Prince When Doves Cry keyboard/piano solo tutorial (advanced level)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- I made this tutorial to satisfy the requests I got when I posted my When Doves Cry demo. This is my first tutorial. I hope it's comprehensible. My heart aches for you, Prince. Your absence from this world is palpable. I'm despondent. There's nothing that can fill that void. You were my musical inspiration. Your body of work inspired me to excellence. I may never have attained it, but you did compel me to strive for it. And for that, I'll be forever in your debt. I love you, Prince.
all my years as a supposed pro, and until now hadnt seen anyone do it,
my friend you are truly inspirational musically, and i share your pain regarding the loss of such a hero, to me any way, but your comment afterwards , people leaving negative ands hurtful comments, was even better than the keyboard lesson, thank you sir, what a treat . keep playing , and maybe ill keep learning, thank you again.
Wowwww! Thanks so much guy! I'm always surprised when anybody watches this vid all the way through. It really is too long, haha. But I'm glad that my unnecessary words toward the end were well received. And your comment was perfectly timed, because it brightened an otherwise crappy day. So again, thanks back atcha! And may the force be with you.
Love you man💜🤗! I really felt your pain😥 that was one of the worst days of my life too! I still cry over his passing til this day. Thank you so much for posting this 💜💜💜💜💜
Thanks man, my father is like a huge Prince fan I mean he really loves Prince. And I he told me to play that solo which I didn't know how until I saw that video (again thank you so much) I didn't play it with the right timpo but I played it, it's hard but I'm going to do my best and I really want to impress my dad. For the third time thank you I really enjoyed the video and felt like you're from generation x just like my dad kinda felt home.
Thanks guy! Glad I was able to be of use to someone. I'm not gen x, as Prince was an icon before I ever heard of him. But genius transcends age and era. I also love Chopin, but it doesn't mean I'm 170 years old, haha. Keep me posted on your progress, if you feel like it. I'd even like to see you post a vid playing it.
I have been a prince fan almost my entire life. See I have something called arthrogroposis. Multiple joint contractures and tight tendins . Under developed muscles in my legs. While in the hospital having surgary on my ankle to correct a pointed foot (like wearing a high heal shoe where your toes are pointed down) I almost died from complications due to a colapesed lung. I had a really hard time bouncing back to somewhat normalcy. It was princes song Anna stesia that helped me a great deal with how I felt about myself and what other were thinking of me and how I looked. I was about to start junior high when all of this happened. SO this is why the song ressinated with me. I have been playing music almost my entire life. Started to play guitar when I was 5 years old, then moved to piano, drums, bass ,cello, sax, clarinet. Like you I was completely floored when I heard about princes death. The song "the cross" on the album sign o the times also kept me thinking life was worth the struggle I was going through. Times have changed and so many things have happened but one aspect of what I was and will never change. Its prince and what his music meant and means to so many people. My friend, legends are known sometimes to only be rewritten, but to those because of prince. Paisley Park is in our hearts.
I come back to this so many times to review my solo. This is so awesome. I love your humour and positive encouragement. Thank you Zany!
OMG thanks so much for your words! They totally blew me away today. I needed these words this month (we know how crappy the month of April is). And I'm still hoping you'll post a vid of you playing this solo with your band.
Simply awesome!! We are combining three bands in separate sets to do a Prince tribute in September 2020. I am the keyboard player in one of the bands asked to play keys in all three bands. I certainly got my hands full. Thank you for this!!
Thank you so much! And I'd love to hear you play it when the time comes. Get somebody to film it!
@@ZanyMadcap Will try to get it filmed and thank you for the tutorial...hopefully I will get my fingers fast enough...lol
Really awesome tutorial! Let the work begin! THANK YOU!!
Thanks so much, kind sir!
WoW!! That solo always amazed me
Just as a side comment. I heard Prince recorded the keyboard solo at a slower speed , then sped it up for correct pitch and speed.. then Dr Fink was tasked to learn it and play it live. Like the piano solo "In My Life".
Yep. That's the story I have.
At half speed in fact
from musician to musician... you're awesome.
Wow! Thanks guy! And if you were able to sit through this entire thing, you're awesome too, haha.
This is a great tutorial. I've really been looking for something like this. I loved the R-2 joke as well. You come across as cool.
Thanks guy! I regret that it's so long, but as I said in the beginning, I didn't really know what I was doing, having never made a tutorial before.
It was a really good tutorial, thanks so much.
