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I hope you'll report back and let us know how you do. The thing is, you really have to stick-to-it to get where you want to go. If you do it this way, I bet you could be playing this before too long. You might find you have a knack for playing by ear. Or you can have the music there in front of you (is it available?) but the strategy is that you try to rely more heavily on playing by ear to help you read the music - as opposed to visa versa. You can memorize the notes or try some simple method to write it down, not necessarily the usual musical note method. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, keep going till you get it right. If you have an 'ear', you'll be able to figure it all out, melody and harmony. Then by trial and error, pick the notes out on the piano.

#Gary jules mad world piano how to#

If you are back to ground zero, that is, you basically have to learn how to read music over again, I think you may be able to achieve your goal more quickly by learning to play this piece of music by ear.įirst, record the music. I consider this an easy to play piece of music. The lgth of time it will take you to learn how to play this will depend on how devoted you are to achieving your goal. Very moody, or as Nikolas says, 'melancholic.' Mad World was originally written by Roland Orzbal for the British band Tears for Fears, in 1982.I love that song, too, both versions, but I like Gary Jules odd sounding out-of-tune-ish piano version of this best.

It appeared on the band's debut LP The hurting and became an international hit.

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However, the song reached a much higher success two decades later when it was covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the movie Donnie Darko. This version was stripped down in a slower, minimalist style.

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While the original version featured heavy percussion and synthesizers as a full musical backing, Gary Jules's only used a cello, a set of piano, and modest use of a vocoder on the chorus.

The single's lyrics depict a dark view of the world from a teenager's eyes and intense experiences such as death meant to ease the tension and struggle. Mad World was influenced by Arthur Janov's Primal Fear and his theories.

The single's B-Side, Ideas as Opiates (1982), takes its name from the concept of primal therapy presented in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of pain. The free Mad World piano sheet music was released in 2002 on the movie's soundtrack but because of the success and the cult phenomenon generated by Donnie Darko, it was later issued as a proper single. In 2003 the song's popularity grew higher and higher and became the Christmas number one single in the UK. The free Mad World piano sheets were used in the commercial of the videogame Gears of War, in 2006 which led to moving it up the charts. In addition, Adam Lambert's performance at the eighth season of American Idol raised the sales and people's interest in Mad World. The single was used intensely in popular culture: in The Glee Project, Helix series, advertisements, and fan-made YouTube videos, television dramas such as Being Human, Brothers&Sisters, Cold Case, CSI, Dead like me, Smallville, The Mentalist, The OC, as a closing number in Butley, on Broadway, in the advertisement for Underground: The Julian Assage story and many others.