* * * possible correction - bar 12; the final triplet can be played as just one note (the top E) * * * I have a live version where Tony does indeed play that bit as a triplet, but on the original studio version, it IS one note... I've been playing it as 3 triplets since I was 14 so it's hard to get out of the habit but it's definitely easier as a single note if you have smaller hands :) I don't know how many of you do this but, in case you don't, can I politely suggest that you click on the SHOW MORE button above the comments section (same for all my vids) :) It gives some info as to what my thought process was in creating the vid and, far more importantly, the link to the PDF file that I hint at in the title (in case you're using a laptop or smaller device and the link isn't visible by default).
EH....a long time ago I had a great instructor (my 3rd) who emphasized playing by ear. The first piece I went to was FoF. I noticed you could do a lot of interpreting with this without compromising the integrity of the composition. There's a lot of intricate chords & the guitar solo part I just ad libbed. I'm amazed you were able to interpret it for piano!! Yours is the only transcription I'm aware of & my hat's off to you!! What I've done is gone back to revisit the piece & am utilizing parts of yours I consider better for performance. Aside from that guitar solo the most difficult to learn were probably the intro & the middle section that is more or less a heavier version of the intro. I was playing chords with the left hand in that middle solo & it never sounded quite right. I appreciate & understand the work it must have taken you to put this to manuscript paper!!!
I got into Genesis BIG time when I was around 14 and spent the next few months working out around a few dozen of their tracks. Their music just seemed to click with me more than any other band and fitted in with how I liked to play the piano and that's still the case. I'm very lucky to have a pretty good ear and to be honest a large part of my ability to hear intricacies in music - not just piano, but the other instruments too - is down to working out all those Genesis tracks as a teen! :) When it's just piano, it's really fairly easy to replicate, but, yeah, trying to get the whole band to sound good on piano does take a bit of work, but I try to 'get' the whole picture and, when it comes to music (and my other 'occupation', software engineering) I'm VERY fussy about getting things right… just ask every band I've ever been in!! :)
A man after my own heart! If it isn't going to be done right why do it at all! For me also, aside from ELP no other band aside from Genesis caught my imagination. I was a late bloomer though. Not interested in piano studies until I saw ELP in the summer of 72 but didn't start getting serious until my late teens. I studied harmony & theory but never got into the writing aspect which I regret now. What I try to do is take the best from all the transcriptions I can attain & try to put together a cohesive piece that doesn't compromise the integrity of the compositions I work on. That said, your work here is greatly appreciated by us musicians. It's very obvious your on a higher level. Getting this music right is no small feat!
Learned this for a wedding in 1981 (the bride wanted it for the recessional). Took me three weeks to figure it out. Didn't have the internet to help me out. Not bragging but this was a chore to learn with the different time signatures and odd key signatures. Wish I had this back then. Still a classic piece of music. Tony Banks is a great composer (Mad Man Moon is anothe favorite). Long live the classic Genesis!
It is sooooo difficult! I played the piano in high school (no Internet) and since I could play Beethoven, I thought I could play this. My mom bought the sheet music for me. As hard as I tried, I just couldn’t master it. So in my opinion, three weeks is pretty good.
In the winter of '74 I would listen to this in my dorm room, writing down every note while moving the needle back again and again on the vinyl, then going to the music practice rooms across campus to play it. repeat, repeat, until I had it. Unaware to me, it was in Bb and I assumed key of C when I transcribed. Didn't find this out until I saw your video here!
Many thanks to everyone who's commented and that goes for my other vids too; it's nice to know my efforts seem to be appreciated :) I'll be taking a bit of a break for a while, but there're still quite a few Genesis tracks in my back-catalogue and I'm sure my transcriptions will wend their way here eventually... :)
I've been following your entries for quite a while now and you never cease to amaze me! I am smiling big time every chance I get to check these out. You wouldn't by any chance have your version of Undertow? I still consider that song one of their best ballads I've ever heard in nearly 40 years of listening to Genesis. Keep up the great awesome work! :D
God, the songwriting/composition/whatever you want to call it is so wildly creative and innovative. I find it hard to believe that this exists and is real, but it is. Boy, what a world!
Bravo, and Bravo!!! And thank you for scoring this so well done. 20+ years ago I worked out the intro but lost it from memory. It really is a testimony to the compositional skills of Tony Banks that more than a generation later that very talented musicians (like you!) are studying his work with great intensity and passion. Thank you Mr. Hod, and thank you Mr. Banks.
