Muse on the Piano

[Mellomeh]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

Edit for mid-2007: I wrote this OP over 3 years ago when I was an arrogant little twat. I had no idea it was still being posted in. I'm baffled to be honest.

Another edit: Well I read through the thread. How very embarrassing. I do not know what I was thinking, please disregard everything I said 3 years ago.

[Matt Bellamy]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D
You dont know how long I have been waiting for some help. I have been playing few a few weeks and am really good (and almost as modest as you :D ). I can play the intro from New Born fine upto when Matt starts singing but it then sounds as if he is playing 2 pianos with 4 hands. I have tried to play as per the sheet music found here http://zmeba.free.fr/frame2.htm, but have no luck. Any suggestions.

I also notice that it doesn't sound like this when plays live, he alters it making it simpler but sounds great (which I can play).

[Fairy Nuff]

ne cures for small hand syndrome???

[kuz]

You dont know how long I have been waiting for some help. I have been playing few a few weeks and am really good (and almost as modest as you :D ). I can play the intro from New Born fine upto when Matt starts singing but it then sounds as if he is playing 2 pianos with 4 hands. I have tried to play as per the sheet music found here http://zmeba.free.fr/frame2.htm, but have no luck. Any suggestions.

I also notice that it doesn't sound like this when plays live, he alters it making it simpler but sounds great (which I can play).
he plays the intro bit all the way through, youre reading the bass guitar bit (written out for piano). just play the intro bit over and over again

[Mellomeh]

he plays the intro bit all the way through, youre reading the bass guitar bit (written out for piano). just play the intro bit over and over again
Hey! I'm supposed to be giving the help on here! lol. Yeah, play the intro until the big guitar riff.

[kuz]

well i can help too, im not bad either!


...well, except for the hard stuff :rolleyes:

[Mellomeh]

well i can help too, im not bad either!


...well, except for the hard stuff :rolleyes:
Yeah I suppose you can, I'm not amazing at the really hard stuff (B&H big solo) but I'm good at the technical aspects of the Muse pieces

[kuz]

bah, i just sight read them and if i cant do it i give up. luckily enough, i havent met many like that yet, but b&h, piano thing... :rolleyes:

[Mellomeh]

bah, i just sight read them and if i cant do it i give up. luckily enough, i havent met many like that yet, but b&h, piano thing... :rolleyes:

I want to get a damn tab for Piano Thing. Mabye the official Muse website should have a downloadable tab of it to keep the fans happy. I love playing Apocalypse Please and Space Dementia the most.

[kuz]

it does have the piano thing tab. check the faq, though theres also a thread aboot it. its not 100% accurate though.

as for playing space dementia, my left hand isnt strong enough to play the fast bit in the verse (i quit piano lessons 3 years ago, so im a little out of shape), but its still fun to play parts of it anyway

[Imperium]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D



haha u git! :p

[Mortifer]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

A bit braggy are we?

[LIVID]

yeah, i was gonna say... is this like the 'toot your own horn thread'?

[Dark0rator]

hey, erm....i can't really paly apocalypse please right, i just cant read the chords right, can u help me out some?

thanks in advance

[Mellomeh]

hey, erm....i can't really paly apocalypse please right, i just cant read the chords right, can u help me out some?

thanks in advance
Which bit of the chords? All of them or just some?

Oh yeah, to all the other people, I was being SARCASTIC about being amazing at all Muse pieces. :P

[lillilasiangurlie]

ne cures for small hand syndrome???


I have small hands too. Pretty much you just stretch them (I can barely play a 9th). Also it's good to build up strength in your arms; it helps to compensate.

[Mellomeh]

I have small hands too. Pretty much you just stretch them (I can barely play a 9th). Also it's good to build up strength in your arms; it helps to compensate.

If not, you could always very quickly play one note after the other.

[lillilasiangurlie]

If not, you could always very quickly play one note after the other.

It's really hard to get away with that because it will always sound somewhat broken (chords, etc.), but eh, what can you do?

[Mellomeh]

It's really hard to get away with that because it will always sound somewhat broken (chords, etc.), but eh, what can you do?

Then again, you could always have plastic surgery to make your hands bigger.

[lillilasiangurlie]

Then again, you could always have plastic surgery to make your hands bigger.

That'll be very scary. My hands would look very disproportionate. :eek:
But I did that stretching thing before 5 years ago for a Rachmaninov piece and it worked. But I haven't stretched like that since then so I'm back to square one. :(

[Mellomeh]

That'll be very scary. My hands would look very disproportionate. :eek:
But I did that stretching thing before 5 years ago for a Rachmaninov piece and it worked. But I haven't stretched like that since then so I'm back to square one. :(

Meh. I'm a lanky shit so I havent got a problem with stretching. Although I am clumsy.

[Dark0rator]

erm...all the chords really, i just have trouble with them, i can play all the other muse piano parts...just apocalypse does my head in-lol

[Matt Bellamy]

I have a smple solution for small hands. Get a small (childens) keyboard :)

[Appelstroop]

yeah what is apocalypse please,i mean what do i have to play.

name some easy things to learn for a beginner that can only play newborn and is really bad at that aswell,it dosent have to be muse,and these scale things you people talk of,show me some

[kuz]

best song to learn after new born would be... hmmmm... sunburn? thats not very hard. endlessly is also a good idea :)

[LIVID]

Well sarcasm obviously doesn't work very well in writing, that happens all the time.

