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A question about a piano

  • 13-02-2010 6:33pm
    #1
    RustyBeanTin
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭


    I have been trying to play 'total eclipse of the heart by bonnie tyler on a keyboard but i cant find any tabs online that are easy to understand for a complete beginner. I can play guitar a bit and the tabs for them are easy to understand, is there any similar tabs for piano?


Comments

  • #2
    hudie mcmenamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭hudie mcmenamin


    No there is no equivalent of guitar tab for the piano. You'll just have to learn to read music! At least on the piano, each note is in a single location, unlike guitars where the same note can be played in 3 or 4 places. As you get more advanced you can play from lead sheets which just give chords + melody - but they assume you know how/where chords are on the piano.
    Failing that, you could always just play by ear.


  • #3
    Jemmaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Jemmaa


    hudie mcmenamin wrote: »
    No there is no equivalent of guitar tab for the piano. You'll just have to learn to read music! At least on the piano, each note is in a single location, unlike guitars where the same note can be played in 3 or 4 places. As you get more advanced you can play from lead sheets which just give chords + melody - but they assume you know how/where chords are on the piano.
    Failing that, you could always just play by ear.
    It's so pity, they should create something easy and fast for sclerotics! :rolleyes:


  • #4
    RustyBeanTin
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭RustyBeanTin


    Jemmaa wrote: »
    It's so pity, they should create something easy and fast for sclerotics! :rolleyes:
    keep your sarky comments to yourself


  • #5
    The_g-man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭The_g-man


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_hIsRL4D3M


    This seems an ok version to work from, just use the guitar chords you can find as a starting point and the timing in this vid to keep the right tempo. Having more than one set of keys here just makes it a little easier to concentrate on hand at a time.

    Not many helpful versions of this on youtube, piano players all seem scared of taking their time with this.:o

    This chart may help for the chords, bear in mind playing these notes lower or higher on the keys gives a different effect so keep an eye on the video for how he plays it.

    This is a song that definitely helps to have a playback as you learn, as some of the key changes can seem a bit strange just looking at a page.:pac:

    pianochords.JPG


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