Billy Joel dissects "Piano Man"
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I don't have my keys set up right now, have been trying to "play" it in my head, but I can't visuali... er, audioize it, so I too am waiting for a EweTube performance.Zing said:
I played in a country band in ~1979 that performed the Beatles' Help... as a waltz, wish I had a copy of it. I suspect we broke at least two sets of hips of the two-steppers... :?
Botch said:
I had to send this to my brother and a couple of friends.
In my younger brother's years, he once did a gig with this country cover band up near Athens, TN (about 40 minutes away from me). My brother's not the biggest country fan, but agreed to do the gig for the money and to help the band out since they needed a drummer.
The lead guitarist was your basic prima donna and just all around dickhead. He had been giving my brother shit about what he should be playing, "this is wrong", blah, blah, blah, etc. So one of the next songs was "Sweet Home Alabama" and this is when my brother decided to really piss this guy off. He would do these little shuffle beats on the ride cymbal, poly-rhythms here and there, basically just going over the top with this tune. All the guy could do was glare back at him and hint at him to tone it down. That just made him play that much more pretentious.
They never called him back for another gig.
Do NOT expect note-for-note perfection because it's anything but. But it should give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
The lead-in intro is 3/4, the solo changes to 4/4 and the outro goes back to the original music in its original 3/4 time. Forgive the tempo change. I was not playing with a drum machine and my internal metronome is faulty.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvW02NciHQM[/youtube]
The lead-in intro is 3/4, the solo changes to 4/4 and the outro goes back to the original music in its original 3/4 time. Forgive the tempo change. I was not playing with a drum machine and my internal metronome is faulty.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvW02NciHQM[/youtube]
Only if it goes viral and we all know THAT ain't gonna happen! :violin:PaulyT said:Woo-hoo, you're a youtube star!
Usually when I'm feeling confident and cocky enough to play Piano Man and include the 4/4 lead, I almost always include my variation on the "Scenes..." solo. I don't know how it will sound to you guys but it's one hell of a lot of fun to play.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ToxoMDOjU[/youtube]
that was awesome!!!
man, even down to the italian man hands, its sooo authentically billy joel!!!
hehehe.
in all seriousness, thank you for letting me listen to your variation.
awesome work buddy, i didnt think i couldve imagined ore creatively.
thank you for sharing that.... :handgestures-thumbup:
man, even down to the italian man hands, its sooo authentically billy joel!!!
hehehe.
in all seriousness, thank you for letting me listen to your variation.
awesome work buddy, i didnt think i couldve imagined ore creatively.
thank you for sharing that.... :handgestures-thumbup:
No, I bought the Yamaha CP5 instead. And I was absolutely loving it until, for some inexplicable reason, I stopped playing around Halloween. All kidding aside, I spent more time down there last night making those video clips than I have in the last 4 or 5 months COMBINED!PaulyT said:
Zing said:
Zing, thanks for sharing those video's and nice work!
I thought that I was the only one that will BINGE PLAY??? I will play my CP 33 Piano for weeks straight, have a blast and the next thing you know, months have gone by without play...........WTF???
thanks again zing,
i think thats the thing with the keyboards is when you play it, you play it, you fall deeply in love with it. passionately playing almost anything and everything within your grasp.
then before you know it, you leave her out in the cold like a shrew in the winter.
its been a while since ive played, and not owning a keyboard, makes me yearn for it.
i think im going to buy rock band 3's keyboard soon thanks to this. :happy-smileygiantred:
i think thats the thing with the keyboards is when you play it, you play it, you fall deeply in love with it. passionately playing almost anything and everything within your grasp.
then before you know it, you leave her out in the cold like a shrew in the winter.
its been a while since ive played, and not owning a keyboard, makes me yearn for it.
i think im going to buy rock band 3's keyboard soon thanks to this. :happy-smileygiantred: