It's a slow evening, right? So, why not learn to play OOL on the keys? Yes, you can! Here is a keyboard to start you off. Open up the link to play along with me.
www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/pitch/pitch.htmlIf you click on a key, it will make the sound of that note.
In the link you opened you will see a keyboard like this one (but this one you can't click on the notes, sorry. Use the link.) You are going to use just the black keys in the link above to play a "minor pentatonic scale" that Elizabeth refers to in her explanations. It is the same scale used in OOL. See the grouping of two black keys? The one to the right is Eb. Click on that key, then on each black key to the right until you reach the next Eb (in the next group of two). You've just played a minor pentatonic scale in Eb. (Eb, Gb, Ab, Bb, Db, Eb) Good for you.
Now, ready to play the verse of OOL? Remember, you are using ONLY the black keys. See the yellow key? We will use that as our reference point. Move your mouse to the first black key to the left of it (Bb). Click it twice ("OH, NOwhere) then click the black key to the left,
then the next one to the left,
then back to the right,
and back to the right again. (noWHERE LEFT TO GO).
The notes you just played were Bb, Bb, Ab, Gb, Ab, Bb.
Second line: *Start with the same key as the before, the black key to the left of the yellow one (Bb),
next one to the left,
next one to the left,
repeat that note,
jump to the black key just to the right of the yellow one (Db),
next one to the right (Eb),
and back to the original key, Bb.
You just played "ARE WE GETTING CLOSER".
Repeat the last three notes (Db, Eb, Bb) to repeat the lyric, "CLOSER."*
Great! Now, repeat that whole sequence again From * to *and you are playing, "NO, ALL WE KNOW IS NO, NIGHTS ARE GETTING COLDER, COLDER."
You are ready for the last two lines of the verse. Black key to the right of the yellow one (Db), click it four times (HEY, TEARS ALL FALL),
left to the next black key (Bb)
and right to the pair of black keys, and click on the one on the right (Eb, remember?) (THE SAME).
The next line, (WE ALL FEEL THE RAIN) is an exact repeat of what you just played in the last paragraph. Almost thru!
Click on the black key to the left of the last note you played,
left to the next black key,
next black key to the left,
next black key to the left,
next black key to the left (Db, Bb, Ab, Gb, Eb) (WE CAN'T CHANGE).
You did it! You played the verse of OOL.
In summary,
Bb, Bb, Ab, Gb, Ab, Bb (OH, NOWHERE LEFT TO GO)
Bb, Ab, Gb, Gb, Db, Eb, Bb, Db, Eb, Bb (ARE WE GETTING CLOSER, CLOSER)
Bb, Bb, Ab, Gb, Ab, Bb (NO, ALL WE KNOW IS NO)
Bb, Ab, Gb, Gb, Db, Eb, Bb, Db, Eb, Bb (NIGHTS ARE GETTING COLDER, COLDER)
Db, Db, Db, Db Bb, Eb,
Db, Db, Db, Bb, Eb, (HEY, TEARS ALL FALL THE SAME, WE ALL FEEL THE RAIN)
Db, Bb, Ab, Gb, Eb (WE CAN'T CHANGE)
What about the chorus, you say? Why don't you play around and see if you can figure it out. It starts on the first black key in the grouping of three to the right of where you just ended. (Hint: Little trick thrown in, the second note is actually a WHITE key, the one just to the left of the one you played). The rest are all black keys with that one lone white key thrown in a couple more times, until "they say we'll rot in hell, but I". The "I" is the white key just to the right of the group of three black keys you were tinkering with for that phrase. It's the only other white key used in the entire melody.
Give it a try. Doing is the best way of understanding, right? And what better things do you have to do at this time of night except sleep?