I was going to make my own transcription of this great song and I found your video ! Thanks a lot that's a reaaaaaaally ggod work and you're saving my time ! 😃🎹👍
An absolutely amazing contribution! You’ve opened up one the greatest masterpieces for us Genesis diehards who don’t know when they’re beaten. I’ll be pressing my Arturia V Collection of synth VSTs into service this Xmas to start on this. FANTASTIC!
SUPERB! Thanks for posting this! Wondering about those 22 who didn’t approve! It’s not everybody that takes the time to publish the piano sheet music for for Firth Of Fifth!
I'm blown away at this! I'm just now getting "back" into listening to old Genesis and playing piano myself. I really want to learn this - so I googled and found you pretty quickly. I haven't even sat down at the piano yet but I can tell you put a LOT of time into figuring out exactly what Tony was playing and transcribing it for us. Thanks!
Many many thanks for posting this. I've been playing this for years since I had an out of body experience with the flu, a tape recorder and an upright piano tuned half a tone below concert pitch. Over the years, you hear and see places you could improve on, and a few years back, my friends and I formed "Genesisn't" (please check us out on TH-cam). Bar 18 has always eluded me and what you've posted here has helped put another piece of the puzzle in place. Thank you!
Wow! I've been playing that intro (definitely one of my all time favourites) for many years as a standard to warm up my fingers before rehearsals, but always had a few "weak spots" (some of which I hadn't even noticed until I checked your transcript). So I found a couple of differences to what I've been playing and have to admit: You were right - always. Just brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing this truly incredible work!
Another absolute success, I have played the intro for years but always struggled with the verse sections to make them sound good. You have definitely filled all the gaps Sir. Well done and at last a lifetime dream fulfilled to play this from start to finish. My only TH-cam video is in fact Firth of Fifth intro so one day soon I will complete it thanks to you again.
Yeah, as I put in my accompanying blurb, that was by far the most difficult part of this piece to get to sound anywhere near authentic! :) Combined with the left hand trying to do a Mike R bass line, unfortunately, this does make it all rather difficult to play compared with all my other transcriptions. I hope it hasn't put off too many people from trying my approach...
You’re a genius, second to none except a certain Anthony Banks! Thank you so much for your effort! I don‘t play much sheet music, but this will be a very rewarding one.
Excellent works I used to play but drifted away when other things got in the way. This is an inspiration to get back to playing. Thanks for a full transcript. 👏👏
I thought I could learn this hands separately pretty easily at 0.5 speed, but keeping up with those key a signature changes is hard. Thanks to this and the PDF I'll get there!
A great piece of music. Parts of it really remind me of The Persuaders' theme tune. Bars 128 and 129 especially. I then found out John Barry is a big influence on Mr Banks.
Thanks, Elektrik Hob! This is getting me through lockdown, and then some! Quite remarkable that this only took you 5 hours in Sibelius. Would've taken me a week at least. Really impressive. So grateful.
I do actually play it like this, though usually with some extra rhythmical stuff to try to give it even more of the feel of both the original and the Seconds Out live version. As I mentioned on a couple of my other videos, including my original FoF Intro only video, I've been transcribing pop/rock music since I was around 10 or 11 and I started on Genesis when I was in my mid teens back in '76, so I've been doing this a looooong time! :)
Most of my vids seem to have one or two dislikes, and nearly all are from mobile phone users... Perhaps they got the hump cos they couldn't find the PDF or cos the audio sounded iffy on a phone... :)
1:05 is where I start having trouble with the right hand lol. It seems I need another finger between the fourth and fifth to play it lol. Thanks so much for this sheet music. If you're going to do more, I'd love to see an arrangement of Blood on the Rooftops.
I sometimes come to places like this when I feel the number of conspiracy believers has risen again, because this stuff is what the internet should be about. To share what is great and enjoy it. Thanks for helping me to keep my faith in human intelligence and grace.
Hi, thank you for your reply, I fully understand. And I will download it as an mp3 or wav as these files will playback through my piano. Thank you again for sharing the sheets.