15:14 ur brief sermon can go to more than just playing piano and negative comments . Thank you I needed to hear that . All facts
Thank you!
hello everyone. I had posted on this channel awhile back and truly enjoyed the tutorial. I now wanted to say. Not sure Zany if you remember who I am. I am the disabled fan that ws honestly moved by your emotional statements within your tutorial. Honestly you inspired me to share something I want everyone to share in. That is a fan based tribute song. Written, composed, performed by His purpleones fans. Zany I would really love your in put and your help with this. For me this has much more meaning too. I lost my mother shortly before we lost prince. I have been writing a song myself due to the fact my mother loved the song purple rain. I wanted to share this though with all prince fans though, So I decided to reachout to everyone that I feel would enjoy this journey.
When I have to play this solo, for the last fast bit I use 1231234 to play the 32nd notes. I’m not a classically trained pianist but studied jazz thus end up using some unconventional but sometimes better flowing (for feel) fingerings
Great video by the way. Note for note perfect!
Omg thank you so much man!
Amazing
Well done!!! Thx so much
Thank you thank you thank you!
awesome! How long did it take to get to speed? My band is hoping to cover this, and boy does that solo go fast! I ended up figuring it out putting your original video at half speed, but even then it's still fast. It looks like a great tutorial you created.
Hey there, I don't know why I'm just now seeing this. I never got a notice. Anyway, thanks. It took about 3 weeks to get it under my fingers. But it was 3 grueling weeks, haha.
hi, it's Crissy... and that makes me feel much better! It is hard to get it up to tempo!! I'm getting closer though
Yay! I found that learning it at 129bpm helped me relax and play it more comfortably at 127. Lemme know when you get it.
eh, I don't know it's just fast lol I need to work on it again, we don't have a gig for a couple months so I tend to procrastinate.
The BPM is 127. If you look at the beginning of my vid, you'll see my little metronome is set to 127; that's the official speed of the song. But like I said above, I found it best to get it under my fingers at 129. It made me a lot more comfortable at 127.
Thanks
Wow...I didn’t expect a tutorial of this solo on youtube. Great, thanks!
Cool
Love this!!!....THANKS!!! I don't play but I remember getting "waxed" and fingering this on my coffee table...😂👍
Lol,that's cool. I thank you for the when doves cry tutorial😃 Would u give me your take on hand independence? That left and right at the end of when doves cry is very challenging. What is a good exercise to practice bringing the left and right together?
Oh my! I don't know, haha. My first guess would be anything that makes use of the right hand fingers going at twice the speed of the left hand fingers. But really I think the best exercise for the last section is the last section itself, because of all the finger crossing in the right hand. Also, if you play drums, you'll notice an exact correlation. In a typical 4/4 beat, the left hand hits the snare 1 time for every two times that the right hand hits the hi-hats. So this last section is essentially a very fast 4/4 drumbeat using fingers. But now I think I just made it more confusing. Sorry, haha. But however you learn it, just start it very slowly. I used to get discouraged easily because I'd always want to practise at performance tempo. I was an idiot.
Fuckin great man! Thanks!!!!
amazing!I don't think my brain can work that fast as of now😃
Alas, you're incorrect. You can do it. If I can do it, anybody can. Get rid of the "I don't think" aspect. Just try. And keep trying. (I dig your name, by the way).
That's amazing !! Around 9:20 is that a All access to the Purple Rain Tour 84 ' 85?????
Hey thanks! And, why, yes indeed it is a Purple Rain all access!
I noticed that you changed the 8tracks for all of the early Prince albums on each part of the tutorial....
Yeppers peppers! Thanks for noticing. I did that as a sort of marker for each section for those who wanted to revisit certain sections without spending too much time searching.
Is he using the major scale
Hey sorry, I just saw this. He's using a few scales here. It depends on where it is. But it's mostly A minor and chromatic.
That's crazy/ I got to walk in on Prince during the Lovesexy tour. I left school early and went down to the arena. There he was lights on and everything,i accidentally walked in on sound check. Few hours later i went to the concert😃
Wowwwwwwwwwwww! That's before my time, but geez, you walked in on history.
Yep/how long have you playing?
Started around age 4 just playing around on the piano in my home because I was bored. Parents decided to have me taught. Been playing ever since. Majored in music, but my main instrument is saxophone.
cool/thx😃
WHOA
Anyone short on time learning this: save yourself 5 minutes and skip from 8:40 to 14:00 to get the rest of the solo without the CD lecture and fingering lesson
This one makes me chuckle too. Owing to human nature, I'm willing to bet that your advising them to avoid that section will only make them pay particular attention to it. But really, I'm actually surprised that anybody has watched more than 3 minutes of this.
Would u be willin to teach via skype?
Haha, wow, I think that's the first request I've gotten to teach via skype. Sadly though, I'm unable. I rarely have the privacy for skyping, and my keyboard is set up in another room. It would require a massive relocation and setup procedure. But thank you for this. I'm totally stoked that someone would even ask.
