ELDEN RING OST Lichdragon Fortissax on Piano

Composer: Yoshimi Kudo Arrangement: Moonlapse This is definitely the most challenging one I have transcribed so far, and took me a while, but wow this song is so good. I just wish this boss took me more attempts because I was only able to really appreciate this tune listening to the OST afterword. Theory Comments There is some incredibly amazing harmony in this track, but I will start with something I found quite interesting two jazzy chord changes but applied in this epic orchestral context. In the main chorus of phase 2 (03:19), we have a fairly standard (but awesome) i VI ii V chord progression in Am. However, the main melody note lands hard on C, when we are on the B half diminished chord, which evokes a B locrian natural 2 sound. This scale is commonly in lots of jazz music used to attain and outside sound on improv when playing over a half diminished chord, but here Kudo uses that natural 2 as a main melody note, which in this context feels