The Attack on Titan Theme Did NOT Need to Go THIS Hard
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What other themes should I check out?? Also, check out the free Instant Piano Guide! cornell.academy/instant-piano-guide-AoT
Jujutsu kaisen ending 1 - lost in paradise
Jojo part 5 op 1 - fighting gold
Tokyo ghoul op 1 - unravel
Eureka 7 op 1 - Shounen heart
Mob psycho op 2 - 99.9
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you want chords: cry baby -official hige sandism. another great video btw but that's obvious
Ai ga Tarinaize from Virtua Fighter's second OP might be fun. It's a good old rock 'n' roll piece that really gets your blood pumping and ignites your fighting spirit! Plus, it's sung by the composer of Daytona USA, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. Although, good luck trying to find a rip of the actual OP. TMS keeps taking uploads of it down. (Although, Discotek has an upload of it on their Tw*tter.)
Also, sorry for the repost. RUclips deleted my comment last time... -_-
I would love if you checked out Kick Back from Chainsaw Man, that song modulates like 5 times
Can we take a moment to admire the absolutely THUNDERING horn rips in this song? Truly a powerhouse of an opening.
Horns doing one of the things they do best... Soaring over the top and being epic
Your music cannot be truly epic without French horn. It's just a fact.
Now that I think about it, you guys are right
True, but don’t forget the trumpets please 😀
French horns in Guren no Yumiya is honestly my favorite thing about that song! Especially right before the chorus, that extra melody they add, so epic.
That first intro will ALWAYS BANG!
I wish the others were as good 😢
@@billymays8864 the first one is literally the worst one lol
@@Suplex479 said no one ever
@@Suplex479 ????
First intro is the fucking best
The ops of Attack on Titan are not just ops. They’re an experience, giving you the feeling you fight with them
Fucking perfectly said.
YOU (AND THEY) ARE FIGHTING FEELINGS IN THIS SERIES.
There's always a poet
The early OP themes are pure government propaganda. The audience is literally being recruited to join the Corps and be meat fodder. Of course it slaps hard.
yes all music makes you feel something
@@AllTheArtsy and then season four shows the horrors of war and those slap just as hard
The full version of this opening theme has a RIPPING organ solo in it that you NEED to check out
i was thinking this too. i hope he looks that the full versions because they slap so hard
Yes! I was thinking about that! The full versions of all of the opening have so much more crazy passages!
Yes the whole song is such an amazing roller coaster
This one and Sasageyo are objectively the most iconic in the franchise, but you should totally cover OP 2 because it is *criminally* underrated
Yes, 2 is legit really good, if not quite as iconic as 1
The Rumbling too, easily my favorite intro song so far.
Especially when it reprised the first opening melody in the second section of the song. Sadly it doesn't make it into the cut for the show.
I LOVE Jiyuu no Tsubasa so much! What a fantastic song!
I also love Shoukei to Shikabane no Michi with its nonstop lyrics and melody.
Linked Horizon is just awesome
@@i_boobait gets boring so fast tho. It hits hard in the first few listens but it doesn't hit nearly as well afterwards
10 years ago I freaked out to how this song was structured. 10 years later you're doing exactly the same as I did and that makes me happy to know that another piano player is as hyped with the song!
Your ability to figure out almost any song in seconds, not just melody, but key, chords, patterns as well?! Charles. My man.
The 1st OP has such a power to it. Incredibly driving, especially the bridge. the end of it is so grand. And the 1st Ending is so beautiful and tranquil. Such a great contrast. That "JE-GAR!!" in the Chorus of the OP always gets me.
Everything was better with wit studio.
They just know how to make anime.
@@Christopher._Mup. Hard to buy that they needed a larger studio for 4 when the animation budget for that season was utterly wasted. All the effort went into incredibly vibrant backgrounds for the dialogue scenes and almost nothing reserved for the action scenes.
