genshin concert LA 2023 full show

Feel free to ask any questions if my explanation was unclear in any parts!

@@MidnightCityMusic I was at the LA venue as well! I was in a symphony for a good portion of my childhood so I have a decent grasp on music theory and whatnot, and I could definitely tell that they struggled with the polyrhythms, especially with "rapid as wildfires" and dvalin's battle theme. Like you mentioned, sound hits everyone's ears based on where they're located within the venue, so its easy for slip ups to occur, though they did a good job of correcting their mistakes and coming back together. I was sitting in the upper left mezzanine close to the wall so the sound definitely bounced off the walls a bit before reaching us, which probably amplified the discrepancies. It was still an amazing show nonetheless!
I brought my boyfriend with me to the concert, and he's not as well versed with the soundtrack as I am, and genuinely could not tell that some of the rhythms were off until we got back to the car and played them from the album for him to hear. To someone whos never heard it before, it still sounded amazing. One thing that I noticed with the Liyue (mainly Rex Incognito) is that they used the violin section to emulate the erhu that can be heard in his trailer. I had mixed feelings on how much I liked it initially but after going back and listening a few times it's grown on me quite a bit.
I'm definitely glad I got to go to the concert, the ticket release was right around my birthday, so it was a belated treat for myself. Genshin's soundtrack is easily my favorite by far and has inspired me to get back into making piano/symphonic covers of various tracks. I have a lot of work cut out for me in 2024 but hearing amazing compositions like these keep me going!
(Also I absolutely love your work along with tnbee, you guys are my role models and I aspire to one day be as skillful as the two of you! Keep up the amazing work!)

All that being said, as professionals for a paid concert they should have prepared for the problems you described, if they at least anticipated of them. No excuses.

@@miiyakoi.mp3210 You're absolutely right! I think the bouncing off the wall probably made it sound a bit worse, as well as sitting further from the stage. I was sitting with some fellow content creators in Orchestra Right so I was sliightly closer to the stage. I've gotta go back to listen to Rex Incognito then! I do remember the violin solo being a bit covered up in the mix, but maybe it'll grow on me too!
Thank you for your kind words!! Your Yoimiya arrangement sounds great 🤩 I think if you upload regularly, your mix and orchestration will improve really fast! I hope to see more of your content in the future :D

@@alanOHALAN Absolutely agree! Imo the biggest part of being a professional musician is delivering the "product" at a high standard no matter what. Maybe in the future, Hoyo will have to pay for more rehearsal time/space. The Shanghai performance sounded amazing, so we know it can be done.

The harmonics are very clean

Reminds me of twosetviolin: they also did the liyue theme

@@user-ce7ic1ze2u Am I not a ligit twosetter anymore?! Didn't see that!

The reason why we all felt underwhelm or just downright ripped off was that Genshin is supposed to be well rehearsed with cultural melodies played by cultural instruments. This concert only has a Koto (Japanese Harp) everything else was a replacement. It was insulting and aweful. The couple next to me were NOT impressed. I wasn't either. I payed $1500 for the hotels, plane ticket, ticket itself to see this. Shame on the organizers. They clearly didn't rehearse.

@@yharnamiyhill787 is this for real? I usually dont attend stuff like this so I am wondering :3
saw some nice stuff they shown online about the previous concerts and they looked pretty good

​@@luxvita2815Best concert was the concert in Shanghai

Damn that sucks. I attended the one in Boston and it was amazing. People were cheering and screaming and clapping between every song. The energy was high, and there was a buzz in the atmosphere through out the night and after the concert.

@@billyfraiser6298 yeah watching the other concerts and hearing other peoples’ experiences make me a little sad for what could’ve been

I wasent let down by the playlist as it seemed to be almost identical at majority of concerts, but the people playing the music felt like they have only seen the sheet music for a week now. Someone else in Boston said the same thing which is disappointing. My only wish is that they see how many people love this music and want to see it live, so they actually invest much more into it next year.
I am sure the performers on stage are extremely talented but they felt unrehearsed for this setlist and im not sure if thats hoyo to blame or the company they are using for the performers

@@sewdclass10 guys, same at London. really frustrating not to have backing vocals. When we compare to Shanghai it's just a joke. I had a great time but still came away a little disappointed.
I have already attended many symphony concerts and this one we had the impression that there were note errors, or instruments that overshadowed the others too much.
Considering the price of the ticket, it's not normal to have a performance like this. Or was the orchestra not good enough? We'll never know.

