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10 Top Piano Songs for Your Funeral

I found this great post, it's really funny .
What do you think? I quite agree with their choices....

For every song you can also find an animated piano tutorial.

Let me know if you agree with the list, or simply write your own list in the comments...

Have a Great Weekend!

That was indeed funny!

I'm not sure I'd play many of those for my funeral. I'm waffling between formal and gloomy (Albinoni's "Adagio in G minor") to egocentric and gloomy (a recording of me playing Micah Page's "Requiem.") With any luck it will be years, nay, decades, before I have to make that decision!

I definitely wouldn't be playing "Tears in Heaven," a decision that harks back to a funeral I attended a few years back where a hapless keyboardist was playing music before the service started, but there was a huge delay (apparently the mom or dad of the deceased got held up for some reason), and he didn't have any sheet music with him, so he had to resort to playing the few funeral-appropriate pieces he knew over and over again. I think we heard "Tears in Heaven" a total of four times. My heart went out to that poor guy.

Amazing Grace from my bagpipe days

I've actually told my folk dancing friends which dance I want done around my grave It's a slow line dance from Sweden.

Musicians seem to want "their" music played at funerals. One I went to had Irish traditional music played.

Cathy

Very funny!

Nice one. thanks!

Well, if "Amazing Grace" was good enough for Spock's funeral, I guess it would be good enough for mine!

Just NOT Chopin's Funeral March, please. Maybe a lot of Bach.

Interesting to see Meat Loaf in Buffy-style vampire makeup. I wouldn't have ever thought of him that way. He just doesn't have that lean and hungry look.

Elene

"Skyline Pidgeon" from Elton John. I usually prefer the harpsichord version to the piano recording, but if I'm dead I'll obviously have a difficult time complaining if that's not what I get, won't I?

I made my own funeralmusic. Some weeks ago I recorded a song of a Dutch comedian, Jules de Corte.....'Als ik overmorgen oud ben wie zal mijn ogen sluiten als ze niet vanzelf dicht gaan....'(translation: Day after tomorrow when I'm old who is going to close my eyes if they do not automatically close)

The music is an arrangement of the Dutch composer Rogier van Otterloo and very melodramatic..... Als je overmorgen oud bent

And of course there will be much music of Bach.....and perhaps my son will sing 'Tears in heaven'

Hope that it will take a long......

Best regards,
Johan B

Johan, I downloaded your file, but it seemed empty? Am I doing something wrong?

What do you guys think about the tutorials for these songs?

Is it possible to learn how to play by using these?

When I click the link, I see a normal mp3 of 3.13....and I can just press the playbutton. Perhaps a server was down or something like that...

Jules de Corte

Best regards
Johan B

Hehe, very funny.
"River flows in you" could be nice.
I hardly imagine "How to save a life" at a real funeral, though.

On the classical side, I'd have some Chopin, or Bach.
Maybe the "Ode to Joy" at the end (with a full orchestra & choir of course)

I sort of like what they do at a jazz funeral: play some lugubrious dirge en route to the grave, then some happy stuff on the way back--dance his soul to the other side.

One of the most achingly melancholy-but-beautiful songs ever is the Brazilian song "Azulao". In it the singer is telling a bluebird to go tell his beloved that life without her is not worth living. Here's Gerard Souzay performing it with a very spare piano accompaniment:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iENOJAbfZWk

But if you can find a recording of Salli Terri doing that song (it was on an LP then a CD entitled 'Duets with the Spanish Guitar') listen to that. Simply the most beautiful 90 seconds of music ever recorded, IMHO.

Now for the happy stuff, you can't do better than the song "We Shall Be Happy" from Ry Cooder's 1978 album 'Jazz'. I can't find a cut of it available online, though. Guaranteed to shake everyone out of melancholy and get their booties shakin'.

If anyone more skilled at posting links to music can find those cuts, please do so.

Through browsing at youtube(by the way, they celebrate 5 years birthday today!), I found this Sinead o'connor piece.
Ironically it is named the Funeral songs....

Someone have a clue where can I find the sheets for the song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFyiWlp13a8

I've actually been to a funeral where someone sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Another tear-jerker that's quite popular in these parts if Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You".

Okay, it worked this time. Beautiful, sad piece! Yes, it's good funeral music.

I've wanted this ever since I first heard it as a girl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDfau1cmAmE

The only one considerable option for music at your funeral is:

Mozart`s Requiem!!!

GREAT MASTERPIECE, with choire...

I can't believe nobody wants Monty Python's Always look on the Bright Side of Life played at their funeral!




-Jeff