I wonder how MAPPA got the job with such a fundamental misunderstanding of why Attack on Titan works as an anime. The great dialogue lifted from the manga is enough to carry the dialogue scenes. The reason people fell in love with the anime is because the action scenes fulfilled all the promises of the awesome dialogue. Stilted action is not a worthwhile price to pay for dynamic visuals over plain conversation
The composition is great, but the arranging really takes this whole thing to another level. The maximalist approach really portrays how intense and melodramatic the show is, and the horns and choral elements compliment the German/European aesthetic. I think the second opening leans into that more, but it's stunning just how well this first opening fits the show top to bottom.
Can you PLEASE go over more Attack on Titan themes? Hiroyuki Sawano is a genius. A few great/interesting ones are YouSeeBIGGIRL/T:T, APETITAN, Vogel Im Kafig, and Symphonicsuite (Aot) Part1-1st: Osk.
and don't forget ashes on the fire!! That is one of my absolute favorites by Kohta Yamamoto in s4
@@ashstunes6642It's been used to death tho, every major action scene was accompanied by it.
YES PLEASE!!!! PLEASE ILL DO ANYTHING!! (Like bro I bought your whole catalog of courses I love you bro)
@@ashstunes6642its the only notable theme in the entire S4... Sorry
Wtf are those song names
I think most of the people that watch your videos dont understand a word you are saying but are having so much fun getting second hand enjoyment from the enjoyment you get reviewing the songs that they like so much
Vogel im Käfig is easily the best soundtrack in AOT its actually a masterpiece.
Heck yeah, couldn't agree more!
Besides Yousee Biggirl.
Or the 6th op. (S4p1)
Wouldn't really say easily tbh. Youseebiggirl, traitor, ashes on the fire, splinter wolf, attack on titan, xl-tt, and so on. The soundtrack is absolutely loaded with amazing tracks
Call of silence also extremely beautiful
I would say to kill them is mu favorite sound track from AOT
Attack On Titan has some of the best series music, with the horn rips to the powerful impacts in every theme.
Smol little critique, my apologies but I did notice a tiny mistake. You said at the beginning that the melody just repeats itself but that's not exactly true. The motion is essentially the same, yes but when it's played for the second time, the 5th note of the sequence is actually a semitone higher. You got it right for the next part though (before the widdly diddly bit haha). My ear just picked up on the off note and I just thought I should say something lol.
I thought he would notice and mention that he misheard but he didn’t 🫠
☝🏻🤓my apologies but i did notice a tiny mistake
@zeffo9987 okay, i thought you said it was a 'tiny' mistake
@@henrybay4807you contribute nothing to this society, you're a disappointment
Attack on Titan Wmid has to be by favorite piece of music from any show ever. That song is literally a feeling.
I assumed this was an analysis on one of those osts from his title; slightly disappointed it's the first op instead. Here's hoping that we get him checking out some of Sawano's work too.
Same - I was so hyped when he said “theme” and was so dissapointed when he only went over the first op :( . Tho at least we know that it is possible for him to do breakdowns of other sawano pieces.
Same. I thought it would be the "Attack on titan" theme. But aside from Wmid, I also love TFSv
Would LOVE to hear him break down the “My War” theme song
THIS
@@pinkloverprey yeah it's honestly one of my faves. the string parts are so freaking cool
YES THAT ONE TICKLES MY BRAIN SO WELL AND I WANT TO KNOW WHY
The harmony in the start is reminiscent of Chocolate Rain
It's totally Chocolate Rain LMAO
Ctrl F - "chocolate"
Because I kept hearing it too and knew I wasn't gonna be the only one.
Finally! I was wondering who heard it too!
Here late to the same thing!
Thank you. It was driving me crazy.
Vogel im Käfig is a damn masterpiece
YES!
You only get to talk about Linked Horizon's Opening Song here but I would recommend checking out Hiroyuki Sawano's music throughout this and other anime projects as well.
