Black Knife Choral/Acapella Cover ~ Deltarune Ch 3

It's finally DONE!!! This is my original acapella arrangement of Black Knife from the Deltarune Chapter 3 OST! The entire process of working on this from start to finish has taken like...about four months lol, but I just couldn't post it until I finally felt satisfied with it--and now I am! And although I hate that I have to say this, because it's necessary: I created this all with my own two hands, and no AI was used whatsoever!!! That includes the art in the video--I drew that myself based on the cold place in Ch3! (Avoiding saying more to avoid spoilers~) I'm quite proud of how this came out. It was a pretty big challenge trying to figure out how to turn a song with such prominent percussion into an acapella piece that would still carry the right amount of weight, and I had to make a lot of different attempts before settling on this approach. In the end, I chose to keep the percussion minimal and used only a little bit of beatboxing, a finger cymbal, and a rainstick as texture in a few small parts--and for the rest, I put the focus on vocals! I played with a lot of dissonance across the various choral parts to try and mimic some of the strangeness you can feel in the original, as well as jumping up and down octaves to make the transitions between parts feel a little greater :D Some extra notes on low vocals! As ever, I asked my husband to help with some of the lower notes, hehe~ But I ALSO had some other help, in a sense: I used KAITO (the Vocaloid3 version) to fill out the lower vocals as well! Usually I'll just take my own voice and pitch it down an octave, but I LOVE how adding him on top of doing that really added some extra texture to the cover and made it all feel more filled out! Thanks for reading, and I hope you like the cover! ^^ I know I've been covering a lot of Deltarune music on my channel lately, but I just really enjoy it and it's been inspiring me a ton lately, so I'm following my heart~