Rising Hope - Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei OP [Piano]

Rising Hope is definitely one of the most HYPED songs from LiSA and I have been really looking forward to finally arranging this song for this week's upload. The second season of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is also airing in this fall season 2020 and I can't wait to hear more "onii-sama!" memes from everyone's favorite character Miyuki-chan.

Interestingly, Rising Hope has a fairly unusual song structure because the second chorus is not immediately played after the second verse, but instead it's played at the very end, followed by the third chorus. Perhaps this is the reason why the chorus feels more exciting than usual, because it feels more "unique".

Whenever I am encountering "speaking" parts in Anime songs, I am at loss at what to do first, because I am relying heavily on my ear to identify the exact melody of the original song. But how should I translate it to the piano if the melody itself doesn't have a clear pitch? The first (00:41) and second verse (01:51) of Rising Hope have a very intense call and response "speaking" part featuring the voice of LiSA and an unidentified crowd, greatly raising the atmosphere. I tried many things on the piano, and what worked the best for me was simply representing the rhythmic energy of the "speaking" parts on the piano to maintain the exciting atmosphere.

Another interesting feature of Rising Hope is the distinct piano voice in the background that is present in many key moments, including the famous piano introduction part. I used the three hand technique to mirror the piano voice in many key moments such as the pre-chorus part in 01:02 and in 03:09.

I was also experimenting with a few jazzy elements in the bridge part in 02:27, as well in the outro in 04:00. To be honest, I still don't understand how Jazz scales truly works and I have to conduct many trial-and-error experiments on the piano, until I can find the best right hand pattern. But my golden rule is: if it sounds good, it's good.

Well then, that's it for this week's upload! Another song is finally done in my "to-do-list" and as of now, I am already working on my next arrangement project. See you next week!

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Piano arrangement by Animenz
Original Song: Rising Hope
Anime: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei / The Irregular at Magic High School / 魔法科高校の劣等生
Published by: Aniplex (2014)
Composed by: Tomoya Tabuchi / 田淵 智也
Performed by: LiSA

#RisingHope #LiSA #Piano
#MahoukaKouKounoRettousei #TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool #LiSA #Animenz
#TeamEmilia

[Animenzzz]

Thank you for watching my piano arrangement! I am looking forward for new Mahouka memes once the second seasons starts airing this fall. Btw, did you know that if you google search "onii-sama", 90% of the results are Tatsuya from Mahouka? (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

[ryanlee]

Quarantine really isn't that bad when we get weekly Animenz Content.

[RageQuitingNoobs]

honestly this made my day, i was diagnosed as legally blind today and that there is nothing they could do to stop me from going completely blind one day... but this song means so much to me seeing how mahouka is one of my fav anime and it genuinely makes me smile to hear a perfect cover to it. Thank you Animanez, you truely are the hope i wish to rise to <3

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

LiSa just makes such awesome music honestly

[Healeon]

One of the most influential magic high school anime with quite a good LISA OP

[SynthesisThirty]

​daym this is significantly better than his first arrangement

[bam]

So Animenz is playing for our Godsuya, a blessing indeed

[azi]

Once again, we'll see the work of the hands of Godsuya himself. Demon right and Divine left

[naakg]

Damn and here I was forgetting about this show, brought back memories yet again Animenz. Happy to hear it's actually getting a second season, for the longest time I thought that 1 season was all there was going to be.

[ChrisLuan]

The thumbnail has some real *onii-sama* vibes.

Fun fact: the voice actors for MC and heroine also starred in Oreimo (heroine voiced the yandere Ayaka there)

[chrischhan]

This whole song is another masterpiece, but I don't see anyone mentioning the final chorus in 3:32. I heard that one part just once and I had to replay it like 20 times. In just those 6 little measures there's so much going on. There's 4 different voices going on playing over each other, almost like a fugue and you have the melody switching between the left and right hand thumbs. Just absolutely brilliant.

[CorrinMelodiesonPiano]

Last week: _Finally, to all the people who want to know, whether I am Team Emilia or Team Rem:
You will find the answer in the next week's video description._

Me: *Expects another Re:Zero vid for this week.*
Also me: *Sees the **#TeamEmilia** in the description.*

Nice

[nayu_]

Them runs.

Also dang sick left hand gliss

[nanana]

2:08 から後はずっと涙が出てました😭❣️







animenz さんのアレンジ大好きです😊

大好きな曲で、大好きな方の演奏を聴けて幸せです。

素敵な動画をありがとうございます！
おつかれさまです！

[over]

I went deaf 4 years ago, never thought I could actually hear this again...I just had my cochlear implants activated 4 days ago, and you upload this... Thank you for this.

[dalipmudhar]

Its cool how ASCA drew on this song for inspiration when making RESISTER

[noname]

"If it sounds good, it's good."

That's gotta he one of my favorite quotes

[annanguyen]

my gosh! I was watching the unravel cover and was recommended this video. Let me just say that this man's hands have transformed so much. It comes to show how much practice and the amount effort he puts into piano. Animenz is the true ling ling.

[setto]

If I could choose between having the ability to play this or his Unravel arrangement perfectly, I would choose this without hesitation.

[nero]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR Hell yeah. I can already tell its going to be great. liSa's songs never disappoint plus animenz's covers are incredible, i am actually jumping up and down of my seat from the excitement!!