Piano tab
Karma Police
* RADIOHEAD - Karma Police
* OK Computer LP
* Piano tab by Joey Gallagher
This tab is the Rhodes version of Karma Police that has Jonny doing alot
more different sounding stuff than the recorded version at the songs outro.
The outro of this tab is the one heard on "Meeting People Is Easy" where the
band play on the David Letterman show.
I've never transcribed something for the piano so bear with me. I can't be
arsed to go into every detail Jonny makes but I can give you the more than
basic idea and you can take it from there. I am assuming if your learning
this that you know all the keys on a piano.
(easy stuff)
C# Eb F# G# Bb (black keys)
C D EF G A BC (white keys)
Anything written in capital letters is played with the left hand.
Anything written in small letters is played with the right hand.
If something is written in brackets that means your playing a chord.
If something is written without brackets those are individual notes.
If there is a line between two things that means play them at the same time.
i.e (Am) f# -Play a Am chord with your left hand and then play
a f# note with your right.
i.e (Bm)--g# (D) -Play a Bm chord with your left and a G# note with
your right at the same time and then after that
play a D chord with your left. Alright I hope
you get this.
These are the list of chords used in the song, and I have written which
notes you must play at the same time to produce that chord.
(Am) A C E
(Am/F#) F# C E
(Em) E G B
(G) G B D
(Fmaj7) F A C
(D) D F# A
(G/F#) F# B D
(C) C E G
(C/B) B E G
(Bm) F# B D
(E) E G# B
Intro and Verses (basically all the same) (can't be arsed)
(look at the guitar transcription to get the right timing idea)
(Am) (am)
(Am/F#) (am/f#)
(Em) (em) F# G B
a b c--(Am) c b a---(Fmaj7) a f
(Em) (em) F# G B
a b c--(Am) c b d--(D)
(G)-g
(G/F#)-f#
(C)-c
(C/B)-b
(Am)-a c e c a b--(Bm) f# b d
(D) d f# a
Chorus 1 (this is what you get...)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G)-g b d e f# f e c# c
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G)-d b g f e f# a c# c (higher up the scale)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G) (g)
(G/F#) (g/f#)
(C) c d e f e d c
(Bm) f# b d
(D) d f# a
Chorus 2 (this is what you get...)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G)-g b d e f# f e c# c
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G)-d b g f e f# a c# c (higher up the scale)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(G) (g)
(G/F#) (g/f#)
(C)-c d e f g f e d
B-b C#-c# D-d E-e F#-f# G-g A-a B-b
Outro (for a minute there.....)
(Bm) f# b d
(D) d f# d
(G) g b d
(D) d f# d
(G) g b d
(D) d f# d
(E) e g# a g# e
repeat twice
(ooohhh)
(Bm) f# b d
(D) d f# d
(G) g f#
(D) d f# d
(G) f# a g f#
(D)-f# f# a
(E)-a g# f# f# g#
(for a minute there..)
(Bm) f# b d
(D) d f# d
(G) g b d
(D) d f# d
(G) g b d
(D) d f# d
(E) e g# a g# e
(phew for a minute there..)
(Bm) d f# d
(D) f# g a g
(G) f#
(D) f# g a g
(G) f#
(D) f# g a g
(E)-e f# g# a b c# d e (this is where Jonny goes up the scale sounds
really cool)
(oohhhhh) (this last part of the outro should be played higher up on
the scale)
(Bm) d a d f#
(D) d a d
(G) d g f#
(D) d f# d
(G) d a g f#
(D) d f# d
(E) d f# d f# d f#
(ooohhh) Ed's chicken noise is now coming in loud..
(Bm) d a d f#
(D) d a d
(G) d g f#
(D) d f# d
(G) d a g f#
(D) d f# d
(E)-e f# g# a b a g# f#
(Bm)
(Jonny then does all that stooping over the piano, and starts hitting it
randomly to make that waterfall sounding effect)
I hope that makes sense to everyone,
I'll try and do a How I Made My Millions piano tab soon (if I can come up
with a better format for doing this)
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