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One of the best live shows I've ever been to was Margo Price live at Rough Trade East, they have some videos on YouTube, and I highly recommend you listen to Hands Of Time. This concert was a very small In Store show and I was right at the start. It was just Margo's Voice, her J45 and either a Piano or an Accordion accompanying.
One of the best live shows I've ever been to was Margo Price live at Rough Trade East, they have some videos on YouTube, and I highly recommend you listen to Hands Of Time. This concert was a very small In Store show and I was right at the start. It was just Margo's Voice, her J45 and either a Piano or an Accordion accompanying.
I generally dislike pianos in pop/rock music, but love them as compositional tools. I recently heard Stravinsky's Rite of Spring being explored and explained on solo piano and it was fascinating if you know the original well.
I've had a keyboard in my studio for 15 years but have deliberately never learned anything about how to play it. I use it to write when I'm stuck on a section, my ignorance of it compared to guitars stops me falling into familiar patterns and forces me to slow down and come up with something simple.
Keyboards, for a different musical texture.
Depending on context a well played piano is a thing of beauty.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
That I can play: Mandolin.
I had piano lessons as a kid, but only reached grade 1 before my teacher died. She was a lovely old lady.
I can play sax, and now that my youngest having lessons there is one in the house I can use. I'm copying her lesson and practice plan to get my chops back.
I wish I had room at home for a piano though.
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You can get some pretty small Pianos with a folding stand to store away somewhere.
Ones I love and can play to greater or lesser extent:
Piano, drums, chapman stick
Ones I love and can't play:
Uilleann pipes, flute, violin
Piano then drums for me.
Im already pretty good with a Vibraslap.
By and large I'm not keen on the sound of the piano despite it's many mentions so far. Although I dislike cymbals more than anything I think. I once saw Elliott Randall do a blues gig and instead of a drummer he had a percussionist doing bongo type stuff and that was perfect for me.
I love piano. I'm crap at it, but the true co-ordination of right & left hands is really something I'd recommend guitar-only people to have a stab at. And the sound of two big handfuls of notes spanning three octaves (or more) sound huge......
(I'd also like to dabble in Guqin or Koto, they're somewhere on the long list of stuff I'd like to get into but haven't yet.)
My my daughter is learning and I'm so tempted to do it alongside her. It will only help her if I can oversee her practice with some knowledge of anything she is doing wrong or struggling with.
I attend the lessons with her and try and watch the whole lesson rather than sit there pissing about on my phone or whatever.
I'm afraid if I don't start to learn soon she will be more advanced and I won't be able to help.
For anyone thinking about piano a good starter digital is a cheaper than a mid range guitar...
Easily my favourite sound after the guitar.