Well done... Coffee will be on the way soon. BTW, I think you did a pretty fine job doing the guitar part on the piano. That guitar solo is my favorite ever... Hat tip to Steve Hackett... Hopefully you'll get to see Genesis on their European leg of the tour...
incredible effort and work Electrik Hob...piano hacks (like me) the world over are forever in your debt....any chance of cinema show (complete..i know you have the solo in your catalog)or the musical box...pleaseeeeeeeeeee
Are those two notes hitting the same G at 0:45? (on the second 13/16 bar). It seems like I would have to let go of the notes on my left hand fairly quickly in order to let my right hand hit the same note the left-hand note was just on.
The G#...? You really need to play the left-hand thumb further towards the back of the note (and your right-hand thumb at the very front) so that your two thumbs don't interfere with each other. Then there's not a problem. To be honest, I sometimes simply don't play the LH thumb note on that chord; nobody's really gonna notice... ;)
Thank you. 1 year on and I am now starting to get to grips with it. Still those difficult run ins to the key changes to master.I wonder if the strange time signatures in the intro could be simpler with triplets instead of 3 semi quavers ?
I found your channel recently and let me tell you how grateful i am of you. You've transcribed and posted some of my favourite Tony's work in Genesis. Also you've helped me to be able to play it. You have excelent ears haha. I hope i don't bother asking, but have you ever considered transcribing the last bit of solo of The Cinema Show, that Tony used to do live from 1976 and on? It's that last last fast bit, i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. I spent many days trying to sort it out but i can't come with something that sounds good.
Here's a PDF of the bit I think you mean: tinyurl.com/yd945gwz I've listened to the Seconds Out version and a few others from 1976 at full speed and slowed to 70%. Ironically, on the official Seconds Out release, I believe Tony plays a wrong note (gasp!!) at RH note 9 in bar 4; he plays a C# instead of a D. The other versions I've listened to all had a D there and it makes more sense given the sequence he's playing.
@@ElektrikHob Oh my i don't know why youtube never notified me about your reply. Yes it's that bit!! I play that keyboard now thanks to you!! Really apreciate it. I hope you upload something else in the future.
He does, but this is a solo piano transcription and, as I said in the notes above... The Keyboard solo. When I play the piece live, most of the time I'll just repeat the piano intro (with the last 2 bars altered obviously) as it's such a great solo piano part. But if I want a bit more aggression, then I'll use what I've scored here. It's meant to give some indication of the power of Mike's bass alongside Tony's solo.
@@ElektrikHob Unfortunately not, I just tried again. The link drives you to a place where you can only pay 5£. No other currencies are proposed. But with the eCard system, you must enter the amount, either in Euro or USD...
@@jihemtee Perhaps you could get a friend to make the donation (using your email address) and give them the money? This is the first instance I'm aware of anyone not being able to use the BuyMeACoffe (via, for me, Stripe) payment system...
@@ElektrikHob Sorry! I just launched my eCard app once more and just discovered that now the payment in pounds has now been added. However one question before I confirm the purchase: do you know if there is a way to get the midifile for this piece? I already play the intro but found your "main part" very nice so I would like to learn it. But I'm working on both the score and Synthesia, which needs the midifile. Thx in advance...
@@jihemtee There are MIDI files for all the Genesis tracks and are included in the files that you can download from the link that you will be sent when you've 'bought 1 (or more) coffees'. Easiest way is then just to download all using Dropbox's facility. You'll then have a zip file with everything in - ie. over 170 PDFs, MIDIs and MP3s files!.
Any pianist here that can tell me which fingers are you using on the 25 bar. that jump from Ab Bb to F G Ab G Bb. I use 1 1 2 3 4 3 5. Its the best I found but still weird, maybe theres another way. ty
I use 1 2 1 2 3 2 4. Once your hand gets used to the jump from playing the Bb with your index finger (2) to playing the F with your thumb (1), it all starts to feel comfortable. When going up to a higher note it's very common to move the thumb under your hand; eg. playing simple scalar patterns like the C major scale where (while playing the 3rd note - E - with finger 3) you move your finger underneath to then play the F (using your 3rd finger on E as a sort of pivot). What you do here is the same principal but with a MUCH larger leap for your hand to be able to get your thumb down on the F quickly! But like I said, once you get used to it... In case it's any help, my personal complete fingering for bars 24 to 27 is: 4 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 2 4 1 2 5 3 4 2 5 1 2 1 2 3 2 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Hope that all helps 😊
@@ElektrikHob 1 2 1 seemed so wild to me as I was learning the notes and it was at a much much lower tempo but now that you said it and now that I know what to do... it was a relatively easy jump to do honestly I hate that I couldnt see it... I need to practice jumps more...Im more of an octave kind of guy and this song is really making me learn how to move on the whole piano. If i finish it ill improve my playing astronomically, so thank you. You are now my teacher whether you want it or not. Thanks. From all my hearth. As soon as I get a job Ill invite you to a beer or something. You and Tony Banks saved my sanity this week and will probably do so for months.
