I'm having real trouble learning this. I've simplified my piece, but I think it's taking me so long because I haven't got a piano teacher, and simply coz it's SO HUGE!

Anyone played it before? Any hints, tips?


Cheers, matey...arrrr....

no i havent played it but i love it!!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 11:44 PM)

no i havent played it but i love it!!

Hehe, we're going to perform it. jonscott14 on ye trumpet, Miles (not on the forum, but has beasty hair) on guitar, and Joel, commonly known as Mole, playing drums.....

I'm singing it in a choir.

Yep I can play a few versions because I'm that sad. It's very similar in some parts, it's the same chord sequences with different melodies. I love it, play it most days....from memory

I'd try to do your own arrangement of it because a lot of them around are pants.

Who made the Bohemian Rhapsody??? I've heard of it but haven't even listened to it.

I've played through "Bohemian Rhapsody" for a pupil a few times. Once, he played the drums while I played the piano part, we recorded it on one track of a multi-track recorder and then had a real laugh both singing it through. We sounded hilarious trying to hit the high notes in the "Galileo" harmonisation section. We are both bass singers after all but we had great fun and the final recording was a hoot! Incidentally, this was a bit of light relief from his preparation for Grade 8 piano.
I wonder where Freddy Mercury would have gone with his music if he hadn't tragically died so young. On the evidence of "Barcelona" he may have turned more and more to composing Classically orientated music. Its a real shame we never got to see him develop further as a composer. He did leave us with some great rock music though, thats for sure.

Gae

QUOTE (DGA @ Feb 20 2005, 05:35 AM)

Who made the Bohemian Rhapsody??? I've heard of it but haven't even listened to it.

Queen

Yes it is a real shame about Freddie Mercury.Not only was he very talented he also had a fantastic voice.

I remember some years ago a tribute concert in which other rock stars were covering his songs.Many couldn`t sing them in the original keys.I think George Michael is the only guy (as well as being gorgeous...isn`t it a shame,Gae?!)who can possibly match his vocal range.

DGA...I cannot believe you haven`t listened it!!!! It was No1 in 1975 for weeks and weeks and it just endures.

Queen made some really great albums....A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera are worth listening too as an intro to them.

I also love the video to "I want to break free". Who can forget Roger Taylor dressed up as a schoolgirl?....lol...and then there was that video...name of song escaped me...where Freddie does a tribute to La Sacre....or is it the same vid?

QUOTE (Danse Macabre @ Feb 20 2005, 11:12 AM)

I also love the video to "I want to break free". Who can forget Roger Taylor dressed up as a schoolgirl?....lol...and then there was that video...name of song escaped me...where Freddie does a tribute to La Sacre....or is it the same vid?

and with the hoover hehe! i love that video!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 20 2005, 11:13 AM)

and with the hoover hehe! i love that video!

Greetings CL.

May I ask you a question? Do you spend all your waking hours on here and how can you manage to reply to postings scattered all over the forums so quickly?

no not all my waking hours lol. im oging to work for 6 hours soon!! lol.

i post a lot- what else can i say!

Ahhhhh...the essay????? I must say I do agree.I onlly really listen to La Sacre.

lets not mention essays thanks!! hehe lol


5000 yipeeeeee

Yeah....we will all await your one million with bated breath

mgiht be a little while before i get to 1 million!! give it maybe....hmm......3 weeks lol

Queen do have some of the best piano parts in rock music. For Bohemian Rhapsody, we are doing it in our band but I play the guitar for it so I can't help.

Where did you get the scores from? I'm interested in them.

Hi,

I've played Bohemian Rhapsody many times (piano arrangement from the Queens Greatest Hits book). The hardest parts are not the verses, but the parts where the piano has to imitate an electric guitar in those long fiddly runs (assuming you are doing a piano only arrangement, and don't have an electric guitarist doing those for you...?). All I can suggest is find the impossible bits and go over it slowly, writing in and (eventually) memorizing the fingering, until it gets easier.

It's a lovely piece and great fun to play. You can hear the drums in your mind and headbang along as you play, happily destroying many healthy braincells.

Have fun!

PS Love I Want to Break Free video, but think I prefer I'm Going Slightly Mad - never can look at a penguin now, without seeing Brian May!

QUOTE (pianoplayer @ Feb 20 2005, 03:04 PM)

Where did you get the scores from? I'm interested in them.

I can either send you mine (when I've done it) or you can go to

http://www.freepianosheets.com/

and you can look at it there....but you'll need the scorch plug-in...

My version's easier than that, btw...

QUOTE (Fred @ Feb 20 2005, 05:00 PM)

Hi, I've played Bohemian Rhapsody many times (piano arrangement from the Queens Greatest Hits book). The hardest parts are not the verses, but the parts where the piano has to imitate an electric guitar in those long fiddly runs (assuming you are doing a piano only arrangement, and don't have an electric guitarist doing those for you...?). All I can suggest is find the impossible bits and go over it slowly, writing in and (eventually) memorizing the fingering, until it gets easier. It's a lovely piece and great fun to play. You can hear the drums in your mind and headbang along as you play, happily destroying many healthy braincells. Have fun! PS Love I Want to Break Free video, but think I prefer I'm Going Slightly Mad - never can look at a penguin now, without seeing Brian May!

No, we have an electric guitar.... so luckily i don't have to fill those bits in....the only bit that doesn't quite work is the "Galileo"s where one is done on the trumpet (lead melody) and the other is on the piano...

We have no lead singer.....anybody fancy doing it, lol?

Oops, I didn't read your original post very well, sorry! Regarding a singer - won't your audience fill the role for you?

Hehe, probably...

Wow I wish I'd've had an arrangement like that when I was learning it, I had to figure all that out by ear. Some of it is wrong though, I'm pretty sure having heard the backing track on Queen Greatest Hits 1 Bonus DVD (I'm so sad I know).

Anyone going to see their upcoming tour?

K Thanks Oddball.

Just me then

queen is a legend

I can play most of it, but at the moment i am having trouble with the "Bismilah" bit which is really difficult to get your hands around!

Good luck...I am sure it will come with practice!

Just starting (again) on the piano and would love to try bohemian rhapsody as Queen are my favourite band but I can't get the music anywhere and I tried to contact oddball to ask for his music but it wont let me e-mail or pm, anyone know why? If your reading this oddball I would be very grateful if you e-mailed your music to me at tresdirnt@hotmail.com. Thanks.

Buy it! Support the greatest band in history!

QUOTE (tresdirnt @ Mar 1 2005, 10:27 PM)

Just starting (again) on the piano and would love to try bohemian rhapsody as Queen are my favourite band but I can't get the music anywhere and I tried to contact oddball to ask for his music but it wont let me e-mail or pm, anyone know why? If your reading this oddball I would be very grateful if you e-mailed your music to me at tresdirnt@hotmail.com. Thanks.

OK, will do that as soon as possible!

Will Email you about it now.