Circles

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Circles

Song Information

Artist: Thomas Howard Lichtenstein
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics/Vocals/Chorus/Other Instruments & Programming: Thomas Howard Lichtenstein
Guitars: Hirayama Kunitsugu
Mixing: Mutsuhiko Izumi
BPM: 120
Length: 1:43
Movie: もっちー (illustrations by 岩田幸之)
First Music Game Appearance: GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Feels like I'm going around in circles
Feels like I'm spinning upside down
Feels like I'm going around in circles
Feels like I'm spinning upside down

But I know... it's just you
Doing what you always do
And it's easy to see
What do you to me

Tell you I don't know why
Feels like I could touch the sky
And it's easy to see
What do you to me

Song Connections / Remixes

  • Circles is included on Thomas Howard Lichtenstein's Even More Now album.

Trivia

  • Circles is Thomas Howard Lichtenstein's first BEMANI song composed by himself.

Song Production Information

Thomas Howard Lichtenstein

About the song "Circles":

I was walking home from the train station after work one night. It was dark and no one was around.
I found my self humming a bluesy kind of melody.
"What's that?" I wondered. I started adding words to it as I walked. "Feels like I'm going around in circles/ feels like I'm spinning upside down..."
The lyrics are about how a woman can make you feel crazy :-)

I liked the sound of it, so I came up with verse to go with the refrain.
Then I thought, hey... this melody would sound great with a 70's style soul/funk/M.O.R. groove.
So, when I got home I started playing around with keyboard parts and drumbeats on my computer until I came up with a groove that seemed to fit the song perfectly.
I worked on it until 6 in the morning!

Then I sent the track to my friend Hirayama Kunitsugu san and asked him to add some guitar parts.

I didn't think this was a typical track you would hear in GF or DM, because it's pretty laid back but I sent it to KONAMI anyway.
To my surprise they decided to include it in the games!

I want to especially thank Izumi Mutsuhiko san for his help with the mix and re-working the arrangement (length) on "Circles" so it would fit in the game format. He has a magic touch!

I hope you all have a lot of fun playing drums, guitar, and bass along with this song and its relaxed 70's feel. Thanks for playing!

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

GF/DM difficulty rated from 1 to 99. (Ratings obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game Drums Guitar Bass Open
Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme
Notecounts 204 423 566 205 214 214 196 196 - 205 214 214
GF/DM V3 15 37 58 19 23 26 17 23 - 20 23 27
GF/DM V4→V8 15 ↓34 58 19 23 26 17 23 - 20 23 27
GF/DM V3 CS 15 37 58 19 23 26 17 23 - 20 23 27