​@@sewdclass10 * if we need to go at shangai for enjoy, its a problem

@@maelka7969 so i did some research into this after my last comment and found some things. First the orchestra was filled with top notch professionals. The big issue at least for LA was according to one of the performers from the orchestra the first time they even saw the sheet music was one week before, and the first time they ever played it together was 3 hours before the event started. That alone would cause even the best performers out there to mess up some parts because its still new to them. This issue is top priority and needs addressed for the future.

Sumeru has different to get instruments and players esp hard to find in USA since those are mostly Indian/Arabic, etc instruments. That's why only few Sumeru tracks live there at LA.. sadly we still in this age aren't capable to hire any kind of musician in any part of the world 😮‍💨

@@SamuraiSx19 its more sad american or western musicians don't play asian instruments as part of their repertoire, hopefully the popularity of genshin can make a change of that.

YA IKR but to be fair the first concert was September 29, 2023 and idk when the genshin concert tour was first announced and how long every orchestra had to rehearse and practice (probably around a year if I had to guess). sumeru came out August 24, 2022. idk if you noticed too but during the sumeru songs they literally showed under development footage on the big screen LOL (bottom right says “This is under development and is not indicative of the final product”). it could also be like an issue with communication since LA and many other concerts are overseas (i wouldn’t be surprised if the other concerts overseas played the same exact songs too). i saw a list of what every concert was supposed to play and this concert followed exactly that.

Man the thing is it's gotta be hard for them finding artist for the sumeru traditional instruments

I think the reason they couldn't play arana theme/surasthana fantasia was bc they didn't have a chorus. why idk

@@jaspercheng9283 we still have other songs though

@@Rezoruu apparently the orchestra musicians (in US) were hired at different places for the show only, with probably just 1 rehearsal a day before the concert. At least this is what happened on October 28th Boston's concert. It definitely explained why there's so many issues from communication, logistics, instrumentation, and orchestra playing itself. I assumed no musician they hired actually played Genshin game or music at all, their understanding to the music itself is very very poor, which resulted in a lot of detail and musicality execution issues.
I'll see how the rest of the US concert goes. Probably I'll send an email to Mihoyo on this and explain some issues that observed and offer some potential solutions to make it better. First year is always rough.

Pretty clear Hoyo did not have the budget. They only had the guest Guzheng player, as she was also at Chicago's. Chicago's was MUCH better performed though. A dragging instrument here or there but that's it.

@@stermyplatinum7870 saying hoyo of all companies didn’t have the budget for a concert like this considering the price of the tickets and the mass amount of merch sales is a bit crazy

ah okay thanks for the info! i just couldn't figure out what was specifically playing starting at 10:43 to 11:16 but it sounded similar to Imminent Triumph or Knighthood Excellence to me idk. but after checking back to the first concert in 2021, you're definitely right. they played the same exact track and the top comment put Knights of Favonius for the entire section.

its named "knighthood experience" in the mond album actually

🙏 i hope so for you too. have lots of fun and i hope you get your money's worth!

Genshin Concert 2023 will broadcast December 22, 2023 06:00 (UTC-5)

Curious that you mentioned it. Exact same thing happened in Mexico's concert. But I thought that a regional Orchestra would be performing in each city. Has it really been under rehearsed for both concerts?

Same with Childe demo "Letter from Ajax", these powerful drum sounds are missing when his name come up on the screen :( I was kinda dissapointed

No musicians in LA who would play Sumeru instruments. Sadly.. blame on institutions not promoting world music more and preserving instruments from all over the world and not only classical European based instruments for orchestra..

you're so right, i corrected the timestamp. thanks!

