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.[/QUOTE]
Wow! A friend of my dad's plays piano and a few years ago he said to the exact same thing!
Bohardy · Member since
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[b]miraclesteinway wrote: [/b] It's just two hands playing an octave apart, doesn't sound like double octaves to me, at all. It's not so difficult.[/QUOTE]
It might not be that difficult to somebody with a relatively strong and dexterous left hand, but Fred has never provided any evidence of having such a thing; he's barely ever played anything other than an octave with it.
Further, - and I wish I'd thought to check this before my earlier post - the isolated piano part clearly shows there are two tracks, as evidenced by the LH bass octaves that come in on the stabs.
In fact, I'm certain that there are two piano tracks throughout the entire recording (apart from the very end), not just on the arpeggios riffs. The second track always plays the higher octave arpeggios, but it also deviates from the main track occasionally (playing minims where the first track plays crotchets, playing the chords an octave higher etc).
I think the proof is in the pudding: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itphSt9fEI0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itphSt9fEI0[/url]
mooghead · Member since
Most punk bands couldn't play a note but still get heard on the radio. It's not how you play but what you play. If you are brilliant but cannot come up with anything original then get a job in a factory. If you only know 3 chords but can play them like no one else then the world is yours.
master marathon runner · Member since
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...like that session guitarist status quo hired for their last tour and album - he's friggin suing them for repetitive strain injury!!
Guffaw!
miraclesteinway · Member since
you know I hadn't taken into account the bass part. I had assumed the piano only played the riff, but the harmony was left to the bass and guitar in the intro.
pestgrid · Member since
We are the Champions, Don't Stop Me Now, Love of My Life, Ogre battle (reversed), parts of Its a Hard life and Bohemian Rhapsody which are both a mix of Somebody to Love, and You Take my breath away has the same chords as all of them but played as single notes combined with octaves. Also listen to the demo (if you have it) for breaththru, the piano actually come from a sheer heart attack song Lili of the Valley, in fact the two could be put together to make one song....have a go and upload results......Brian will tell you Freddie has one chord that is his and features in most of his songs, and it is the same key that they used in Only the Good Died Young as an inner tribute to him. Listen to the piano for that song and it is very Freddie inspired...!..x
Ale Solan · Member since
Wait, what's a pianno?
matt z · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Ale Solan wrote:[/b]
Wait, what's a pianno?[/QUOTE]
It's Italian.
Two n's become a hard CH like a K
So it's actually sounded out like Pee-aK-oh
una999 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]pestgrid wrote:[/b]
We are the Champions, Don't Stop Me Now, Love of My Life, Ogre battle (reversed), parts of Its a Hard life and Bohemian Rhapsody which are both a mix of Somebody to Love, and You Take my breath away has the same chords as all of them but played as single notes combined with octaves. Also listen to the demo (if you have it) for breaththru, the piano actually come from a sheer heart attack song Lili of the Valley, in fact the two could be put together to make one song....have a go and upload results......Brian will tell you Freddie has one chord that is his and features in most of his songs, and it is the same key that they used in Only the Good Died Young as an inner tribute to him. Listen to the piano for that song and it is very Freddie inspired...!..x[/QUOTE]
Only the good due Young isn't in a key freddie typically used, it's more a variation on a key brian would use. Love of my life isn't similar to its a hard life or you take me breath away those 3 songs are all in different keys and difference styles. Don't stop me now and we are the champions are different the chorus of we are the champions just happens to be in f like don't stop me now.
Rugby_guy · Member since
Yeah a classic Queen song was not complete without our Freddie and his regal piano playing! awesome man and never to be replaced in Queen ever!
Chief Mouse · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Rugby_guy wrote:[/b]
Yeah a classic Queen song was not complete without our Freddie and his regal piano playing! awesome man and never to be replaced in Queen ever![/QUOTE]
You know, this reminds me of someone whose name starts with "G" and ends with "erry" :P
ludwigs · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Chief Mouse wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Rugby_guy wrote:[/b]
Yeah a classic Queen song was not complete without our Freddie and his regal piano playing! awesome man and never to be replaced in Queen ever![/QUOTE]
You know, this reminds me of someone whose name starts with "G" and ends with "erry" :P[/QUOTE]
Starts with C and rhymes with front more like.
'Regal' playing? I think you tend to misconstrue the Queen thing . Majestic, regal etc.... straight out of a press cutting
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Rugby_guy wrote:[/b]
Yeah a classic Queen song was not complete without our Freddie and his regal piano playing! awesome man and never to be replaced in Queen ever![/QUOTE]
Gerry,
exactly how much of Freddie's regal piano is on "liar" - that's classic queen
Reid_Special_98 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]RafaelS wrote:[/b]
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.[/QUOTE]
This idea isn't entirely new as composers have been doing this forever. One example to note is Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata, where he also uses hand crossing. This is just one of an infinite number that come to mind.
Nevertheless - I can say that when I learned the Beethoven piece, I immediately was reminded of the Bohemian Rhapsody hand crossing technique :)
One has influenced the other - and both have influenced me, for sure.
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]ludwigs wrote:[/b][QUOTE] [b]Chief Mouse wrote:[/b][QUOTE] [b]Rugby_guy wrote:[/b]
Yeah a classic Queen song was not complete without our Freddie and his regal piano playing! awesome man and never to be replaced in Queen ever![/QUOTE]
You know, this reminds me of someone whose name starts with "G" and ends with "erry" :P[/QUOTE]
Starts with C and rhymes with front more like.[/QUOTE]
croissant?
[QUOTE] [b]ludwigs wrote: I think you tend to misconstrue the Queen thing . Majestic, regal etc.... straight out of a press cutting[/QUOTE]
well Gezza did claim he'd be a great journalist :-)
