Tori Amos Cornflake Girl Piano Transcription Tutorial

Tori Amos Cornflake Girl Piano Transcription Tutorial
Use the 'settings' gear icon below the video to the right and try some of the slower speeds to get the notes!

[@amandageisler3]

And to think when Tori does this live and has to sing at the same time, OMG. True genius

[@SanchoPeas]

Always blew my mind. Having seen this now........unbelievable.

[@Andronty]

No, she does not "play" it -- she improvises it... each time it is different, and sometimes more awesome than the original. She OWNS the f-ing instrument, more so than most classical pianists. I think this is what proves that talent is a real thing. It's like speaking -- or singing -- to her.

[@FrootKat]

It’s as she said, she always knew how to play, ever since she was 2, with that kinda confidence nothing can stop you!

[@patryk2700]

Extremely good. I can only imagine how much work has gone into it to figure it out. Freaking opus magnum.

[@TheSassleburger]

That was absolutely phenomenal. I love seeing someone who can actually play it like Tori!

[@adamsoul1071]

Smart, that's made my evening. So many play the lyrics which I don't care to hear on the keyboard. Great to hear someone focus on the actual piano. I'm impressed.

[@BIGREDDOG09]

duly noted

[@yohenson]

I was the opposite for 30 years, only listening to the music. when i discovered the lyrics ==> :O imagine that to miss all the stories and great wisdoms of songs and irony of all songs, after knowing them by heart..

[@recurringdream]

This clearly took a LOT of effort. Well done!

[@Timeamore]

You're a genius. Absolutely true to the original! Gonna start banging those keys...

[@leanhquoc3109]

The piano solo part of this song is fucking epic.

[@tidalboxer]

RIGHT?!?!?? My favorite

[@emsteve1666]

IM ESTATIC i have been waiting for a video that shows how to play this song. ive wanted to learn it for years and this video is just what i needed. Great work!

[@jyoungsr]

You should be ashamed of yourself. I can't say for sure, but I doubt that piano did anything to you! How dare you leave it smoking like that after such a magnificent cover of an amazingly difficult amazing song! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, truly! Inspirational

[@cel6247]

What in the world?! Aahhhmmmaaazzzzing! It is so awesome to see actually somebody playing it for real (aside from Tori!)! I love it! ❤️👍Even if it has a notation I don’t think I’ll be able to play like that! Kudos more power! 😊

[@dolvich]

This performance still awaits and deserves to be discovered.

[@Jod3lay]

Wow, this is the first time I hear someone playing it like Tori herself! You did such a tremendous job, thank you for sharing ❤️

[@ChrisHuey]

You worked this out by ear - I am blown away! Absolutely incredible

[@andrewnicol8227]

I love you Tori@

[@TheArcaneMaster]

i think it's more likely, given the title of the video, that they are playing off a well-known transcription that originally came from the Velvet Hologram site.

[@tidalboxer]

OMG please do more Tori. There’s a base note in there I NEVER heard that I can when you play. So cool.

[@gielzorn9725]

Very impressive!! Would you be willing to write it down, or record a midi file? Ofcourse willing to pay for it..

[@tonyjoanes]

I love this and it blows my mind

[@Robinson67]

Excellent! Excited to play this after becoming obsessed with it thanks to Yellowjackets 🙂

[@stephaniecarmi]

HOLY CRAP. Dude, that was pretty incredible. Very nice work.

[@andrewking9961]

I don't want to swear but F**king brilliant! Thank you. Great respect, you captured the feel perfectly .. Teach me please!

[@vaeholloway]

So good!!! Yes and the cool part is that shes such a great musician she'd play it a bit differently each time she'd perform it.

[@travismaupin6617]

Keep these coming, I forgot she was not playing

[@billybillybob-thoughtpants9958]

Ten and half thousand views! Fucking world's gone mad! Some twat falling out of a tree gets a million....kids this is real talent

[@jessicadoty1466]

Wow! You are truly an incredible talent!

[@fcalin21]

Tori Amos is a genius.

[@ewenferguson8356]

Superb playing! Well done.

[@Fhnjzvb7]

man that was staggering, really really impressive. I'm such an amateur, I can play a bit but I'm a real fraud haha. I've always wanted to see the actual keys playing the piano part to that, you've honestly made my day (in fairness, the bar for "making my day" is quite low while we're all in lockdown in the UK hahahahaha)

[@JeanSalqueSkwalk]

Wonderful transcription ! Thanks a lot !

[@katefinkelsteinmusic2374]

Wow! Wow! Wow thank you!

[@fedfingold]

Thank you!!! This is great - beautifully played and so helpful!!

[@nyeghoshal3394]

Such a good song and so well played. Well done. Shame there isn't sheet music.

[@danni4780]

I have some sheet music here: forpiano.com/FILEX/C/81ke8f2y89/tori_amos--cornflake_girl.pdf

[@TeamYouphoric]

Phenomenal.

