Genesis - Firth of Fifth - Piano Sheet Music + PDF

PDF can be found at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ElektrikHob
Some useful gumpf; click on SHOW MORE (just below).

And here we are, full circle! My first Genesis vid was the FoF intro and now, finally, I've gotten around to completing the whole piece :)

The main thing to be aware of is that apart from the intro and the gentle bit before the (build up to the) keyboard solo, FoF was definitely NOT written in a way such that it could be played relatively easily as a piano piece (unlike, say, Mad Man Moon, Anyway, The Lamia etc.) :)
This transcription is my interpretation of how I believe the overall sound of the piece translates to solo piano in much the same way that Massimo Bucci's superb rendition (   • Firth Of Fifth (by Genesis) for Piano...  ) is his own interpretation.

A caveat though: I don't play the piece EXACTLY as I've scored it out.
What I've done is to simplify what I play as much as possible without, hopefully, taking away the essence of my own style of playing and the original beauty of the song.
Feel free to adjust how you play it to suit your own style :)

The verses. I'm sure many of you will spot that the melody of the score matches the playback only for the first verse ("The path is clear") but not for the other 2 full verses ("He rides majestic" & "Now as the river") simply because I use repeat bars for these 3 verses.
However, the audio is pretty accurate so you can hopefully hear how my accompaniment interweaves with the original vocal line.

Bars 42-48. It took quite a while to come up with something that I feel really combines the vocal, guitars & Mellotron.
In particular, bars 47 & 48 may seem a little unusual, but the chords implied by my notes (and written above) are what Tony plays on the Mellotron (Esus2 contains the same notes as Bsus4) and I like the slight harmonic tension that these chords have with the arpeggiated guitar :)
The effect is even more noticeable on the Genesis Archive version -    • Видео   - than on the original studio version.

Bars 73-77. In bar 74, hopefully what I've written makes sense… :)
As for the left hand, I've done a combination of (sort of) how the piano is played on the original with the main bass notes just to give it some 'bottom-end'.

The Keyboard solo. When I play the piece live, most of the time I'll just repeat the piano intro (with the last 2 bars altered obviously) as it's such a great solo piano part.
But if I want a bit more aggression, then I'll use what I've scored here. It's meant to give some indication of the power of Mike's bass alongside Tony's solo.

The Guitar solo. For me, it's always been really difficult to make this section sound good just on piano!
I've tried to incorporate the feel of Mike's bass lines with Steve's melody and the chords as played by Tony on organ & Mellotron.
However, this section as I've written it (particularly bars 103-112, 118-121 & 133-136) is really quite tricky to play because of all the rhythmical interplay between right & left hand!
If it all seems a bit much, try simplifying the left hand; I've given an example in bars 106-108.
It's really Steve's melody that needs to shine :)

The outro. I've based it on the way the band ended the song on Seconds Out.

There are no sustain pedal markings, dynamics, changes of tempo etc. as I hate the way they clutter up the score!
Use your own discretion for all of the above :)

It's scored and played back using Sibelius 7.5 with Modartt's Pianoteq 6.1.1 virtual piano plug-in although I've no idea why Sibelius decided to output the first screen as 3 lines of music… bizarre!