Awakenings Piano

[fravius]

Hi!
This is my first thread and I was wondering if there are any partiture or any sheets for the piano parts of the song Awakenings (specially from 1:23 to 2:43 if posible) . It's a beautiful song and I would like to play it (or at least, try it). Please help me, I'll be very grateful.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Here's a link to a Guitar Pro tab I found:

http://www.divshare.com/download/5973026-1ef

I wonder if Pinnella ever plans to release any official sheet music, like Romeo did for those few solos on the official site. I think it would be pretty cool.

 

[fravius]

Thanks! I'll check it out. I don't really trust so much in these Guitar Pro files but sometimes they're very well done. I totally agree about a Pinella's Piano Anthology some day. That'd be awesome!

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

I agree with you about the accuracy of a lot of Guitar Pro tabs, but even if some aren't too well-done, they at least can serve as a starting point.

It's hard to find keyboard music (and drum tabs) for Symphony X tunes, although guitar and bass tabs are everywhere. Some Symphony X songs have keyboard parts that I hear and instantly want to play (and I have NO idea how to even play keyboard). A trademark of the band's sound to me is when Pinnella will play a piano/keyboard part over a guitar/bass/drum groove, but P will be playing in a different timing. Such polyrhythms make Symphony X's songs far superior to others in their genre, in my opinion.

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I write music from scratch in Guitar Pro all the time for fun. When I had a band, I'd work out ideas with it as well.
Currently, I have a 20 minute prog metal song written in guitar pro, with all instruments put into place.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

I write music from scratch in Guitar Pro all the time for fun.

I do this as well! I've had a few songs composed now for years.

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I do this as well! I've had a few songs composed now for years.

There's so much I love about it. It's fun to hear a song come together as you create it, it's fun to show your ideas/songs to peoplea, and it also helps you learn a lot about music and builds your compositional skills. When I look back to the files I wrote years ago, they get trumped big time by my new stuff.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

When I look back to the files I wrote years ago, they get trumped big time by my new stuff.

Exactly! The stuff I wrote back when I started writing (in like 2001) just sounds primitive and dated to me now. Everything was in 4/4, boring, repetitive, and had no texture.

I wonder if that's how Symphony X feels when people always ask them to play songs from the s/t and Damnation Game (not that I think those songs are bad).

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

There are also times I've gone back to old files and found a really interesting idea that I'd never used again. Sometimes, depending on how noob I was, it'd be by accident.

 

[proulxski]

You still are a noob!

 

[fravius]

Lol. This just started as a Awakenings Thread and it became a Guitar Pro tread!
Anyway, I made a cover of Awakenings intro so, please, hear it and give your opinion:



enjoy!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Nice! Good job!

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Agreed, nice job.

I don't even play piano, but I've been trying to teach myself how to play the piano part during the first few verses of Through the Looking Glass. It's hard.

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

Fuckin' nice, dude!

I want to record some drums. If I was going to cover a SymX tune, it'd be Eyes of Medusa... Maybe I'll record one in the near future...

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

I want to record some drums. If I was going to cover a SymX tune, it'd be Eyes of Medusa... Maybe I'll record one in the near future...

If you're interested... http://www.911tabs.com/link/?3604441

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

Thanks, man, but I worked out most of the song a couple of years ago, polyrhythms and all I know a lot of it by heart now, but I'd have to listen to it and study the song a bit more just to get everything solid.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Nice... do you know any other Symphony X songs?

 

[wild bill guarnere]

Great work fravius!

 

[Phanto]

Yeah nice playing

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

Nice... do you know any other Symphony X songs?

I don't know many songs at all, I just know parts here and there (by any band). I should start to play along to music more often...