[muse-erm-person]

You dont know how long I have been waiting for some help. I have been playing few a few weeks and am really good (and almost as modest as you :D ). I can play the intro from New Born fine upto when Matt starts singing but it then sounds as if he is playing 2 pianos with 4 hands. I have tried to play as per the sheet music found here http://zmeba.free.fr/frame2.htm, but have no luck. Any suggestions.

I also notice that it doesn't sound like this when plays live, he alters it making it simpler but sounds great (which I can play).

Yea I was confused by how to get the overall sound of new born on piano, turns out you cant on a real piano! I recorded my own cover of this and had to do the following: It starts playing the intro as written in the book but on an electric piano sound, this just keeps repeating under everything else until the guitar riff. Next you add in the same thing but with a real piano sound, however you need to play it on a digital piano because both hands are in octaves so you need an automatic octave setting. The bass line as printed for the verse is played on a synth bass, not on the piano. So... basically the only way to get the sound muse get for this is with electric piano sound, octave real piano sound, and synth bass line.
Hope that helps...

[kuz]

...or just do it as he does live, where he plays it an octave down (from the sheet music) with a standard grand piano sound, and the bass plays the bass part.
simple really :)

[muse-erm-person]

yeah i suppose... but I wanna sound like the album!!!
:)

[Fairy Nuff]

I have a smple solution for small hands. Get a small (childens) keyboard :)

hmmm do i sense a bit of pisstaking? :D

[calintz]

i am playing butterflys and hurricanes
its fun until you have to do this grand finalie bit i cant manage to make my fingers put it on the same keys sigh* im so uncordinated :'( :LOL:

playing acolypse please forthe first time made my whole right hand paraize for like 30mins and makin my thumb spasticated lol i only can play it till matt goes this is the end my reading notations is slow...pfffftttt

does any one know how to play the piano thing i got the sheet music and i cant read it its like all messy with lines and things whihc i dun understand in piano theory :eek: :confused:

[GaelicRockStar]

anybody know a link 2 a site thats good for teaching how 2 read sheet music? I only read tab for my guitar but if I knew how 2 read it I'd probably try and play sum muse stuff on my sisters keyboard

[emma unintended]

i cant read notes so can some1 tell me how to play bliss/sunburn/new born in the easy type please?

i mean ,like ...ABCDEFG?

[Mellomeh]

i cant read notes so can some1 tell me how to play bliss/sunburn/new born in the easy type please?

i mean ,like ...ABCDEFG?
Ok, Bliss is:

C, Eflat, G, (up octave) C, Eflat, G, (up octave) C, Eflat, G, Eflat, C, (down octave) G, Eflat, C, (down octave) G, Eflat
Bflat, D, F, (up octave) Bflat, D, F, (up octave)Bflat, D, F, D, Bflat, (down octave) F, D, Bflat, (down octave) F, D
F, Aflat, C, (up octave) F, Aflat, C, (up octave) F, Aflat, C, Aflat, F, (down octave) C, Aflat, F, (down octave) C, Aflat

That's the main piano riff

Sorry, that looks shit. Uh, just tell me if you don't understand it.

[kev]

i cant read notes so can some1 tell me how to play bliss/sunburn/new born in the easy type please?

i mean ,like ...ABCDEFG?

see here http://www.muse.mu/board/showthread.php?t=1052

[emma unintended]

thanks 4 all ur help !

all i need to know now is what is an octave!!??

[Matt Bellamy]

I need a bit of help with apocalypse please. I got the sheet music from http://zmeba.free.fr/frame.htm and am a bit stuck. You need to play 6 notes with the two hands (which is no problem ) but i cant strectch from F# to the other F# getting in the c# and the A all with my right hand at the same time (hope i got these right). It seems impossible to stetch to all 4 keys in a comfortable way. Any help

[Killing In The Name]

thanks 4 all ur help !

all i need to know now is what is an octave!!??

The difference in pitch between 2 notes that are the same is an octave. For example, the difference between low C and Middle C is one octave.

[Auntie Helen]

I need a bit of help with apocalypse please. I got the sheet music from http://zmeba.free.fr/frame.htm and am a bit stuck. You need to play 6 notes with the two hands (which is no problem ) but i cant strectch from F# to the other F# getting in the c# and the A all with my right hand at the same time (hope i got these right). It seems impossible to stetch to all 4 keys in a comfortable way. Any helpHere are some options:
(a) grow longer fingers (not very helpful)
(b) make sure your hands are in the right position, i.e. high up with your fingers pointing downward, not resting your wrists on the bit behind the keys (possibly helpful)
(c) Push your fingers up the keys (sort of halfway up the black notes) so you're not stretching up to them, and you're playing the white notes on their narrower parts between the black notes (might help, might not)
(d) Just play the bottom three notes of the four (root chord) and sing the melody and no-one will notice (only helpful if you can sing).
I can play this fine but then I have a reasonable handspan. If your hands are smaller then it might just not be possible...

[Auntie Helen]

Oh, and Timmy123 gave me some helpful information on playing B&H on the piano (the middle tricky bit). He went through with a simplified version of it. We did it through Instant Messenger but I saved the conversation and could post it if people would find it helpful.

I have to say I've not had a chance to do much of it yet, but it looks like it should make things easier. He gives recommendation on which hand does which bit, and the fingering for some bits too.

