Impressive piano songs

Mallox

I have just completed grade 6 for piano and for the summer i want to learn a few songs for myself to play at partys or when i have friends over .. can anyone suggest some good songs to learn??

Orando Broom

Cold war Kids Hospital Beds, stuff by Editors some Coldplay. Meatloaf, you could pretend to be meatloaf.

TheBandit

Well done on the passing the exam? What pieces did you have to do for it?

Are you looking for pop songs?

Some Joni mitchell maybe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvUQk6tq_yw

Simon and garfunkel (can't find album version on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=GYKJuDxYr3I&feature=related

A solo version of dave 5 by dave brubeck would be fun to play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNrmYRiX_o

piano version/tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIdBDIMim4

quicklickpaddy

OP do you mean sing along stuff of just pieces to make girls want to sleep with you?

Mallox

quicklickpaddy wrote: »

OP do you mean sing along stuff of just pieces to make girls want to sleep with you?

haha a bit of both
I always see people who play the guitar and they play songs everyone can sing along to.
I know alot of coldplay alrite, its quite good.

quicklickpaddy

Mallox wrote: »

haha a bit of both
I always see people who play the guitar and they play songs everyone can sing along to.
I know alot of coldplay alrite, its quite good.

For sing along stuff, your best bet is to not overthink it. I played up until grade 4 in piano because my parents made me. I thought myself guitar after that but the basis I had in piano was enough to cover all the theory and stuff I needed. Go onto http://www.ultimate-guitar.com and search for any song you want to play and just pick the chords, play the two root octaves in the left hand and the tonic triad in the right for pretty much all the chords. And at grade 6 I assume you know how to make it a 6th or a 7th or any variation you come across? Play around with them and add in auxiliary notes if they're needed. Won't take long if you know the song/key. Plus that way there is a much more natural feel to your playing as opposed to learning the exact crotchets and quavers.

Hope that helps

Malice

I've always loved the piano parts in November Rain by Guns N' Roses.

gomaith2010

The flower duet or Clar de lune Debussy

jamesie_boy

Try playing Benny Anderssons piece at the end of chiquitita!

The Big Red Button

Sinding's Rustle of Spring - it looks and sounds really impressive, and is actually a lot easier to play than you'd think (simple melody in the LH, mostly just arpeggios in the RH.)

Mallox

quicklickpaddy wrote: »

For sing along stuff, your best bet is to not overthink it. I played up until grade 4 in piano because my parents made me. I thought myself guitar after that but the basis I had in piano was enough to cover all the theory and stuff I needed. Go onto http://www.ultimate-guitar.com and search for any song you want to play and just pick the chords, play the two root octaves in the left hand and the tonic triad in the right for pretty much all the chords. And at grade 6 I assume you know how to make it a 6th or a 7th or any variation you come across? Play around with them and add in auxiliary notes if they're needed. Won't take long if you know the song/key. Plus that way there is a much more natural feel to your playing as opposed to learning the exact crotchets and quavers.

Hope that helps

Ya i was actually considering taking up guitar, plus you can take a guitar with you where as a piano stays put .. Thanks everyone for the feedback. Im learning yellow by coldplay now and well see after that

odonopenmic

Tiny Dancer - Elton John!

hudie mcmenamin

Some of the beatles stuff is pretty easy on the piano, like Hey Jude and lady madonna, and people usually know the lyrics to these (sort of).
Also the great gig in the sky by pink floyd sounds pretty cool.
If you prefer classical, I think Solfeggietto by CPE Bach, and Chopins prelude in C minor (no 20) are pretty impressive, and are about grade 6.
Failing that, you could learn to improvise a blues in F, and bang away for hours!

rcaz

I'm not much of a pianist, but I usually play Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips if I'm at a part with a piano.

+1 on jamming around a blues thing too, get a few of your mates on the piano with you