It takes a bit of work to get things sounding as good as they do on this mix, at least from my observation, so props to Sean for working with UTAU pretty successfully - especially since it was his first rodeo.

There are often fleeting moments of uncanny valleyness where synthetic vocals can approach realism, but taken as a whole they just tend to have their own unique sound that some people love. Vocaloid, along with poster child Hatsune Miku, has sort of carved out its own aesthetic in the music world - no one's going to mistake it for a human. After the guitar solo, it ritards and goes back to being mellow and slows down considerably at the end as per the original. The arrangement starts mellow and slowly builds while gaining instrumentation, then bursts out into the rock section.

I bought the official piano book and used the exact same progression as the original source it is a little longer than the original because of the added guitar solo. Here, you get a very good helping of the source material, so it is definitely not too liberal this time around. 'Being a huge fan of Keiichi Okabe and his work on NieR, I figured it was time to make a Drakengard 3 remix to commemorate this fantastic new game! :) This is a pop/rock arrangement of 'Black Song (International).' The original name is much longer but 'International' means the same thing, haha.

Our first ReMix of Drakengard 3 comes from OCR newcomer sschafi1 (Sean Schafianski), who has conjured up a folk/rock ballad complete with a Japanese Vocaloid-style (technically the shareware alternative, UTAU) take on the source vocals/lyrics - he writes:

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