As much as the new opening themes are amazing, the levels of iconic that the first one has can’t be matched. But man there’s also Sasageyo. Anyway, they stay pushing out bangers.
The early OP themes are pure government propaganda. The audience is literally being recruited to join the Corps and be meat fodder. Of course it slaps hard.
Starting with the Marley arc, we begin to feel the dark, slimey, oppressive, chilling reality of the world we have just discovered. And by the Rumble Arc, it's just oure insanity. The glorious thing is, even tho these OP theme music are written by different artists, they all entirely contributed to the story. You can suss out what the story is just based on the OP (and ED) theme. Unbelievable!
@@AllTheArtsy man that was a great read! Thanks for making my day.
@@AllTheArtsyYes, but unfortunately all of the non-Linked Horizon OPs suffer from incredibly poor visuals. The visuals from the LH intros are so good at telling the arc story that they can spoil the whole thing without the audience even realizing it
@@trequor that's.... literally the same for the other arcs. you can tell what's happening from the visuals. thats kind of just anime in general
I don't know who does your editing, but they deserve a raise. It's literally a main reason why I watch your content (along with your incredible knowledge and skill, obviously lol). I mean, in this video alone we have moments like 4:02, 6:46, 9:52, 11:45, 11:55, 12:32, and then all the subtitle things around the start of minute 13. Maybe they aren't just objectively funny, but I think they're hilarious! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge in such a fun, wholesome way, please never change!
By far my favorite is the fifth opening. The way Linked Horizon mashed up elements and melodies from the openings was brilliant. It's almost like they were saying "This is it. This is what it's all been leading up to." It was a perfect way to end that chapter of the story.
Keep in mind, though, that Linked Horizon is not a band. We can call it a "project" of the composer Revo. In fact, he's the one who composes, arranges and writes every piece.
@@Akira-ph5dv I knew it was Revo's project, but I didn't know Revo was the composer. Thanks for the neat fact. Makes what he accomplished all the more impressive.
@@devynthurman8444 No problem! I recommend you also to check out his main project Sound Horizon, if you don't know it yet. Maybe try Roman or Moira album ;)
100% agree. I dont think OP5 gets enough credit.
OP5 is definitely the MOST underrated.
It's my fav, it has a perfect mash up of all of the sounds we have come to learn in the first 2 seasons, and the lyrics give me the chills too
I can remember that wonderful first OP, and how "Guren No Yumiya" became such a meme. To me, especially that first open, it has such an epic show-stopping Bollywood quality to it. The full-length song, complete with the build-up to the intro -- and the outro which leads to the 2nd OP -- is even moreso epic.
I remember that too! I spent countless hours watching all the many ways the internet used the Attack on Titan OP. Loved it!
The composer of Attack on Titan music also did music on a Japanese RPG for the DS called Bravely Default before AoT, with the same "band" project, and it took me like 10 years to understand that, despite how similar both OSTs sound
And yeah, Bravely Default OST has definitely tons of interesting things going on to it too, especially "Serpent eating the ground", the final boss track that somehow mixes ultra distorted guitars, accordion and japanese flute solos, full choirs and epic blazing trumpets (mainly because he quotes a ton of themes from the rest of the game in this music, and also because the music matches what happens in the boss fight). So yeah, basically very similar to AoT
Some.goos Bravely Default music too. Also the brilliant covers by The Consouls.
My favorite AOT ost is Counter Attack-Mankind
Just listening the whole thing is like a roller coaster of story in itself
It starts out serene and went into an entirely different direction midway
And the mix of epic orchestras and more modern electronic musics made it soo good
Modulating up a minor third is a very popular move in symphonic metal. This theme seems to be drawing from that tradition.
Power metal all day. I use it a lot. It's a great go-to in any style I write in just about
I looked at some of the music myself when i watched the show. These minor and major third key changes are everywhere, and some like the one in "Vögel im Käfig" absolutely blow me away no matter how many times I hear them.