@@Rezoruu No problem :)

true i was kinda looking forward to way more character themed soundtracks. i saw some of the other concerts in shanghai, singapore, and malaysia and they all had more character demos and songs in general compared to the LA concert. plus their stages look so much more cooler than the LA one. though, i dont really mind, the orchestra did absolutely amazing. i still had a super fun time and enjoyed every single second of the concert!

@@Rezoruu Yeah the orchestra was still fun. Especially liyue and inazuma soundtracks, for me those were my favourite.

Sumeru gonna be hard cause of those traditional instruments

@@aethernity8270 im sure it’s no problem as long as they’re given the right instruments in addition to finding the right people to play them

​@@Rezoruuonly that Shanghai concert represented sumeru better but still missed some instrument

Omg this is really bad. Really underwhelming. This sounds like high school otchestra. Gawd.

London should be better, if they use the same orchestra as the one used for the recording of Sumeru's OST. Unfortunately, I didn't get the ticket TT.

at the time i found out about the genshin concert, all the tickets were sold out and i was kind of sad knowing i couldn’t attend such an event. at a much later date (10/13/2023), i realized that there were resale tickets. at that time, the cheapest were $200-$300. to attend an event like this, i knew i didn’t want to miss out on it so i bought a ticket. i also thought that i found a really good seat for $306.25 in addition to ticket coverage for $21.47. i was really happy with the purchase at that time because i didn’t see any other better seats at any better prices. i also went online and saw videos of the concert in shanghai, singapore, and malaysia. ultimately, the shanghai video convinced me that it’d be worth it.
occasionally, i remember i would search online everywhere looking for groups to possibly go to the venue or hang out with before the show since i didn’t want to go alone and i thought it’d be cool to meet some people who share the same interest and are attending the same event. i ended up with no success up until the day of the concert and so i started asking some of my friends. one of my friends agreed and then we searched for seats together. what was shocking was that there were a ton more open seats for way cheaper (lowest being like $80). we ended up finding a seat like 7 rows in front of me and i was extremely jealous. i’m also going to talk about how awful the axs website and app was trying to buy another ticket (i had no issues getting my ticket a month ago). so as i was trying to find seats for him, the axs website marked me as a bot and i couldn’t access the page anymore. i had no clue what i was doing differently from when i bought my ticket a month ago, but i was pretty much ip blocked from the website from there on. after trying multiple different browsers and even trying on my phone with no success, i tried contacting their live support and they were equally as unhelpful. they asked if i tried refreshing the website, restarting my browser or pc, or if i was connected to the internet or had my firewall or antivirus enabled. eventually i gave up with support (idk if i can even buy tickets from axs anymore), i had my friend make an account and he used my card to buy the ticket and it costed a total of $134.75 same day (no coverage) and we went together.
i had butterflies in my stomach the entire time driving to the venue. i was so excited. this was something i was looking forward to for so long. i was even chatting with my mom before leaving about how i excited i was to go and she was happy for me (she wanted to go too but had plans for that day).
so after arriving at the destination, i had no idea where to park. i remember entering the nearest parking lot to me at the time (it was an outside parking lot managed by a couple of people) and it was marked $50 while we were waiting for our turn to pay. my friend and i thought that price was insane. that’s the most we’ve ever seen for parking. and when it was our turn to pay the parking fee, i had to ask about the price and if this was actually for the peacock theater and they were like, “yeah, $60”. they literally changed the price to $60 on the sign right in front of us and it was $50 when we got there. i didn’t want to complain so i paid the parking fee and went on. all we had to do was cross the street and we’d be at the venue
there were A LOT of people. we arrived like almost an hour before doors opened. some people weren’t there for the genshin concert since they were wearing lakers jerseys and stuff. i didn’t realize the crypto arena was right across the peacock theater either. so when we got there, there was this massive line that wrapped and expanded anywhere it could. a lot of people didn’t have a clue where to go or couldn’t figure out which line is which. after a bit of walking around, i pretty much had an idea of where the genshin concert line was (the cosplays helped a lot). in the first line that we got into, we got to chat with some people and got to know about what brought them there in the first place, why and how they got into genshin, etc. there were people we talked to that were from all different places in the world. we talked to people who drove from san francisco, people who were from different states like new york, texas and florida, and people who traveled overseas (china) just to be able to experience the genshin concert since they weren’t able to experience it where they’re from in addition to visiting LA
the doors opened at 6 PM and the line split up into 4. it took a while for everyone to get inside. from where we were lining up outside, it took us around 10 minutes to get security checked and into the main lobby. the same time we got cleared, we were given the physical commemorative ticket and a redemption code. we noticed a pretty long line at the beginning which was for getting pictures with the genshin concert background located at the center of the main lobby. from there, you could choose to go to your seat inside the theater or get merch or take a picture with the genshin background. my friend and i chose to wait in line for the picture. while in line, we got to ask a lot of cosplayers walking by for pictures. everyone we met were so kind and happily willing to take photos with us. props to everyone who went to the concert dressed up like that while it’s cold out. one thing i didn’t like about the main lobby is that there wasn’t a lot room and the lighting was so dim so all of my pictures didn’t turn out that well. we waited around half an hour to get the picture which was fine since there was about 20 min left to get to our seats. the staff were also kind and helpful in guiding us where to go to reach our seats. i talked to my friend about switching seats so that i could get the better view and he was perfectly okay with it.
the theater was hugee. definitely the biggest one i’ve ever been to. i got seated at around 6:50 PM. in the time i was waiting for the concert to start, i admired everything around me. there were so many people that day who went to appreciate the same thing i came there for. the game.. the music… this journey with genshin…. it felt too real to be true. i was there. everybody around me looked so happy to be there, everybody was excited. the atmosphere was bustling. it was past 7 PM, some of the seats around me were still empty. people were still arriving at their seats. the show didn’t start until 20 minutes later.

