Can anyone here play Firth of Fifth??????

I got the synth solo down, but I can't get all of the opening without screwing it up somewhere.

yaksongs wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AUoNFstmrs Finally got round to a video of this ! - Hope you like   NOTE: for some reason when you get to Youtube it says the video doesn't exist - I dont know why as this is the exact link ! However if you just search for YAKSONGS, you'll find it   Cheers    M

Shakespeare wrote: Bj-1 wrote: Im a drummer, and I have played it for 3-4 years. Im 15, BTW Woah, me too!

Ah, but can any of you drummers play the piano part on drums?

Poser wrote: I can as well! Not perfectly. @ Kibble_alex: Your version is quite good! Clouds is intriguing. Nice work.

Thankyou very much Poser much appreciated comment

I don't play, but I do have a couple of interesting stories about it. I was listening to Genesis one day, and the intro to "Firth of Fifth" started. My mother, who was a concert pianist, rushed in and asked "What is that?" She became a Genesis fan that day.

When I was in college, we had a piano in the fraternity house. One day, one of the guys sat down to play. Imagine my surprise when he effortlessly went into the "Firth of Fith" intro.

Shakespeare wrote: Bj-1 wrote: Im a drummer, and I have played it for 3-4 years. Im 15, BTW Woah, me too!

I can as well! Not perfectly.

@ Kibble_alex: Your version is quite good! Clouds is intriguing. Nice work.

Edited by Poser - February 11 2008 at 17:32

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AUoNFstmrs

Edited by yaksongs - February 15 2008 at 05:52

Hi, I have done the 1st page - let me know if this works for you.

Note: - where it says a single note name - play as octaves

- where there is a chord, you will see the name of the chord underlined & then beneath the notes that make it up in the correct order - i.e. the chord in bar 3 is C7 - there are several dozen ways to play C7 (if not more) - the notes here & their order from top to bottom are the way the chord is played on the recording (IMO)

Have fun !

http://www.yaksongs.com/adcbfirthp1LC.html

M

That would be Octaves - there are no single notes in the LH* ! It's a lot of octave work & chords.

The 4321 would be octave Eb, D,Db & C's If you look at page 1 of the score even not being able to read music, you should be able to see where the octave decending (your 4321) bit is 

If I was to annotate a chord & say C#,D,F#,A as a chord (i.e. Dma7 3rd inversion - which is what I meant to say in the previous post rather than 4th doh!) can you relate that to the piano? or do you not know where the notes are even? I am not being patronising I just need to guage what will work before I write it down for you.

If you have worked the RH out by ear - learning to read music would be a piece of **ss - I strongly recommend you take a few lessons or spend some time with someone who can show you the basics as playing by ear is great - but being able to read too is key IMHO. 

All the best

Martin

* Yeah OK, page 4 of my score has the last note as a single - but apart from that...