Unclassical Piano music - what do you play?

[Dead Or Alive]

Hey I've noticed that there are alot of people who play classical music around here (well its a piano forum so obviously) and a lot of Muse fans but i was wondering about people who don't play classical and what they do play in that case. i personally like rock ... in particular classic rock and think songs like right now by van halen (eddie van halen decent at keyboarding considering hes also amazing at guitar!), don't stop believing by journey and country songs like walking in memphis are awesome :thumb: . So what are some other good classic rock songs or any song in general that isn't classical???

[PDWAB]

For organ, I really like listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers.

[Ned]

Hey I've noticed that there are alot of people who play classical music around here (well its a piano forum so obviously) and a lot of Muse fans but i was wondering about people who don't play classical and what they do play in that case. i personally like rock ... in particular classic rock and think songs like right now by van halen (eddie van halen decent at keyboarding considering hes also amazing at guitar!), don't stop believing by journey and country songs like walking in memphis are awesome :thumb: . So what are some other good classic rock songs or any song in general that isn't classical???

I'm mostly a jazz pianist. (Can you do me a big favor and write "a lot" next time instead of "alot"? Thanks. I appreciate it.)

[AmericanMetalDude]

I enjoy classic rock as well. Journey and Rush are a couple of my favorite bands.

[Spectrum]

I am not a great piainst, but I have an annoying tendency to arrange things I hear for piano, regardless of what instruments ought to be used. For instance, I took thed two guitar lines from Coldplay's "Moses", by-eared the solo lines and meshed them together for two-hand piano. I tend to arrange a lot of Coldplay for the piano. I also have been working on a couple Radiohead songs, and am going to record my renditions of "Lucky" and "No Surprises" soon. Another big one was DMB's "Crush". I can't play it on guitar, so I play it on piano.

In my spare time, I also write music. I tend to lean on Jazz and Blues in my writing, with lots of obvious Rock elements as well. But recently I've been writing a string of coherent, related songs that follow a (Fantasy) story, and that has been a mix of modern-ish rock, neo-classical and some other stuff (think Howard Shore meets Adam Jones).

-Mike

[GurS]

meat loaf has some dynamite piano in his songs

[PowerRiff45]

Rock and Roll

[Drop_D'd]

Metal. Lol, i turn stuff like Nothing Else Matters by Metallica into piano, that is a really nice piece!

[kong88888]

i turn stuff like Nothing Else Matters by Metallica into piano, that is a really nice piece!

Thats strange, i did the same, im not a metallica fan, but i performed that song on piano for my college leavers party with a guitarist and a singer. It went down pretty well, we also did November Rain (G&R). That rocked! :evil:

[Drop_D'd]

It really is nice to play on piano, but a slight bit repetitive without the singer!

[*punk_rock_sophie*]

jazz and muse, however ome of their stuff in kinda clasical!

[Random_Anibas]

Personally Dream Theater is a huge favourite to play on keys... there's some awesome keyboard parts in DT and classic rock n' roll is a treasurehouse of mint keyboard lines and instantly recognisable riffs like Van Halen and Rush and all the other 80s hair rock bands. Arranging stuff is great on piano... I find some Dokken songs translate really nicely into piano, and oddly enough Sanitarium by Metallica.

Oh yeah... I'm back... :D

[Speedy Fingers]

Ditto to Amber, 'cept i've never heard Dokken.

[Cecillianne]

I'm mostly a jazz pianist. (Can you do me a big favor and write "a lot" next time instead of "alot"? Thanks. I appreciate it.)

Man, I'd love to play and make up some good jazz. Any tips? I know bits and pieces, but meh.

Speedy Fingers & Amber: Welcome back :thumb:

<-- Nissy.

[witch doctor]

personally, I enjoy playing tunes from super mario world. Some of them are really tough (the yoshi island/atheletic theme is nigh impossible). They're fun to play and pretty challenging.

[pIerre yVes]

playing stuff that isn't meant for piano...gives me a challenge
mostly guitar solos, which would sound so much better if i could play guitar!!!

[PDWAB]

personally, I enjoy playing tunes from super mario world. Some of them are really tough (the yoshi island/atheletic theme is nigh impossible). They're fun to play and pretty challenging.


Hell yes, Konji Kondo, who I believe composes most if all not all the Nintendo music, is a great composer.

[Speedy Fingers]

playing stuff that isn't meant for piano...gives me a challenge
mostly guitar solos, which would sound so much better if i could play guitar!!!
Why play guitar solos on a keyboard which most likely don't sound very good on a keyboard...when you could play keyboard solos?

[Shagz]

good bands are like Dream Theater, The Doors, Rammstein has some interesting keyboard works, Alice Cooper with certain songs, mmm many others but I cant seem to name but a few of them

[witch doctor]

http://individual.utoronto.ca/auyeun/vgsheetmusic.html

That's where I got all my mario sheet music, in case you're interested

[SocoAmarettoLime70x7]

I play what I guess you could call emo/indie piano. The best example of this is the band Straylight Run. I do write all my own music, though.

[Silas]

I'm trying to play jazz, but there's a load to learn from! I don't think anyone can discover jazz fully, there's always more to be learnt! I'm trying to develop a technique I can be comfortable with, doesn't have to be a pure genre, right now I guess I'm playing a mixture of everything since I'm a music student.