Freddies pianno similarities?

Ok guys first of all special hello.
I noticed years and years ago that Freddie has his similar tehnique on playung pianno wich can be heard on this songs and if you carefully listen to pianno you can see the base.
1.Bohemian Rhapsody begining is a base than its almost same in You Take My Breath Away,than Its A Hard Life same pianno tehnique base.
So my friends have you hear a resemblance.. ?
Anyone has more to nention about similarities..there must be more on the Freddies songs but cant remember now...hehe just been smoking "magic tobbaco"
Cheers my friends

That "magic tobacco" must be powerful stuff !
. Haha, you're a star.

[QUOTE] [b]master marathon runner wrote:[/b]

That "magic tobacco" must be powerful stuff !
. Haha, you're a star.[/QUOTE]


;)

I don`t know how serious this but...if you want to hear some of Freddies "roots" ( piano wise), then give Rachmaninow al listen. You will find bits and pieces there.
And don`t ride a vehicle for a couple of days my friend.

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[b]Mr.Mouth wrote:[/b] 1.Bohemian Rhapsody begining is a base than its almost same in You Take My Breath Away,than Its A Hard Life same pianno tehnique base.
So my friends have you hear a resemblance.. ? 
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There are a LOT of similarities between "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "It's a Hard Life", if you listen to them closely; chords, piano techniques, etc.

Freddie's style is pretty distinctive and easy to pick out after listening to his songs several times over (and if you're a pianist like I am, playing them), so I'm not at all surprised.

The piano on seas of rhye on debut album is very similar to the piano on seven seas of rhye on Queen II. Poor tehnique!

^ It's almost the same song! FTSOYNM!

Seriously though, Freddie plays the intro piano part across two octaves on the Queen II version, it's much harder to do than on one octave, like on the instrumental.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]

Seriously though, Freddie plays the intro piano part across two octaves on the Queen II version, it's much harder to do than on one octave, like on the instrumental. [/QUOTE]

I very much doubt he played that two-handed (on the QII version). I would assume that he doubled the part an octave higher on a second track, playing the arpeggios in both octaves just with his right hand.

In the early days there are a fair few examples of this kind of doubling, and of having two piano tracks on the one song.

I often skip straight to SSOR on live at Wembley DVD purely to appreciate Fred playing the intro , with almost cartoon - style hands.
Sublime.

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[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]

Seriously though, Freddie plays the intro piano part across two octaves on the Queen II version, it's much harder to do than on one octave, like on the instrumental. [/QUOTE]

I very much doubt he played that two-handed (on the QII version). I would assume that he doubled the part an octave higher on a second track, playing the arpeggios in both octaves just with his right hand.

In the early days there are a fair few examples of this kind of doubling, and of having two piano tracks on the one song.[/QUOTE]


This is a very interesting point. To my ears, it sounded like Freddie indeed played with both hands for the SSOR intro. I would consider it to be quite challenging to have to sync up with one track to another especially trying to get the exact feeling for phrasing and temp - even for such a short fragment. That is why (to my mind) the two handed theory would win out.

But I don't know for sure and wouldn't be at all surprised to hear of the multitrack theory being fact.

It's just two hands playing an octave apart, doesn't sound like double octaves to me, at all. It's not so difficult.

Well I can tell you there's about 5 songs composed by Freddie that are completely different from each other yet use the same chords, in the same sequence, just played in a different melody. Freddie used only a handful of chords and bass notes for his playing style, and mostly used octaves to the bass notes. I personally play piano and have found that if you master seven seas of rhye and Bohemian Rhapsody, then you can play and Freddie Mercury composition.

Which are those songs? I'm actually interested.

What I like about Freddie's technique is the hand-crossing while playing Bohemian Rhapsody. Only someone like Freddie would have thought about something like that.