Don’t Be Late Violin Fan Cover
This has to be the second time this fan is featured in this blog for a violin cover. This time, he covers “Sagittarius, 9pm, Don’t be Late” from the first episode of Macross Frontier. If you’ve heard the song, there’s a noticeable flat (a note shift) in the refrain which gets amplified in this cover. It’s possibly the first time I heard Kanno pull of something like this.
For those who missed his cover of Sousei no Aquarion, here it is again:
January 9th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Yoko Kanno has already used a lot of pitch shifts in her musics, but if that’s well done that looks like quite naturally (and we don’t even note that there was a shift)
For example there is one in the Sousei no Aquarion song just before the refrain (+2 demi-tones if I don’t make a mistake).
January 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Oh, I didn’t notice that one. But has she done that kind of shift right in the middle of a verse or a chorus? It’s pretty common to do that right before a full verse or chorus, but not in the middle.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
The note shift you noticed was at 1:15 right ? (there is another at 1:01 like in Sousei no Aquarion except that it’s explicitely expressed by the rise of the bass here). In Sousei no Aquarion it’s just before (and after) the refrain, there is a tonality change. When I have time I’ll give examples where it was done in the middle of a refrain
PS : What do you mean by “chorus” ?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Chorus: A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song. (Answers.com)
I didn’t realize that “chorus” is more commonly used to denote the part where the audience members sing. I’ll edit the post to use “refrain” to be more clear.
I also used “note shift” because I thought “key signature shift” would be jargon to a reader who didn’t have musical training, but I guess you understand that too, so that’s what I meant. “Note shift” sounds funny to a technical person because well, a song always has shifting notes, save for a few exceptions of deliberately monotonic songs. But since I couldn’t think of anything simple to describe a signature shift, I just went with “note shift”
I feel like writing the melody in a staff, but I’m a bit lazy today