Kyouran Hey Kids!! - Noragami Aragoto OP [Piano] / THE ORAL CIGARETTES

"KURUTTE HEY KIDS!" Once you hear these words, you will instantly remember the chorus melody of "Kyouran Hey Kids!!" - probably the coolest opening song ever. This piano arrangement is quite addictive from the very first second, because of the irresistible combination of a jazzy guitar voice in the right hand and a walking bass line in the left hand in 0:07.

I tried to replicate the rhythm of the drums as accurate as I could for the entire piece. This results in a few unconventional left hand patterns such as in 0:20 or in 1:24. But the real challenge was arranging the chorus in 0:45: The drums had a very fast "dum-ta-ta, dum-ta-ta" rhythm and only after a lot of trial and error, I found a good left hand pattern which properly matches the rhythm. The left hand syncopation can be heard especially clear in 0:49.

There is also another problem I needed to solve: The "I respect the hero!" part in 1:08 is only spoken in the original song and it doesn't have a melody. But since I really like the guitar melody from 0:07, I used it as a starting point and modified the melody a little bit to create an original melody line for the spoken part.

Last but not least, the rarely used left hand melody octaves is appearing again! For the second half of the bridge in 2:26, I needed some extra punch in the bass to replicate the aggressive drums of the original song. And left hand octave melodies just does the job perfectly. At the same time, the right hand pattern in 2:26 is one of my favorite "arrangement tricks" to extend and intensify a long melody on the piano. I used it in my Swordland (Sword Art Online OST) arrangement as well in the past.

Alright, that's it for today! Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed this week's super groovy arrangement! Also: Don't forget to donate 5 yen to poor Yato-san! Or else he will never become the wealthiest god in Japan! (笑)

See you next time!

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🎹Piano arrangement by Animenz

Original Song: Kyouran Hey Kids!! / 狂乱 Hey Kids!!
Anime: Noragami Aragoto / ノラガミ ARAGOTO
Published by: A-Sketch Inc. (2015)
Composed by: Takuya Yamanaka / 山中 拓也
Performed by: THE ORAL CIGARETTES
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#noragami #kyouranheykids #noragamiaragoto

[Animenzzz]

I hope we can see a 3rd season of Noragami soon! This OP is simply too awesome, hahaha.
KURUTTE HEY KIDS!! 🎸

[k_catboy]

"Just wanna hold your hands"
"Not now sir I'm tryna learn this Animenz's Kyouran Hey Kids piano arrangement"

[Txontop]

Im not a music person but in this cover i can hear every note that the actual song had and it blows my mind how accurate it is

[faultycow]

If it doesn’t break my hands. I will attempt to learn this song.

[Hereson]

The moving bassline is played to perfection.

[fruitanimeonpiano]

We are once again reminded that Animenz never disappoints.

That solo and those glisses were amazing. 11/10 would watch again

[LucanPevidor]

my birthday is next month but you already gave me the gift Animenz, this is my favorite anime opening!! you are the best<3

[exyro]

I will NEVER understand how you have enough time to finish animes, memorize the openings enough to transcribe them, and make these "masterpieces".

You're the proof of Einstein's Relativity.

[miracles]

I am so looking forward to this song!!!!
It feels like another masterpiece to me even though I haven't heard the arrangement <3

[natsaderpiano]

Animenz always motivate me to go home and start practicing . Now he motivated me to go hospital and fix my broken hands.

[exiledkenkaneki]

This is such a milestone, it's really an underrated op that's never been covered on a piano this well and will never be, jeeez

[cpx]

Omg 2:14 - 2:40 is PERFECT! The whole arrangement is amazing, the best I've heard here on yt!! Stunning🤩

[garlondofficial]

I'll just leave this comment here so that if anybody ever decides to like it I'm reminded of this absolute masterpiece. Although in all fairness I'll probably just get reported under suspicion of being a bot.

[AnimeProAnimeonPiano]

I lost count of the amount of commented requests for you to do this song xD, I'm glad that the long awaited arrangement is finally here and it's an absolute banger!
On the topic of classic anime songs, I would love to hear you play the legendary opening from GTO.

[itsmesky]

Kyouran Hey Kids is already a banger, but the arrangement looks like a lot of fun too! Can't wait to learn this.

[noname-udyy]

I was waiting for this arrangement for a year. He once showed his work over it on his stream long time ago and since then I'm waiting for publishing

[miyoko]

I'll give this god of anime piano covers 5 ¥, he deserves it.

[RafikelJar]

I love this performace so much, it's been a good while since the last time I enjoyed one of your videos this much! sure the song being a banger is part of the reason why, but the way you played it made me feel very nostalgic, it's as if I have rediscovered your channel all over again

[miograson]

2:38 is so cool.
animenz did this so well. this is the grooviest and best section imo. the staccato left hand manages to create the perfect jazz essence. this is class

[melvoman]

That was incredible! I noticed a similar vibe at 2:26 to your swordland arrangement which is really cool!