the beginning of the show hit me the hardest. i teared up a couple of times when the first couple of tracks played (i couldn’t hold it in). that feeling is incomparable to any other game ive ever played. i didn’t really have any major complaints with mondstadt (apart from them only showing venti as the only character theme for mondstadt, and during the first track “overture of storms” where there were some weird pauses and video playing with no sound) and dragonspine (i thought dragonspine was kind of short, they only played 3 songs and went back to mondstadt to play 3 more). for the first section of the symphony, mondstadt had 13 songs and dragonspine had 3 songs played (around 30 minutes total). the crowd was pretty silent throughout mondstadt and dragonspine too. also, i might’ve noticed some slight mistimed parts here and there but i didn’t think much of it, the whole song was played regardless (caelestinum finale termini was the most noticeable). right after, the first intermission was 15 minutes long.
after intermission, i was hoping they would probably play more mondstadt tracks but the orchestra started playing liyue songs. i didn’t really have any major complaints with liyue either (apart from weird breaks in between songs and rex incognito feeling a little bit underwhelming). for the second section of the symphony, 16 songs were played for liyue (around 40 minutes total). there was a lot more of a crowd reaction for liyue than mondstadt. there was even some mistimed parts too (most noticeable in the beginning of rapid as wildfires). also, i'm not sure if it’s part of their performance, but in between a lot of the liyue (and inazuma) tracks, there were a lot of short-long pauses between each track (i understand the orchestra needs time to prepare, but some breaks between tracks were pretty long like the whole 1 minute pause right before playing rex incognito). after liyue, the second intermission was also 15 minutes long.
upon returning from intermission, i was hoping they would play more liyue songs but inazuma started playing instead. for the third section of the symphony, only 8 songs were played from inazuma. there were some crowd reactions for inazuma when ayaka, thoma, raiden, and yae miko made an appearance. inazuma was fine until they moved onto sumeru. inazuma was so short, and short is such an understatement. my friend and i were looking forward to character themes like yoimiya’s, kokomi’s, kazuha’s or even yae miko’s and much more inazuma tracks. a slight disappointment and a shock to hear sumeru being played so soon. i genuinely thought they might go back to inazuma this time but they didn’t. raiden’s track, “termination of desires”, felt super under-delivered. at first, i thought it was kind of cool that they were using replacement instruments for the song but it didn’t quite fit idk. it would’ve certainly been better if they used the right instruments.
sumeru was also kind of disappointing because they only played 3 songs (at least they played hustle and bustle of ormos). i also don't know why under development footage was showing on the big screen, i thought sumeru was out for a while now (more than a year ago). after i noticed the under development footage, my expectations sank. and no intermission in between inazuma and sumeru?? the finale was the most disappointing part of the symphony. they did the bait where the conductor leaves off stage but he comes back to finish the concert with 3 last songs from fontaine which no one (around me) really caught on to. i have not explored a lot of fontaine yet and my friend just unlocked sumeru so both of us and many others had no idea what was going on. the people around me looked very confused since they were looking at each other and looking around. someone next to me even said aloud that they thought the orchestra were playing songs from a different game. the entire inazuma, sumeru, and fontaine (around 45 minutes total) part felt soso rushed. i wouldn’t have minded staying way longer to hear them play more songs but i think that’s all they practiced to do.
after the concert, everyone piled trying to get out. as i was exiting, i noticed another super long line and it was for merch. i tried my best to quickly get in line. the line was incredibly long despite not being the last to exit. it went all the way from the theater entrance to one of the exits in the back. the line folded from where i was because of how long it was. i texted my friend to meet me somewhere along the merch line and eventually he met up with me. the merch line didn’t move at all until another 10 minutes later. this merch line alone took up 50 minutes from where i was at to get to the front. the entire time in line, i was thinking to myself that there probably wouldn’t be anymore merch by the time i get to the table. i also missed a bunch of opportunities to take pictures with some really cool cosplays that i saw walk by outside of the building. after the wait, we finally reached the merch table and there were still a surprising amount of things still left in stock (some were sold out). i ended up buying $153.31 worth of genshin merch (genshin concert t-shirt, ganyu cd pendant, zhongli stand, eula stand, albedo stand, and xiao zoo plush). if there was still stock, i would’ve definitely bought one of each.
all the criticism aside, i didn’t really give all of my attention to the mistakes during the performance and just enjoyed everything played that night in addition to being there spending time with others who came for the same reason i did. it was still an experience i’d never forget. huge thanks to all the performers and Eric Roth, they did great and gave us a show. i got to meet some really cool people while in line and we got to talk about something we both shared an interest in. it was honestly a really memorable experience for me and i really hope future live concerts will deliver better results close to every other concert. i look forward to attending the next genshin concert!
more underwhelming experiences people had if you care: www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/17zic0i/la_genshin_live_concert/?rdt=33539

