{"id":1332918,"date":"2020-06-13T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1332918\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:00:15","slug":"melissa-fullmetal-alchemist-op1-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1332918\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa &#8211; Fullmetal Alchemist OP1 [Piano]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVgkE7M6QYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSheet music \u2192 https:\/\/mymusic.st\/animenzzz\/65507<\/p>\n<p>The original Fullmetal Alchemist Anime from 2003 has many amazing OP and ED songs but the song which never gets old is the first OP Melissa by Porno Graffitti.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never realized it until closer inspection, but Melissa has many chord progressions which is very typical in classical music. Especially the chord progression in the chorus A-d-G-C-F-B(dim)-E-a (the so called &#8220;Circle of fifth&#8221;) has a very irresistible character and it might be the main reason for the enduring popularity of this song.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most distinctive feature of this song is probably the short bass guitar solo in the beginning of the original song. I created a small intro part at the beginning as a contrasting element to give the bass guitar solo in 00:26 more impact upon it&#8217;s first appearance. Most of the classical music elements were added in the bridge part, starting with a counterpoint movement in the bass in 03:38, continuing with a baroque music inspired ornament in 03:50 and finally a short canon imitation in 04:00. The Circle of fifth chord progression is probably one of the most overused musical tropes in the world of classical music, and that&#8217;s why the musical variations are almost limitless.<\/p>\n<p>Since the piece is being introduced in a classical music style, I decided to finish the song in a similar fashion as well. Most of the time, the final chorus is representing the climax of the entire song and therefore is played with maximum intensity. But for Melissa, I decided to do the opposite as an element of change: the volume of the final chorus is gradually decreasing until it comes to a complete standstill in 04:20. And after a brief pause, the main melody is slowly being re-introduced again &#8211; this time as trills, to give it more suspense &#8211; and finally leading it to an exciting finale in 04:35.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, this is one of the most classical music style arrangement I have done in a while, because the particular chord progression of Melissa was simply made for this style. I wonder what professional piano teachers think about this piece, because I&#8217;d love to hear their opinions about my classical music inspired arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Well then, that&#8217;s the story behind my Melissa piano arrangement. I don&#8217;t know which song I am going to arrange next week, so I will continue watching my favorite Anime series until a song is catching my interest.<\/p>\n<p>See you next week!<br \/>\nAnimenz<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nMy facebook page:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Animenz<br \/>\nFollow me on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"770\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Animenzzz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by Animenzzz<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nI am using Instagram as well!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/animenz_official\/<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nPiano arrangement by Animenz<br \/>\nOriginal Song: Melissa \/ \u30e1\u30ea\u30c3\u30b5<br \/>\nAnime: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) \/ \u92fc\u306e\u932c\u91d1\u8853\u5e2b<br \/>\nPublished by: SME Records (2003)<br \/>\nComposed by: Akimitsu Homma \/ \u672c\u9593 \u662d\u5149<br \/>\nPerformed by: Porno Graffitti<\/p>\n<p>#Melissa #FullmetalAlchemist #Piano #Animenz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheet music \u2192 https:\/\/mymusic.st\/animenzzz\/65507 The original Fullmetal Alchemist Anime from 2003 has many ama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1332919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3012,6081,13275,442,429,3009,78408,112,3766,13827,207,10709,50309,3584,3582],"class_list":{"0":"post-1332918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-cover","9":"tag-fullmetal-alchemist","10":"tag-melissa","11":"tag-op","12":"tag-opening","13":"tag-piano","14":"tag-porno-graffitti","15":"tag-112","16":"tag-3766","17":"tag-13827","18":"tag-207","19":"tag-10709","20":"tag-50309","21":"tag-3584","22":"tag-3582"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}