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

Im a drummer, and I have played it for 3-4 years. Im 15, BTW

No recordings yet though

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Even Tony Banks found the opening section too hard to play live, hence the absence of it on "Seconds out".

I glanced at it from a mysongbook.com version and the right hand seemed quite easy, haven't tried left hand yet. I could see how long it'll take me to learn it (for piano).

Okay, so I checked the sheet and it does seem harder than I first thought.


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I play  everything concerning keyboards there...took me little time...didn't record,won't...keep it as a hobby...but I play it like mad and like a virtuoso...

yaksongs how long did it take you to master?

 

i am learning by ear i cannot read music, i have the right down perfectly almost it has been 0one solid day

The Lost Chord wrote: yaksongs how long did it take you to master? i

Well - it is a bit of a bugger ! - but probably took about 2/3 hours to get to the level of the mp3 I listed above (in several sessions over a couple of weeks !)

The RH alone is not toooo bad & neither is the LH - on its own - but there are a few bits where it is hard to get them together in time (the triplit bits).  

The most awkward bit is the bit before it comes back into the main theme - this is only really best attempted following several pan galactic gagle blasters

I know you said you don't read music - is the score of no use at all? Not being funny (for once) do you know the notes of the stave lines? - I can annotate if it helps - then you can work out all the others (above & below the stave) & then you're off...

Trick is to learn to play this slow all the way through before winding the speed up 

Cheers

Martin

Yaksongs, ive learned the entire right by ear, i know it is flawless, i play it with the recording it is perfect...and i am a perfectionsit so it took me a while!

The chords i will figure out, if you could tell me the general names of them that would be great!

no not at all, i cannot read music at all...but i have a website that has all of the piano chords virtualized on screen.  I played the right hand in the chapel today at school it sounded beautiful!

question. in the left hand he is playing chords, and single notes as well right? Like when he does the first chord and goes bang, bang bang up higher, and then 1-2-3-4 connected going downard, that 1 2 3 4 is all single notes right?

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...

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