The sound they give off is beyond incredible and so fitting to the story. Really enhances the whole experience this anime has to offer.
Check out the 3rd opening (Shinzo wo Sasageyo) and the 6th opening (Boku no Sensou) lol, would love to hear analyses on those. Plus there’s always the iconic main insert theme that is itself called “Attack on Titan”, as well as “You See Big Girl” and “Rittaikidou” which are both cool.
Boku no Sensou has always been a favorite of mine!
I LOVE that you're including diagrams of the scales you're using. It's super helpful for me to get it.
Simple rhythm, harmony and melody as the foundation but key changes and the interludes really take that easy to understand, straightforward foundation and make it so much more interesting and add a ton to dig into. It’s cool how that relates the first season’s initial impression to the full story, where the greater context reveals complexity of the something that had appeared very simple
I love how you break down the musical composition to this masterpiece so simply, it makes me want to pick up from where I dropped off on your course since I’ve been slacking too much😅
oh and you completely left out the "JAEGAR!!" shout during the first chorus!!!!
I think the most amazing part of this series is not how it’s introduced me to so much amazing music, but how it’s reacquainted me with countless soundtracks/scores/whatevers that I thought I knew but in reality never did. Love music theory, love music, love the energy. My soul says thank you!
Waited so long to see your analysis of this song! I always loved the little run transition from Cmaj7 to G#m7, immediately caught my ear the first time I listened to the intro. Also great point about the minor 3rd shifts at the end, it’s cool that we can arrive back where we technically started though it’s still a much different feeling!
DUDE you are by far one of my favourite creators taking about music, I love how genuinely excited you get
Revo just woke up one day and told linked horizon to only drop generational bangers. Their music is absolutely timeless like each song is an experience. Funny enough the season two opening was able to make me feel patriotic for humanity. The songs make you feel like you are fighting alongside the characters it’s insane.
AOT has one of the best scores. There is a live perforlance of some of the most iconic soundtracks on youtube done by the original composer and the band. Really worth checking it out.
It's really fun to see the genuine joy on your face, going through the theme! :D It's like seeing what I bore my friends with, but online in a video lmao PLEASE do 4 more parts
There's a section from Guren No Yumiya that is referenced all throughout OPs 2, 3, and 5. The usage of that leitmotif is absolutely genius.
Definitely got to do some more form this series it is such a good anime with an amazing soundtrack to go with it plz do more and keep up the good work 👍🥁🎹💖
I’d love to see you do a full-on analysis on “siren harmonies.” There’s a 30 second Tiktok where 4 sirens went off at the same time and they sound incredible! I would love to see you do an analysis of the harmony and the chord structure to understand why they sound so otherworldly and give a sense of sadness and hope at the same time!
I always get so hyped from your reactions! I always want to see you play an entire cover without pauses too 😂😂
Thank you for the analytical work, the clarity and conciseness of your explanations
"I could easily make 4 more videos"
Man I was about to request that
The way you explain music so in depth is actually helping me understand harmony and music theory in 14 minutes even better than I do in college 😭
Could you do an analysis of the instrumental soundtracks?
my favourite intro is actually op 4(?) boku no sensou. its got such wild/crazy sounding chords which fits really well with how the show feels at that point. the piece is beautiful on piano too
Dude im just entering this world of composition and harmonies and stuff and every time i watch one of your videos im blown away by the creativity and resourcefulness of composers around the world!
If you think about it, the music is made like the anime, like how everyone's always swinging and launching themselves again and again and moving from one Titan to the next, so is the music and the way it keeps the chords n keys moving
I consider myself fairly musically literate until I watch your videos 😂 I know I'm not catching half of what you're teaching, but I'm still learning a ton of musical theory from you. Thanks for these videos, and keep up the great work!
