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Hi,

I have just posted a piano version of I will survive if you want to have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLKov-u4tY

Thanks'

Very nice!

Thanks a lot J D for your comment:)

Yes, very nice mozarta! Is this your own arrangement?

I'm also enjoying your other YT uploads - thanks!

btw, I've also got a Yamaha P120 - just wish I could play it as well as you do

Thx a lot cruiser for your comment and for watching my other uploads:)

Otherwise, this my "survive" arrangement.

The Yamaha P120 is a nice model indeed (I have it since almost 10 years and I still enjoy it). I am sure you play some good stuff on it too!

Yeah cool arrangement of I Will Survive. That would definitely work in a piano bar. Playing disco tunes as solo piano can be a challenge without a band and singer behind you.

I wonder how a KC/Sunshine piano solo would work out? Just a thought.

Your keyboard is the Yamaha P120? How much does it weigh? Curious

katt

Thanks nitekatt for your comment!

btw, is KC/Sunshine a band?

Otherwise the P120 y. keyboard is around 55 pounds.

Hey, yep KC and the Sunshine Company was a high roller disco band with several big hits. Here is a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zu0p7xWLoU

katt

Thanks, such a classic! I didn't know it was this band'

Very nice arrangement of it. I really enjoyed your left hand technique!

Thanks Steve for your comment!

This is my favorite disco song.. Nice arrangement!

I Will Survive

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/moneychords/circleprogressions.html

Am Dm G Cmaj7-Fmaj7-Bm7b5-Esus4-E
I Will Survive verse (Gloria Gaynor - 1979)

I like the way it follows the Circle of Fourths/Fifths

Excellent point. There are so many classic songs that use the circle of fifths for at least part of the time. Here is just a few more. "Autumn Leaves", "All The Things You Are" "Fly Me To the Moon".
The bridge to "Rhythm Changes" also has this motion (albeit using secondary dominants).
There are countless other tunes that use the motion as well

Yes, so many great songs use that C05 in various forms, Those Were the Days, Windmills of Your Mind, tons of others.

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/moneychords/circleprogressions.html


"An example of the second cycle type that uses both primary and secondary chords is the sixteen-bar A section to Jerome Kern’s 1939 All The Things You Are shown below. This is an example of a minor circle progression that descends in fifths from the “Am7” chord through the “Fmaj7” chord then descends an augmented fourth (a tritone of three whole steps) from “Fmaj7” to the “B7” chord in order to break the cycle and end with the “Emaj7” (dominant) chord in bars seven and eight".

Mozarta - Really nice interpretation. I've never heard this great song done as an instrumental but you made it work.

Thx a lot b52nf7 for your comment and thanks for the comments above as well'

that was really good. surely you have a degree in piano?

how can i learn to play like you?

Thanks a lot John, I do not have a degree:) I am more a self-taught pianist (ear playing).
Even though there are thousands of better pianists than me, my advice would be to listen as much as great piano composers as possible (my belief is in "ear shaping").

yeah, i am actually a composition student at a music college. all of my professors say to approach everything as a form of ear training.

Nice, then you must know a lot more about theory than I do which should really help you to study some piano technics.
I hope you can post some of your composition/performance soon.