Hi, just to say this has filled all the gaps for me and I am now almost relearning it with your arrangement now sounding much more like the original. So thank you yet again. As the sheets are available in pdf format, would you please be willing to release a Sibelius file for this arrangement as I use Sibelius 7 to play back notation through my piano whilst learning pieces of music. I understand that this would allow editing of your arrangement if you decide not to. Many thanks again, 40 yrs later I finally get to play the verse correctly !!
Sorry, but I think I'd feel uncomfortable releasing the Sibelius file; it took quite a bit of time & effort to create it... You could download the audio from my video using a free web TH-cam video to MP3 converter (e.g. Flvto) and play it back using iTunes or something while looking at the PDF...
Did pretty much all of the actual working out by ear when I was a teenager and it probably took quite a few hours as this was one of my first Genesis transcriptions!! 🙂 Scoring and tidying up, which is 99% based on those original scribblings, took roughly 5 hours all told (I’m a bit of a perfectionist!) and most of that was spent tightening up the waterfall/madrigal bit and Steve’s solo. I still wasn’t entirely happy with the former bit even after putting up the video as can be seen by the extra right-hand thumb notes I’ve added to the PDF since 😂
* * * possible correction - bar 12; the final triplet can be played as just one note (the top E) * * *
I have a live version where Tony does indeed play that bit as a triplet, but on the original studio version, it IS one note...
I've been playing it as 3 triplets since I was 14 so it's hard to get out of the habit but it's definitely easier as a single note if you have smaller hands :)
I don't know how many of you do this but, in case you don't, can I politely suggest that you click on the SHOW MORE button above the comments section (same for all my vids) :)
It gives some info as to what my thought process was in creating the vid and, far more importantly, the link to the PDF file that I hint at in the title (in case you're using a laptop or smaller device and the link isn't visible by default).
EH....a long time ago I had a great instructor (my 3rd) who emphasized playing by ear. The first piece I went to was FoF. I noticed you could do a lot of interpreting with this without compromising the integrity of the composition. There's a lot of intricate chords & the guitar solo part I just ad libbed. I'm amazed you were able to interpret it for piano!! Yours is the only transcription I'm aware of & my hat's off to you!! What I've done is gone back to revisit the piece & am utilizing parts of yours I consider better for performance. Aside from that guitar solo the most difficult to learn were probably the intro & the middle section that is more or less a heavier version of the intro. I was playing chords with the left hand in that middle solo & it never sounded quite right. I appreciate & understand the work it must have taken you to put this to manuscript paper!!!
I got into Genesis BIG time when I was around 14 and spent the next few months working out around a few dozen of their tracks.
Their music just seemed to click with me more than any other band and fitted in with how I liked to play the piano and that's still the case.
I'm very lucky to have a pretty good ear and to be honest a large part of my ability to hear intricacies in music - not just piano, but the other instruments too - is down to working out all those Genesis tracks as a teen! :)
When it's just piano, it's really fairly easy to replicate, but, yeah, trying to get the whole band to sound good on piano does take a bit of work, but I try to 'get' the whole picture and, when it comes to music (and my other 'occupation', software engineering) I'm VERY fussy about getting things right… just ask every band I've ever been in!! :)
A man after my own heart! If it isn't going to be done right why do it at all! For me also, aside from ELP no other band aside from Genesis caught my imagination. I was a late bloomer though. Not interested in piano studies until I saw ELP in the summer of 72 but didn't start getting serious until my late teens. I studied harmony & theory but never got into the writing aspect which I regret now. What I try to do is take the best from all the transcriptions I can attain & try to put together a cohesive piece that doesn't compromise the integrity of the compositions I work on. That said, your work here is greatly appreciated by us musicians. It's very obvious your on a higher level. Getting this music right is no small feat!
And the guitar solo for FoF must have been really daunting!!! You deserve high praise for your diligence in getting this music so spot on accurate!!!
