Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Coldplay Piano Ballad - Yellow - Look at the stars
Arranged for piano solo by José-Daniel Martínez. May, 2017. Original music by the Coldplay Band featured in their year 2000 Album Parachutes. If you are curious about Jose Daniel, please read more about him in his interview to Moving Classics. movingclassics.tv/classicpeople/jose-daniel-martinez
José-Daniel Martínez about his arrangement: "This song was conceived for a typical rock band in which the keyboard works as an harmonic instrument rather than soloist and the melodic line follows the natural rhythm of the English language. A version for solo piano of Coldplay's Yellow must ideally combine in practical fashion what lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and voice do together. This arrangement is what I came up with when a friend asked me to play Yellow at his wedding. I transposed from the original B major key up to F major, which allows for a clearer texture at moments when the repeated chords get thick. The new key would be too high for Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin's voice, but my version is not intended to be sung. There are several videos of the song in the internet - original and covers - where the singing voice stylistically floats over the accompaniment. Therefor the length of some notes, especially at the end of verses, may not coincide with the version known to the reader. Chris Martin versions have different note lengths depending on the occasion and on his inspiration at the time the recordings were made.
I shortened the Intro and one of the interludes and gave these my own chord sequence, slightly different than the original."
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Coldplay Piano Ballad - Yellow - Look at the stars
Arranged for piano solo by José-Daniel Martínez. May, 2017. Original music by the Coldplay Band featured in their year 2000 Album Parachutes. If you are curious about Jose Daniel, please read more about him in his interview to Moving Classics. movingclassics.tv/classicpeople/jose-daniel-martinez
José-Daniel Martínez about his arrangement: "This song was conceived for a typical rock band in which the keyboard works as an harmonic instrument rather than soloist and the melodic line follows the natural rhythm of the English language. A version for solo piano of Coldplay's Yellow must ideally combine in practical fashion what lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and voice do together. This arrangement is what I came up with when a friend asked me to play Yellow at his wedding. I transposed from the original B major key up to F major, which allows for a clearer texture at moments when the repeated chords get thick. The new key would be too high for Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin's voice, but my version is not intended to be sung. There are several videos of the song in the internet - original and covers - where the singing voice stylistically floats over the accompaniment. Therefor the length of some notes, especially at the end of verses, may not coincide with the version known to the reader. Chris Martin versions have different note lengths depending on the occasion and on his inspiration at the time the recordings were made.
I shortened the Intro and one of the interludes and gave these my own chord sequence, slightly different than the original."
@jose-daniel_martinez-miranda
Discover more exciting modern piano music with Moving Classics TV.
👉Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4MxPiZU2NzBmZ78mnPx3qq?si=XK6K8mjOQg21ivMhCj5biA
👉Facebook: facebook.com/movingclassicstv
👉Webpage: movingclassics.tv
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