[Matt]

Can anyone tell me, in "abcd" etc how to play the outro to citizen Erased, and I want the Hullabaloo version cos I can play the OOS version but I love the live version.
cheers.

[Blackie]

http://zmeba.free.fr/frame.htm

is this piano music or guitar music? sorry im not musically minded in that sense, but i want to know.

thanks :)

[Mellomeh]

http://zmeba.free.fr/frame.htm

is this piano music or guitar music? sorry im not musically minded in that sense, but i want to know.

thanks :)

It's guitar music with the piano adapted for guitar playing.

[Blackie]

thanks, i can now play the begining of newborn, i cant read music so my gf learnt it coz she like them, and taught me it :D

[lillilasiangurlie]

I have a smple solution for small hands. Get a small (childens) keyboard :)

No can do: 1) I'm painstakingly known for breaking keyboards at school (playing too hard) 2) I already have a piano seeing that I've played for quite some time.

[Allymuse1]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

how do you play space dementia? I can read music off a stave so you dont need to write it out like a.e.c,f# etc.

thanks for any help u give

[muse-erm-person]

how do you play space dementia? I can read music off a stave so you dont need to write it out like a.e.c,f# etc.

thanks for any help u give

There ya go - download this zip and open the picture files...

http://zmeba.free.fr/space.zip

write back if you need any help, i've learnt this myself

[Allymuse1]

What picture program to you use to open it? Windows automatically chooses wordpad but it comes up wth total crap. Do you need winzip to make it work?

thanks

[muse-erm-person]

What picture program to you use to open it? Windows automatically chooses wordpad but it comes up wth total crap. Do you need winzip to make it work?

thanks

yea, save the link to ur hard disk, then get winzip and open it with that.
good luck!

[Allymuse1]

yea, save the link to ur hard disk, then get winzip and open it with that.
good luck!

Can you get download winzip for free ? Cos i only want to use it for this

[kev]

if you go to www.winzip.com you can download it free for a 21 day evaluation period.

[Matt]

how do you play the opening to AP. Am I right in thinking the first part with your right hand you hit

F#, A, C#, F#?

But what is the next part that follows?

cheers

[kuz]

E# (i.e. F), G#, C#, E#

[Fairy Nuff]

with octave c#s in the left hand throughout i think

[kuz]

yup :) unfortunately it gets more complicated though :(

[Quelyn]

Does anyone know if Matt can read music? Seems a lot of people can play piano really well like he does but only play by ear.

[Matt]

can anyone tell me the opening to screenager hullabaloo piano. Dont mean the prelude thing I mean the bit that he plays mostly throughout the song. When I read the sheet music in the tab book it doesnt sound right, can you tell me wot it is, in terms of A B C etc?

[Matt Bellamy]

Does anyone know if Matt can read music? Seems a lot of people can play piano really well like he does but only play by ear.
I was also wondering this. I heard somewhere that he can't but he has been playing for about 15 years now and reading music isn't too difficult so I can't think of any reason why he shouldn't be able to read music.

[Fairy Nuff]

play it in Gminor- ie there is no A flat.

[Matt]

thanks but im not sure what that means exactly (obviously theres no A flat) but wot keys do u actually play? really really sorry, i know sound thick as hell but its just me and sheetmusic.

[GaelicRockStar]

Does anyone know if Matt can read music? Seems a lot of people can play piano really well like he does but only play by ear.

I'm sure he can as Matt was trained classically. Ever saw a classical musician not able to read sheet music?

[Fairy Nuff]

thanks but im not sure what that means exactly (obviously theres no A flat) but wot keys do u actually play? really really sorry, i know sound thick as hell but its just me and sheetmusic.

i mean play exactly what you were playing from the tab book but play a normal A not an A flat. erm the actual notes are G in the left hand (2 octaves below middle C) then D G A Bflat A G D (all one octave above middle C) then D (just above middle C) B Flat (going down the keyboard) A G C# D (above it) C# D then it repeats that section but there is a G played as a chord with the top D. hope that helps.

[nova]

I don't play piano and i'd like to read partitions.
But i don't understand all.
For example, in official book, for piano songs, I can see G key and F key.
G key is for right hand and F key for left hand ?

[YellowSphere]

different clefs, one hand will be in treble clef one in bass, notes are in different places on the bass clef.

[Count Vronsky]

Matt wrote the strings on the new album so he must be able to read music. I have been trying to do screenager but its pretty hard to find a score for it. I dont want to buy the hullaballoo book. But if anyone wants a score for Absolution songs ill upload them here.

[Auntie Helen]

Matt wrote the strings on the new album so he must be able to read music. I have been trying to do screenager but its pretty hard to find a score for it. I dont want to buy the hullaballoo book. But if anyone wants a score for Absolution songs ill upload them here.The screenager score in the Hullabaloo book is quite different from that in OOS but is easier to play.

I think you can download scans of the tab books somewhere (maybe microcuts.net, can't quite remember)

[muse-erm-person]

thanks but im not sure what that means exactly (obviously theres no A flat) but wot keys do u actually play? really really sorry, i know sound thick as hell but its just me and sheetmusic.

