You Only Live twice piano video (James Bond)

[mozarta]

Hi, I just posted a piano version of the introduction You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra on youtube if you want to check it:

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Give me your impressions

Cheers

[Bob]

Take your time.  It sounds a bit metronomic. 

Other impressions... It's just not the same without the Cold War.

[perfect_pitch]

Also - the chord sequence is actually - C Major then g minor... not C Major and Eb Major

[Bob]

I suppose, related to what I was thinking before, try to guide the listener into the new phrases.  When I'm listening to it, I'm thrown off a bit by the new phrase.  It's the tempo, or the pause(breath) between.

[rachfan]

Hi mozarta,

I listened to your "You Only Live Twice", but somehow I just don't think you capture the music in your rendition.  And it's not a chord here or a progression there.  It sounds as though you state the descending figure of the first bar or two of the piece, create some variations on that, and go no further. So the title theme never even enters your rendition at all.  Probably a more descriptive title would have been "Variations on the introduction to You Only Live Twice".  Musical sound is worth 1,000 words, so I decided to sit at the piano, turn on the recorder and do a paraphrase of the piece by ear, although I haven't heard it for many years.  Nor do I have the sheet music.  It's certainly memorable though, probably the best main theme music in the entire James Bond series. Please understand that I'm a classical, not a pops, pianist, so you'll have to cut me some slack there. My paraphrase is below. Maybe it will give you some more ideas, and it's meant only to be helpful in that regard.