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pidunk 09:49 pm UTC 05/31/07 |
| In reply to: | Anything For Love, Faster Than Speed of Night Piano riffs - Wilbury 12:29 pm UTC 05/31/07 |
> OK... I've come to realise that Anything For Love is > actually piss easy to play on piano, in pretty much any > key. At first I thought it was gonna be impossible, then > thought it was impossibly difficult to play in D (the key > it is on record, right?). > > But now I've come to realise it's far from the most > difficult thing on Bat 2, much less all that difficult in > the grand scheme of things. I can't remember how I was > attempting it at first, but I suspect my fingers just > weren't "getting" it when I was first trying to play it, > and there was some sort of revelation somewhere along the > line. (Admittedly I haven't bothered to learn it the whole > way thru yet, but unless there's something I'm not > expecting, the most difficult parts are in the bag). > > And so I was vainly hoping that I would make similar > progress with Faster Than The Speed of night as well. > > BUT > > I'm still stumped, big time. Are you meant to be able to > play that intro riff with one hand? -- cause it's like > Anything For Love where the riff continues and the left > hand just starts pounding octaves, right? How does > bonnie's pianist play it live? I feel so retarded trying > to get it to work, as if there's something obvious I'm > missing... but I'm not sure there is. :o( > > (News flash, turns out Margoshes is just freakishly > out-of-my-league talented :o) ). > > Anyone? I didn't feel like you wanted me in particular to reply, but I love piano. It never ceases to amaze me big-time when I see some wizardly hands cross the keys and make sounds that go through me like the welcome breeze. I heard piano the first time when I was five and my father was playing the theme from "Exodus" on a new spinette he had purchased. Funny it was that I asked him if the piano was mine, and he said it was his own. Well, everything else in the house, including the house, was mine, so it was a reasonable question. But I wound up growing up with that piano anyway, when my mother apparently made a deal with him to keep it when they parted company. It was a spinette in the sense that it was not with that grand style expansion, but it was not just a wall sitting piece. It doubled as a cabinet, so the wood closed over the keyboard, leaving this huge cabinet for decorations. It was a really big piece of furniture, that had a bench and peddles. That piano, was a thing that I tried to learn something on, but in my family I did not have the ability to know anyone who had the combination of music ability and motivation to share it with me. I was prohibited from taking piano lessons when I was seeing all my cousins and my brother go for theirs. Why single me out? I asked. My mother sent me into dance school instead. Why can't I do both like my cousin was doing? I asked. Because she was a prodigy and I was not, I was told. So it went. In any pairing between me and someone else it was always someone else who was the thing that I could have been, but told I was not. Even a girl in nursery school had an advantage that she did not really have, and was the one I really had but told I did not. (When I say long long time, I really mean it.) Key structures. The way that a guitar teacher told me about key structures, he made a matrix, and showed me a wheel, where each key note stands as the basis for the octave. Meaning that, according to this, D starts with D, and moves up until the next C, in octave for a piece to be played within the one octave. What I translate that to for piano playing is that you only need to move your fingers to the appropriate position and the pattern is not changed...you only adjust it....I suppose that a signature key of C would modify by the one note and all other keys would follow suit...it may seem strange, does that mean that an F becomes a G? Does a melody then, change in its notes but keep its pattern? I don't really understand that part. | |
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