I Wrote An Anime Opening In 30 Seconds | 2 Minutes | 10 Minutes | 1 Hour | 5 Hours

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Published 2020-09-07
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I've always loved anime openings for their energy and emotion. In this video I make 5 of my own in 30 Seconds | 2 Minutes | 10 Minutes | 1 Hour | 5 Hours!

Living in the Shadows: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/musicalbasics/living-in-…
Fight For Freedom: spoti.fi/2FqxQgB

Special thanks to Jonathan Morris for helping me finish and perform the 1 Hour piece, "Living In The Shadows."
Standalone versions here:
1 Hour Piece "Living In the Shadows": bit.ly/LivingInTheShadowsPianoSolo
The OG version (before Jonathan Morris's edit):    • A Soul In Pain | Beautiful Piano Music  
5 Hour Piece "Fight For Freedom": bit.ly/FightForFreedomPianoSolo

Listen on Apple Music:
Fight For Freedom: apple.co/3k8LROi

Sheet Music:
Living in the Shadows: bit.ly/2GQZ93T
Fight For Freedom: bit.ly/3bK05lU

Jonathan's notes on the Living In The Shadows:
This piece is about the struggle of being separated from the people you love. I imagine the anime character being forced to walk a lonely path by an otherworldly force.The music reflects their struggle to find their way home by trying to understand this force that is holding them back.Through overcoming a series of challenges, they are able to find the strength to return home, but only after numerous failed attempts and dangerous encounters.

FULL Composing process for "Living In The Shadows" (1 Hour Piece):    • Writing "Living In The Shadows" (1 Ho...  

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All Comments (21)
  • @hyper7747
    My man said “improvising what’s in my head” and played a whole ass song
  • @Rhuke
    His soundtracks remind me, of the cool songs you make up in your head, but forget about after a day and get angry since you can't find it again.
  • him: “it takes lots of time” also him: writes a banger in 30 seconds
  • @vibin9476
    My guy wrote a whole fucking masterpiece while he was “improvising”
  • @UrbanPanic
    The five hour version is definitely the most well flushed out and feels coherent as an opener. The overall wistful tone of the one hour version feels more like an end credits theme, alluding to variations on one main theme introduced through the movie while a slideshow of stylized representations of stills from pivotal moments fades from one image to the next, recapping the story and growth of the main hero. It feels like the viewers already know the characters.
  • @xxdot1124
    “Living In The Shadows”- 9:00 “Fight For Freedom”- 17:25 This is mainly for myself but anyone can use it! :)
  • "Living in the Shadows" - Dude just wrote the score to my new favorite anime that doesn't exist....
  • @Lena-xz1xw
    He really didn't write an anime opening, he wrote a whole anime, all in music. Stunning.
  • “Living in the shadows” actually inspired me to come up with two different story concepts called “Shadow-box” and “Thenafter” respectively, one is about a girl in a literal cycle of abuse as they are forced to relive the same memory until they can break the cycle, and the other is about the scars a hero bears after returning home from their journey
  • Living in shadows, was like some sort of a rollercoaster of emotions, relaxing and epic, i forgot that it was a video not a real video for the song
  • @elalan4879
    Dont worry guys, he has already written all the manga
  • @daftix
    People actually thumbs down? Tf wrong with y’all, this vid is awesome and refreshing and very creative l; I just found ur channel and I’m very happy! I can’t wait to go down ur list of vids and explore ur channel more! Much appreciation for what u do here!
  • @izoraiza7169
    The 1 hour one brought back memories of the time I watched Tokyo Ghoul with my dog. He died back in 2019 due to old age and the last anime opening he heard was Tokyo Ghoul Unravel. The last anime he watched was Tokyo Ghoul. We watched it together and never finished it together. Took me about 15 months after he died to even start Watching Tokyo Ghoul again so that I could finish it and not leave myself wondering anymore.... I couldn't even watch the rest without crying a bit because of the memories and knowing that my dog would never know the ending of it... Anyways it's a really good piece to listen to...
  • @imjustkenough
    people: Rome wasn’t built in a day MusicalBasics: Gimme 10 minutes
  • @taylorjelie4687
    I’m not only impressed by the way he can write this music, but also his fantastic piano playing skills. Wow
  • @miinya8592
    "Fight for freedom" is the type of opening that gets played during the season finale and gets you hype as fuck