Man, Revo (Linked Horizon) is such a great and talented composer. You know the song is going to be a banger when Revo is amongst its writer/composer. The 4 opening songs for AOT were all incorporated and connected like a story. That's the beauty of AOT (S1-S3) openings.
Listen to Moon Pride from Sailor Moon Crystal, he also written it❤
Your enthusiasm about the slightest things amaze me. And I keep coming back for more. :D
Love that visual you added for the scales.
The choir at the beginning of the full version is absolutely incredible
The soundtrack as a whole is so cool in a stylistic sense too.
These theme songs (by Linked Horizon) and the title track (by Hiroyuki Sawano) are in a symphonic metal style, which combines these epic arrangements with the POWERFUL sounds you get from rock instruments.
AOT is one of the few examples of symphonic metal in a soundtrack that I know of and it should be done way more imo.
I love watching videos like this. I dont know anything about muaic theory but i love hearing people who have such passion explain things they're passionate about
I'm all for you making extended videos of these, like analyzing the a few more soundtracks from the same show in it's entirety.
And I'm guessing most of people would love to see 35 to 40 minute videos of these
The season 1 theme is so killer! The season 2 theme is still epic but season 1 takes the cake so far in scale! I just started season 3
My favourite is the 5th opening.
Brilliant tune, I don't know music theory by any means. The key jumps almost make you feel like you are jumping over a gap and holding your breath then you land. Its crazy how music can make you feel.
Please check out the one punch man soundtrack particularly "Seigi shikkou" and "saitamas balld theme"
Hey I just learned about relative keys in music theory class and now this is perfect!
Literally all the music in the show, themes, intros, all of it is perfect!
I also love how the first opening is in German, not just Japanese. I only mention this because most openings are in Japanese, only going to English for some of the dubbed anime. Some openings were originally Korean before being translated and sung in Japanese.
One example I can think of are the Opening and Ending for Tower of God. Stray Kids wrote three versions of TOP (Opening) and SLUMP (Ending): the original Korean version, the Japanese version for the subbed anime, and the English version for the dub. All of the versions are amazing, by the way, so you should definitely check the songs out.
Anyway, Attack on Titan is the ONLY anime I know of that has German lines in its openings, and I think that's cool.
Lol about half of AoT's openings contain German and the other half are English. I always wondered why so many English lyrics were used for Attack on Titan.
I assumed Linked Horizon is a reference to the fusion of German and Japanese
It's a Japanese manga and an anime produced in Japan, so it's impossible for it to be written in Korean and changed to Japanese. Japanese and German from the beginning.
You should check out "God Shattering Star" from Fire Emblem: Three Houses! Seriously amazing, epic sounding piece in its harmony, orchestration, and rhythm!
Seconded - unreal track!
Yes please!!!
yes!! Alex Moukala did a video on it, explaining the orchestration side.
I'd love an analysis of Together We Ride
Love Fire Emblem music. The Consouls have done some banger covers too.
Absolutely quality video as always
can we just take a moment to appreciate the editing of this video, besides the content which is amazing as always?
The Bee major caught me off guard lmao
Finally getting Charles to check out Attack on Titan, you’ve opened the flood gate broo XD there are so many more pieces that people are about to request from you
Awesome content! I'm a piano teacher and I think your content will help me a lot with my students, just suscribed and activated the notifications :) All the best from Chile!
i love, 10 years later, you cover this intro. i love it so much
Have you ever considered mirroring the camera footage so that your hands line up with the keyboard overlay?
I really love the Hiroyuki Sawano's Project emU "Attack on Titan" suite. it's so amazingly composed. try and give it a listen.
My favorite is that little interlude, that caught me off guard when I first heard the opening ages ago!
Amazing to see genuine hype about how epic the music is in AOT. If there’s one piece I would love to watch you break down it would be Ashes on the fire from season 4 part 1, OMG it goes hard.
