Yes, it certainly left me speechless the first time I watched this. As you have just seen, Miyako (mi-YAH-ko) is a virtuoso on BOTH the guitar and piano. She also composed & arranged "Swan Song" which is a creatively blended speed-power/neoclassical metal masterpiece. You can hear motifs from Romantic-era composers Chopin (intro, main riff, solo) and Dvořák (chorus) throughout the song. To be blown-away by this band again, check out another one of their masterpieces - "A Frozen Serenade" LIVE : ua-cam.com/video/Ae8pQVu-RN8/v-deo.html
This song, for both its music AND lyrics, got me into this divine band and haven't looked back again since. I have my tickets for Milan and Paris. We all are going to have a blast my friend. Greetings from Greece.
Chopin (pronounced Show-pan) was a Polish-born Romantic-era (1800’s) classical composer and piano virtuoso who lived most of his life in France. He is considered one of the great classical composers, specializing in highly technical works for piano. "Etude" is French for "study". Chopin's Etudes were written as "studies", or lessons, for his students. They ended up being popular things for professional pianists to play as part of their concerts, in part to show off their skills. This is one of the more famous ones and is considered one of the most difficult ones. Miyako, who composes a lot of Lovebites’ music, is a professional-level concert pianist, and was originally going to make classical music her career. When she was 18, she picked up a guitar, and is now (quite obviously) an elite-level guitarist. She particularly likes the Romantic Era classical composers like Debussy, Dvořák and Chopin, as well as her stated favorite, Russian romantic composer Rachmaninoff. She composed “Swan Song” using elements of the New World Symphony (Dvořák) and Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude (official name Étude Opus 10, No. 12 in C minor), with a passage by Rachmaninoff as the outro. For this performance, she actually played the Etude as the intro, but it’s not normally included in their shows.
She is a musical savant. She put out a piano LP with metal songs she adjusted to make them piano pieces, the LP is stunning. Try Helloween's Eagle Fly Free cover ua-cam.com/video/-h3BLRs0Xr4/v-deo.html If you were impressed here wait for this cover that she reworked into a classical piano piece!!!! Every member of this band has insane talent and practice that talent till it is perfect especially when done LIVE. However, Miyako is something else there is nothing this woman can't do musically. Her YT channel will give you her true personality (gear nerd, Star Wars fanatic, etc....). Here is another epic masterpiece from the band. Remember Miyako's genius brain may come up with this but she still needs her insanely talented band-mates to be able to perform it. Happy Birthday to the Golden Touch member of the most insanely talented band performing LIVE.
you are one lucky lad to have scored a ticket to see them. but beware - now that people know - watch your back. you can never tell when someone will sneak up behind you !! you may want to consider a guarded deposit box !
I also have my ticket for Paris in June. If the quality of what we see on video is experienced live, I agree that I'll have the best concert of my life with Joe Satriani at Zenith in Paris.
I feel the same way you do, thinking about what I will witness in Atlanta in September. I've been to a lot of concerts wince my first in 1979. I'm a metalhead, period. Lovebites appeals to me by combining so many different aspects of metal I've heard in 50+ years. To me, there has never been a greater band, nor a greater dual lead guitar attack. Ever. And Miyako is a treasure, my now favorite musician ever. This song is a masterpiece of hers.
I have been into rock/metal since the 1960's and have seen too many bands to list here, but include many (most) of the greats from the period. Up until now, if asked 'what is the best gig you've ever been to' I would without hesitation have said Rush at Wembley Arena London in 1983. 2 hours of sheer musical genius, but, I have a strong suspicion that next June, at a small venue in south London, I'm going to have a new Best ! If someone had said to me, even 4 years ago, that I would be regarding 5 petite Japanese ladies as the best metal band I've ever heard, I would not have believed them, but I do ! I'm so happy that I have lived long enough to be able to enjoy this band.
