Piano music..........

[luckydog]

Due to the heat and rains, I've been forced to "hibernate" and work on some indoor hobbies.....
one of them being the keyboards ( piano ).
I discovered this Yiruma piece ( River Flows In You ) a few weeks ago and have pretty much "conquered" it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN7SG-H-3k


I'm currently working on David Lanz's "Cristofori's Dream", but its pretty easy and I should have it down in a few days.

For those of you who are into this kind of music......do you have any suggestions as to what my next "project" should be ( something recent )???

Thanks, LD

[pilottj]

lay down some Otis Spann or some Memphis Slim or Booker T or somthing hehe :icon_lol:

One of the most beautiful piano peices I have ever heard is Joe Hisaishi's Fantasia for Nausicaa. It is based on the themesong he wrote for Hiayo Miyzaki's anime Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFoiQm5RuwY

the sheet music can be found here
http://www.joehisaishi.net/partitions/solo/piano1/

Cheers
TJ

[cheezyflier]

pretty cool :applause:
for your next trick, how about something with a little less..... restraint?

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[pilottj]

Amen Cheeze,:jump:

The master boogiemen, Memphis, Otis, Pinetop are always welcome to play here. :ernae:
Or you could have your New Orleans flavor of the piano boogie from Fess, Dr John, Marcia Ball.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaN3aXu5AM

Always have room for the Swamp Boogie Queen Katie Webster.
Here is a good boogie jam for you LD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFqTQA_2tE

Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and the barrelhouse greats are amazing as well:mixedsmi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIVJw8yX6GY

All the best luck Dog, I wish I could read music, I can just improv out some blues. But I know how you feel, nothing like sitting down at the piano sometimes and just playing what your soul feels like.

Cheers
TJ

[Cazzie]

Good stuff here.

And while we're on Blues piano, let's not forget the master:

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94 years old at this recording. Bob Margolin plays guitar here; hails and still lives in Greensboro, NC, see him often.

Now y'all get off yer tuffs and boogie-woogie.

Caz

[pilottj]

:jump:
with all this good boogie, gotta have some low down dirty slow blues from Master Pinetop :ernae:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZu-E0_CR8I

some Master Otis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-O9X1E8sA

This young man here appears to have the spirit of Otis within him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nZYseNz27g&feature=related

Forgot to mention the great Charles Brown who is also a master boogieman is also a great springboard into Jazz Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1HjSl9ATQ&feature=related

Here is Dr John providing some tutorial on the boogie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxX15ziypzs&feature=related

I suppose there is room for the Killer too :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DbMrp910g

LOL sorry Dog, we kind of hijacked your thread with blues and boogie piano greats :)

[cheezyflier]

man! that was really something! i enjoyed every single one :applause:

[luckydog]

"LOL sorry Dog, we kind of hijacked your thread with blues and boogie piano greats :) " pilottj

No sweat guys.......keep 'em coming !! I've been playing blues & boogie for over 40 yrs. ( along with everything else ). As a matter of fact, I was playing a Dr. John piece the other night and halfway thru I noticed the "significant other" had snuck in behind me and was really boogieing down with some dance moves I ain't seen in years !!!

That Joe Hisaishi piece is beautiful !! That's more like what I'm looking for at the moment..... tho I'd probably re-arrange it and make it a little shorter.

LD

[Navy Chief]

Yiruma's "Kiss The Rain" was the first song I'd heard him play on a video. It is so beautiful....

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[Navy Chief]

And now, for something totally different: Billy Joel's "Root Beer Rag!"

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