but you can't blame Nino for it because I accidentally found out that Yume is a cover version and not made by our angsty boy.

Haha, it's okay. Maybe the problem is me since no one else has mentioned about it. :D I haven't yet learnt the whole song so I don't know if those bars will stand out at all when I'm playing the song faster. And if they will, LET'S JUST BLAME NINO.

Yay! :D I spent like a half an hour trying to find the correct terms from wikipedia. XD
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 09:59 pm (UTC)
It's okay, though, because then IN COME THE FANGIRLS and everyone's happy and Nino returns to his snarky self while he basks in the attention :D

We'll blame him, but in the end we still love him. XD

Wikipedia is your friend~ No, I study music at school and I have background in piano, so I'm familiar with dissonance and harmony and chords and resolution and all that other musical gibberish which then gets jumbled with all my science class terms... ^^
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 10:14 pm (UTC)
THE POWER OF FANGIRLS. o/ In the end, he starts dancing Himitsu with flailing arm actions. 8D

Yes, the boy with angsty love songs steals our hearts. XD

I have also taken piano classes but you don't really learn English terms in those lessons. :D
Omg, science classes? I have taken a lot physics classes and I was so confused when I heard there the same terms as in my piano classes. :D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 10:34 pm (UTC)
I get so easily hooked onto that song... and the dance moves XD

Well, I'm pretty sure I don't know any of those terms in other languages, so kudos to you for learning them ^^ I think the closest I know is probably French. Because here in Canada everything national is labelled bilingually... heck, I don't even know those terms in Chinese and that's my mother tongue >_<

And agreed with the Physics lessons, over half my class was full of band geeks like myself and we got really into the whole resonances thing. XD
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 10:55 pm (UTC)
Me too. It's so overly cheery. XD

Finland is also bilingual country with Finnish and Swedish as national languages. Still my Swedish skills are almost nonexistent although we're desperately trying to learn it at school. :D I speak English better than Swedish!
Your Chinese situation is a bit bad. 8D

XD I once tried to explain my brother how he can tune his guitar by listening the guitar strings' and piano notes' interference. 8D;; He didn't warm up for the idea.
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2009 11:38 pm (UTC)
I don't think I know any friends who have learned to play piano (or any of the theory that comes with it) in Chinese, so the piano part's not too bad. But let's say that my Chinese needs practice. XD (I fail at any European language that requires me to roll my Rs...)

XD Then of course you have to ask whether one of the two is already in tune or not...
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2009 05:00 pm (UTC)
But hey, some people say that you can never really learn a language unless you live in an environment where you have to use it all the time. :D
I know families who have lived in Finland and moved to England or France when their children have been really young. The parents wanted that the kids learn to speak Finnish but they didn't learn the real R in another country so the parents sent their children in Finland as exchange students. 8D

Ahem, yeah. My piano has never been in tune so... :D We actually downloaded a program which listens to the sound of a string and tells if it's too low or too high. We can be deaf and still the computer tells us if our guitar is in tune or not. XD
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2009 05:38 pm (UTC)
True. That's why, to improve my French, I want to go to a university in Québec where there are people who speak French regularly. :D (Exchange students, that's so cool. I want to do an exchange but my school's non-semestered so I'd have to go for a year and spend an extra year catching up.)

Oh, that's like the tuner I have for my trombone. XD I clip it on and it senses the vibrations to tell me whether I'm too sharp or too flat. Except my teacher in band insists we try using our ears too.
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 10th, 2009 02:38 pm (UTC)
Ugh, sorry for replying late. My internet connection got jammed every time I tried to visit livejournal. It was like that the whole weekend. D:

I think Québec sounds great. :D What would you like to study there?
The Swedish speaking population of Finland is so small that for me it's really hard to improve my Swedish unless I move all the way to the west coast. About 5-10 % of Finland's population speak Swedish. It's hard to know the right numbers because some speak ONLY Swedish and some are bilingual.
Well, usually everybody here spends the whole year as exchange students. I used to want to be an exchange student but then I realized that when I came back I would have to stay at school a year longer than all of my friends. I didn't think it was worth it. 8D Maybe I'll spend a year studying in another country when I'm at university...

Haha, cool. :D Teachers just don't let us to do things the easiest way, do they?

Hey, do you mind if I add you? You seem like a great person. 8D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 10th, 2009 02:51 pm (UTC)
Silly internet XD No, don't worry. It happens to me all the time.

I want to study at McGill university - I've been interested in genetics and stuff for a while and McGill has some of the best research facilities in the nation. It's an English university, but at least I'll have opportunities to speak French in the area.