*=up an octave from original

G, D, G*, A, Bb, A, G*, D, D*, Bb, A, G*, Db, D, Db, D

Thats the general pattern, if I have some more time i can write out the rest of the changes.

oh yea and if u can read sheet music find it at http://zmeba.free.fr/frame.htm

[IrishPhoenix]

Hey all this is my first post here so im a bit nervous but neway be cool right? :cool:

Anyway i love muse (obviously) and am able to play space dementia (my new favourite song, at least until i figure out what the hell is going on in Piano thing) perfectly until the very end where the really heavy guitar kicks in.
If you listen really close you can hear matt doing something crazy and class on the piano really high up. I've already got the sheet music but all it says at this point is 'Arpegiate ad lib". I've tried but can't quite get it. is there any tab or something out there that has this riff nailed down?

Thanks :confused:

[Alysum]

Space dementia is sooo hard to keep the rythm and type the right keys everythime :'( and also I get sore on my little fingers :D

[IrishPhoenix]

No one know of it?

[flomuse]

space dementia is that hard, but i do fumble on the keys at times, and when it goes down in octaves really fast, i cant do both hands at the same time.

[Whimpers]

Alright, just the thread I was looking for!

I've been playing piano for a while, but I've just gotten into playing Muse. I also noticed how in the New Born intro, the second time around seems like there are two pianos playing it, one just a little off beat to the other. I was thinking it might have been a piano effect, but sure as hell can't figure it out.

Would anyone happen to know what the notes are for the live version of New Born? I know it's all the same EXCEPT for the bit where the right had shifts from playing B to C... it's almost as if one more note is added, and it sounds bloody awesome!

Another question, would anyone happen to know the score for the Cave piano solo near the end? I love that bit, but haven't been able to find a piano score for it :(

Personally, I love playing Ruled by Secrecy. That song was designed for the piano, when the chords kick in it's pure bliss :D

[tenfootfridge]

Hey all this is my first post here so im a bit nervous but neway be cool right? :cool:

Anyway i love muse (obviously) and am able to play space dementia (my new favourite song, at least until i figure out what the hell is going on in Piano thing) perfectly until the very end where the really heavy guitar kicks in.
If you listen really close you can hear matt doing something crazy and class on the piano really high up. I've already got the sheet music but all it says at this point is 'Arpegiate ad lib". I've tried but can't quite get it. is there any tab or something out there that has this riff nailed down?

Thanks :confused:

Sory if this isnt right, I havn't got oos on me right now so i can't check but if its anything like he does it live, take the root chords which I'm pretty sure are in the sheet music (again apologies if this isn't right) and arpegiate (is that a real word?! it should be!) from the bottom to top of the piano, doing that under-army technique thingy or just race up the keybord with the chords I don't know if it changes chord wise on its way up but from what im thinking it might just race up the keybord with the root chords then back down again, I hope that helps but it might be absolute guff so sorry if I've wasted anyones time!

[Pictures of you WILLY]

i haev a £300 keyboard and the keys aren'y weighted at all, will this make a big overall difference when playing stuff like b+h and space dementia? all the widdly stuff.

[kuz]

Would anyone happen to know what the notes are for the live version of New Born? I know it's all the same EXCEPT for the bit where the right had shifts from playing B to C... it's almost as if one more note is added, and it sounds bloody awesome!
its the same, except every 6th bar, which is where C is played (Em / B / Em / B / Em / C / G / B) is slightly different. the left hand stays the same, the right hand plays C-G-E-G-D-G-C-G instead of C-G-E-G-C-G-E-G.

[IrishPhoenix]

Thanks lads ill try and let you know how i get on

[Whimpers]

its the same, except every 6th bar, which is where C is played (Em / B / Em / B / Em / C / G / B) is slightly different. the left hand stays the same, the right hand plays C-G-E-G-D-G-C-G instead of C-G-E-G-C-G-E-G.

Thank you very muchly! I've been looking for that for a while now, and my version just didn't sound right :p

[kuz]

no problem :D

[theimpressiveclergyman]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

And so modest to boot. :LOL:

[Auntie Helen]

i haev a £300 keyboard and the keys aren'y weighted at all, will this make a big overall difference when playing stuff like b+h and space dementia? all the widdly stuff.I guess it might help, but you might find that you're accidentally pressing down the wrong keys too if you're going fast.

[calintz]

maybe i should try and scare my piano music teacher on the sheet music for piano thing :D

its so confusing on how to read it and BLESS MATT HE MAKES IT SOUNDS there's 3 hands playing awwwwwwwwwwww

[the italian mafia]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

its not actually that hard to play. I can play it all and won ma schools (middle section) young musician of the year with space dementia. But see wen you play the hard(ish) bit in Butterflies and Hurricanes-the bit going up and down the D major scales etc- do you play the whole octave in the left hand, or just the top note? I dont think its played on the album recording.

[Fairy Nuff]

its not actually that hard to play. I can play it all and won ma schools (middle section) young musician of the year with space dementia. But see wen you play the hard(ish) bit in Butterflies and Hurricanes-the bit going up and down the D major scales etc- do you play the whole octave in the left hand, or just the top note? I dont think its played on the album recording.
i dont understand the question
do u think you could rephrase it for me cos i might be abe to help. do u mean the top octave in each arpeggiated bit?

[the italian mafia]

ok
erm... the bit whitch is D F# A D F# A ( up the way and then down) and then down then you get and octave of D and D, and the arpeggio again. Do u play the lower D in the octave? It really doesnt sound like it on the album.

[Jonesy]

I think one of the best bits on the Absolution DVD, is when Matt shows a graphic score for the rising and falling backing for the chorus of SS.