[@M1NDCR4WL3R]

Holy Heck! That was sooo good!

[@blueskinkitchen9708]

At the the end of my first piano lesson the teacher said "what song would you like to start digging into for the next class?" Me: Cornflake Girl! Teacher: Weeeeellll.....

[@Davepacheco1986]

Sounds great. Couldn't find the tutorial part though..

[@Artiscrafty]

Damn. Really nice job. Best on KZbin. Everyone else is hacking it up

[@rlud304]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@tonyjoanes]

this blows my mind right now

[@TheArcaneMaster]

Very impressive. i have had the score to this transcription since high school and i could never get it exact. That said, i'm not sure how this is a tutorial exactly. =p

[@johndunn7733]

Nicely done my dude! Do you have the written transcription you could pass along per chance?

[@tidalboxer]

WONDERFUL! Raaaabbitz …plinkity plinkty plink.

[@Dano27569]

Strong left hand. Damn. What an absolute beast of a song! Class❤

[@lilianelasserbe1437]

WOW amazing video!!! Nice work!

[@michaeltubov2074]

Amazing, thanks so much for your performance! So clear, so perfect....

[@shizzlemanizzle101]

Outstanding

[@music1854]

Awsome!!!! Bravo!! Do you have the sheet music?? i would like to learn this song too!

[@TheArcaneMaster]

The transcription this is from can be found on the Figure It Out sheet music collective, i think.

[@8Siveron]

Impressive

[@8Siveron]

I'm inspired and now I'm practicing. Thank you!!

[@r.j4449]

this is so cool

[@marenoster6452]

Brilliant!

[@Lighteye67]

I'm not even a piano player, and it's one of my favorite piano songs. Very cool to see how it's done!

[@GeorgeJohnson-gf2do]

There are now 10 knuckle heads who don't like music or are totally jealous of this guy's talent....

[@lucymanning7300]

Truly amazing! You must have worked so damn hard to learn this phenomenal song. What a talent!

[@sabinababayeva7296]

Hi, I really like your version. Where can I get the music sheet? The one that I found on the internet is not the same.

[@Ankshus]

holy shit, was gonna try to teach myself to play this song but, fuck! too hard

[@ericazylstra1437]

Love it. ❤

[@PeterMarinari]

This is amazing. I would watch one of these for every single Tori song, but I'm so happy you chose to start with this one!

[@t-roy80]

shit damn im glad i just watched this. thanks man.

[@Matt-vj8ou]

Awesome job :D

[@CPEren-fj4rc]

Wonderful rendition! I've been looking for a non-beginner cover and you nailed it! A question--did you get the track without the piano? If so can you let me know how?

[@kyjanetmusic]

Perfect, perfect, perfect!!

[@joem7948]

You are quite awesome. It is good to see tutorials that attempt to play the piano as the artist does. The left hand is very busy. Are you sure you are not playing two tracks of piano and/or bass guitar notes? OF course, if you are, you are even more awesome

[@greenbjorkkk]

OverviewLyricsVideosArtistsOther recordingsListen Never was a cornflake girl Thought it was a good solution Hanging with the raisin girls She's gone to the other side Giving us the yo heave ho Things are getting kind of gross And I go at sleepy time This is not really This, this, this is not really happening You bet your life it is You bet your life it is Honey, you bet your life It's a peel out the watchword Just peel out the watchword She knows what's going on Seems we got a cheaper feel now All the sweeteaze are gone Gone to the other side With my encyclopaedia They must have paid her a nice price She's putting on her string bean love This is not really This, this, this is not really happening You bet your life it is You bet your life it is Honey, you bet your life It's a peel out the watchword Just peel out the watchword Never was a cornflake girl Thought that was a good solution Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, oh yeah Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, Where'd you put the keys, girl And the man with the golden gun Thinks he knows so much Thinks he knows so much, yeah And the man with the golden gun Thinks he knows so much Thinks he knows so much, yeah And the man with the golden gun Thinks he knows so much Thinks he knows so much, yeah And the man with the golden gun Thinks he knows so much Thinks he knows so much, yeah, yeah Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl, oh this time Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, oh yeah Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl

[@alexisgs8800]

This is extraordinary! It's too bad I can't see some of the notes even by slowing it down. If this had been recorded while listening to the song with headphones, I could have used an AI to create sheet music from it. However, since the original track is playing in the background, it can't separate the piano from the rest properly.

[@andrewking9961]

Genius..I never get tired of coming back. Thank You

[@sarad_6]

Every single note has been perfectly played. So so sooo accurate. So beautiful. Tori is that artist that can be really hard to reach in terms of piano. You did it, and it's simply beautiful. Grateful to be able to listen to this🥲🤍

[@PeevedUK]

This is all about the left hand. I treied to work this out for myself when I was a teen back in the 90s when the internet was fresh and we only had chord tabs to go off if we were lucky! Looking at this I didn't do too badly. I'm a bit rusty now but it's a hell of a fun tune to play! Where can I find the actual manuscript/transcript online if it's avaliable?