I think the Swedish thing is like the French situation here - French is a compulsory part of the curriculum, but there are only certain French communities in the country and they're kind of scattered but mostly in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Québec.

Yeah, I want to spend a year studying somewhere else in university too :D Not sure where I'd go, but I can figure that out later.

It's supposed to build 'good character' and 'learning skills' XD

And go ahead! ^^
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 10th, 2009 03:22 pm (UTC)
Yeah, maybe it tries to demonstrate to me how addicted I am to Livejournal. :D

Oh, sounds great. I had a genetics course last year and it was pretty interesting but I find all the other biology courses boring. XD That's why I'm concentrating on maths and physics.

Yeah. As I said, here the most of Swedish communities are on the west coast. Åland is autonomous part of Finland and it has Swedish as its official language. In the east or north you will most likely run into Russian. I have heard people complaining about compulsory Swedish because if they're living in those areas they will never need Swedish and they would prefer learning Russian instead.

Same. It would be great to go to Japan. 8D I just don't know the language and they don't rarely have English programs there. At least physics programs, I don't know about others. :D

That's what THEY say! XD

Yay! :D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 10th, 2009 10:30 pm (UTC)
Or maybe just the internet in general. The wonders of YouTube...

XD Biology's pretty hardcore, most of my friends don't particularly enjoy it. I'm also taking what might be considered a bit more of an advanced course that culminates in me taking the AP Biology exam next year. People often ask why I do this to myself. I'm not quite sure.

Ah. It's like how Asians have started engulfing where I live, myself included in this engulfing movement. XD Canada's pretty multicultural, but even my old science teacher started taking Mandarin classes because there were so many Chinese parents who didn't speak English.

It would be, I went last year for five days as a trip while I was in Hong Kong. I was blown away and spent a lot of money but I wasn't into Arashi or JE back then and now I regret it. So I sent requests to my friend who went this year. He was quite baffled with all the lists...

... sometime or later this conversation is going to reach the point where it turns into one-word lines. XD
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 14th, 2009 06:47 pm (UTC)
But hey, isn't it good to study as much as you can at this age because the older you get the slower you learn new things.
All my old friends ask me the same question because of my physics courses. 8D

Isn't that cool, you're part of a MOVEMENT. XD

Same here. I spent a week in Japan (our town has a sister-city in Hokkaido) and I didn't know a thing about Arashi. D: But I bought a Junon magazine, pretty boys anyhow!

I afraid so. 8D It's inevitable!
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 14th, 2009 11:01 pm (UTC)
That's true. Though I take what are considered the 'hardest' courses and they all think I'm mad...

I AM. IT'S THE ASIAN ATTACK. There are so many Asian malls in my area now it's kind of scary. I didn't really think about it until now but my area is really quite Asian.

Wow, a sister city in Hokkaido? That's cool, especially since it's not usually a tourist place. I bought a whole bunch of other CDs and stuff though, so I still ended up spending a lot of money. XD
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 10:06 am (UTC)
I don't think you're mad, I think you're brave. XD

THE ASIAN REVOLUTION IS COMING!
Cool. :D Like grocery stores and stuff?
I heard yesterday how this one pretty girl was talking to her friend about her language course in Mexico. Apparently, there were many Taiwanese in Mexico and they all spoke "Asian"...

Yeah, I liked Hokkaido because there weren't so many people in there and it was a very peaceful place. I lived in a house which was in the middle of rice fields. 8D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 01:33 pm (UTC)
Why, thank you. I feel empowered. :D

Yeah, grocery stores, specialty stores, lots of bootleg/pirated stores that try not to get caught, food courts... one of the Asian music stores is where I amass my Arashi material from. XD Speaking 'Asian' can mean one of probably several hundred languages (and if you include all those itty-bitty dialects in China and India, several thousand).

That sounds so poetic. :D I stayed in a hotel in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo and just went around hopping in the different districts for five days...
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 07:32 pm (UTC)
I feel so jealous because of those shops. D: Our Asian/Japanese shops in Finland are expensive and they never sell anything interesting (= CDs or DVDs, everything must be ordered online).
Yeah. Before that they said that people in Brazil speak Brazilian but then they corrected it. 8D I don't know if I should cry or laugh because they don't know the difference between a nationality and a language.

