Instructional Video - BSG All Along The Watchtower on Piano

An instructional video by Peter Chapman of Pyre on Starbuck's piano version of Heeding The Call, the theme song of the Final Five.

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Music

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• All Along The Watchtower
• Final Five
• Heeding The Call
• Piano
• Starbuck
• Peter Chapman
• Pyre
• BSG
• Battlestar Galactica

[RandomHero486]

wow, no other song should be called all along the watch tower, I thought it was gonna be hendrix..-__-

[Heavilyeverafter]

In the nicest, but somewhat impatient of ways, two points:

1. The song that Hendrix covered was written by Bob Dylan, doesn't he at least have the right to have a song called that?

2. This is the theme from a different cover of the same song, incorporating elements of Dylan and Hendrix. I would have thought that was apparent from watching the series, really, but can understand the confusion if you've not seen it. In which case, I'd highly recommend it.

[zippyd31]

but wait.... in the scene where starbuck is playing with her "dad" he uses two hands to lay down the bass and the mid range. she used a third hand to do the high melody. whats going on there?

[Heavilyeverafter]

This is true, but the pianist's right hand is basically copying his left. It fills out the sound a bit more, but doesn't sound too bad here simplified to be playable with just one hand, leaving the right free to play the melody.

Thanks for the comment, and good question!

[Lemonchowder]

Good stuff - I loved this song in the series! Oh BTW, you need to put that pirates song up (the second one I think). It's totally wicked.

[Heavilyeverafter]

Yeah, I think Ron D Moore had a point in the sleeve notes to the soundtrack, including the song was the biggest risk they ever took, and I think also the most rewarding.

Thanks, but, erm, there are two pirate songs, which one? Lol. One is Chaos On The Restless Seas, that's an old Red Dawn song, the other is a 21-minute thing I've been working on for a year or two now.

Both, perhaps?

[sophuis]

If you listen close to the beat of the song, you'll notice that your base part is slightly off. The first chord is played a fifth time and then jumps to the second instead of the second being maintained this long - it's slightly off-beat like this. And the third chord is played a third time.

Good job, otherwise.

[ParisVaughn]

It's in the fracking ship!!!!

[scarred2112]

Certainly the best explanation of "Kara Remembers"/"Heading The Call"/"All Along The Watchtown" that I've seen - the *VAST* majority never resolve the LH voicing correctly. One point that I'd mention is the F @ 1:56 in the melody line is intentionally wrong in the episode, as it's written to be Kara "feeling her way" around the piano. Other than that, wonderful explanation in both ease-of-use as well as theory-wise.

[11ty6]

@RandomHero486 what the hell did u think BSG was?

[yo123454321]

just thought i should point out that hendrix didnt write the song. bob dylan did.

[socialized]

Brilliant. Of all the tutorial videos, this is the only one that answered all of my questions regarding this song.

sophuis is right though: "If you listen close to the beat of the song, you'll notice that your base part is slightly off. The first chord is played a fifth time and then jumps to the second instead of the second being maintained this long"

My ears tell me the same: when Starbuck gains confidence after experimenting with her part, the first chord comes in a fifth time.

[ghettochild2600]

Nice vid and you sound like Gaius Baltar! LOL

[kitbevans]

Fantastic step-by-step instructions, thanks! However, if you do make any more, they can only be made better by filming the keyboard the other way round :)

[donkey7127]

agreed