Hi.
I'm currently trying to learn how to play the first section of ELP's famous prog song, "Tarkus". I'm having problems trying to determining comfortable fingering to playing the fourths arpeggio lines with both hands.
Some advice please. Thanks in advance.
HELP: Piano fingering to doing "TARKUS - ERUPTION" arpeggio!!!
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- KVRAF
- 2910 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from dun unda
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- KVRian
- 514 posts since 11 Jun, 2005 from Western Third of the shire of the Horse Bay
It's ages since I've listened to any ELP (I'm not into them now anywhere near as much as I used to be) so I can't bring the music readily to mind.
Is the part you're talking about a synth line, or is it played on another keyboard instrument?
If it's a synth, is it possible that it's one monosynth part (there being no polyphonic Moogs at the time it was made) with the oscillators tuned in fourths? Which would give you a hint for playing it with one hand!
Is the part you're talking about a synth line, or is it played on another keyboard instrument?
If it's a synth, is it possible that it's one monosynth part (there being no polyphonic Moogs at the time it was made) with the oscillators tuned in fourths? Which would give you a hint for playing it with one hand!
And it is as it is and we take as we find / Always next season's buds on the bough / But I'll never find a better time / Hard though it is to allow / I'll never find a better time / To be alive than now
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- KVRian
- 1209 posts since 11 Jan, 2006 from Pittsburgh
The intro is played with the left hand on the upper manual of a Hammond, with the percussion turned on, while the melody is being played with the right hand (I seem to remember seeing a video where Emerson's hands were on two Hammonds, with him standing between them); on the second repeat, the right hand doubles the left up an octave and a fourth. I can play it, but VERY sloppily.Lost_Highway wrote:It's ages since I've listened to any ELP (I'm not into them now anywhere near as much as I used to be) so I can't bring the music readily to mind.
Is the part you're talking about a synth line, or is it played on another keyboard instrument?
If it's a synth, is it possible that it's one monosynth part (there being no polyphonic Moogs at the time it was made) with the oscillators tuned in fourths? Which would give you a hint for playing it with one hand!
The fingering I use (I have the sheet music, but there's no fingering listed) is 5-4-2-4-1-2-4-1-2-4 on the left hand; when the right hand plays the same rhythm as the melody, I finger 1-2-4-2-5-4-2-5-3-1. There may be better ways to play it, but maybe not, it might just take a LOT of practice. I might also just suck.
Edit: I think the left hand is also doubled with piano, but I'm not near my cd collection right now, I just finished working a double, so my mind isn't as clear as it could be. A doubling like that shouldn't be hard these days with midi...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2910 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from dun unda
DocAtlas: Thanks. I have a bad habit of having my left hand's 4 and 3 in place of where a 5 and 4 should be. I'll try it out tonight when I get back.
As for the right hand, I can tell you right now, ending and starting with 1 (thumb) is going to be a problem (for me anyway) playing the fourths riff, just by looking at it.
(Smooth till the end. xD)
Notes aren't a problem, it's just the fingering really.
As for the right hand, I can tell you right now, ending and starting with 1 (thumb) is going to be a problem (for me anyway) playing the fourths riff, just by looking at it.
(Smooth till the end. xD)Notes aren't a problem, it's just the fingering really.