Piano Cover: Partner for Life

So it's been one of those semesters. Maybe it's senioritis; maybe it's the feeling of impending doom associated with graduating from college and moving on with life; maybe it's the realization that my time remaining with my Duke friends is limited, but my experience so far this semester has been kind of difficult to describe. I've been doing a lot of reflecting on my college career as it steadily draws to a close, and of course, you can't reflect without thinking about where it all began: my freshman year.

If I could define my freshman year of college through music, a major part would definitely include a small collection of Korean songs that my roommate looped through his iTunes playlist, including such hits as BIGBANG's Lies, Epik High's Love Love Love, and a number of arrangements of Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, among other gems. One such song (which, gasp, is the one I'm posting about today) was a ballad by Korean group SG Wannabe, called Partner For Life (내사람, or "Nae Saram," in Korean). Although it didn't catch my attention immediately (the other pieces were somewhat catchier), I eventually heard an beautiful a capella rendition of the piece at the 2008 Lunar New Year festival. Immediately thereafter, I became enamored with the piece, looked forward to the times it appeared on my roommate's playlist (by then, I had the order essentially memorized), and eventually began to figure it out on piano. :)

내사람 (Partner For Life): Piano Cover



Artist: SG Wannabe
Date Completed: 2010-10-21
Number of Takes: 4
Software: Audacity
Instrumentation: Piano

This arrangement is a little more straightforward than my other ones; it's more of a transcription than much of an arrangement. Still, what makes SG Wannabe so appealing to me is their fantastic choice of harmony, rife with modulations and secondary chords; it's rather different than the three-to-four-chord pop songs that have nearly saturated the music world. Good stuff.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it! Perhaps one day in the distant (or not-so-distant) future, my former roomie will stumble across this blog post and relive some old memories. This one's for you, buddy.

Take care,

xds