LOVEBITES - Swan Song lyrics: If this was the last day you could live on this earth Would you still go on, accusing someone for today It’s better to fail than not do anything at all It is not the length, but depth of life that counts Oh brave soldier Oh gallant warrior Valor to those who died in battle to Valhalla Believe what’s in your soul For death will come to all You shall rest peacefully in God’s Heaven Floating lotus You are so graceful Saintly and glorious Till the end of time Floating lotus You are so beautiful Sing me your sweet song The legend of the swan If you’ve never hoped, you’ve never been through despair Ignorance is bliss, it’s easier to never care You might think it’s meaningless to sacrifice a life Sometimes the life of one can save so many more Oh brave soldier Oh gallant warrior Valor to those who died in battle to Valhalla Believe what’s in your soul For death will come to all You shall rest peacefully in God’s Heaven Floating lotus You are so graceful Saintly and glorious Till the end of time Floating lotus You are so beautiful Sing me your sweet song The legend of the swan SOLO: miyako / both Floating lotus You are so graceful Saintly and glorious Till the end of time Floating lotus You are so beautiful Sing me your sweet song The legend of the swan SOLO: midori [guitar] / miyako [piano] ----- lyrics: asami music: miyako arrangement: LOVEBITES (miho, haruna, midori, miyako, asami) album: Electric Pentagram 01/29/2020 ------
The Chopin piece Miyako (guitar/keyboards) is playing in the intro is "Etude OP10, No. 12" known as the "Revolutionary Etude." In 1831, some officers and citizens rose up against the Polish government, which was under the de facto control of the Russian Empire, in what was called the "November Revolution" but ended in failure due to the direct intervention of Russian troops. Chopin received this news during a performance tour. He never set foot on the soil of his homeland again. When the Russians invaded Warsaw, Chopin's agent presented "Etude OP10, No. 12" in Paris. Because of the agent's exaggerated publicity, people called this piece "Revolutionary Etude. Miyako composed "Swan Song" based on this "Revolutionary Etude" and Dvorak's "New World Symphony. Asami (vocalist), a former ballerina, wrote the lyrics based on the historical background of "Revolutionary Etude" and inspired by Norse mythology and the ballet suite "Swan Lake. "SwanSong" is a requiem dedicated to the warriors who fought to reclaim their homeland, a masterpiece that only LOVEBITES could complete.
THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE World Tour 2024 June 14 - New Cross Inn, London, UK (sold out) June 15 - Zik Zak, Ittre, BELGIUM June 18 - Club Vaudeville, Lindau, GERMANY June 19 - Legend Club, Milan, ITALY June 22 - Rock Imperium Festival, SPAIN June 25 - La Maroquinerie, Paris, FRANCE June 28 - Hellfest, FRANCE (on main stage, sold out) June 29 - Resurrection Fest, SPAIN July 4 - Roskilde Festival, DENMARK Sept 1 - Tokyo Garden Theater, Tokyo, JAPAN Sept 6 - ProgPower, Atlanta, USA (co-headliner, sold out) MORE DATES WILL BE ADDED
Anyone who doesn't feel that outro in their soul doesn't appreciate music in its purest form (regardless of genre). I listen to thrash metal 90% of the time but that ending gets me every time and it NEVER gets old. I could watch Miyako do anything on repeat and be totally happy. She IS the 8th Wonder of the World in my music world. This song is a F MASTERPIECE, thank you for doing it. 🤘
Every time I see this video I can’t help but think this is my favorite Lovebites song - the lyrics, the main riff and the solo section is perfection. Of course the next LB song I hear might give me the same thoughts, but Swan Song is close to perfection! 🤘🎸🐺
Ticket secured for the Tokyo concert in September... I've seen them live already, I know what to expect from them, but I can't wait to see them again and again🤘🐺🤘 I'm just happy it's a world tour so you guys can witness the glory by yourselves! Please treat them with love🙇🙏
Hi Mate, I'll look out for you in London next June 👍 If you haven't done so yet, give the live versions of A Frozen Serenade and Edge of the World a listen. Both demonstrate that Lovebites are far more than a run of the mill metal band. It's hard to find a bad song from them, I know I haven't yet in the 3 years since I found them. Keep Rocking Brother 🤘🐺
I’ll try and seek you out at the New Cross Inn in June. Lucky me will then be jetting out to Lindau (via Zurich), across the Alps to Milan and then to Paris for 3 of the next four gigs of the tour. Nudger, I have seen the band four times already and I can promise you that you have a ticket for the best concert of your entire life. You might like the band now, but you’ll be in love with every single one of them by the time it’s over. Asami isn’t pronounced how you pronounce it (Asarmy] it’s a hard “A” in the middle of the name (so you pronounce the two “A’s the same). No, I’m not showing off, I pronounced it just like you until I was corrected by none other than Miyako when I was lucky enough to literally bump into her in the street in Osaka. Corrected politely of course…she just said the name after I did, and I got the message!