So so so many nany thanks , I couldnt display my tears
Learned this for a wedding in 1981 (the bride wanted it for the recessional). Took me three weeks to figure it out. Didn't have the internet to help me out. Not bragging but this was a chore to learn with the different time signatures and odd key signatures. Wish I had this back then. Still a classic piece of music. Tony Banks is a great composer (Mad Man Moon is anothe favorite). Long live the classic Genesis!
It is sooooo difficult!
I played the piano in high school (no Internet) and since I could play Beethoven, I thought I could play this. My mom bought the sheet music for me. As hard as I tried, I just couldn’t master it. So in my opinion, three weeks is pretty good.
In the winter of '74 I would listen to this in my dorm room, writing down every note while moving the needle back again and again on the vinyl, then going to the music practice rooms across campus to play it. repeat, repeat, until I had it. Unaware to me, it was in Bb and I assumed key of C when I transcribed. Didn't find this out until I saw your video here!
Many thanks to everyone who's commented and that goes for my other vids too; it's nice to know my efforts seem to be appreciated :)
I'll be taking a bit of a break for a while, but there're still quite a few Genesis tracks in my back-catalogue and I'm sure my transcriptions will wend their way here eventually... :)
I've been following your entries for quite a while now and you never cease to amaze me! I am smiling big time every chance I get to check these out. You wouldn't by any chance have your version of Undertow? I still consider that song one of their best ballads I've ever heard in nearly 40 years of listening to Genesis. Keep up the great awesome work! :D
God, the songwriting/composition/whatever you want to call it is so wildly creative and innovative. I find it hard to believe that this exists and is real, but it is. Boy, what a world!
Bravo, and Bravo!!! And thank you for scoring this so well done. 20+ years ago I worked out the intro but lost it from memory. It really is a testimony to the compositional skills of Tony Banks that more than a generation later that very talented musicians (like you!) are studying his work with great intensity and passion. Thank you Mr. Hod, and thank you Mr. Banks.
You. Are. Absolutely. Incredible. Thank you so freaking much!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are such a blessing. I hope you are doing great.😊
Doin' fine thanks 👍😊
I was going to make my own transcription of this great song and I found your video ! Thanks a lot that's a reaaaaaaally ggod work and you're saving my time ! 😃🎹👍
An absolutely amazing contribution! You’ve opened up one the greatest masterpieces for us Genesis diehards who don’t know when they’re beaten.
I’ll be pressing my Arturia V Collection of synth VSTs into service this Xmas to start on this. FANTASTIC!
A W E S O M E work on one of the most iconic musical compositions ever
Thank you very much. i'm flute player and i was looking for the Gabriel's flute part. You have make an incredible work here. Thanks a lot.
Thank you. I want suggest this song to my young nephew that don't knows Genesis . Very grateful
Wow. Talk about accuracy and attention to detail! Excellent
SUPERB! Thanks for posting this! Wondering about those 22 who didn’t approve! It’s not everybody that takes the time to publish the piano sheet music for for Firth Of Fifth!
I'm blown away at this! I'm just now getting "back" into listening to old Genesis and playing piano myself. I really want to learn this - so I googled and found you pretty quickly. I haven't even sat down at the piano yet but I can tell you put a LOT of time into figuring out exactly what Tony was playing and transcribing it for us. Thanks!
Many many thanks for posting this. I've been playing this for years since I had an out of body experience with the flu, a tape recorder and an upright piano tuned half a tone below concert pitch.
Over the years, you hear and see places you could improve on, and a few years back, my friends and I formed "Genesisn't" (please check us out on TH-cam).
Bar 18 has always eluded me and what you've posted here has helped put another piece of the puzzle in place. Thank you!
Wow! I've been playing that intro (definitely one of my all time favourites) for many years as a standard to warm up my fingers before rehearsals, but always had a few "weak spots" (some of which I hadn't even noticed until I checked your transcript). So I found a couple of differences to what I've been playing and have to admit: You were right - always. Just brilliant.
Thank you so much for sharing this truly incredible work!
Another absolute success, I have played the intro for years but always struggled with the verse sections to make them sound good. You have definitely filled all the gaps Sir. Well done and at last a lifetime dream fulfilled to play this from start to finish. My only TH-cam video is in fact Firth of Fifth intro so one day soon I will complete it thanks to you again.
From 5:41 you play Steve Hacket's beautiful guitar solo with a piano sound... and actually it sounds great! Excellent job, well done!
