Yes - Revealing Science of God (solo) - Sheet Music + PDF, MIDI file & MP3
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- A sheet music transcription of Rick Wakemen’s solo from side one of Tales…
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It's scored, as usual, with Sibelius 7.5
And now for something completely different… well, not completely; it’s still a keyboard transcription 😂
I was recently commissioned by Eric B (one of my subscribers for whom I also did Nutrocker) to do this and although, as I’ve stated elsewhere, I’m not a mega fan of Rick’s playing (especially compared with Tony & Keith), I still love Yes and Rick’s contribution to their work 👍
This is undoubtedly my favourite MiniMoog solo of his (organ solo has to be Roundabout), so I felt I was able to give this blistering 40 second tour-de-force the Elektrik Hob treatment!
And this is the result 🙂
Not much to say other than you just need a strong lead sound with some portamento (which you can modify on the fly).
And the chords below each subsection are just there to give a rough guide as to what’s going on underneath.
Thanks to Eric B for giving me permission to put this up on YT 👍
Thats it! Enjoy! 😊
One of the greatest Minimoog solos of all time.
i agree, only bettered by his tharsis tholus moog solo on the red planet
Great, thank you! This solo is one of my favorites from Wakeman. The YesSongs live version Starship Trooper solo and Wonderous Stories solo are amazing too.
Excellent transcription!!! One of Rick's best!!! Puts an exclamation point on "Revealing Science"!!
Wow, I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into your transcriptions! This one clearly demonstrates how Wakeman’s fluidity and note choices are superb. He’s operating on a higher level than most other keyboardists. Many thanks for figuring out the notes and rhythms!
Thanks 👍🙂 Indeed, Rick's technique, precision and fluidity are legendary.
But I'd question that he's operating on a higher level than most other keyboardists; in the attributes I've described, yes, but not in note choices...
He's actually playing very simple (harmonically speaking) scalar passages (the numbers refer to either the 1st or 2nd chord refererence);
Dorian (Am1, Gm), Minor Hexatonic (Dm1, Dm2) and Blues Scale (Am2).
From experience, I'd say that these modes/scales are the first thing that any rock/blues/jazz musician learns after the Minor and Major Pentatonic scales which themselves are the first things you learn either when starting out or when moving from classical to rock as Rick did.
The Blues Scale comes first as it's just the Minor Pentatonic with an added flat 5th. VERY beloved of rock keyboardists everywhere! 🙂
Then the Minor Hexatonic which is just the Minor Pentatonic with an added 2nd diatonic scale note to give a little more interest.
And finally the Dorian which is, (in one sense) just the Minor Hexatonic with the 6th diatonic scale note added as well to bring it back to a familiar 7-note diatonic scale. I'd say that the Dorian mode is the most common 7-note mode (along with the Mixolydian mode for major sounding rock/blues) used in rock/blues music. Dave Gilmour made a carreer out of it! 😂 (I should add that I LOVE Dave's playing!)
That all may sound rather complex but it really isn't; it's just very basic rock/blues/jazz theory.
Like I said, awesome technique, but not exactly pushing the boat out on creativity...
Which is why I much prefer Tony. His pianistic skill level (technique-wise) is certainly not up there with Rick, but I believe his compositional, creative and note choices are in a different league! 🙂
Don't get me wrong, as I said, I love this solo and feel it's one of Rick's best synth solos because of the sound, aggression and blistering pace of the playing, but if you listen to his other great solos (on organ) like Roundabout and Close to the Edge, they too contain exactly the same basic harmonic stuff as well...
For me, the two previous Tony 'solos' that I upped here (Quiet Earth & Down and Out) are WAY more interesting! 🙂
Or check out Cory Henry's solo on Lingus by Snarky Puppy... now THAT's a solo!!! Cory's from another planet; pretty close to where Pat Metheny came from but still a LONG way from Allan Holdsworth's home planet (Bradford)... 😂
Wow! Erm... I guess that was a bit of a rant; sorry 😱
In the end, I'm honestly not trying to dis Rick; he's done as much as Keith Emerson, Jon Lord, Richard Wright, Rod Argent, Ray Manzarek and, in a slightly different way, Tony to put rock keyboard players on the musical map.
It's just that nearly every rock keyboardist I've ever heard (including myself! 😂) falls back on these basic scales (though not with Rick's technical skill!) when improvising, which is pretty much what Rick is doing here.
Tony on the other hand... well, he doesn't actually solo; his 'solos' are really instrumental passages that have been totally and beautifully composed and sculptured. As is pretty obvious from my YT work, I'm simply in awe of his musical ability 😊
@@ElektrikHob You mentioned Rick Wright. Do you intend to transcribe music from him ?
(Sysyphus part one would be welcome...)
@@ECLECTRIX Hadn't planned on it. I'm almost exclusively going to stick to Genesis and some of their solo projects.
I may do the occasional non-Genesis track (as I've done already) but only on a commission basis, which means extra coffee for me; yum-yum 😋
@@ElektrikHob It's normal.
How many coffes for transcription of Sysyphus piano part ?
@@ECLECTRIX Sysyphus part 2? I could do the first half (up until he starts going all bash-bash-bash 😂) for, say, 5 coffees...
Thanks for this - my favorite wakeman solo as well and I was definitely missing some of the notes on the last run down so very helpful!
Thanks!
Starting a new cycle?
Nah, just thought I'd throw this one into the mix (it was a commission).
Back to Genesis next though I'm sure I'll do some further non-G thangs somewhere down the line... 😎
Screaming!!
Good trancription thank you. I suppose that the audio is the Yes original as far as I know there is not backing track for Revealing science of god. In jammit (now crammit) we can remove the part of our choice and play with the band but unfortunatly the last Yes album concerned is Close to the Edge.
Yes, it's the right channel only of the original audio (ie. it's in mono). I decided to just use the right channel as it made the solo stand out a bit more from the backing instruments