Snow Halation, from Love Live, music by Takahiro Yamada, piano arranged by Animenz, played by Richard Yang on Yamaha N1X with Garritan CFX VST.
If I were to pick one word to describe this piece, it’d be: “Exilerating”! This is on Animenz’s Top 10 Most Difficult. This definitely holds true to the original 2016 version with the crazy LH jumps and the suicide octaves. The 2020 version Animenz took away those parts and made it slightly more small-hand-friendly. In order to provide the piano lesson, I followed the 2020 version that’s available in Animenz’s official book. I couldn’t resist but to include those suicide octaves!
As with all of my performances, I have my own interpretation, so the tempo, dynamics, etc may feel quite different from the original recording. Simply put, I play the way I like it.
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