Bling-Bang-Bang-Born (With Japanese lyrics and chords) - Creepy Nuts

By Creepy Nuts for Mashle: Magic and Muscles - The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam

(マッシュル-MASHLE- 神覚者候補選抜試験編), 2024.

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Please, notice that the vocals are written using a treble clef with the numeral 8 below it 𝄠 (a suboctave clef). This indicates that the pitches sound one octave below the written score. Play the right hand one octave lower than written. I also *doubled note values* to make sightreading easier for beginners. The track isn't recorded in the 2/2 time.

Remember that the notation system was not intended to represent the sound of modern pop music with its layered vocal, computer-generated sounds, and inflections of modern electronic instruments. My piano sheet music can only show you the score within the boundaries of the twelve-note scale and a metered rhythm; alas, the pitch and rhythm have little to do with the aesthetic value of the track. Listen to the song before practicing to fully imitate the beauty of the song: its *timbre, phrasing, inflections.* Play the song, not sheet music. Sing a phrase before playing it on your keyboard.

Imitate the vocal delivery by Creepy Nuts or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is rhythmic, relatively rigid and precisely timed, so it produces not much of a melody for the right hand. The melodic line is built on repetition of one note. The composition lacks intervallic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer. The rap part is of an indefinite pitch. I notated it as chanting on the tonic note. A predominant vocal style is *staccato*.

_"Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"_ is played with a straight rhythm in common time. It is easy to count for beginners; accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. Practice _"Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"_ slowly along with the recording.

To keep listeners attention, the *chorus* was made to be the biggest part of the song. I colored it *blue* for your convenience: it is easier to learn a piece of music when you have a mental scheme of it. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

A single vocal line accompanied by an instrumental part constitutes the entire musical texture. _"Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"_ has a semi-improvised, loosely organized and wandering melody and heterophonic arrengement: the instrumental part has its own melody.

_"Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"_ is transcribed in the original *key,* A Minor but the underlying harmony lacks motion and is fundamentally static: there is no sense of harmonic progression, only a riff.

00:07 Verse I

00:32 Verse II

00:58 Chorus

01:39 Verse III

01:52 Verse IV

02:17 Chorus