It was really in the middle on nowhere. I heard FROGS when we drove back to the house in a late evening.
But you got to go shopping more than I did. :D We went to some malls but I can't shop when I'm in a group, I'm weird that way, so I didn't really buy anything from there. 8D;;
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
I have to switch views now because I can't read a thing on the original page. XD

I went to the store today, but there wasn't anything I wanted there that I didn't already have. XD
See, my dad has this thing about ordering online, he's quite picky with where to order from. The first and only time I asked my dad to get something from eBay, it got lost in the mail and we lost forty-five bucks. So when I tried to ask him to order the 5x10 Limited Edition, it didn't go over well (well, what actually happened was that I got notification they restocked when it was midnight here, my dad was asleep and when I woke up extra early the next morning they were all gone and my dad still wouldn't order from CDJapan...).
Well, maybe they just didn't know that Brazilian people spoke Portuguese. Sometimes you don't know what the language is called, right? So you go with the flow. Like how people in England speak English, people in Spain speak Spanish, people in Finland speak Finnish. :D

Frogs, really? I think the only time I've actually heard frogs were at the provincial science centre. XD (I love that place, I'm such a geek.)
And I guess I did :D I went with my aunt and my parents, so since they had no clue what I wanted I just hunted around while they looked around in the store. I hope I get to go next summer. >_
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 08:33 pm (UTC)
Haha, I the original page a long time ago. :D

Ugh, too bad that you lost your money. D: I haven't ever ordered anything from eBay or Huuto.net (the Finnish version of it) because my mom whose credit card I use doesn't trust those places. And neither do I. I have bought stuff from CDJapan and Play.com instead.
Yeah, but it should be common knowledge that Brazilian is NOT a language. 8D I admit, I didn't remember that Brazilians speak Portuguese but I knew that they didn't speak Brazilian! It's like you're speaking Canadian! :D

I have heard them in Finland when I was a kid and went out every once in a while. But those Japanese frogs' sound was just so loud. XD
I hope you get to go. :D MY mom says that I could visit Japan once I graduate from high school but I'm kind of scared to go. I don't speak any Japanese and it's hard to find anyone there who speaks English. :/
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 08:57 pm (UTC)
My dad didn't trust CDJapan when I showed him the page... but he did say he'd buy from HMV. He buys from YesAsia too, so I suppose if anything ever comes up again that I really really want. My collection isn't that big, but it's already quite an investment so I don't want to overly splurge >_< (My friend who went to Hong Kong did get me the Everything single though, so I'm happy. XD)
But I am! XD Well, everywhere you go speak English there's something different. The British say loo when we say toilet. The Americans say soda when we say pop. The Australians say sunnies when we say sunglasses. :D

Quick, start learning Japanese! XD I admire self-learners, actually... I'm too lazy to actually put time learning (and I don't have that time anyways). People will know basic phrases - I mean, they have English classes there - but I guess it's a matter of whether accents get in the way and let's hope that Aiba is not an accurate representation of English in Japan XD.
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 09:27 pm (UTC)
(My English is starting to fail as much as Sho's because I don't proofread my comments. XD Oh well.)

And I just can't buy anything from YesAsia. That site looks so fishy. 8D
...B-but! *goes and hides in a corner*

I admire them too because I'm not one of them. XD I don't have any self-discipline.
Yeah, the accent is pretty interesting. Girlfriend -> gaarufurendo!
Yes, it would be very very danger if everybody's English was like Aiba's. 8D
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[identity profile] fluidcomplexity.livejournal.com on August 15th, 2009 09:36 pm (UTC)
(That's okay, he's one of the better ones.)

Sooner or later I will cave in and try and get something else, but I'm trying to wait until I get 5x10 for that to happen.
XD Don't worry, it's still called 'Canadian English' :D

Yaaaaaaaay for no discipline! It will be my downfall, I know it.
Well, Japanese have no letter l, so all the ls and rs are thrown together. It's interesting how many English words have made it into their regular vocabulary. Then again, English is the ultimate melting pot when it comes to absorbing other languages. 'Bravo'? 'Ketchup'? My English class did a language study at the beginning of the year. XD
No snake! No snake! And my personal favourite, DON'T TOUCH ME. XD I don't know how he does it...
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[identity profile] jonskulainen.livejournal.com on August 18th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)
Oh, did you order their new album? :D How cool, I didn't because it thought it was too expensive. But those preview pics of the album booklet are pretty!

XD Same here. I can't even start studying for an exam before it's the last evening. Thank God I'm a fast learner.
8DD The English vocabulary is pretty easy to learn too because most of the words are familiar from other languages.

It's a gift. 8D I don't know how he can still be so confident over his language skills. XD
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