Whether or not he can read music, it's really cool the way he comes up with ideas and translates them into graphic scores like that. That bit really gives the chorus the anthemic feel too. Very creative mind that man.

EDITED -Damn, formatting messed up so have removed my nice little diagram, anyway you know the bit I mean, it's drawn on the big white board with ascending and descending dashes.

[Fairy Nuff]

ok
erm... the bit whitch is D F# A D F# A ( up the way and then down) and then down then you get and octave of D and D, and the arpeggio again. Do u play the lower D in the octave? It really doesnt sound like it on the album.

i think you do but you play it very quietly so it gets louder as you go up the keyboard and quieter as you go down so the last note is barely audible maybe?

[Ceno]

can anyone give me the chords to play newborn on piano? i can't find it anywhere!! :'(

[kuz]

can anyone give me the chords to play newborn on piano? i can't find it anywhere!! :'(
:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

just read it off the sheet music. there's a link in the faq about where you can find the sheet music to new born ;)

[Bewilders]

I love playing Apocalypse Please and Space Dementia the most.
apocalyspe please is fun! its makes you sound powerful. :) i can play all muse songs except the butterflies and hurricanes bit andpianothing.

[:James:]

this is just one big fucking brag thread

[Ceno]

thanks soooo much :D

[kuz]

this is just one big fucking brag thread
i love you too :)

[Bewilders]

this is just one big fucking brag thread
o0o0o0

[Ceno]

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

just read it off the sheet music. there's a link in the faq about where you can find the sheet music to new born ;)

where abouts in the faq??

[kuz]

where abouts in the faq??
in the second post somewhere. the link is here (http://www.microcuts.net/uk/tabs)

[Ceno]

thanks so much!

[YouCouldBeMyUnintended]

Hey all :) I've been errr... given a piano, and all I can play so far is the intro to Numb by Linkin Allotment. I seem to learn by ear, and I'm trying to teach myself how to read music. Can anyone suggest some Muse/classical sort of songs that I might be able to tackle? Any help would be great. Cheers :happy:

[Matthijs]

Mellomeh is gay... he can't play butterflies :LOL:

[Fear_Me]

hey

I don't play piano really good... but I do play it... and... I'm looking for a good sheet of Apocalypse Please, Piano Thing and Space Dementia does anybody know where to find it? ( :
thanQ

xXx Carla

p.s. don't mind my bad english... I'm from holland XD

[Stecloud]

hey

I don't play piano really good... but I do play it... and... I'm looking for a good sheet of Apocalypse Please, Piano Thing and Space Dementia does anybody know where to find it? ( :
thanQ

xXx Carla

p.s. don't mind my bad english... I'm from holland XD

microcuts.net and go to Tabs.

[BOD]

If anyone has any questions on how to play any of Muses piano pieces then just ask me. Because I am amazing at all Muse piano stuff :D

:eek:

I can't believe someone made a post like this, HAHAHA

Mellomeh is gay... he can't play butterflies :LOL:

This obsession with the (very simple) Butterflies solo is your trademark, isn't it? :LOL:

its not actually that hard to play. I can play it all and won ma schools (middle section) young musician of the year with space dementia.

Your school mustn't have very many musicians

[crazybobbles]

dont be mean!!!!

[BOD]

dont be mean!!!!

Yeah but... come on. :LOL: Alright, fair enough. Anyway, more personal responses...

Which bit of the chords? All of them or just some?

Oh yeah, to all the other people, I was being SARCASTIC about being amazing at all Muse pieces. :P

So this thread relies entirely upon sarcasm? So... what's the point of the thread?

Yea I was confused by how to get the overall sound of new born on piano, turns out you cant on a real piano! I recorded my own cover of this and had to do the following: It starts playing the intro as written in the book but on an electric piano sound, this just keeps repeating under everything else until the guitar riff. Next you add in the same thing but with a real piano sound, however you need to play it on a digital piano because both hands are in octaves so you need an automatic octave setting. The bass line as printed for the verse is played on a synth bass, not on the piano. So... basically the only way to get the sound muse get for this is with electric piano sound, octave real piano sound, and synth bass line.
Hope that helps...

Only the right hand goes into octaves. And it is playable.

Space dementia is sooo hard to keep the rythm and type the right keys everythime :'( and also I get sore on my little fingers :D

:LOL:

[Stecloud]

You're just adding to the brag-fest that already was this thread. Not everyone is as good at the piano as everyone else.

Having said that, using the terminology 'type' when referring to piano keys is utterly deplorable.

[BOD]

You're just adding to the brag-fest that already was this thread. Not everyone is as good at the piano as everyone else.

Having said that, using the terminology 'type' when referring to piano keys is utterly deplorable.
Heh, I wasn't bragging. Where do I brag?

[Stecloud]

Heh, I wasn't bragging. Where do I brag?

Brag may be a too strong word to describe it, but you were being negatively arrogant:

This obsession with the (very simple) Butterflies solo is your trademark, isn't it?

Your school mustn't have very many musicians

[BOD]

Brag may be a too strong word to describe it, but you were being negatively arrogant:

"This obsession with the (very simple) Butterflies solo is your trademark, isn't it?"

No, that's because it REALLY IS, he NEVER STOPS TALKING ABOUT IT

"Your school mustn't have very many musicians"

Well it's true...

[Stecloud]

Butterflies isn't very simple - Sunburn is very simple. Butterflies is like Grade 5 piano, which is intermediate difficulty.

