Mogwai - Friend Of The Night (piano cover)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Can’t get my head round this song now being over 15 years old. One of the most beautiful songs written by Mogwai.
Taken from their fifth album Mr Beast, produced by Tony Doogan.
Talking with Barry Burns on Twitter, he told me the main riff he plays was inspired by the outro from ‘We’re In This Together’ by NIN. Have a listen yourself, you’ll hear the feel of the main chord progression. I’m just so glad the idea took root for Mogwai.
I’ve been lucky enough to see the band perform this song live a few times, always so evocative.
A few people messaged me on here asking me to transcribe it, so here you are!
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One of the best Mogwai songs, beautiful
Like you extract the "substantifique moelle", the essence, of this beautiful song. (
👏🏻 what an amazing performance. This is def the best cover of friend of the night on UA-cam
Aw cheers so much, really thoughtful of you to say thank you
Would love to hear you cover Mogwai Auto Rock
Amazing performance! Well done!
Thanks so much, really kind of you to say!
Great job! :)
love this song so much. Takes me out of darkness every time.
Same here, it’s there forever isn’t it? I use their music exactly the same way as you do. Hope this rendition lifts you ✨
Bravo, vous êtes très doué! Mais quel travail ce doit être pour arriver à ce niveau! C'est magnifique :) Mogwai power
Merci beaucoup, j'ai essayé de capturer la sensation de la chanson du mieux que j'ai pu, je suis très heureux que vous l'ayez apprécié.
Magnifique...
C'est très gentil de ta part, merci beaucoup 🙏
I'm just going to listen to this from now on👌
What a lovely thing to say thank you. I’ll be uploading ‘Hunted By A Freak’ soon. Still working on arrangement…
@@__stal__ yes please!!!!
bloody brilliant ! !
Bloody very kind of ya!!! 😝👍🏼
this is one of my most favorite songs. I absolutely stop when I hear it...I imagine myself on the cliffs of Dover (American here) and dealing with all my emotional nonsense and making progress.. Thank you so much for this cover. It is amazing..you are very talented.
Aw thank you so much, really kind of you to say. I hope you keep on progressing in the ways you need to, music can be very powerful in helping us all along ey, keep strong.
Your piano sounds absolutely amazing. Really open, wide and dreamy. It's one of those instruments that let's you forget everything else and weave some melodies
Aw thank you, what a kind message, really appreciate it, I'll post some more soon
wow this makes me feel things I cannot explain.. im so lucky to be alive at the right time to experience this stunning cover
That's such a sweet message, thanks so much _ I'm very glad you enjoyed it. 🙏
Inspired. Well done.
agree...
I think this is an excellent cover. The slightly tinny sound of the upright piano and the weird resonances work really well in this case, creating a feeling of abandonment and sadness. I think it's one of those cases where a grand piano would sound out of place.
Thanks so much, that's exactly the sound I was aiming for. It's a Blüthner overstrung piano built in 1899. It's over-dampened which means the mechanism to stop the string after it’s played is above the hammer, not so efficient at staccato notes, so there’s always a subtle echo effect, even without sustain, I love that design fault though, it always sounds so lost and forlorn. In post edit of the audio I used a few effects to bring out those ambient resonating ghost notes, it layered up quite well.
@@__stal__ Well, I think you got it spot on. The sound is perfect. It also sounds slightly compressed, like the dynamic range of the piano has been squeezed into tub... The notes don't have a lot of sustain and they decay quite fast... Again, for thing song it creates a feeling of weird, hazy atmosphere, which works really well. Great stuff.
1 year later...still ona my fav songs. an absolutely gorgeous cover. perfect, flawless, thank you so much.
Really kind of you to say, thank you - I'll be getting a cover of Hunted finished/uploaded soon.
@@__stal__ yes...
Great job! Any chance you have a sheet music for this?
Sorry I don’t, I just play by ear. Chords are D, F, G, most of lead notes are just octave improv, all I can suggest is record it through Ableton Live midi to get notes structure sorted for you
Thank you for your kind reply and again my compliments for your execution!
That was awesome. You totally nailed it. Mogwai ❤️
I’m just discovering your channel. I just watched your cover of “Don’t Believe The Fife”. This is so amazing too! Just incredible!
Cheers so much for your kind words man, good to know a few piano covers can help lift people a little!
Genio 💚 saludos desde Argentina
Gracias por ser tan amable, saludos desde Inglaterra 🙏
Beautiful cover. It's one of my favorite Mogwai songs and I want to learn it too. I could play this all day long.
Mate this is so good!
Thanks man really kind of you to say
Lovely
How kind, cheers 🙏🏼
Can you do “With Portfolio” next?
Hi mate sorry I’ve only just seen this. Thanks for asking, but it’s kind of already written specifically on piano, part two is not piano friendly either hehe! I tend to try piece together all band elements, working at transcribing by ear, I’m working on ‘To The Bin…’ and ‘Dry Fantasy’. Will be uploading ‘Hunted’ shortly too.
great job mate, 7:25 pls!
Thanks pal. Yeah quality suggestion, will look into it when I can ✨
Beautiful cover.
So kind of you to say thank you, please feel free to share the link around 🙏🏼
Send me requests of songs you like to, song I can transcribe to piano, not just existing piano songs, they’re already done! Hehe!
Amazing job
Aw cheers so much, really glad you like it 🙏🏼
Just wowwwww!
Thank you man, very kind!
awesome
Thank you glad you enjoyed it! Please share it cheers 🙏🏼
Fuckin qualiti ❤
Cheers pal 🙏🏼