Yeah, as I put in my accompanying blurb, that was by far the most difficult part of this piece to get to sound anywhere near authentic! :)
Combined with the left hand trying to do a Mike R bass line, unfortunately, this does make it all rather difficult to play compared with all my other transcriptions.
I hope it hasn't put off too many people from trying my approach...
This is great! I will show this to my daughter and will definitely get you some coffee. Thank you for taking time to write the score.
Thanks Sonny 🙂
For such a long piece, it's amazing how quickly it goes by...
...time flies when you're having fun, eh?
:-)
You’re a genius, second to none except a certain Anthony Banks!
Thank you so much for your effort! I don‘t play much sheet music, but this will be a very rewarding one.
I just came back from Steve Hackett's concert and your transcription is "come il cacio sui maccheroni". Thank you very much indeed!
I confirm, and congratulation for the italian sentence.... This is really a great job and i can realize the dream of playing this masterpiece
Holy shit I've been working on this for months and still it's kicking my ass. But I'm not wont to stop trying anytime soon!
Strange this doesn't have more views. Absolutely fantastic work
Excellent works I used to play but drifted away when other things got in the way. This is an inspiration to get back to playing. Thanks for a full transcript. 👏👏
Thanks for this amazing transcription! And to those who are giving it the thumbs down, please point us to your own better version...!!
Ta :)
I thought I could learn this hands separately pretty easily at 0.5 speed, but keeping up with those key a signature changes is hard. Thanks to this and the PDF I'll get there!
A great piece of music. Parts of it really remind me of The Persuaders' theme tune. Bars 128 and 129 especially. I then found out John Barry is a big influence on Mr Banks.
Tony Banks: per me il più grande musicista vivente.
Wow what a fantastic resource! Thank you for all this hard work. I did MIDI files of this material many years ago, but this is very nice! Thank you!
GRAZIE GRAZIE GRAZIE PER IL PDF!!! GRANDE MAESTRO MASSIMO BUCCI!!!
ma... non è più "on line " ?
Thanks, Elektrik Hob! This is getting me through lockdown, and then some! Quite remarkable that this only took you 5 hours in Sibelius. Would've taken me a week at least. Really impressive. So grateful.
That is excellent. Just excellent thank you.
Thank you for that, it's great you shear your work and allowed us to use it, I really respect that
Very very very good work here !!! Congratulations and thank you for the amount of time it must have taken you. I might download that pdf...
You did a beautiful and amazing job ❤️
I can't wait to play it!
Awesome!!! Well done!!! A wonderful transcription of a very difficult piece!!!
Nailed it! Plus the pdf. You’re my hero.
Fantastic! Thanks for doing this. I can see and hear where I went awry with my own transcription so this will really help fill in some gaps.
got it thanks best I've seen, do you play it or are you just transcribing, either way good show
I do actually play it like this, though usually with some extra rhythmical stuff to try to give it even more of the feel of both the original and the Seconds Out live version.
As I mentioned on a couple of my other videos, including my original FoF Intro only video, I've been transcribing pop/rock music since I was around 10 or 11 and I started on Genesis when I was in my mid teens back in '76, so I've been doing this a looooong time! :)
Amazing version & transcription!!! can't believe someone actually gave a thumbs down here...must be a non musician with a tin ear...
Most of my vids seem to have one or two dislikes, and nearly all are from mobile phone users...
Perhaps they got the hump cos they couldn't find the PDF or cos the audio sounded iffy on a phone... :)
1:05 is where I start having trouble with the right hand lol. It seems I need another finger between the fourth and fifth to play it lol. Thanks so much for this sheet music. If you're going to do more, I'd love to see an arrangement of Blood on the Rooftops.
Learn to play this may save my life
I sometimes come to places like this when I feel the number of conspiracy believers has risen again, because this stuff is what the internet should be about. To share what is great and enjoy it. Thanks for helping me to keep my faith in human intelligence and grace.
Well, said!!
Thank you :)
This is next level stuff. Any chance of Cinema Show please?
Absolutely beautiful! Very well done Sir!!
That is a gigantic Job ! I am very grateful ! If possibile the sib. File would be the biggest present of the year ... Thanks so much
Simply stunning.... Super job
You are a hero. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this sheet. This is awesome, it is a perfect version ❤
Thank You :) Watched some of your vids; lovely playing! Hope you enjoy playing FoF :)
Thank you so much! Your work is very useful for everyone around the world, Greets from Argentina :)
This is such a great transcription! My respect and thanks for that!
