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>Lou Redd- Perfect Day (piano sheet)
- August 31st, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Venice in August. It’s a strange thing. I don’t know what do you think about but, to me, venice is a perfect winter city. Its architecture, its grey, its water, its history create an tired old-fashioned atmosphere. It’s like the last weak breaths of dying memory… and Lou Reed is a good soundtrack for it.
The message is clear: simplicity. Every single movement, action we make in our everyday life could be special.The crucial point is to be able to live without stress but giving value to everything around us. The beauty of “Perfect Day” is its lyrics, short little sentences full of love.
“You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good”
“You” is Shelley,one of the most important women in Lou Reed’s life since his adolescence and to whom he dedicated many beautiful songs like: I’ll be your mirror.. their relationship had to live through several difficoult moments and at a certain point all was over. But nothing ended. Lou and Shelley began to meet secretly and a new fresh wind was around them and their little happy events….
But love is a secret and I have told too much… forgive me and watch this amazing video.
Ray Charles-Hit the road Jack (piano sheet)
- August 29th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Hello everybody!! I have just come back from a long strange journey along Italy. I had not planned anything, I let myself follothe beautiful and surprising events occurring around me and so… well… what to say? let’s talk about piano and music, especially good music!!
“Hit the road Jack”. A great song by “The Genius” Ray Charles talks about a man that leaves and won’t come back home. It expresses the sense of hurry and frantic feelings of a change that will end with the death of the character… The song, a beatiful rhythm & Blues piece written in 1961 by Percy Mayfield , is the b-side of the single “Danger Zone”.
Download here the piano sheet of HIT THE ROAD JACK by RAY CHARLES
few happy holidays!!!
- August 12th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Hello mates!!
it’s time to have some fun… just few days.. some parties on the beach, the old-fashioned italian sun, stuff like this. I know you will understand me 
so…see you and don’t worry new posts will come!!!
byeeeeee
Mozart K238 (piano sheet)
- August 10th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Mozart’s sonatas are beautiful stop! Unfortunately, few people understand and appreciate them.
For example, how can you feel indifferent about the sonata n.12? but, apart from the most famous ones, there is a lot as interesting as this. Look at Sonata n.5 which is K 283 in G major. It is one of the first sonatas that you approach when you study Mozart. I remember when i did a test some time ago, I decided to play it and it was a great success!!. The problem is that you have to understand and interpret Mozart’s sonatas with technical “gelidity”. SOmetimes the trick to play them well is to stop your creativity. It’s not Chopin 
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Pink Floyd- Us and Them
- August 7th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Please, make me a favour.
Before you read this post, watch the video and let you feel relaxed and loved by the cheerful colours of this song.
No words can explain, it’s a classical problem with peope like Pink Floyd. Oh God! It seems like the music comes out from the pc to hug you like a sweet wind..
Us And Them is a song by the British prog band Pink Floyd from their famous album of 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon.
Lyrics are by Roger Waters and the music by Richard Wright.
The words are a proclaim against all wars of all times. It deals with those conflicts in poor third world countries where children and “new” slaves die without reason, while fat generals give orders, live and let die..
It’s a long song, and, even though it is rock, it has a slow rhythm: long organ chords melt up with a soft acoustic guitar and the piano to create the image of a peaceful place. We are all hypnotized!!
After the instrumental opening, Gilmour’s voice begins to sing among long pauses.
This quiet situation comes to an end at the moment of the refrain ( a great merit to the guitar that paints a distorted sense of tension).From this moment the notes become higher…
The piano solo by Richard Wright introduces Dick Parry and his immortal sax solo (my favourite in all Pink Floyd discography!!).
At the end of the song the last sad words “For the want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died” .
According to you, What does these words mean??
Perhaps… that a tea or a slice cost a human life?? Do we have breakfast “thanks” to the death of poor people?’
I would like to know your personal opinion…
In the meanwhile…Here you can download the piano sheet.
“Us and them, and in the end we’re only ordinary man.”
White , Black, where is the difference?
Exercises n.55-56-57 Beyer op.101 Lesson n.35
- August 3rd, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Beyer is becoming more and more difficult!!. Exercises n. 52-53-54 have introduced new obstacles, like the bass clef!!. Now, in this new compositions we have to study the bass clef for the left hand, even in a gradual way. Ine each ex. the same notes are proposed both for bass clef that treble clef. So, it would easier to understand the differences between the two ways of reading, and, as the study goes on, to get used to the bass clef that in the totality of piano sheets in linked to left hand.