Great reaction. Yes, Asami is a female Bruce Dickinson and Lovebites is a female Iron Maiden advanced version. You sound like saying Miyoko but her name is Miyako, but again Miyoko is very common girl's name in Japan outnumbers Miyako.
how you can resist binge watching everything lovebites puzzles me ... i know you wanna go blind into reactions but dude there is soooooo much epicness to discover !!!
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Yes, it certainly left me speechless the first time I watched this. As you have just seen, Miyako (mi-YAH-ko) is a virtuoso on BOTH the guitar and piano. She also composed & arranged "Swan Song" which is a creatively blended speed-power/neoclassical metal masterpiece. You can hear motifs from Romantic-era composers Chopin (intro, main riff, solo) and Dvořák (chorus) throughout the song. To be blown-away by this band again, check out another one of their masterpieces - "A Frozen Serenade" LIVE : ua-cam.com/video/Ae8pQVu-RN8/v-deo.html
Thank you for all your reactions to lovebites, They really are the Best Band!!
I 100% agree with you 😁😁
This song, for both its music AND lyrics, got me into this divine band and haven't looked back again since. I have my tickets for Milan and Paris. We all are going to have a blast my friend. Greetings from Greece.
One of the masterpiece songs from the Metal Queens 🤘. Happy birthday to Miyako who had her birthday on April 5th.
いつもLOVEBITESのリアクションありがとうございます！
ロンドンでのコンサートも是非楽しんでください！
👍👍Awesomely awesome performance. 🖖❤
🐺LOVEBITES RULES🐺
Chopin (pronounced Show-pan) was a Polish-born Romantic-era (1800’s) classical composer and piano virtuoso who lived most of his life in France. He is considered one of the great classical composers, specializing in highly technical works for piano. "Etude" is French for "study". Chopin's Etudes were written as "studies", or lessons, for his students. They ended up being popular things for professional pianists to play as part of their concerts, in part to show off their skills. This is one of the more famous ones and is considered one of the most difficult ones. Miyako, who composes a lot of Lovebites’ music, is a professional-level concert pianist, and was originally going to make classical music her career. When she was 18, she picked up a guitar, and is now (quite obviously) an elite-level guitarist. She particularly likes the Romantic Era classical composers like Debussy, Dvořák and Chopin, as well as her stated favorite, Russian romantic composer Rachmaninoff. She composed “Swan Song” using elements of the New World Symphony (Dvořák) and Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude (official name Étude Opus 10, No. 12 in C minor), with a passage by Rachmaninoff as the outro. For this performance, she actually played the Etude as the intro, but it’s not normally included in their shows.
She is a musical savant. She put out a piano LP with metal songs she adjusted to make them piano pieces, the LP is stunning. Try Helloween's Eagle Fly Free cover ua-cam.com/video/-h3BLRs0Xr4/v-deo.html If you were impressed here wait for this cover that she reworked into a classical piano piece!!!!
Every member of this band has insane talent and practice that talent till it is perfect especially when done LIVE. However, Miyako is something else there is nothing this woman can't do musically. Her YT channel will give you her true personality (gear nerd, Star Wars fanatic, etc....). Here is another epic masterpiece from the band. Remember Miyako's genius brain may come up with this but she still needs her insanely talented band-mates to be able to perform it. Happy Birthday to the Golden Touch member of the most insanely talented band performing LIVE.