Superb. Thank you for the transcription. I will try to play it.
Well done ! very nice arrangement, I will try to play it as is. Congratulations and thank you for uploading the score. Very nice. Thank you
Amazing work ! Could you do Dancing with the moonlit knight next ?
Hi, thank you for your reply, I fully understand. And I will download it as an mp3 or wav as these files will playback through my piano.
Thank you again for sharing the sheets.
Well done... Coffee will be on the way soon. BTW, I think you did a pretty fine job doing the guitar part on the piano. That guitar solo is my favorite ever... Hat tip to Steve Hackett... Hopefully you'll get to see Genesis on their European leg of the tour...
Got my ticket for London O2 in March; fingers crossed...!
@@ElektrikHob Excellent!! I hope you have a great time!
blud played steve solo perfectly im amazed
Beautiful! Amazing work.
incredible effort and work Electrik Hob...piano hacks (like me) the world over are forever in your debt....any chance of cinema show (complete..i know you have the solo in your catalog)or the musical box...pleaseeeeeeeeeee
Is not only classic music...the folk rythms are impressive...
Gratis job you've got A+
Dude. Well done. Thank you!
Beautiful performance!
Crazy awesome right here ;)
Are those two notes hitting the same G at 0:45? (on the second 13/16 bar). It seems like I would have to let go of the notes on my left hand fairly quickly in order to let my right hand hit the same note the left-hand note was just on.
The G#...? You really need to play the left-hand thumb further towards the back of the note (and your right-hand thumb at the very front) so that your two thumbs don't interfere with each other. Then there's not a problem.
To be honest, I sometimes simply don't play the LH thumb note on that chord; nobody's really gonna notice... ;)
@@ElektrikHob Ah, thank you!
Truly awesome :)
Thank you :)
amazing! thanks to u i can play parts of these magnificent masterpiece
hi there! awesome video thank you. any chance you might have a good fifth of fifth sounds presents for my Nord Stage 2 ex? :)
Mil gracias!! Genio del football mundial!
Thank you.
1 year on and I am now starting to get to grips with it. Still those difficult run ins to the key changes to master.I wonder if the strange time signatures in the intro could be simpler with triplets instead of 3 semi quavers ?
I found your channel recently and let me tell you how grateful i am of you. You've transcribed and posted some of my favourite Tony's work in Genesis. Also you've helped me to be able to play it. You have excelent ears haha.
I hope i don't bother asking, but have you ever considered transcribing the last bit of solo of The Cinema Show, that Tony used to do live from 1976 and on? It's that last last fast bit, i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. I spent many days trying to sort it out but i can't come with something that sounds good.
Here's a PDF of the bit I think you mean: tinyurl.com/yd945gwz
I've listened to the Seconds Out version and a few others from 1976 at full speed and slowed to 70%.
Ironically, on the official Seconds Out release, I believe Tony plays a wrong note (gasp!!) at RH note 9 in bar 4; he plays a C# instead of a D.
The other versions I've listened to all had a D there and it makes more sense given the sequence he's playing.
@@ElektrikHob Oh my i don't know why youtube never notified me about your reply. Yes it's that bit!! I play that keyboard now thanks to you!!
Really apreciate it. I hope you upload something else in the future.
Brilliant work!
Marvelous! I wish you'd included the chords for the intro as well though
The chords for the intro are pretty much the same as I've written for the keyboard solo section starting on page 6 of the PDF
Thanks! I noticed after I posted my comment :-)
hey! Thank you very much! I'm very grateful! Really
Amazing!
Stunning!
un grand MERCI!
OMG! Its unbelievably fantastic! !! I'm SOOOO proud of you and don't even know you lol ;-) ...ohhhhh well done!!!!! Xx
Thank you Miss Lilac; very kind of you to say so :) xx
Semplicemente Meraviglioso!!!!!!!
Grazie!
Thought he was playing those chords with the left hand on the Hammond during the solo with the ARP, not octave intervals??
He does, but this is a solo piano transcription and, as I said in the notes above...
The Keyboard solo. When I play the piece live, most of the time I'll just repeat the piano intro (with the last 2 bars altered obviously) as it's such a great solo piano part. But if I want a bit more aggression, then I'll use what I've scored here.
It's meant to give some indication of the power of Mike's bass alongside Tony's solo.
thank you so much for this!
Superb!