[@edinsonluhmann3038]

Thank you, sir! Magnificent 👏 Any chance you could do the same with Yes, Anastasia?

[@tone743]

I'd play like that but my bontempi keyboard don't have enough of them black and white things....... seriously great talent there.

[@daleidenjoel5655]

Beautifull song it is...and beautifully played 🙏🏼🌍✨✨✨✨

[@rjd9041]

WOW 🤘😎❤️

[@Artiscrafty]

Wow. Incredible. Could you actually slow it down and make a tutorial to share ?

[@ВикторФ-ъ8п]

fantastics,. brilliant.

[@florenceandrews2526]

Have you got sheet music to buy for your transcription of this?

[@oldman1966]

Oh my! :) :)

[@JodieMcLeod]

Amazing, Steve. How did you isolate the piano from the song to work it out? And how's that notated version coming along? ;)

[@ernierodgz]

First time I see your video, but I have looked for somebody playing this song before .... WOW, simply amazing, congrats, and thank you for this beautiful gift.

[@PianoFreak1994]

Thank you pretty much I'm practicing already! :)

[@grracegrracy2730]

Gotta watch real close...then repeat.

[@yohenson]

I wonder if louis cole can play that bass line, and how it would sound. sounds like his syncopated 16th notes basses lines

[@HB-xf2xl]

Elton John once said of Tori, "who needs a rhythm section when you have her left hand?"

[@nicholasrudowski5151]

Wow. So, so good. Thank you for making actual/accurate videos for songs. Would love to hear and see isolated audio and video for this tune.

[@FACTSHACK]

Welp, if anyone needs me I'll be over here quitting piano forever. :D

[@BIGREDDOG09]

I wish I would have aspired and imagined I could play like this when I was about 13 years old...then maybe, just maybe by now, I could be close and that would be sick.

[@BartKliebert]

First, terrific. Second, what are your thoughts on this as a piece? Technical thoughts or any thoughts. This piece has fascinated me for a very long time, and I wondered are there any running themes with fancy musical names I don’t know, or musical theory at play that I could actually study? Thank you for putting this into the world. It needed to be here.

[@stevecaputi5664]

Thanks for the kind words. IRDK, however. Music theory is a kind of game that people play with music after the fact I think. I picked this up by ear to do a cover with my sister’s band. I usually play from music even if I eventually memorize it. Not this time. I’m not thinking about keys, chords and scales when I play it; just sounds, shapes and lines. A kind of counterpoint. People ask me for the music but I usually say I think it would just get in the way. I honestly think this is how Tori came up with what she played - looking and listening. Maybe there’s a theory behind it, but it’s too much for my puny mind.

[@BartKliebert]

@@stevecaputi5664 You ever play it with the pedal?

[@stevecaputi5664]

@@BartKliebertYou can see me using the pedal on the solos and maybe a tap here and there. I don't pedal Bach and this feels fugue-like, so I kept off the pedal mostly.

[@grracegrracy2730]

It's all by ear and feel baby.

[@namrog7971]

This looks like so much fun

[@ManCalledMif]

Awesome 😮

[@vpryt18]

where is the tutorial part?

[@valeri7578]

Do you have the sheet?

[@Appalachiangirl]

People that can do a instrument and sing at the same time are awesome I love to sing and have nice singing set up for live as we also play instruments but I can't seem to figure out how to do both lol

[@domenicotorrisi6010]

bravo sei un grande !!!!!!!

[@Ladymateliersposa]

Una delle canzoni più difficili e belle da eseguire secondo me! Complimenti! Senza parole proprio!! 👏👏👏🔝

[@ARTEEMFRASCOS]

Wow.

[@MandeepDeegon]

good job Steve! ❤

[@gastonm]

it would be great if you could share the score. Thanks

[@owencallaghan4267]

Bloody amazing! Thank u for giving us watchers the pleasure.

[@JF-iq1yx]

Whoo Ah!

[@tecoapple]

A M A Z I N G!

[@theknack]

Steve this is incredible, I would love the opportunity to buy the sheet music from you.

[@stevecaputi5664]

I get that a lot but If I wrote it out it would be a mess. I think Tori's first band was "y kant tori read" because she wasn't really into sheet music... Try slowing the video down and playing along a section at a time - LMK if that works for you!

[@theknack]

Steve Caputi Thank you for the response, completely understandable. I will indeed do, I was so mesmerised by your performance that impatience got the better of me!

[@HB-xf2xl]

I know this comment is a few years old, but if you're still looking, search YANTA cornflake girl instrumental + sheet music on KZbin.

[@leahvanzylphotography1626]

Brilliant!!!

[@adeletovrea3806]

Good job dude!

[@francescocolonna6148]

Excellent performance, Ihave seen the video many times, do you have the score of this song?