They are all beautiful and i cant wait to see them live in London
And animal lover, Wampa will steal your heart 🐕 😃
you are one lucky lad to have scored a ticket to see them. but beware - now that people know - watch your back. you can never tell when someone will sneak up behind you !! you may want to consider a guarded deposit box !
I also have my ticket for Paris in June. If the quality of what we see on video is experienced live, I agree that I'll have the best concert of my life with Joe Satriani at Zenith in Paris.
I feel the same way you do, thinking about what I will witness in Atlanta in September. I've been to a lot of concerts wince my first in 1979. I'm a metalhead, period. Lovebites appeals to me by combining so many different aspects of metal I've heard in 50+ years. To me, there has never been a greater band, nor a greater dual lead guitar attack. Ever. And Miyako is a treasure, my now favorite musician ever. This song is a masterpiece of hers.
I have been into rock/metal since the 1960's and have seen too many bands to list here, but include many (most) of the greats from the period. Up until now, if asked 'what is the best gig you've ever been to' I would without hesitation have said Rush at Wembley Arena London in 1983. 2 hours of sheer musical genius, but, I have a strong suspicion that next June, at a small venue in south London, I'm going to have a new Best ! If someone had said to me, even 4 years ago, that I would be regarding 5 petite Japanese ladies as the best metal band I've ever heard, I would not have believed them, but I do ! I'm so happy that I have lived long enough to be able to enjoy this band.
LOVEBITES - Swan Song lyrics:
If this was the last day you could live on this earth
Would you still go on, accusing someone for today
It’s better to fail than not do anything at all
It is not the length, but depth of life that counts
Oh brave soldier
Oh gallant warrior
Valor to those who died in battle to Valhalla
Believe what’s in your soul
For death will come to all
You shall rest peacefully in God’s Heaven
Floating lotus
You are so graceful
Saintly and glorious
Till the end of time
Floating lotus
You are so beautiful
Sing me your sweet song
The legend of the swan
If you’ve never hoped, you’ve never been through despair
Ignorance is bliss, it’s easier to never care
You might think it’s meaningless to sacrifice a life
Sometimes the life of one can save so many more
Oh brave soldier
Oh gallant warrior
Valor to those who died in battle to Valhalla
Believe what’s in your soul
For death will come to all
You shall rest peacefully in God’s Heaven
Floating lotus
You are so graceful
Saintly and glorious
Till the end of time
Floating lotus
You are so beautiful
Sing me your sweet song
The legend of the swan
SOLO: miyako / both
Floating lotus
You are so graceful
Saintly and glorious
Till the end of time
Floating lotus
You are so beautiful
Sing me your sweet song
The legend of the swan
SOLO: midori [guitar] / miyako [piano]
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lyrics: asami
music: miyako
arrangement: LOVEBITES (miho, haruna, midori, miyako, asami)
album: Electric Pentagram 01/29/2020
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The Chopin piece Miyako (guitar/keyboards) is playing in the intro is "Etude OP10, No. 12" known as the "Revolutionary Etude."
In 1831, some officers and citizens rose up against the Polish government, which was under the de facto control of the Russian Empire, in what was called the "November Revolution" but ended in failure due to the direct intervention of Russian troops. Chopin received this news during a performance tour. He never set foot on the soil of his homeland again. When the Russians invaded Warsaw, Chopin's agent presented "Etude OP10, No. 12" in Paris. Because of the agent's exaggerated publicity, people called this piece "Revolutionary Etude.
Miyako composed "Swan Song" based on this "Revolutionary Etude" and Dvorak's "New World Symphony.
Asami (vocalist), a former ballerina, wrote the lyrics based on the historical background of "Revolutionary Etude" and inspired by Norse mythology and the ballet suite "Swan Lake.
"SwanSong" is a requiem dedicated to the warriors who fought to reclaim their homeland, a masterpiece that only LOVEBITES could complete.
THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE World Tour 2024
June 14 - New Cross Inn, London, UK (sold out)
June 15 - Zik Zak, Ittre, BELGIUM
June 18 - Club Vaudeville, Lindau, GERMANY
June 19 - Legend Club, Milan, ITALY
June 22 - Rock Imperium Festival, SPAIN
June 25 - La Maroquinerie, Paris, FRANCE
June 28 - Hellfest, FRANCE (on main stage, sold out)
June 29 - Resurrection Fest, SPAIN
July 4 - Roskilde Festival, DENMARK
Sept 1 - Tokyo Garden Theater, Tokyo, JAPAN
Sept 6 - ProgPower, Atlanta, USA (co-headliner, sold out)
MORE DATES WILL BE ADDED
Another masterpiece performed to perfection. Great reaction, have a great time at the concert! 🤘🎹🎸🎤🔥🐺
wow!!!! grt song
Anyone who doesn't feel that outro in their soul doesn't appreciate music in its purest form (regardless of genre). I listen to thrash metal 90% of the time but that ending gets me every time and it NEVER gets old. I could watch Miyako do anything on repeat and be totally happy. She IS the 8th Wonder of the World in my music world. This song is a F MASTERPIECE, thank you for doing it. 🤘
your welcome dude .
Every time I see this video I can’t help but think this is my favorite Lovebites song - the lyrics, the main riff and the solo section is perfection. Of course the next LB song I hear might give me the same thoughts, but Swan Song is close to perfection! 🤘🎸🐺
Sooo good...as always
Ticket secured for the Tokyo concert in September... I've seen them live already, I know what to expect from them, but I can't wait to see them again and again🤘🐺🤘
I'm just happy it's a world tour so you guys can witness the glory by yourselves! Please treat them with love🙇🙏
Hi Mate, I'll look out for you in London next June 👍
If you haven't done so yet, give the live versions of A Frozen Serenade and Edge of the World a listen. Both demonstrate that Lovebites are far more than a run of the mill metal band. It's hard to find a bad song from them, I know I haven't yet in the 3 years since I found them.
Keep Rocking Brother 🤘🐺
cheers yeah ill give them a listen . and hopefully we can hang out at the concert
Love Lovebites 🐺🤘🏴
Miyako is not only fantastic, she is Goddess of music.😃
See you at the New Cross Inn in June! 😀
That would be Awesome to meet you guys there
@@SpaceNudger Only just over two months. Can't wait.
I doubt that they'll have enough room for a grand piano at the New Cross Inn ☺☺. And re- your Bruce Dickinson comparison - can he do it in heels? 😂😂
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.The end of that piano was related to Poland's failed uprising resulting so many Polish death. Poland went on to gain independance finally.
I’ll try and seek you out at the New Cross Inn in June. Lucky me will then be jetting out to Lindau (via Zurich), across the Alps to Milan and then to Paris for 3 of the next four gigs of the tour. Nudger, I have seen the band four times already and I can promise you that you have a ticket for the best concert of your entire life. You might like the band now, but you’ll be in love with every single one of them by the time it’s over.
Asami isn’t pronounced how you pronounce it (Asarmy] it’s a hard “A” in the middle of the name (so you pronounce the two “A’s the same). No, I’m not showing off, I pronounced it just like you until I was corrected by none other than Miyako when I was lucky enough to literally bump into her in the street in Osaka. Corrected politely of course…she just said the name after I did, and I got the message!
Great reaction. Yes, Asami is a female Bruce Dickinson and Lovebites is a female Iron Maiden advanced version. You sound like saying Miyoko but her name is Miyako, but again Miyoko is very common girl's name in Japan outnumbers Miyako.
ok ill try to say it correctly in future 😁
@@SpaceNudger Lol, you take your time and nobody cares the difference anyway. lol
In background and at the end, You can hear another Chopin etude "Ocean" prerecorded always by Miyako!
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Her name is Miyako, not Miyoko! 🎹🔥🤘