![Avid - 86 / Eighty-Six (Episode 22 version) ED [Piano] / Hiroyuki Sawano](https://www.wacoca.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1665388213_maxresdefault.jpg "Avid – 86 / Eighty-Six (Episode 22 version) ED [Piano] / Hiroyuki Sawano")
Sheet music → https://mymusic.st/animenzzz/61268
This piano arrangement of 「Avid」 is directly inspired by episode 22 of the anime series. It has probably one of the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen in a TV anime and the emotional rollercoaster was simply overwhelming. The final two episodes of Eighty Six was delayed for three months but in exchange we got a cinema-level of anime production – absolutely worth it.
The official name for the OST used in ep 22 is called 「Voices of the Chord」and it’s basically an orchestral version of the ED song 「Avid」. My piano arrangement is based on the full size of 「Avid」but I adopted a slow tempo based on the orchestra version and have modified the flow of the music a little bit to make it more cinematic, including a key change in 4:08. I also used many orchestration methods in this piano arrangements to fully capture the beauty of episode 22.
① New pedaling technique
Fitting to the lyrics of 「Avid」(“it calls, it calls”), I let the piano “resonate” its sound a bit more than usual by mostly using half pedal during the performance and releasing the sustain pedal very slowly for longer notes. This creates a very interesting “mixed harmonic”, which slowly clears up by itself until only a very few notes remain. It can be heard in 1:47, 4:04, and 5:02.
② “Emptiness” in the music
Since the main character Shinei has earned the title of “grim reaper” during his long duty on the battlefield, I cannot possibly imagine the amount of loneliness he is feeling, especially if he is being left behind again. The second verse in 1:49 reflects the emptiness of Shinei’s mind and the melody is split up into tiny fragments, never reaching its full melody.
③ The “miracle” in the flower field
[ep. 22 spoilers]
In one of the final scenes of the anime, Shinei has accepted his fate and the music in 3:38 suddenly drops to a bare minimum, slowly diminishing until almost nothing is left in 4:01. Then, the key change in 4:08 happens: This is the moment where Major Milize steps into the battlefield and Shinei’s destiny is changed forever. The landscape suddenly changes from a blue sea of Insects into a beautiful red flowerbed.
The miracle must be dramatically celebrated at the climax. The left hand is hitting the lower bass notes for the first time to achieve an enormous orchestral sound while the right hand is playing a secondary melody (consisting of thirds and fourths) to represent the red spider lilies dancing in the wind. This is the moment I was waiting for in the anime. This is the moment why I live for Anime and Anime music. And this is why anime is simply the best.
[/ep. 22 spoilers]
Alright, thank you for reading this week’s “Animenz explains!” It has been a really, really long time since I was that moved by an anime episode and I hope I can experience more moments like this again in the future. A moment where “everything just feels right”.
Thank you for watching my piano arrangement and see you in the next video again!
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🎹Piano arrangement by Animenz
Original Song: Avid (ED) / Voices of the Chord (OST)
Anime: 86 (Eighty-Six)
Published by: Sacra Music (2021)
Composed by: Hiroyuki Sawano
Performed by: mizuki [nZk] / Gemie
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43 Comments
It has been a while since I have fell in love with a single episode in an anime series but episode 22 of Eighty Six absolutely deserves all the praise it gets. Thank you for listening to my special piano version of Avid!
聽到哭
this was nice 😀 i'm now trying to finish 86 (season 2) just to see ep 22
❤
When will u do Lilas by Sawano Hiroyuki
damn i love this ,just watch the entire anime, and find out this …
eSTI QUE C'eST DE LA MARDE
This is badass
愿那该死的荣耀尽归于先锋部队
a叔怎么做到即兴练习都好好的？
Anyone has the link to that brilliant light? It is faultless
Beautiful.
This is probably the best Hiroyuki Sawano piano cover I have ever seen. Period
So beautiful. Thanks for the music!
just finished binge watching season 1, this song hits different now. I appreciate you putting spoiler warnings in the description too.
86,個人的にはそこまで…って感じだったけど、世間は高く評価してるみたいだねぇ
もう一回観てみるか（
I always love reading your description, they always warm my heart with the effort you put in
I’m going through depression and listening to how you play and learning your arrangements help me find new goals and keep going.
