Genesis Firth Of Fifth Piano From Selling England By The Pound

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Here I played Genesis, Firth of Fifth, that classic progressive song from their album Selling England By The Pound. I played this solo piano version of Firth of Fifth, with plenty of flaws, at a piano recital on June 1, 2012. I know I'm no Tony Banks, so trolls, no need to remind me or be a bunch of Captain Obvious. • The song Firth of Fifth from the 1973 Genesis album Selling England By The Pound is originally 9:39 seconds, but I was required to cut my version of the Firth of Fifth piano solo down to 6:30 to fit in the time slot allowed for the recital. • I normally play a longer version of the Firth of Fifth keyboard solo at home where I am not under time constraints! I plan to record a longer version of my Firth of Fifth piano cover with my Steinway piano at home. • Before all you armchair critics chime in to pick apart my playing, keep in mind I'm no expert virtuoso, nor do I pretend to be. I play the equivalent of Level 3 in the Alfred adult course books, but what I did bring to the table was my great arrangement here, because 3 different inferior arrangements that I had music for fell way short of the glory of this Tony Banks original greatness from selling England By The Pound, so I was forced to arrange my own chords and melody line in places. • Sorry for the jerky video, it was captured by an 11 year old hand holding it, and the camcorder has an issue with the zoom function starting off on its own. • About my interpretation of this Firth of Fifth piano solo: • This song was always one of my all time favorites. I used 3 different Firth of Fifth sheet music versions, none of which I really liked, two of them especially were loaded with errors and inconsistencies. • I combined parts of the Firth of Fifth piano music that I did like, added my own corrections, and added my own transcriptions that I thought were more true to the Firth of Fifth into for example. I like the use of octaves, which you'll see me use here in the major melody themes and restatements at the end of Firth of Fifth keyboard solo. • . I also used a bar from David Myer's excellent version of Firth of Fifth in the middle of the song where Peter Gabriel sings the phrase Let it be revealed . The challenge here also is in rendering the Firth of Fifth flute solo on piano, I tried to play it very light and airy, as you'll hear on the video. There really wa sno perfect Firth of Fifth flute solo sheet music, so again I winded it based on David Myer's version. • I also added my own ending to this song, using 2 rapid groups of four16th notes in a Rick Wakeman styled piano solo lead up to the final close out. Tony Banks plays this with a fade out in the end of Firth of Fifth as it appears on Selling England By The pound. • I hate fade outs especially at piano recitals, so I ended my Firth of Fifth keyboard cover song on a soft E Major. I also repeated the final E Major chord an octave lower as a sostenudo in the base, using the left pedal to soften it for my final soft landing on the E major chord. • At the time of the 1973 release, Genesis consisted of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Anthony Banks (Tony), Steve Hacket, Mike Rutherford. • Enjoy! Please leave comments or questions down below, and don't forget to click on the thumbs up icon!

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