Awesome
Would like to pay you a coffee for getting Firth of Fifth but my bank ecard system just allows Euro or USD. Do you know a way I could proceed? Thx
Does BuyMeACoffee (via Stripe) not allow either of those payment systems?
@@ElektrikHob Unfortunately not, I just tried again. The link drives you to a place where you can only pay 5£. No other currencies are proposed. But with the eCard system, you must enter the amount, either in Euro or USD...
@@jihemtee Perhaps you could get a friend to make the donation (using your email address) and give them the money? This is the first instance I'm aware of anyone not being able to use the BuyMeACoffe (via, for me, Stripe) payment system...
@@ElektrikHob Sorry! I just launched my eCard app once more and just discovered that now the payment in pounds has now been added. However one question before I confirm the purchase: do you know if there is a way to get the midifile for this piece? I already play the intro but found your "main part" very nice so I would like to learn it. But I'm working on both the score and Synthesia, which needs the midifile. Thx in advance...
@@jihemtee There are MIDI files for all the Genesis tracks and are included in the files that you can download from the link that you will be sent when you've 'bought 1 (or more) coffees'. Easiest way is then just to download all using Dropbox's facility. You'll then have a zip file with everything in - ie. over 170 PDFs, MIDIs and MP3s files!.
Beautiful! :)
WOW...well done
Huge thanks!
Thank you very much!!!!
Very nice
inspirational!
Any pianist here that can tell me which fingers are you using on the 25 bar. that jump from Ab Bb to F G Ab G Bb. I use 1 1 2 3 4 3 5. Its the best I found but still weird, maybe theres another way. ty
I use 1 2 1 2 3 2 4. Once your hand gets used to the jump from playing the Bb with your index finger (2) to playing the F with your thumb (1), it all starts to feel comfortable. When going up to a higher note it's very common to move the thumb under your hand; eg. playing simple scalar patterns like the C major scale where (while playing the 3rd note - E - with finger 3) you move your finger underneath to then play the F (using your 3rd finger on E as a sort of pivot).
What you do here is the same principal but with a MUCH larger leap for your hand to be able to get your thumb down on the F quickly! But like I said, once you get used to it... In case it's any help, my personal complete fingering for bars 24 to 27 is:
4 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 2 4 1 2 5 3 4 2 5 1 2 1 2 3 2 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4
Hope that all helps 😊
@@ElektrikHob 1 2 1 seemed so wild to me as I was learning the notes and it was at a much much lower tempo but now that you said it and now that I know what to do... it was a relatively easy jump to do honestly I hate that I couldnt see it... I need to practice jumps more...Im more of an octave kind of guy and this song is really making me learn how to move on the whole piano. If i finish it ill improve my playing astronomically, so thank you. You are now my teacher whether you want it or not.
Thanks. From all my hearth. As soon as I get a job Ill invite you to a beer or something. You and Tony Banks saved my sanity this week and will probably do so for months.
@@juannn8 No problem 👍 Glad I was able to help 😊
Thank you so much!!!!
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perfect!
Hi, just to say this has filled all the gaps for me and I am now almost relearning it with your arrangement now sounding much more like the original. So thank you yet again. As the sheets are available in pdf format, would you please be willing to release a Sibelius file for this arrangement as I use Sibelius 7 to play back notation through my piano whilst learning pieces of music. I understand that this would allow editing of your arrangement if you decide not to.
Many thanks again, 40 yrs later I finally get to play the verse correctly !!
Sorry, but I think I'd feel uncomfortable releasing the Sibelius file; it took quite a bit of time & effort to create it...
You could download the audio from my video using a free web TH-cam video to MP3 converter (e.g. Flvto) and play it back using iTunes or something while looking at the PDF...
A-mazing.
Genio
out of curiosity how long dod this take?
Did pretty much all of the actual working out by ear when I was a teenager and it probably took quite a few hours as this was one of my first Genesis transcriptions!! 🙂 Scoring and tidying up, which is 99% based on those original scribblings, took roughly 5 hours all told (I’m a bit of a perfectionist!) and most of that was spent tightening up the waterfall/madrigal bit and Steve’s solo. I still wasn’t entirely happy with the former bit even after putting up the video as can be seen by the extra right-hand thumb notes I’ve added to the PDF since 😂
Elektrik Hob wow. you've done a fantastic job. my dad can play this and he also worked it out by ear when he was a teenager.
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