The remark about the school not having very many musicians is just taking away from someone else's achievement. Ok, Space Dementia isn't an increidbly advanced piece of music to play - but if it were performed well, then that's usually more important in music competitions than the difficulties of the piece.

[bkaa]

pwnd

[BOD]

Butterflies isn't very simple - Sunburn is very simple. Butterflies is like Grade 5 piano, which is intermediate difficulty.

The remark about the school not having very many musicians is just taking away from someone else's achievement. Ok, Space Dementia isn't an increidbly advanced piece of music to play - but if it were performed well, then that's usually more important in music competitions than the difficulties of the piece.

Okay, point taken. But the way MuseMatt goes on about B+H is disproportionate to its difficulty.

[Mikhail Gorbachev]

Maybe not to him. Some people may find Leibstraume (Liszt) incredibly easy, whereas I'm willing to bet you'd find it pretty damned difficult. Pissing on people's chips is easily done, but rarely brings reward.

[BOD]

Maybe not to him. Some people may find Leibstraume (Liszt) incredibly easy, whereas I'm willing to bet you'd find it pretty damned difficult. Pissing on people's chips is easily done, but rarely brings reward.
Ask Bjorny then, he'll back me up on this. (Not that it really matters particularly)

And no, B+H really ISN'T difficult, and it isn't difficult for MuseMatt, he's a decent enough pianist.

And sorry to be pedantic, but the reference to Liebestraum was a bad example. It didn't really express a point, Liszt IS difficult, and the only people that would find it easy are established professional/concert pianists. I think that reference was made for the sake of it. :(

[the italian mafia]

Your school mustn't have very many musicians
:rolleyes:
boddles not many pieces on the piano will trouble you so its easy for you to dismiss others achievements. i was a few years younger when playing space dementia and i could have played something more difficult but i wanted to play muse (yes, how sad).
none of muses songs are particularly difficult to play.

as it happens our school had one amazing cornet played who, the year before, played (as the judge said) one of the most technically demanding pieces written for the instrument. but she left the year i played. there was someone playing eye of the tiger on a keyboard tho. that was amusing.

[BOD]

:rolleyes:
boddles not many pieces on the piano will trouble you so its easy for you to dismiss others achievements. i was a few years younger when playing space dementia and i could have played something more difficult but i wanted to play muse (yes, how sad).
none of muses songs are particularly difficult to play.

as it happens our school had one amazing cornet played who, the year before, played (as the judge said) one of the most technically demanding pieces written for the instrument. but she left the year i played. there was someone playing eye of the tiger on a keyboard tho. that was amusing.
Okay, fair enough, it could sound quite dismissive me saying that. I'm just comparing it to my situation, so okay, fair enough, that was subjective and I was basing everything around my situation. Point taken.

I just get carried away. You know what I'm like.

[the italian mafia]

its ok cos your uber-awesome :) i still watch you playing moonlight sonata. thinkin of recording anymore videos? ie rachmaninov *hint hint*

[BOD]

its ok cos your uber-awesome :) i still watch you playing moonlight sonata. thinkin of recording anymore videos? ie rachmaninov *hint hint*
I need to learn some Rach, however I've yet to re-record that Beethoven yet. I'm slowly getting worse at it :eek:

[the italian mafia]

no!! you played it very well too.
For someone of your ability rachmaninov should be no problem. i can play it and your much better than me on piano.

[BOD]

no!! you played it very well too.
For someone of your ability rachmaninov should be no problem. i can play it and your much better than me on piano.
Well that's nice of you to say. Yeah I do need to force myself though, I'm RUBBISH with disciplining myself to learn pieces...

[Dramatic Hammer]

I need to learn some Rach, however I've yet to re-record that Beethoven yet. I'm slowly getting worse at it :eek:
Do you have the huge, double-jointed hands required to play it 'correctly'? :D

[Electric Rocker]

http://zmeba.free.fr/frame2.htm

It won't let me look at any of the sheet music from this site. Anything from zmeba says it needs a username and password.

Anyone got the answers to my problemo please?

[BOD]

Do you have the huge, double-jointed hands required to play it 'correctly'? :D

No. But there are ways around that :happy:

[Dramatic Hammer]

No. But there are ways around that :happy:
Haha, you probably know but apparently he could reach an octave using his first finger normaly and his thumb stretched under his hand:eek:!

[BOD]

Haha, you probably know but apparently he could reach an octave using his first finger normaly and his thumb stretched under his hand:eek:!
I didn't know that. But I knew he could play a twelfth, with loads of bending inbetween - so like he could play, C, Eb, G, C, G, with one hand.

[Dramatic Hammer]

I didn't know that. But I knew he could play a twelfth, with loads of bending inbetween - so like he could play, C, Eb, G, C, G, with one hand. That's pretty extreme! There's also a chord in one of the piano preludes (I think), where normal people have to mash two keys with their thumb but he played it with finger and thumb.... It's just not fair :LOL:!

[the latest plague]

where can i get some muse piano tab things

[BOD]

That's pretty extreme! There's also a chord in one of the piano preludes (I think), where normal people have to mash two keys with their thumb but he played it with finger and thumb.... It's just not fair :LOL:!
Ha, that happens in a Liszt piece, why didn't he just play it with his thumb... hehehe

[MUSEicly_Talented]

hey boddles theres some things i wanted to ask you,
how long have you been playing piano
have you had classical training or did you teach yourself
how long did you spend learning each muse song

i have now been playing for two years
i have had no training its all self taught
i normally spend a few days on muse songs but i never stop improving (obviously)

and also, B+H solo is easy, you are right boddles, musematt should have no problem with it as i have heard his stuff and i agree with you hes great.
it is, however, a fantastic acheivement to learn it though cause it sounds so difficult to someone who cant play it and when you can it just gets you all excited, well it did for me anyway.