the long pauses were probably from the koto player having to adjust her instrument if you noticed her on stage. when she’s done she would nod to the conductor and then they would proceed.
thank you for the video! there are ups and downs for me too but overall i had a great time

@@xDsupremacist YEAH i guessed that too since i did hear the koto being adjusted quietly. and yaya npnp!

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not at the LA one as far as i know

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there weren't any voiceovers for this concert, just instrumentals

@Rezoruu in Shanghai performance got the characters voices during the character demo/trailer songs

There was 3

I feel the same! My god! The only cultural instrument they have is a Koto (Japanese Harp) which they used for Liyue?! (Replacement for Guzheng?) They used an Europeans flute to replace a Japanese Flute, what an insult!
They miss their notes as well. Shame on Eric Roth and the Organizers. I talked to audiences with a music and performance background and they told me high schoolers did a better job.

I went to the Boston one and it's the same!!! so disappointed @@yharnamiyhill787

@@yharnamiyhill787 I mean lets be honest, its a dying niche in an already niche activity (watching instrumental concert), people can't just find foreign traditional instrument players in LA, especially if they'll just going to be used for genshin concert.

@@reivell3699if anywhere it would have been LA with how culturally diverse it is. The fact that they didn’t even have choir or had not practiced was extremely frustrating and a complete rip off

@@reivell3699 omg, LA has the most and best ethnical instruments players from all over the world!

i don't think anyone does but i saw footage of other concerts and i wanted to publish this one

@@Rezoruu Isn't this a clear copyright violation?

@@polynky if they want me to take it down I’ll take it down

@@Rezoruu I don't care either way, but I'm worried that you might be punished.

​@@polynky do you have the link to the Japan concert?