Bohemian Rhapsody.....

[Ove Kalander]

Hi Ecca,
Really great playing.
Regards,
Ove

[tolo]

Well done indeed Ecca - a real tour de force... Some great fingerwork in there and incredibly all the right chords in all the right places as well as the whole melody!

Very impressed.

[bridev]

Play it easily!!!....? Good grief I couldn't do that in a lifetime. Absolutely brilliant. Total respect and admriation. Hat off and bowing.

Brian

[ecca]

Thanks all.
It's been a pig learning this, a real challenge.
The song starts off in Bb and then goes through a couple of key changes here and there before ending up in F.
Bb is a pretty useless key for a guitarist to try and play everything so I decided to do it in A to make better use of open strings.
I was listening to the record ( record ?) and then had to drop it all down in my head a semitone so I thought 'bugger that' and lifted the guitar up a semitone so the E strings were now F strings. That made it easier to learn in listening but it didn't solve all the chord problems.
The only thing left was to buy the sheet music in A, which I did, the free downloads weren't very good.
I then had to decide which bits to play and which bits not to play. Some of the versions I listened to were just too busy, the attempt was made to play the vocal parts and the guitar parts and I thought it ended up messy.
Thanks again......