Fun things to do on the piano

[Ercoledi]

I love playing the piano, but lately I've got to admit it's starting to bore me. I'm looking for some fun things to do on the piano. They don't have to be pieces, stuff like jazz licks are wicked awesome.

I'm a pretty averagey player (grade 6 AMEB if you know what that is) and I can generally trundle through any sheet music you put in front of me.

So, any suggestions?

[Pelican Man]

Have sex with it.

[Bayview05]

James Bond theme.

[Ziggy St. Valentine]

Have sex with Peli while playing the James Bond theme.

[Haggis McSpud]

Then compose a song about it.

[Ercoledi]

James Bond theme.

I can already do this, but movie themes and whatnot are hella tacky.

Also no, having sex on the piano is out of the question.

[reposter]

If you're looking for a quick perk, run your fingers along all the keys, starting at the 'low' end.

Get your girlfriend (failing that, your sister, or if that's a little weird, maybe hire someone) to sit atop the piano in an evening gown while you serenade her with a classy tune.

Also, no one said anything about having sex on the piano.

[Ercoledi]

Ohhh, 'with'. I've already said I'm bored with that. :mad:

Running your fingers along the keys is so amateurish.

[Mr. Wink]

Ohhh, 'with'. I've already said I'm bored with that. :mad:

Running your fingers along the keys is so amateurish.

But running your face along isn't.


[edit] Play the "let's go to the zoo" song. ahhh.

[KeyboardSpastic]

Try learning some new contemporary songs perhaps.Songs you hear on the radio and really like.Abit like this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq9N3f09dQo&feature=channel)

[BassBastard]

Victor Borge

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[gizzalove]

I hear Pirate of the Caribbean is a lot of fun to play.

[Bayview05]

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Billy Corgan is an awesome piano song, it's so somber and sad. I personally think it is a very beautiful song.

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[B33]

You should learn The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. That will keep you occupied for a long, long time

[Ercoledi]

I want fun, not occupied. I should have said I'm not looking for classical pieces, either. I'm working on a Prokofiev piece at the moment, so I wanted something to distract me from it every once in a while.

[koots]

Try listening to a song, either classical or contemporary, and try and figure out the notes. Or maybe just a commercial jingle first.

[BassBastard]

I find songs in Cartoons are challenging and fun. Mainly Merry Melodies cartoons. Also, Tom and Jerry cartoons.

[Desert]

I know the Mortal Kombat theme, all of Tom Sawyer, and Clocks.

[Britney Spears]

What you should really do is sit down and learn all your chords and put the correct tensions on each. Learn all those old jazz standards that you'd hear in some dim and sad bar on a Friday night. "Cry Me a River" "Fly Me to the Moon" anything like that.

It's not impressive when people learn theme songs to things. But when someone goes from a Bb-7 to an Eb7(sus4) to AbMA7(9), that's when they're cool.

[MusicalIdiot]

If you're looking for a Jazz song on the piano, Caravan is a good standard to know:
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[Britney Spears]

Good call!

Or do something by Dave Brubeck. Blue Rondo or something.

[BassBastard]

Blue Rondo is one of the top 5 songs ever written. I learned that in highschool and still play it, both Bass and Piano.

[Ercoledi]

I've found some sheet music for Take Five, so I'm going to learn that one.

[theblueneutrino]

Prepared piano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_for_prepared_piano_by_John_Cage) is pretty sweet, I studied it years ago in my school Music lesson.
You need a grand piano though, and enough money that if you manage to fuck it up you can repair it before anyone else finds out and kills you.

[gizzalove]

Almost anything by Bishop Allen. I suggest Corazon because it's a song about a piano so it's got a nice piano solo in it.

[Samuraininja333]

You should learn The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. That will keep you occupied for a long, long time

Smartass.

You should play some Rush.

[AnOddRant]

Learn Serj!

I don't know much at all about the piano (other than what I can assume about that is similar with guitar), but I swore I heard a piano playing in a couple of songs from Serj Tankian's solo album.

[Ziggy St. Valentine]

Learn 'Desperado' by the Eagles, I dunno if it's easy or hard, but it's cool.

[exetra]

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Seriously though, you should mess about with synths and stuff. Or work on your improv. Those are the things that keep me occupied and entertained, anyway.

[Ercoledi]

Improv, huh? I've never really done any; my piano training was pretty much strictly by the book, but I'd like to give it a go. Where do I start?

[Shagg]

Try to cover songs by turning the guitar/vocal parts onto the piano. Some people make the coolest shit or the worst depending on the song.

[thegreatcollapso]

The start to that Transplants song Diamonds & Guns I think it was. Shit song but if I could play that wee bit it'd keep me occupied for weeks.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jR1zJ1K_GjQ

Yeaaaaaaaaaah.

EDIT: I've just watched that video and reminded myself just how bad the rest of that song is. Boke.

[Lozenge]

You should try some ragtime stuff, its really fun to play, and is quite fun to listen to. And with the improv thing, since your 6th AMEB grade, you should know a whole lot of scales and key sigs right? Just muck around with the right hand doing some scalish type things, like going up and down randomly until your find something that sounds good, with the left hand doing chords or something similar. I'm doing 3rd grade AMEB, but I've played alot of ragtime and jazzy stuff, but i learned to improv with all that stuff I learnt from playing scales hundreds of times. I hope this helps.

Oh and muse has some cool piano, like space dementia but thats classical so meh. simple....

[Ercoledi]

I quite enjoy playing Muse bits. Space Dementia? I like playing it up to the point where it becomes all angry (so, I get something like 20 seconds of pleasure from it). New Born and Sunburn are also nice, but repetitive.

Thanks for the improv ideas. I'll give it a go.

[lollercaust]

I love playing the piano, but lately I've got to admit it's starting to bore me. I'm looking for some fun things to do on the piano. They don't have to be pieces, stuff like jazz licks are wicked awesome.

I'm a pretty averagey player (grade 6 AMEB if you know what that is) and I can generally trundle through any sheet music you put in front of me.

So, any suggestions?

Learn the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Then play it for anybody and everybody and they'll wonder what the hell you are.

Oh, and be careful not to break your piano doing so.

[TheHighwaySong]

I think playing some of Mushroomhead's piano solos are pretty fun, especially Intermission. But Casualties in B Minor is pretty cool too.

[Iiro]

Improv, huh? I've never really done any; my piano training was pretty much strictly by the book, but I'd like to give it a go. Where do I start?
You could try playing chords and melodies.

[MrRamRod]

Learn all the songs from Ocarina of time.

They're dead easy to learn by ear, and fun to play.

[The_Solipsist]

Message to Harry Manback by Tool.

Simple, but somewhat mellow.

[Spang53]

learn anything by Boston, Supertramp or Dream Theater

[Spang53]

Message to Harry Manback by Tool.

Simple, but somewhat mellow.

thats a creepy song. Tool FTW