Please look at the super mario galaxy OST if you haven’t already
If you think there's a lot of good music on AoT wait till you discover that Sound Horizon and Linked Horizon is the same group and then you discover the album of Moira and ooooh my gods you're gonna have enough music to analyze for the coming year.
I swear Revo (the composer) went so hard with that album
Finally someone who mentions Revo the Emperor of Sound Horizon and his composition of his suites across the works. Even his SnK works reference melodies from his previous works.
Revo needs more recognition, he's such an amazing composer with his unique sound
Yes please upload 4 more videos. The editing in this video is refreshing.
So glad you took your musical analysis skills to this one!!
As a musician I can relate with the experience that this op brings since the very beginning. It caught me into AoT’s world and now I’m just waiting for the final part of the anime 😍👌🏼
Really something different from American copy paste pop music. This song is the real deal.
"There's so much great music in Attack on Titan. I could easily make like four more videos just going through different parts of the soundtrack." Yes, please. :)
I really love your videos Charles! But this one particularly because I felt that there was a bit more theory explanation which I liked. I always get excited when you upload and they’re good videos to watch when taking breaks from my own musical studies!
Heya! I have a suggestion! You should look at the music of the German band KraftWerk, who were like, the godfathers of electronic music, and their stuff is so cool and really musically interesting! I suggest lookibng at the "Man Machine" album first!
Talking about Kraftwerk (much as I love them) is a well-worn path, but it's always good to introduce more people to them so they know where a lot of things people keep for granted came from.
Can you pleaaaaasee take a look at the "Made in Abyss" soundtrack, its sooo beatuiful and complex, actually getting goosebumps. Im talking about "Old Stories" or "VOH" for example, overall Kevin Penkin is absolutely insane
That’s what I’m saying
Great breakdown of the song! You’re edits are hilarious and 🔥
Im a hobby musician and i obsessed over trying to figure this song out by ear during the pandemic and im so hyped to see it broken down like this, i mean i dont get the terms used but now i kinda understand the theory on it, i was scratching my head before like why do these key changes work, theres so much of them!! I can "feel" a pattern, kinda "feel" the idea and theory behind the key changes but all i am is self taught so i can only be happy that i can sort of figure out the song but not really.
Thank you for doing these with anime music and japanese music in general. Ive been loving these since the jojos and thunderbolt and really look forward to more. Cheers!
Charles is slowly turning into a weeb
WAKE UP HE POSTED!!!
Talking about minor third key changes made me think about Stacy's Mom where the key changes from E to G for the guitar solo/rest of the song.
I had the same exact reaction when listening to it and a mental breakdown when discussing it with a jazz player friend. The next themes of AoT also keep referring to this theme and bringing up the i-VI movement
am I insane or is this just "chocolate rain"?????????
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Very imformative ! Trying to undestand how you write music so this is very insightful
The buildup at 5:30 sound so much like Chopin - Raindrop Prelude (Op. 28 No. 15). If that doesn't sound familiar, it is the song from the Halo 3 Believe campaign ad. Instantly reminded me of the song and the commercial.
I love your content ESPECIALLY this!
A fun coincidence that this video came out on the same day as Seth Monahan's latest, which *also* talks about that trick of getting a stepwise descending bassline by alternating root position and first inversion chords (just in a different context).
Dude.... Your videos are like so overwhelming with lot if music theory that makes me feel like what the hell.... But then its so informative that I have to watch them three or four times to get it all absorbed....🙂
Seriously bro you give some awesome information..
Enjoyed this video sooo much!
I understood 3.6% of what you were talking about. But your enthusiasm and passion kept me watching. Great stuff
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選曲嬉しいです、ありがとうございます！
Another great analysis of some epic music (and Charles playing those chords sounds so lush)! Actuallygood timing with The Consouls Anime Radio next month!
Attack on Titan is hands down my favorite soundtrack in any anime/TV show. Masterpiece start to finish. Would love more videos covering it