Difficult prog riffs to play

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   I'm not a keyboard player but I'm advised by some seriously proficient ones that the 10 note Tarkus left hand ostinato in 5/4 is a difficult bugger to finger. (erm...that doesn't quite come across the way I intended ) Unlike some of his contemporaries who wrote keyboard based music, Emerson seemed hell bent on making life difficult for himself by inventing his music away from the keyboard.

Edited by ExittheLemming - May 14 2022 at 09:13

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ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415	Post Options Post Reply Quote ExittheLemming Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: May 14 2022 at 09:11
	I'm not a keyboard player but I'm advised by some seriously proficient ones that the 10 note Tarkus left hand ostinato in 5/4 is a difficult bugger to finger. (erm...that doesn't quite come across the way I intended ) Unlike some of his contemporaries who wrote keyboard based music, Emerson seemed hell bent on making life difficult for himself by inventing his music away from the keyboard. Edited by ExittheLemming - May 14 2022 at 09:13

Davesax1965 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 23 2013 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 2839	Post Options Post Reply Quote Davesax1965 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: May 14 2022 at 04:12
	Difficult prog riffs to play. Or "took me ages to get that." Let me kick this one off. The trick is to play the last two notes on the D string instead. It's still fiddly.