This is beautiful
Finally, animenz piece i can play😂
So beautiful!!!! Thanks so much for sharing this – your piano arrangements are wonderful and always inspiring!!!
Lyrics
Its only for my personal use
Hunger for the sleep I know will never come
Crowded is the space but don't have anyone
I could read the bible to drown out the hum
Avoid the voices of the chord
All the roads inside my head loop back to you
I've done many things I'd thought I'd never do
It's you that I can feel
But I keep my hands
Upon the wheel
I turn the page to drown you out
You are the only thing that I still care about
If I can heal the conflict that's within
I'll know the war has reached its bitter end
Ocean, you are calling me
A place with no memory
You'll see
I burned the blood
I passed the test
And now my love is laid to rest
Our names aren't written on the list
I turn the page to drown you out
You are the only thing that I still care about
If I can heal the conflict that's within
I'll know the war has reached its bitter end
Ocean, you are calling me
A place with no memory
You'll see
I burned the blood
I passed the test
And now my love is laid to rest
Our names aren't written on the list
But you and I know we exist
Crazy how just the few opening notes of this song makes me start to tear up.
1:40
3:12
4:08
can i ask 1 question is the like only lyrics different from the og avid or is ther a diff b/w the tone too?
Kayowai hikari ga yubisasu saki
Silent haze kasumi gachi ni toraeru kage
Hachi roku no rizumu kakimidasareru
Gikochi nai innocent calm
Close my eyes and figure out the vacancy
I don’t know what I wanted or you made me do
Chirijiri ni kizamu
Hontou no sekai de waraeru ka?
Don’t you get there?
It calls
Aoida sora ga iro wo kaeru kara
My naked heart can hear echoes
Shirazu motometa Avidity
Tsutanai inori ga orinasu nami
Violent maze suna ni mamire umaru ashi
Komaku ni hibiku intsuu kudasareru
Tomedo nai resonant harm
Plug my ears and figure out the tendency
You don’t know how reckless you are
You made me blue
Taedae ni tsugumu
Hontou no omoi wo hiroeru ka?
Don’t you get there?
It calls
Ikoji na kibou wo hiraku rasen no sou
My rusted heart can hear echoes
Ano hi nakushita Avidity
Whisper your name again
Then restart it right away
Oh my bitter color ardor wander
Gotta feel it undercover
Yukue mo shiranai
Don’t you get there?
It calls
Aoida sora ga iro wo kaeru kara
My naked heart can hear echoes
Shirazu motometa Avidity
Whisper your name again
Then restart it right away
Oh my bitter color ardor wander
Gotta feel it undercover
Yukue mo shiranai ano hi no gunjou
Awesome – I love piano AND 86 Eighty Six.
Great anime
this song rlly only gives off aivd vibes not the other version(voices of the chords)that played in the ep only avid lyrics comei n my mind
magic, as always! thank you a lot!
how am i so late to this?!
Well done sir 👏 👍, well do e in deed I love 86 and all the soundtracks especially this one and your execution of sawano's song was brilliantly done and made me love it even more
Eps 22 of 86-eighty six was a very special eps for me. Its something i would never want to forget. 86 desrve so much appreciation.. It made me feel so much different emotions. All i want to say is just im very thankfull that i have watched you 86.
After hearing you play, all the special moments of eps 22 flashed thru. Your cover has so much feelings in them. I love it very much..
id like to play piano but i dont think i have the motivation adn dedication to do it, and anyways a piano is expensive so i dont rlly want to buy smth so expensive for no reason and every time i come to this vid i always comment xd
Esta canción me hace daño al corazón, necesito escuchar también tu versión de LilaS para poder arreglar mi corazoncito jaja
Does every Sawano piece sound the same? This is so similar to Call of Silence from AoT.
I can press the same keys and get the same notes but I will never be able to play like this.
the emotions on Animenz's music is just superb hands down.
泣いちゃうって……
86 WAS ONE OF THE BEST ANIME MASTERPIECE OF MY LIFE!!
Listening to avid again, I can't stop crying. Thank you for the great performance.
Masterpiece
Loved it to the most ❤️ thanks for being there 💖
하 전율 ㅜㅜ 도입 듣자마자 소름 돋음