Q. 1.) Greensleeves
2.) Yesterday
3.) Hotel California
4.) All My Life (by KC and Jojo)
5.) A Thousand Miles
Along these lines of difficulty, or at least as difficult as possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hes6FYmLXmQ
Sheets don't have to be free
A. Birdgirl getting my strong seconding here.
Almost all pop and show music sheets are infamously spare and simple. The melody is always in the right hand as well as in the vocal line, the rest a simple configuration. The majority of buyers for these are self-taught or very early level piano players, and it is often enough 'tricky' for them. They are the largest demographic market for purchasing those scores.
More elaborate, i.e. more advanced and difficult arrangements would be an economic disaster for the publisher, as there would be far too few buyers to make it worthwhile.
Once in a while an intermediate or slightly more difficult arrangement will have created a large enough demand (some George Winston, 'Carol of the Bells' as an example) that a full score of that arrangement becomes commercially viable because there is a great enough demand for it.
If you have a more developed technique, I'd advise that if you cannot yet 'get' at a glance from the score the basic chords of the piece, that you learn the 'pop' nomenclature of chords, which appear in those printed sheets, labeled above the vocal line along with the Guitar tabs.
Keep the fundamental written bass note(s) in the score (they 'set' the chord inversion for you), you can then readily 'fluff it out' with what you think are appropriate configurations, easily found passing tones within the key, those very mushy-soft and 'pretty' pop style six chords (i.e. CEGA as a C chord vs. an a minor 7 in classical theory) ~ et voila! you are a semi-improvising pop pianist.
The more experienced and knowledgeable musicians work from 'cheat sheets' a minimized 'chart' of the melody in treble clef with just the pop harmony jargon notated chord symbols. From that it is quick steps to very full-sounding arrangements.
If you want to try a lovely and harmonically 'sophisticated' Pop song, beloved of Jazz players, pick up a copy of "Spring can really hang you up the most." -- by Fran Landesman and Tommy Wolf. ~ It is a LOT of fun to play around with:-)
Best regards.
When playing the piano or keyboard is it ok to use chords in the left hand?
Q. basically, I have some sheet music and it has a left hand but I find it hard to play both hands at the same time, and on top of the right hand bar it says things like "Am" "Ebm" "F" ect things like that and it sometimes has a box with lines in it, I think these are guitar tabs, but what I want to know is, is it ok to form chords out of them, to play in the left hand like turn "Am" into the notes "A E A" or "F" into F C F and play them any way you want with no pattern. so it's like a cheat to avoid playing the left hand. is this ok?
thanks
A. It's actually a pretty common way to play piano. It's how my father plays. It's not how serious classical music is played, of course, but for just playing popular songs, it's fine. It's actually *exactly* how I started to play piano, after I started learning about chords from my guitar lessons. Yes, it's a cheat, but it is a very common, very accepted cheat. Although more advanced "cheaters", if you will (such as my father), will embellish the left hand cheating to be a little more involved (although still just following the chords). For instance, my father will alternate individual bass notes with the chords to give a little rhythmic feel in the left hand.
And here's another even more useful cheat, one which I picked up from a keyboard player I was in a band with. For a lot of rock/pop kinds of songs, you make it real easy on yourself by doing this: play the root note of the chord in octaves on the left hand, and play the chord itself in the right hand, and then sing the melody yourself. It's the piano way of just doing the chord accompaniment, just like a guitarist strumming chords while he sings. Thus, if the guitar chord says Am, you'd play a very low A with your left pinky, the next A above it with your left thumb, and A-C-E with your right hand. I generally do a pattern of playing the right hand on the down beat and the left hand on the up beat.
Do they make sheet music for piano that isn't solo pieces?
Q. Every time I look at pop songs or rock songs for piano, it's al solos with the let hand playing a part and the right hand usually playing what the singer sings. However, when the people perform these songs (for example, Paul McCartney performing Live and Let Die) they don't seem to be playing the solo part of them singing, just a chords while they sing. Where can I get sheet music that's just the chords? Is there a name for this kind of sheet music?
A. You might be thinking of what is referred to as 'cheat sheets' that players and even learned musicians use all the time. An aid to quickly learn basic piano, and even new composition material.
But saying you just use the piano chords is really looking at the lower, left hand staff (instrument) of sheet music in conjunction with the upper, right hand (stave) staff melody or voice measures.
If you can read music (piano) script, then you are already performing the chord, key accompaniments.
Most all popular song books are presenting the voice melody and instrument accompaniments (only) with the upper and lower along with guitar chords along and above the melody line.
Better sheet music and manuals designated (exclusive) for piano keyboard, will include any note pattern (combinations) signatures showing the chord progressions and shifts on the music, staff measures itself.
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