[Bewilders]

I didn't know that. But I knew he could play a twelfth, with loads of bending inbetween - so like he could play, C, Eb, G, C, G, with one hand.
How the fuck?! :eek: I can do the first 4 nothes but only get my little finger on the "D"..

[Dramatic Hammer]

How the fuck?! :eek: I can do the first 4 nothes but only get my little finger on the "D".. I can play C Eb G C F on my Microkorg :D! It has mini keys though :p.

[Bewilders]

I can play it on my Microkorg :D! It has mini keys though :p.
:rolleyes: That's cheating.

[Dramatic Hammer]

Haha I remember hearing that there is a plaster model of his hands somewhere, so I searched "plaster cast rachmaninov". Guess what was on the first page......
1) Rachmaninov - Prelude in C Minor
Rachmaninov plays really, really hard, heavy piano, its like watching porn wearing a whole body plaster cast. It sounds like a funeral march - really depressing and dark - but it also lets you know you're about to be onslaughted. the perfect opener.
:LOL:

[muse_saz]

:D lol

does anyone know the last piece of the intro of Space Dementia? with the fast chromatic scale? And the (good and original) tabs for Ruled by Secrecy? I have found out the biggest part, but I want to be sure it's good ;)

[BOD]

how long have you been playing piano

Er... actual piano about 8 years, but I started playing piano pieces on keyboard about 12 years ago

have you had classical training or did you teach yourself
I've had classical training recently, to improve my technique etc, but I taught myself up to that

and also, B+H solo is easy, you are right boddles, musematt should have no problem with it as i have heard his stuff and i agree with you hes great.
it is, however, a fantastic acheivement to learn it though cause it sounds so difficult to someone who cant play it and when you can it just gets you all excited, well it did for me anyway.

Hehe, yeah...

[because]

i want to learn feeling good on piano, anyone got like a tab thing? i can't read music, how pathetic am i?

[Stecloud]

i want to learn feeling good on piano, anyone got like a tab thing? i can't read music, how pathetic am i?

It's at microcuts.net

[because]

It's at microcuts.net
sic

[Stecloud]

sic? What did I spell wrong?

[because]

sic? What did I spell wrong?
sick. as in RADICAL D00D

[BOD]

Ugh... 1) The spelling 'sic', 2), the word 'sick' itself to mean that, I hate it :LOL:

[the latest plague]

if you're all so great tab me teh piano in hoppipolla by sigur ros

[BOD]

if you're all so great tab me teh piano in hoppipolla by sigur ros
no

[the latest plague]

:(

[krooney]

does anyone have the chords or anything better so that i can attempt to play SBH on the piano?

[Ducky101]

wow old thread....

*clears throat*

I didn't know where to put this but i just generally want to ask about Muse on the piano...
At the end of Apocalypse Please with the flashy chords going up and down the keyboard, are they simply the chords just played up and down the scale?

I'm not too hot on reading music. It's all about listening to pieces and playing them so a lil help on the end of that would be great :happy: otherwise i found it reasonabley easy to play just listening to the music :happy:

[StEvE21]

Hey guys

I used to mess around on my keyboard a long time ago (about 6 yrs ago) and my biggest achievement was playing the Drink milk Love life song :D lol anyways, over the last couple of days I've been practicing, and I can read simple sheet music, and I can play the intro to starlight and take a bow.
I don't like playing using sheet music, so I was just wondering if it is possible to play some of the tougher songs by ear alone?
Thanks in advance.

[Stecloud]

Hey guys

I used to mess around on my keyboard a long time ago (about 6 yrs ago) and my biggest achievement was playing the Drink milk Love life song :D lol anyways, over the last couple of days I've been practicing, and I can read simple sheet music, and I can play the intro to starlight and take a bow.
I don't like playing using sheet music, so I was just wondering if it is possible to play some of the tougher songs by ear alone?
Thanks in advance.

Well of course, it's possible to play anything by ear if you're talented enough - but Sunburn shouldn't cause anyone any problems. :)

[Matthijs]

And no, B+H really ISN'T difficult, and it isn't difficult for MuseMatt, he's a decent enough pianist.
(

have been away for a while here i say :P but he's right. it's not difficault, it just requires a smallll bit of discipline to have it right. and most people seem to lack that :rolleyes:

[StEvE21]

I think I read somewhere on this forum that Sunburn is grade 5 piano/ intermediate.
Is that referring to the level of difficulty of reading and following the sheet music? Or the actual playing part? :stunned: (or does it have something to do with the fact that you need two hand to play it?)

[pubicmage]

I think I read somewhere on this forum that Sunburn is grade 5 piano/ intermediate.
Is that referring to the level of difficulty of reading and following the sheet music? Or the actual playing part? :stunned: (or does it have something to do with the fact that you need two hand to play it?)

There is no way that Sunburn is grade 5. It isn't even very difficult. It's probably more like grade 3.

[Matthijs]

the live solo makes it more interesting though

[Ducky101]

There is no way that Sunburn is grade 5. It isn't even very difficult. It's probably more like grade 3.

