Kick Back (Chainsaw Man OP)-Kenshi Yonezu

KICK BACK - Kenshi Yonezu - Chainsaw Man OP - Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Cover

I cosplay as Denji from Chainsaw Man and cover the opening song “KICK BACK”

Guitar: Avian Songbird 5A

Subtitles by @AlessandroColonnese, thanks!

📙 SONG INFO

● Song: KICK BACK

● Anime: Chainsaw Man / チェンソーマン

● Original by: Kenshi Yonezu

⭐ The Arrangement

Key changes have always been a challenge to arrange for fingerstyle guitar because key changes are a major factor in an arranger's choice of tuning and capo placement. When there's a key change that transposes the whole song a semitone up, a switch in capo position is sometimes made, usually through the help of a glider or clamp capo.

In this song there are many key changes, and they're not the common "transpose one semitone up as the final chorus". The bassline is the bread and butter of this song, and I wanted to keep as much of it as possible. I found that using a spider capo and reversing two of it's pegs was a good way to make certain notes easier to access across the key changes. This change the capo on two G strings with one finger while not creating a gap in the performance.

I struggled to get this arrangement to a presentable state. I thought about just giving up on this song multiple times through this past half year because I couldn't get it to a decent speed. But everytime I thought about that, I told myself that spending all that time 3D printing and painting the cosplay helmet would have gone to waste. At first I was struggling at 90 BPM, but was able to gradually build it up to 170 BPM until it was ready to record. I considered getting it up to 205 BPM but it was just not feasible with my current skill.

Arranging it was so confusing I that I gaslit myself into believing there are multiple time signature changes in the verse and chorus (there aren't). I'm sorry about these mistakes.