Fellows: Difference between revisions

Vocals: [[Sanae Shintani|sana]]<br>

Length: 1:56 (uncut), 1:45 (REFLEC BEAT)<br>

* [[REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Upper]]

mado no soto hirogaru no wa mabushii Tomomitsu juutai no 246

** The beatmania / beatmania III version of fellows fades out after Sana's vocals are finished.

** The REFLEC BEAT version of fellows is slightly extended and edited, but still ends after the vocals have been sung.

* fellows' genre, EPILOGUE, is a reference to how beatmania THE FINAL was the last game in the original beatmania series.

* fellows is one of the few songs where its lyrics can be found on its [http://www.konami.jp/am/bm/final/music/fellows.html song production information site].

* fellows was Sanae Shintani's only song she ever sung exclusively for an arcade beatmania game.

* fellows was added to REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Upper on December 25th, 2014, as part of the 2nd Set ([[Yasuhiro Taguchi|TAG]]'s SELECTION) of the ''BEMANI MUSIC FOCUS'' unlocking system.  

** From September 17th, 2015 onwards, it can be purchased from the REFLEC Shop for 3800 Refle.

** In [[REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA]], fellows can be purchased in the Garage after obtaining 20 VOLZZA KEYs.

A lot of years have passed since the first time when I was involved in the production of beatmania.<br>

Initially when I participated, the seniors gave me lots of advice, and taught me the music and arrangement trends, and which game patterns were not suitable for beatmania, for example,<br>

• Repeating without progression is bad, always progress<br>

• The larger amount of sounds, the better<br>

• Assigning the bass sound to a key is bad<br>

And so on.<br>

Certainly, these methods really make sense for gameplay, and allowed to us to write our own songs, and also to subject the commissioned artists to the same direction as well. This worked so far.

However, through a variety of songs, I realized that maybe there is another method to have an interesting song, and at the very end of beatmania, I made all the NG techniques fly away. Let's make a good, interesting song. And with this enthusiasm, "fellows" was made.<br>

To the great beatmania which became even bigger, this is a thanks message.<br>

The organ of this song can be heard from the start of the song to the end, repeating the same performance of the four measures, is completely free of progressive melody, while the tracks have not more than 10 number of sounds, which is not suitable for the original beatmania, as the song has a extremely simple style progression with a small number of sounds.

For the vocals, I was looking for someone who her vocals were familiar in beatmania, so I asked Sana for her help.<br>

Even though this is officially my first collaboration with Sana, I think that her vocals are more delicious than those of any vocalist that I've heard.<br>

Her appearance to sing at the booth was very stylish, like the wind. Sana's experience began in beatmania. Since then she became a great musician, and that's really moving.<br>

Oh yeah, Sana's official site is now open, so please check it.

REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, and from 1 to 13 from VOLZZA onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from [http://bemaniwiki.com/ BEMANIWiki 2nd].)

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