Tony Banks has givin us some of the best piano parts in the history of music, Mozart, Beethoven, Banks, The guy is great.

This sounded so much like the original it was very impressive. Very well done sir!

Nice! If you figured that our by ear, you're amazing!...Been trying to nail that part for many years with little confidence I had it...now you've proved I was horribly off ;-) Some brilliant composing and technique from Tony Banks - a genius of understated elegance and power.

This video helped me appreciate Tony Bank's ability even more.

Thank you for this and your other wonderful videos showing Tony's technique. You are a great teacher and also you play the Genesis parts excellently, with both passion and precision.

Holy cow! Been a Genesis fan for...seems like forever...and I went all wide-eyed while seeing this demo. After years of hearing the music it's amazing to see it being played. Tony was a genius. I'll spend the next few years trying to play this. LOL! Brilliant! Thank you!

Brilliant Doug - made me smile when you put the two hands together - so that's how he did it! Saw the band at Shepherds Bush 2009 - great show as ever - somehow you capture the joy and fun of playing this music.

Nicely done!!! The best demo that I have ever seen someone play The Lamb Lies Down... It looks like you changed chords towards the end!!!

that's so cool! never realized how straight foward this riff was! Great post!

Awesome! Simply awesome! I must have waited all my life for this moment!!! Now I can attempt to learn this piece!!

Love this technique so much. Use it while playing all the time

Muchísimas gracias por explicar como el maestro Tony Banks toca esa parte maravillosa de la canción.

WoW! - I knew Tony was clever - but I never realised this is how The Lamb was composed!

“It starts with an E chord” (untuned piano plays E flat)

Thanks for such an incredible intro to a super song like the lamb, keep teaching us more!

Fantastic insight! I`ve just bought a Piano with the sole intention of learning this as my first piece. Ambitious? Yes. Achievable with perseverance? Possibly

Great job !!

Thanks for making this video! This technique is pure genius.

Fantastic!!!! I just needed someone to show me how this is done...Now I can work it out ;)

Outstanding thanks. You made it clear. Not easily accomplished but clear. I usually play the opening of The Who's This Song is Over cross handed for the rich textures in the tenor register . Thanks

great job...can't wait to give it a try...thank you

AWESOME - Thank you very much for the tutorial!

Super, jak je to jednoduché, když se to umí. Well done, dude!

Well done. THis is very interesting even to a non-keyboard player like me.

Such amazing composition.

thank you , always interesting to see this technique.

Very well done 🎼🎼🎼

Cinema Show - yes please! One of Mr Banks finest. Also liked the Watcher video - I just had to go and try that - thanks for the tips.

Absolutely brilliant! How much more has Tony Banks ever permeated people before? Doesn't Tony have quite the reputation of not only being unavailable, but never willing to talk about his technique, anymore?

Excellent!!! Thanks Doug!

Well done mate! 👍🏻

If i could pull this off, I'd be the most lit dude in the music store. But that hasn't happened yet. Predominantly because my hands appear incapable of following simple instructions from my brain. Stupid bloody fingers! I've put my trust in you two for the last time!!

Nice one - thanks for uploading

Thank you!!👏🎹🎶

This was of great help to me.

Thank you very much Sir!

Wow, brilliant, bloody hell. So simpel such an effect..

Smashed it!

...great vid! very informative and enjoyable.

Bravo. Thank you

So cool!

Awesome!

amazing!

Very good well done 😌

Thank you for this!

Hi Doug thanks for showing us how to play the lamb intro been wanting to play it for years are you going to post a video on how to play the whole intro, as that would be just fantastic if you would. Great to see your back with Regenesis

Bravo!

Thanks Doug i've been wondering how banks does that and you did a good job of it.

wowow! u r amazing!!! nice job!

Brilliant - I thought the sound was done with an echo effect - now I know better!

Thank you !

*Astonished*

Great! Thanks for Sharing!!

Thanks, that'll definately help.

Nice! I have always wanted to know how to play this.

well done!

💛

Great, thanks.

Well done, mate!

Nice to watch this again. I am trying to learn the Carpet Crawlers introduction at the moment. I can get the notes right but 145 beats per minute is a bit quick for me !

Yes it does Doug. Thanks!

Find a LLD MIDI file and open it with Print Finale (you can get a one month demo copy) and export to PDF. The combination of that and Doug's tutorial got me there.

Thanks for the reply, i'll have a look at the chords. Probably best to figure the intro bits out myself. Thanks.

Ah, it's actually a lot simpler than it sounds! Although, it's the effect that counts and this cross hand technique is very cool. That Tony Banks is a clever chap...

Brilliant playing, know anywhere I can get the sheet music? Or even chord progressions.

Love it. To me- who is completely talentless- this is like a magic trick :)

I like call that the Lamb Tony Banks "flutter" technique. I recently noticed something very similar about four and a half minutes into Suppers Ready.

Doug is there anyway you can mention the rest of the rt handed chords and the lt hand fifths?? During that fast ascending (and descending) arpeggio, it is impossible to figure out what your hands are doing??? Much obliged!!

13 perfectly happy hands disliked this video.

Could you please do a video of how Tony Banks produces the "swell" piano notes on the song "Supper's Ready" (during the transition from "Lovers' Leap" to "Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man")?

mantap bro !!!

Doug? Where did you learn all your tony banks stuff? Is there sheet music for all these songs that I can buy? I had to figure all my genesis stuff out by ear! please help me out :)

I find it much easier to play with using the second and third finger of the left hand instead of the second and fourth which you are using. It gives you a bit more space, a bit better sight and you can even clam them underneath your hand to make sure they are not in the way. It's personal and taste of course (in other works, whatever works is good).

OMG 😲

@dougmelbourne Very interesting, I'll have to try this out sometime. I hope you do your video on "Cinema Show" and one for "Firth Of Fifth". Tony also has a cross-hand section on "Robbery Assault & Battery" so maybe you'd like the challenge of demonstrating that as well.

you know the guitar riff from 'aerodynamic' a daft punk song. has an influence from genesis

famous Lamb lies down on Brodway!

Please sir. Can we have some more?

Bravo! I think you could cross hands (RH up, LH down) at 1'.13". :)

Can you PLEASE post any sheet music to this? I can't quite get everything from here and I don't have enough musical education to take this thing by ear. I would so much like to play this though.

Tony Banks is fantastic but this technique has been used long before he was born.

Excellent Question : who is the first composer of this technique in the history of music ?

Could you make a Video on Firth of Fifth please?, even though there is no cross-hand technique involved (and please put chords on Screen)

AND THE LAMB~~~

Tony u brilliant bastard you

wait there's a genesis tribute band in aus, sweet

Yes, I have the basic stuff, what I have trouble with are the bits you just played and didn't explain. More specifically the bits from 1.00- 1.05 and 1.18-1.22 or so.

Good work! Although I'd have respected Tony Banks more if he'd worn a slipperman costume whilst playing it live :)

some mistakes.. but good job

Genesis without Tony Banks is .. nothing.

Loi

Your piano is not tuned!

By the way, cross-hand technique, while definitely not common, is used in some great piano music (much more complex than this) - for example see here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idKEh8p7xtuXY4U.html from 2:02 (also appreciating the beauty of the performer).

Pretty good. Not ready for prime time but a very good start.

Difícil

You have just destroyed the magic, sir. 😅

Freddie does it better!

Hi Steve, thought you might like to know that I've done a vid on 'Cinema Show!' Will try to get it into my channel thingy.