I've listened to the recording for hours and at some points I couldn't hear what the solo was doing. It was burried in the mix. Where did you get the solo from? I've learned by ear the solo up until I couldn't hear because of the mix. Did you transcribe this from the original recording or did you get the synth stem?
I used the original recording. I did a LOT of listening at various speeds. The only spots I had trouble hearing were the lower notes toward the end. But all the notes were audible to me. To get some of those notes I had to slow it down so much that you could no longer tell what the song was. In some cases that made the muddiness even worse. The screams really interfered. For those sections I used the following process. I made a separate track for one small section. I repeated that track at half speed, then at 25%, then 12%, then back to 25%, then 50%, then back down again to 25% and 12% in a rapid sequence. This repetition of the sequence at gradual increasing and decreasing speeds, when heard immediately back to back, enabled me to hear with better clarity. Suffice to say, it was VERY tedious. Hope this makes sense.
This is awesome, man.. thank you so much!
Thank you for this tutorial. I learned to play by ear at 5 yrs old, and was traumatized by my piano teacher when I started taking lessons at 12y.o. I was already playing by ear all genres including advanced jazz, blues and some classical. l, could play anything off the radio, was jamming w/ my older brother and his sax etc....had even composed some things myself. She tried to force me into compliance of a classical pianist instead of building on my natural talent and ear for music. I lost interest and stopped playing in Jr. High. I played a little in college, but hadn't played in 20+ years since. I had always wanted to learn to play this piece and fantasized on being wealthy enough to hire someone to figure out such complicated pieces and teach them to me...then came UA-cam. You have reignited my love of music again. I going to purchase a keyboard this weekend and reconnect to my passion. Shame on anyone who would even suggest that you were exploiting Prince's memory. I think he'd be quite insulted to think people had forgotten about his music. No need to explain your motives. You keep doing what you're doing!!! Thank you again!!!
Thank you, kind sir. I'm overjoyed that I could've inspired you to start playing again. Please get a keyboard immediately. Don't waste any more time. And if you decide to post a video of you playing, feel free to let me know. I'd love to see it. Thank you so much, again. You made my month.
Well guess I'm not a "REAL" Prince fan, but apparently you are because you own the right CD.. congratulations...???! Lol that was the most random interruption ever =D other than that, very helpful video, thank you for doing this!!
Teehee. Yeah, there's actually a semi-relevant reason for that: the timing of my posting this vid, as mentioned in the opening few seconds. I'm such an avid Prince fan that I even had 8 track tapes, an original West German CD, and a Prince tambourine (still in the box) sitting on my keyboard for this tutorial. But this was posted at a time when lots of self-glorifying vultures were posting Prince-related vids to cash in on his death. Easily a billion of them aren't real fans and were just doing it for the views. Those are the kinds of people that go into politics, and should never be trusted.
Thanks for posting this, man. I always wanted to learn it! I'm gonna get to practicing!
Thanks guy! I'm sorry the vid is so long. It was my first tutorial and I didn't really know what I was doing. 😂
@@ZanyMadcap , I had no problem with the length, as I was trying to keep up with you. Truth be told, I would have liked to have it even longer with more of your tips!!!
@@chalkbunt81 wow, thanks so much again. That does make me feel a little better about it 😂.
i love u man, thanks for the tutorial, now i can play the solo as well as u. thank you
can u do a tutorial for computer blue on keyboard? i really love that song
Ah Hell! You Blowed that up! That is Awesome!
Hahaha, thanks guy!
Zany Madcap that Prince quote was from the end of “Hello”
Correct.
What’s w tha staff tag??
It's just a tag from the Purple Rain tour. Just a collector's item.
Mann This is very Advanced for me as a dj Re-Learning to Play. Right now any thing i try sounds like gibberish. You Are Awesome at What you do and one day i hope to get this down just to be able to say hey i can do it ... Prince Was A Musical Genius !!!
Thanks man. All you gotta do is simply not give up. I'm nobody special. I just kept practicing this solo slowly and gradually sped it up. It took me a couple of months to get it up to speed, so don't give up if it doesn't happen immediately. Literally anyone can do it if they put in the time and effort.
Thanks/everything is Prince related. Thank u for sharing that information,very unselfish of u. I can tell u love what u do😃. Tell the truth,u r Dr. funk,aren't?lol
Dr. Fink? Hahaha, i wish. And funny you mention that. I was at the Prince tribute concert on October 13, and nobody played the keyboard solo on When Doves Cry. I thought Morris Hayes would've done it, but no. And there were at least 2 other keyboardists on stage. No solo. I was a sad panda.
Nice job! Do u know of anyone doing a tutorial of Do me, baby by Prince?
Thanks guy! Alas, I do not. But it shouldn't be hard to learn. You can find the sheet music with a google image search. And what the sheet music doesn't cover can be easily done by ear, as the piano part is very sparse.