Lost - Linkin Park

"Lost"_ is played with a straight rhythm in 4/4 time. This rhythm is associated with rock music but be sure not to play in a mechanical way. Strive for a loose and bouncing feel accenting strong beats. Take care to maintain a steady pulse and play along with the recording if you find that the memory eludes you. Practice _"Lost"_ slowly. To keep listeners attention, the chorus was made to be the biggest part of a song. It colored it *blue* for your convenience: it is easier to learn a piece of music when you have a mental scheme of it. Play as expressively as possible. If some notes prove too difficult to play, simply omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading. _"Lost"_ is a song with a polyphonic arrengement — the instrumental part provides not only a harmony to support the vocal but also its own melodies. Piano is an instrument that can play a melody and an accompaniment simultaneously. The melody is not confined to remain exclusively in the uppermost voice. Vocal in the original track is relatively rigid and precisely timed, so it produces a well-patterned yet modest melody for the right hand. A predominant vocal style is *staccato*. _"Lost"_ is transcribed in the original *key,* A Minor, and uses exclusively *power chords.* Power chords omit the third degrees (only the firsts and fifths) thus sound simultaneously as minor and major chords. Nevertheless, I transcribed them as simple chords because a pianist can't play as many first and fifth chord notes as a guitarist can and the left hand sounds hollow, naked, and empty. Notice the irregular length of musical phrases. The melodic aesthetic value is achieved through the use of well-proportioned and balanced skips and steps within a question-and-answer melody. The last bar with the tonic chord is added by me. Modern commercial music doesn't resolve on tonic to push a listener to repeat the track on a streaming service. Of course I consider filling your *requests* of sheet music except for not popular tracks.