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People are Strange - The Doors (piano cover)

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Uploaded by on Mar 13, 2011

I enjoy playing anything by The Doors, Ray Manzarek is one of the main reasons I started playing keyboards!

However, I definitely prefer their more upbeat stuff. I really enjoy playing this tune. Starts off quiet with a nice bassline, then picks up into the chorus.

The guitar solo has a lot of bends and slides, so is difficult to emulate on piano. Therefore, I just improvised a solo around the Fm blues scale, hopefully it fits in with the rest of the tune!

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  • John Travolta with short hair, thanks a lot! this is awesome!

  • @xMoreTx Haha, I've been called a lot of things, but that's definitely a first :-) Now, you mention it though........ Just a pity I've not got his money. Anybody want a Royale with cheese ;-)

  • @shoneyman Respect - Pulp Fiction forever! :]

  • @xMoreTx Phew, glad you picked up on the reference, was hoping you wouldn't just be like wtf?? Yeh, one of the best films ever made, and easily the most 'quotable' film in movie history!

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  • This is awesome. Would kill for a tutorial

  • Tutorial PLEASE!!!

  • @Xiomara727 Well, I've been playing for about 24 years, and I've gradually refined it over that time. Had about 10 years of weekly lessons though, and we used to spend about 10 mins per lesson concentrating on relative pitch. There are particular drills you can do, but it's also a skill that's strengthened by really knowing your scales and chord arpeggios.

  • @xMoreTx ROFL! That was a really good one!! :D

  • @shoneyman I sure did :D

    Unfortunately, I don't have any of the two! xP My music teacher keeps trying to help me have some relative pitch but I just can't. That's fantastic! Did it take you long to have the ability to do all that??

  • @Xiomara727 Thanks for the compliment, glad you enjoyed it :-)

    To answer your question, no I don't have 'perfect pitch'. I do have good 'relative pitch' though, something my piano teacher was quite particular about teaching. In other words, once I've worked out what key the peice of music is in, it generally doesn't take long to work out the chord structure, melody and solos.

    So, I can't tell what a note is just by listening to it, but I could easily tell you the interval between 2 notes

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