Jay-Z & Pharrell - I Know * Piano Version *

**OVER 20,000 VIEWS!!** **EXCLUSIVE - YOUTUBE FIRST** PIANO COVER - Me, the founder of N.M.E. Massive doing my thing & playing Jay-Z & Pharrell Williams' "I Know" on my electronic piano (my 20th piano cover video in order). This is one of my favorite songs from the "American Gangster" album as well as being one of the most COMPLEX & EXTREMELY DIFFICULT songs I ever performed as a piano cover for my Youtube page. This is the only piano cover so far that took me listening to different versions of the song in order to play it on the piano. I had to listen to the actual studio track of "I Know", the VH1 Storytellers performance of "I Know" WITH live instruments & a remixed version of the song that closely resembled the VH1 Storytellers version of the song.

After listening to the different versions of "I Know", I was able to figure the song out by playing along to each song version & improvising with some random complex seventh & Add-9 chords on the piano. After that, everything else fell into place & now I can play the song with finesse. Just so people know - all the music that I have played for my videos are off the TOP OF MY HEAD, not sheet music.

So far, this is one of my MOST EXCLUSIVE videos because I am the FIRST one to do a piano cover of this song on Youtube. Its feels good to be the first one cuz now people will have to use me as an example lol.

8/14/2010 - SO FAR, IN A YEAR'S TIME (SINCE 8/14/2009 - WHEN THE PIANO COVERS WERE FIRST STARTED), I HAVE PERFORMED A TOTAL OF 50 SONGS ON PIANO - ALL BY THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS: SEAN PAUL (6 SONGS), SNOOP DOGG, RIHANNA, BEYONCE (2 SONGS), R. KELLY, MICHAEL JACKSON, TUPAC SHAKUR, AMERIE, SHAKIRA, TONY MATTERHORN, T.I., FAT JOE, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., JAY-Z (2 SONGS), JA RULE, EMINEM, AALIYAH, MARY J. BLIGE, TWISTA (2 SONGS), JILL SCOTT, LIL' KIM, FOXY BROWN, BIG TYMERS, JANET JACKSON, LINKIN PARK, PHARRELL, TLC, CLEOPATRA, OUTKAST (2 SONGS), JUVENILE, USHER, ELEPHANT MAN, SHABBA RANKS, KEVIN LYTTLE, SHAGGY, ALISON HINDS, DESTRA GARCIA, GYPTIAN, DMX (2 SONGS) & BIG PUN! I HAVE DONE ALL THESE SONGS BY EAR, WITH NO SHEET MUSIC WHATSOEVER! ITS BEEN A CHALLENGE TO DISSECT THESE SONGS IN MY MIND & LISTEN TO THEM OVER & OVER AGAIN BUT THE REWARD HAS BEEN IN ME FINALLY PLAYING THESE SONGS ON THE KEYS. SOME OF THESE SONGS ARE YOUTUBE-FIRST EXCLUSIVES, WITH ME BEING EITHER THE FIRST & ONLY ONE TO ATTEMPT THESE SONGS ON PIANO. ENJOY & STAY TUNED FOR MORE MUSIC & FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE N.M.E. MASSIVE YOUTUBE PAGE - www. youtube.com/nmemassive !!

P.S.: HIT ME UP & LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT ME TO DO ANOTHER 50 MORE PIANO COVER VIDEOS!

- ACE C. (CEO OF N.M.E. MASSIVE)

**Credits Due: Big-ups & much credit due to Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Pharrell Williams for creating this song. It was very difficult & very challenging to perform this song on piano because no sheet music was used whatsoever. Listening to the song over & over by ear & mentally breaking the song down in my mind helped me to achieve this. I have been the first one to ever attempt this song on piano for Youtube & I am giving acknowledgement to those who produced & wrote the song. This video has received a lot of accolade from Jay-Z fans, Pharrell fans & fans of my Youtube channel alike. There has been a big response to this video & I hope that everyone who views this video appreciates the hard work behind making this song playable on the piano keys. It is not an easy thing to do, given that I had to sit down & listen to the different versions of this song for hours & figure out the chords to this song. I figured out how to play this song by playing along with the song as I heard it until my chords were on point. It took a lot of troubleshooting but I eventually got it done & the rest is history. Thanks to everyone for checking out this video. I am a talented individual that is just trying to express himself in visual form for others to see & witness. Feel free to spread the word about this video & my Youtube channel & thank you again for the continued support & subscriptions. I literally push the envelope when I do my videos. The accolades & support from all of you motivates me to push harder & take on more & more difficult music. Much love!**

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[nmemassive]

Hey fans! I have done 50 songs so far by: SEAN PAUL (6), SNOOP DOGG, RIHANNA, BEYONCE (2), R. KELLY, M.J., TUPAC, AMERIE, SHAKIRA, TONY MATTERHORN, T.I., FAT JOE, B.I.G., JAY-Z (2), JA RULE, EMINEM, AALIYAH, MARY J. BLIGE, TWISTA (2), JILL SCOTT, LIL' KIM, FOXY BROWN, BIG TYMERS, JANET JACKSON, LINKIN PARK, PHARRELL, TLC, CLEOPATRA, OUTKAST (2), JUVENILE, USHER, ELEPHANT MAN, SHABBA RANKS, KEVIN LYTTLE, SHAGGY, ALISON HINDS, DESTRA GARCIA, GYPTIAN, DMX (2) & BIG PUN. Check them out & enjoy!

[hoopjuice15]

stfu and play the song already lol

[nanaushika]

very good, i love it man! beautiful

[CaliBoiSwagg310]

This is sicc!!! Playing by ear is truly as talented as reading sheet music if not harder cause you have to catch and match all the melodies!! Much respect to ya

[MrWazpot]

you rock bro

[mibbzx1493]

skip to 1:20

[Rlvj87]

I'm writing a guitar version. I'll copy the link soon.

[sample22k]

AWESOME THIS WAS GREAT!!!

[pendleton123]

Tooo many drums

[croftwoman17]

Not bad!

[MrVizionary2012]

if go deaf after this video, i dont mind , i also notice u had a Jamaican flag in the background, well man respect cuz im Jamaican