Johnny Cash - Hurt Piano Tutorial | Medium

[@ansjeliek]

the variety of all different kinds of music on this channel is just amazing :)

[@SarahNevitt-Calder]

I love this. Can't wait to learn! Thanks for showing me so many songs 😊

[@ohno_da_idiot3230]

Amazing cover, love it!

[@pianoify3417]

Thank you!

[@AndreaRuizCa]

incredible cover!!! are you gonna upload the score by any chance?

[@pakatsu]

do you have the sheet music?

[@cristinablanco3666]

I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on my pain The only thing that's real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I wear this crown of shit Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become? My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes away in the end And you could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt If I could start again A million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way

[@devenburch7179]

🎉

[@ripleyhrgiger4669]

Johnny Cash did not write the music to this. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails did.

[@clintquasar]

True. Though Reznor said after Cash's cover the music now belongs to him.

[@fredoran]

But this isn’t NINs version is it? It’s Johnny cash’s version of the song

[@makhovni3158]

It isn't Johnny Cash

[@athingamagoothingy1381]

If you spent less time being a snob you'd realize that 1) Cash's version just straight up does not sound like the NIN version and most people looking to play it on piano prolly don't want the version that sounds harsher and 2) Trent Reznor himself acknowledged that Cash made an equally impactful rendition of the song

[@treznorfan]

nine inch nails*

[@rileygross9729]

Johnny cash did it better

[@ripleyhrgiger4669]

@@rileygross9729 He absolutely did not. And Trent played this on piano as you see here. Johnny Cash did not write a single note and covered the song note for note. So, he didn't do anything better. Cash would disagree with your damn assessment too. He covered it because the song is brilliant.

[@Venom24thebest]

Can’t we just agree that both Trent and Johnny’s versions are brilliant in themselves? It’s ok if you prefer one over the other, I mostly prefer this version, but Trent and Johnny both added their own special things to this song. Sure, Trent wrote the song and added deep and haunting emotion to it, but Cash also added his own little piece of emotion to it. He may have covered it because he not only thought it was brilliant, but possibly saw a little bit of himself in its lyrics. So though he was old and slowly withering away at the time, he gave it his all, and in his final moments he made a version of this song that’s memorable in itself. It even gave Trent himself goosebumps, and even he called it a beautiful piece of art. So though Johnny may say he didn’t do it better, you still gotta respect that he added a beautiful twist to it. NIN’s version will forever go down as one of the greats, but Johnny Cash’s version will also go down as one of the equal greats as well, as both Trent and Johnny are talented musicians.

[@treznorfan]

@@Venom24thebest cash’s version is straight up bad and nothing will change my mind

[@Venom24thebest]

To each their own my guy. To each their own.