Apparently Brian May plays around 40 different chords in Bohemian Rhapsody, and very few are simple majors or minors. Many are odd balls, like B flat 11th. WTF!
Did he over do it?
Queen are (http://i.imgur.com/39e55Ax.gif)
I suppose without us laypeople knowing all the techy music stuff.... the fact that it was number one for a couple of months, as famous as any other song and quite unique as a rock meets classic track....all in the uniqueness which is probably down to a lot of things inc the 40 + chords.. and prob even more on Freddy's piano....
Procol Harum ( rock meets class masters) played a 14 minute track in germany that nobody has ever been able to reproduce/ cover properly due to its musical complexity on hammond, guitar and piano. Even the orchestra spend 2 days practising till they got it close but not as perfect as it should have been.
what a track Bohemian rhapsody is....stood the test of time and id say theres quite a few decades left in it :)
I'd say personally he did it just right. One of the best tunes of all time.
Quote from: Il Tubo on July 01, 2013, 10:19:17 PM
Was listening to a technical appraisal of that song, and holy crap, it's more complex than the artwork on the roof of the Cistine chapel.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/radio-documentary-rhapsody-bohemia-bohemian-queen-freddie-mercury.html
They put it on the leaving cert in the late 1990's.