The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke piano

Next in my little series of recordings of the piano parts of early Queen songs comes The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke.

Again, as with so much of the early stuff, there's one main piano throughout, and a second that provides at least the overdub at "jolly fellow". I'm almost certain this second piano also doubles the main one in the intro too, so that's what I did on my recording (which annoyingly sounds slightly phased at that point).

There's also the harpischord as well, of course. It's a not a very forgiving instrument to play with it being so sharp and clear, so kudos to Fred for his precise playing on this.

This one was quite fun to do and, as ever, I found one or two little surprises in the keyboard parts that I wasn't really aware of until I'd studied them forensically. And the timing at the start's a bit of a bugger too. I'm not convinced that Queen played it strictly in time.

In the Bbm harpsichord solo section, I really can't hear what the piano's doing there. In fact I'm not even certain there is piano. But I feel Fred must have played something there, so I played the most likely thing. The next section in D is also impossible to discern exactly, though for the most part I know I'm basically there.

Anyway, enjoy (hopefully).

It's magnificent!

Well done, please make more!

Beautiful piano track, Bohardy, thank you!
Your playing does have the melodic and percussion feel of Freddie's playing.

I really liked it, very interesting and, as you said, a few surprises. It would've been quite an experience to have been there as Fred was coming up with those different bits.

Bohardy, now that you say that you can't hear the piano at some part (I don't know which part is), hear this remaster made by C_Matt. I'm sure you'll hear more clearly the whole song.

And if you like it, check the fanmixes forum. There you'll find he remastered: A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, Hot Space, The Game, The Works, A Kind Of Magic and he is remastering Queen II.

I hope you enjoy it. This MP3 contains Ogre Battle, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke and Nevermore.

:-)

Magnificient piano by bohardy, im looking forward to march of the black queen

[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]

Bohardy, now that you say that you can't hear the piano at some part (I don't know which part is), hear this remaster made by C_Matt. I'm sure you'll hear more clearly the whole song.


:-)[/QUOTE]

Damn, I forgot to check C_Matt's version before I did this. But having had a listen now, it hasn't helped, other than basically confirming that there is no piano in the Bbm section as I suspected. Still, for the purposes of this recording I think it sounds better having something there.

[QUOTE] [b]MrFunster wrote:[/b]

Magnificient piano by bohardy, im looking forward to march of the black queen[/QUOTE]

Thanks Funster. You'll find TMOTBQ here however: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1424915/the-march-of-the-black-queen-piano.aspx

And thanks for the other comments folks.

Incredible!

As others said, please do more! Early Queen records are full of known and unknown gems.

This make me regret even more not to have any formal music education (and being incapable of playing an instrument... even three chords on a guitar is too much for me). I admire those who can do this kind of thing.

really nice playing....where did you get a Harpsichord? 1793? :-)

One of those reminders as to why I love this music so much.

Brilliantly executed.

Jesus, brilliant!!!

Love the piano work in this, and you did it justice!

Fantastic work! Thanks a million.

Cheers,

Ogre-

Yes! Brilliant!

Im looking forward to hear My fairy king some day, it would be awesome if you could try this one too, tonight i will listen to the march ofvthe black queen.....