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10-22-2005, 02:31 AM
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I've just started playing piano (I figured it could also help my bass playing), and am (slowly) learning to sight read. What are some of your favourite piano pieces? I don't really like the classical stuff (bach,mozart,beethoven etc) but I have found one piece that I really enjoy:
To Zanarkand - Nobuo Uematsu, composed for the video game "Final Fantasy X"
How about you guys?
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10-22-2005, 03:34 AM
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Gymnopedie - Erik Satie
...for starters... 
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10-22-2005, 03:42 AM
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I think it qualifies as a single piece of music ? |
10-22-2005, 03:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad ....Korn Concert.... | Bwaaahhhaaa.
Best typo ever.
I have to leave this one  . |
10-22-2005, 04:48 AM
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10-22-2005, 05:48 AM
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10-22-2005, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by C-5KO Moonlight Sonata. | +1 |
10-22-2005, 09:21 AM
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10-22-2005, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | | 'Ritual Fire Dance" by Manuel de Falla. Originally it's an orchestral piece but it's been adapted to piano as well, very intense and VERY cool!
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10-22-2005, 01:07 PM
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10-22-2005, 01:28 PM
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Or Yuki Kajiura - Before Dawn from the .hack//SIGN soundtrack. |
10-22-2005, 01:40 PM
| | | Final Fantasy X has a great soundtrack. I started to learn 'to zanarkand' but never followed up.
I really like this piece from the cowboy bebop movie, I made this version http://www.jazzmess.com/down/mooch/D...o_novocals.mp3
I also have 'the rite of spring' performed on 2 pianos. It's pretty neat.
Steve Reich's 'piano phase' is also a really neat piece.
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10-22-2005, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DaftCat Gymnopedie - Erik Satie
...for starters... | +1 thats probably my favorite piano piece, in fact, it's also the first bass tapping piece i learned!
also a +1 for wrong robot and the final fantasy piano pieces...they are amazing. |
10-22-2005, 03:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Beautiful Western Colorado | | | My wife plays lots of Stride and Boogie Woogie. "Yancey's Special" is one of our favorites. Check out Judy Carmichael's book on Stride.
You might as well spend your time playing what you like to hear. So, learn the the songs you enjoy listening to and don't be dissuaded by how complicated they may be. What is more significant, being able to play 15 songs like "Row, Row Your Boat" after a year of practice, or one song like "Maple Leaf Rag" that will turn heads?
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10-22-2005, 03:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NYC & Vancouver, BC | | | The tune "Wind" from Naruto Season 1.
I prefer the FF8 score Nobuo Uematsu did in comparison to the rest of his work. It's much more beautiful, in my opinion, especially "Eyes on Me." In fact, I arranged the entire tune for extended range bass (6 strings) a while back. Really neat tune. |
10-22-2005, 04:20 PM
| | | | 'Moonlight Sonata' is definitly one of the best songs ever written IMO. Also 'Ascension' by Divinity Destroyed, J.S. Bach's 'Invention #13', Beethoven's 'Fur Elise' (how original of me), and every song on George Winston's album 'Autumn'.
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10-22-2005, 04:22 PM
| | | | There is this piano player/composer named Steve Kuhn, dunno if any of you guys have heard him. He has this song called 'Trance'... blows my mind. It's not solo piano, but naturally, he's featured quite extensively. I first heard it on NPR one day and then I immediately bought the album. Incredible stuff.
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10-22-2005, 04:48 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I like the piano in November Rain by Guns 'N Roses. But my favorite would have to be "The Angel Song" by Great White.
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10-22-2005, 04:59 PM
| | | Oh yeah, how could I forget 'School' by Supertramp? The solo in that song kills me every time. Cool bass line too. 
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10-22-2005, 05:18 PM
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