It's NOT grade 3 either :LOL:

What's B+H?

[Matthijs]

4-ish i guess

[toff]

Yeah I suppose you can, I'm not amazing at the really hard stuff (B&H big solo) but I'm good at the technical aspects of the Muse pieces

I can play the B&H solo, so Im more amazinger than you.

I also have a bigger dick than you. Give up now.

[StEvE21]

Ok so I've got the first part of sunburn taken care of, but I need some help.

http://www.azchords.com/m/muse-tabs-2661/sunburnpiano-tabs-76095.html

could someone please check if figure two is right? Because it doesn't sound right to me
(but I could be playing it wrong, and it could also be because my keyboard only has 49 keys :$ )

[Matthijs]

try the original tab ;)

[Bewilders]

Sunburn grade 5!? Fuck no! That can't be true.

[pubicmage]

Sunburn grade 5!? Fuck no! That can't be true.

Have ABRSM lowered the standards dramatically overnight?

[StEvE21]

Ok, so I just checked the tab at microcuts... and it looks like my shitty keyboard doesnt have the notes I need for this song :(:mad:

[Matthijs]

Sunburn grade 5!? Fuck no! That can't be true.

it's not grade 5. 3, 4 at best. The live solo might be a bit 5'ish though

[pubicmage]

No, it is probably 4 at the most. Grade 5 is not that simple!

[Bewilders]

it's not grade 5. 3, 4 at best. The live solo might be a bit 5'ish though
I don't even think the live piano solo would be Grade 5 either, although I have never done grades.

[commandrew]

Space dementia.

How many keys is he playing in that key roll he does? I play a version that hits the bass octave. Then 3 keys with the right hand then 3 with the left and the first 3 again with the right. But it's doesn't really sound very full.

Is that right?

[Matthijs]

you play one note too little

E - E F# G A (etc)

[commandrew]

you play one note too little

E - E F# G A (etc)

oh I see. But wouldn't it be

E - E F# G B?

That sounds perfect to me.

[Matthijs]

oh I see. But wouldn't it be

E - E F# G B?

That sounds perfect to me.

:rolleyes: my bad :LOL:

[commandrew]

:rolleyes: my bad :LOL:

That's alot harder than what I was doing :)
Hey could you give me the rest of the notes in the verse in that format? (I can't read music). That would be awesome.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Dratoon]

Hey, i really need help. This is my first post because i basically joined to ask for help with a song. I really want to do either space dementia or time is running out on piano for GCSE. Any help, like a tab or a site?

[azuresoul]

Heya - wondering if someone could help me...
I can sort of read some sheet music... really basically... sort of... but basically learn best by ear - could someone do me a huge favour who can read sheet music - ive heard people saying stuff about the "piano thing" and ive got the sheet music for it... can someone record them playing the piano thing so i can use the sheet music to work out roughly what they are playing and learn it??? thanks vvvv much!!

btw. dratoon go here: http://www.microcuts.net/uk/tabs its got all the tabs for the muse songs up & inc. absolution.

[eggs]

Heya - wondering if someone could help me...
I can sort of read some sheet music... really basically... sort of... but basically learn best by ear - could someone do me a huge favour who can read sheet music - ive heard people saying stuff about the "piano thing" and ive got the sheet music for it... can someone record them playing the piano thing so i can use the sheet music to work out roughly what they are playing and learn it??? thanks vvvv much!!

btw. dratoon go here: http://www.microcuts.net/uk/tabs its got all the tabs for the muse songs up & inc. absolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x82JdegSbYA

[azuresoul]

ahh... thanks!

[Mozza]

Does anyone know how Matt plays the guitar parts for Sunburn on the piano? I'm fed up of just playing the verses and outro over and over again

[streamwirelive]

anybody know how to play darkshines? and not just the guitar part on the piano, I mean the actual piano parts in the song, including the chaotic piano bits before the chorus?

[StEvE21]

What grade is space dementia?

[YellowSphere]

What grade is space dementia?Weapons-grade.

[StEvE21]

ahhh, of course!

[f1aphex]

It's about grade 4/5. However, it is very fucking repetitive so should never be used in any exam situation (kinda talking AS/gcse here).

[flickering_shadow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x82JdegSbYA

That was an awesome video, thanks for that :)

[emzlilachouse]

I really need help on how to learn New Born but the only thing is i cant read notes haha
some one help please

[pubicmage]

It's about grade 4/5. However, it is very fucking repetitive so should never be used in any exam situation (kinda talking AS/gcse here).

Yes, true. But an abridged arrangement wouldn't be a bad idea.

I really need help on how to learn New Born but the only thing is i cant read notes haha
some one help please

Just learn to read notes. It's the easiest way.

[emzlilachouse]

Yes, true. But an abridged arrangement wouldn't be a bad idea.



Just learn to read notes. It's the easiest way.

But me and doing that doesn't go haha

[Fernando]

I'm a beginner piano player but would like some Muse sheet music to get motivated to practice more. I need a source for Muse piano sheet music. A book, Web site...something. Please help!
http://www.freepianosheets.com/index.php
search muse


P.S. google exists for a reason.
P.P.S. you don't need to resurrect two threads to ask the same question.

[Samcoma]

I'm a beginner piano player but would like some Muse sheet music to get motivated to practice more. I need a source for Muse piano sheet music. A book, Web site...something. Please help!
:facepalm: