How To Play "Butterflies and Hurricanes" by Muse | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

hello everyone welcome to hd

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this is joe today a song of truly epic proportions

muse

butterflies

and

hurricanes

and this is the intro first verse and second verse two three four okay and then we move on to the chorus, which is our next video. middle C this is in the key of D minor, we have B flat in our key signature and then that raised seventh note that belongs to harmonic minor scales that you see in this piece, you also see C natural and this is a

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. it changes the tone quite a bit, I thought a question to ask this piece is not the radio edit, this is the actual full track that we are doing here today, so it has the Rachmaninoff mental style towards the end, which is amazing and I have been Working on it this morning is quite difficult, but what other pieces of music have virtuoso passages and I don't mean, oh yes, what other pieces, like classical music, I mean pop music like Muse or anything else, except what styles pop, old styles, new, whatever. virtuoso

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s in them, some of them may be completely virtuoso piano pieces, but what songs do you know that have virtuoso piano sections?

If you're not sure what I mean, watch video six of this

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or is it video seven. Anyway I don't remember, we conveniently start on our root note like on d and we're doing a paradiddle which is like a kind of percussion technique where you understand the relationship between your hands right left left right left left sorry left right right left right right left right like this on d and these are all 16 so it's like one e and two e and that's a quarter of the speed half the speed one e and two e and we're going to call this paradiddle one because it happens so often it's like at the beginning of almost every measure of this entire song, excluding the crazy rachmaninoff section, so we'll just refer to it as paradiddle one left right right left right right left right get that through your head and it's not always like that just using d as you just witnessed when I

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ed it, we branch out in terms of notes, but it's always this rhythm paradiddle one that is, let's move on to paradiddle two now paradiddle two is this left right right left right left right right so instead of there are two left right right two left right right followed by left right as in paradiddle one paradiddle two is just an arrangement of that slightly different left right right left right left right right where left right right are separated by left right so paradiddle one paradiddle two there you have it and that is the introduction.

Now I'm on measure two of the intro, now on measure three, now on measure four, but unfortunately for us it was

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ed at a quarter speed, so as you can imagine, it's much faster now they use it as a Rhodes Keyboard, I think on this it's not really sustained, it's just quite nice and separate, but because it has that kind of crunchy sound, you get a little bit more natural sustain from the sound rather than having to put a pedal on it, like that that uses the Pedalea, if you like, I have discovered all this: using the pedal every time you make a note with your left hand is a good way to pedal and also allows your brain to correspond with your left hand, which is always useful anyway. introduction let's go to the verse now, so the verse again is d, but this time we play the beat one at the same time and we're doing a paradiddle, but the right hand doesn't move forward for a while, we go an e and uh, so yeah Can you imagine that we would have had an e like that, an e and two like that?

We're just missing that first left right right right right disappeared like that, so that's the first half of that and then the rest. just paradiddle two, but using the first minor position in this hand is like this one last time with that bar, I'm going to go call the speed just to show you how to finish slowly e and then all we do is lower our d to c sharp like this and at the end on beat four on four e and uh, I last on the right, we play it like a broken chord so that again and then we drop that C sharp to a D so it's just C, so it's D minor major seven.

We have the minor chord and we have the major seven, the C sharp that appears in the major scale and this is just the minor seven because this is the C natural that does not appear in the D major scale and we just do it. paradiddle paradiddle two like this again and then we drop the D minor six again like this and just parallel one and paradiddle two again let's go ahead this time and then we do the same thing again but this time we go down to B flat and this is the The first time the chord changed, we no longer play D minor or D minor seven or D minor seven or D minor six, now we play B flat major seven with D in the bass it still sounds quite minor, that's just the voice. of the chord but it's three three five major seven root in B flat doing B flat major seven and it's just paradiddle one paradiddle two one more time and then the most thoughtful measure we've heard all day, it's so fun to play, it comes back to d minus first inversion in the right hand and we go in the left hand one e and two e and three e and a four and paradiddle has changed slightly at this point it is paradiddle one right right right left right right left right and after this comes paradiddle three now, who knows chromatic fingering?

If you play the piano, it's very important that you always go from white to black, one finger three and then one two three, that's very important, you use the same fingers between those white semitones that come together. groups of black keys and that's what we're doing basically up to there, that's where we end up on beat one of the next measure which I haven't shown you yet and it's just paradiddle one and then paradiddle three now paradiddle three is like right left right right left right left right like this right left right right left right left right or it's probably more sensible to look at it as a full bar like this like this sorry or yeah, let's see there's a full bar and just look, it's grouped with pairs, it's like left right right left right right left right right left right right left right left right so let's move on this time and then this again is the same as the last bar we had, so left right right left right right left right is actually parallel, doesn't it start with left right right left right right left right left right right left right left right left and then a slightly different ending in the it's basically the same ending that we had um? in the previous bar so left right right I'm playing G sharp diminished seven here G sharp sorry first minor third diminished fifth seventh diminished seventh like this okay again moving forward this time and then one and two now this is the gap in paradiddle one and paradiddle two we call this like the rest of the eighth note paradiddle one because instead of going one e and come on, can we just go on beat one and one and two e uh like this one and two like this and then parallel two? kick one and two e so again one and we go down to the major root position in the middle of the measure like this and then paradiddle one G minor paradiddle two so let's look at that again we have enough to change here we go g su two G minor divided G minor G major than again G sus 2 G spirit minor G major and that's just paradiddle one parallel two last time u minor divided and then major and then our last measure of the verse is our fifth chord in D major, which is major, there's our dominant, sorry, our harmonic seventh, our lightning seventh and we play paradiddle one, parade two like this and then we start again, but this verse has slight differences, first of all, a broken D minor at the beginning like this was last time and then the same thing other than we just do paradiddle one twice instead of paradiddle one paradiddle two now this measure is great this measure in D minor seven that comes after this come on we have a kind of complete break in the paradiddles is like paradiddle one but not really we go one e and uh two and three and then like this again last time and then the product again and again and then and then this measure with a little less changes in our voice and just paradiddle paradiddle a paradiddle to separate it instead of having that alternative ending, so instead of playing G-sharp diminished and then going down to just G-sharp minor third like we did before, we stayed on G-sharp minor flat five or G-sharp minor diminished and then our bar of E this time we start with e seven three five seven paradiddle one and then we prepare two small ones we play E major and we finish with a major third on the last 16. last time and then this g sus 2 to G minus G major, just a different order in the way the chords unfold, we start with our G sus 2.

G minor comes in the same place, this is paradiddle 1, paradiddle 2 of course, and then there is no broken G mind after of that. it's like that again last time and then the same beat we've had, oh my god, I'm about to get to 17 minutes, I better play this again here we go one, two, three four, then we go into the chorus which is so epic and music to be fair it's muse so it has to be muse like this has been joe hd piano sorry for the length of this lesson to be fair I was probably too busy but there have been two short lessons and insignificant, but I think the track of epic proportions deserves a monster lesson if you like it, visit our website and learn the remaining http, especially the virtuoso beyond rating a section of rachmaninoff and yes, youtube, if you are there, comment, subscribe to all that again this has been joe hd piano goodbye for now