Well, now let’s concentrate!
Ex. 55 uses the notes the 5 notes from C to G for the right hand , at the contrary, the left hand mutates its positions several times, in particular in the changes from the bass clef to treble clef and vice versa. You will have to move your left hand!!.
Ex.56. Right hand is positioned from G to D, the same for left hand. The important thing is the Continue Reading
COLDPLAY-YELLOW (Piano sheet)
- July 28th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Coldplay is not only Viva la Vida, their last work. They are a world famous band and they have managed to reach the success enchanting millions of fans: It all began in november 1999.
There was a debut album to complete and all the passion and the dreams of a new hopeful band that spent the new Year’s Day to write the last words of 2 songs: “Yellow” ed “Everything’s Not Lost”.
The first single was “Shiver”,released in march 2000, that “won” the 35th position in the British charts. At the same time the band started to be object of interest by MTV.
Some months later,in June, the first tour started and “Yellow” came out.The song gained the 4th position in Great Britain and was the real goal of the band.
Unfortunately, the album, Parachutes, released in july 2000, was not critically acclaimed because of the clear similarities of the band’s sound with Radiohead style. BUT…..even though, according to the marketing sector album’s sales would have been around 40.000 items, they reached 1,6 mln. only in Great Britain!!
Once conquered Europe, Coldplay were ready to sail for the USA.
Coldpaly were invited to many famous american talk shows like: Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien e The Late Show with David Letterman (probably the craziest and the most original)…
Talking about Yellow: it’s not just a metaphor of love..the girl the singer loves is described through the beauty of the stars… there is another interpratation, more melancholic and pessimistic… the yellow is the colour of the skin..the colour of the disease the woman suffers from… she’s anorexic.. and the song is a symbol of the fight against this bad nightmare.
The videoclip was filmed close to Swanage, in England, a famous place for its beautiful beach.
You can find here the piano sheet of the song and, here, the link for the video.
Last year Coldplay was accused of having copied the instrumental part of their new success VIva la Vida from the famous american guitarhero Joe Satriani.
At Grammy Award 2009 Coldplay confirm their greatness winning 3 awards: year’s song, best rock album and best live pop group performance.
Albeniz-Godowsky’s Tango (piano sheet)
- July 25th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Albeniz’s tango is an explosion of feelings: rhythm and sensuality lead our dreams to the sun and the heart of Spain. This is the perfect summary of a genial , Continue Reading
Exercises n.52-53-54 Betyer Op.101 Lesson n.34
- July 25th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
I hope you don’t think Beyer is easy. I know that the last exercises were not very complex to deal with. But now it’s time to face the n. 52-53 and the troublemaker n. 54.
N.52 has the original element to be in 6/8 time. In the lesson about simple and compound times,we have talked about 6/8 without going deep into it.. The 6/8 time is divided in 2 beats or movements, composed of 6 eights. In each movement we will have to play 3 notes of an eight:the rhythmic reading of the left hand, for example, is (ta-ta-ta) (ta-ta-ta). (in the case of 4/4 the corresponding figure would be the triplet). The important thing would be to play the three notes of the left hand each time the metronome beats. Essential is to play it SLOWLY.
N.53 is short but quite hard, in particular for the left hand that has to drop after the 4th beat in G to the middle C from the standard position . The right hand has no tricks or technical problems.
N.54 will give you an hard time. Apart the movements of the left hand, the right in the final bar makes a change of an octave… and the bass clef is introduced.
The bass clef is represented graphically by an inverted 6 (originally the F, the F of FA) with 2 i is used to indicate the lowest notes and simplify the reading. Continue Reading
I’M AWFULLY SORRY
- July 21st, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
DON’T SHOOT THE PIANIST!
IT’S MY FAULT, I KNOW AND I HAVE NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS TERRIBLE LACK OF POSTS…. I HOPE YOU COULD ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES AND FORGIVE ME …
FROM NEXT WEEK, I PROMISE, A FLOOD OF AMAZING POSTS WILL OVERWHELM YOU !!!
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