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It's first Metamorphasis piece by Philip Glass!

lovely piece and well played Anne H

Thank you peterws, always enjoy your performances. I'm sure the full version of Bach's prelude is a challenge, although I don't know much how it is.

I think the version I found is just a simplifation and a good exercise for beginners. It's just four chords, C major, C major7, D minor and G7, each chord arpeggiated two times.

I played it from memory as such a simple progression is easy to remember. However I still don't switch between chords fluently, even when I never take my eyes off the keybed. When the chords are further apart, the pause becomes noticably long.

Elssa –Nice work.

Amaruk - I recall your piece from the first time you posted it. It was the first Yann Tiersen piece I’d heard. I still enjoyed it. Which leads me to …

AnneH - Very moody. Good work. Not that familiar with Philip Glass (apart from The Piano soundtrack? Not that I can recall it right now) but the genre seems to be in the same arena as Yann Tiersen favoured by Amaruk. Which leads me back to …

Amaruk - I don’t play guitar on them because it’s a ‘piano’ bar and because the spirit of the bar says to me that live is best and I like to keep them live. Guitar means I’d have to double track which means getting my recording software into action (and I haven’t worked out yet how connect my DP to the PC). Also I posted a guitar and piano (plus the rest of the band) piece last month and felt perhaps it was not appropriate:

Feels Like Rain (my arms are open wide)

Newman - ... fantastic is all I can say!!!

I for one would like to hear more of your guitar and piano pieces, be it acoustic or electric piano. I don't think you would violate any rules by adding a guitar track to your piano solos. Musicians like you are great inspirations for all of us here!!

Thanks for sharing!

I haven't been around much and I'm very out of practice but I thought I would share video from the evening my best friend and I hunted down a few Play Me, I'm Yours pianos in University Circle in Cleveland last month. I don't know why the sound keeps cutting out everytime my camera zooms and my playing is far from it's best but we had a lot of fun. The beginning of the video is my Severance Hall debut...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l02ufc7GFF8

Little Blue Engine - I'd love to be able to play Martha My Dear at least half as good as that ... at present it's just beyond me.

Amaruk - Thanks! (I wrote it too)

I second that. This was really excellent Newman! My thought is that as long as there is piano playing featured, you are good to go. It is just as interesting to me to hear how somebody has approached comping other instruments/singers as it is performing a completely solo piano effort.

I'm very familiar with the song, good job.

Newman I loved the Crowded House era, so many beautiful songs written by Mr Finn. Into Temptation is a personal favourite and you did a fantastic job on bringing it to us.

Little Blue Engine how lucky are you to have open air pianos around your city. Nice playing especially for someone out of practice. Hopefully you'll find inspiration again to re-boot your playing.

My comments for some of the performances, hope to finish them tomorrow.

Amaruk - The Grace of Undómiel/Lord of Rings - Very good, seemed to flow nicely. What a piano.
sinophilia - Jazz Ostinato in C#m version 2 - Very well played.
Riddler- Sophisticated lady - Very sophisticated! Liked the run in the end.
Rickster - Suwannee River Boogie - That boogie was a lot of fun to listen to. Always on my mind was well done too, I like that song
Greener - Forrest Gump theme - Well played.
Elssa - Nocturne by Chopin - You played that beautiful piece very well. I love pieces with a lot of trills, which are more common in classical music.
wuxia - Beethoven and Chopin - Moonlight Sonata is such a beautiful piece but hard to do justice. You managed it very well. Your Chopin - Nocturne Op.72 No.1 in E minor was just as good, I can hear from the piece that it's not an easy one to play.

This is the other one of last weekend’s efforts that I held over … but as I feel like I’ve posted so many songs this month I figured I’d post this and be done with it (and take a break next month). It’s another Neil Finn song (and, again, may not be that widely known … but perhaps it is).

Not The Girl You Think You Are

Thank you Newman. Another good one.

Newman another beautiful song from Neil Finn, I hadn't heard this one before so thanks well sung and played as usual.

I had the great pleasure to attend an intimate concert with Tim Finn a few years ago. Just him strumming on his acoustic backed by a lead guitarist. He just played hit after hit after hit was a great time.

Thanks, EarlofMar. It was, I think, the band's last single. FYI I saw Split Enz in London 1980 (I Got You was all over the radio at the time) but didn't see Crowded House. Funny ...

Little Blue Engine - What fun you had! Glad it didn`t rain . . .

Newman - Another smooth delivery with the river flowing into the sea of sound . . .

Well, I opened the September Bar on the 1st in my time zone. It's now late afternoon on the last day of September in my time zone. I declare this (unusually quiet) Bar closed.

There`s been a lot o` stuff going on what with the Grieg recital, and now the Chopin and Joplin ones . . .and some (not me) have to work for a living!

Newman,
Another great cover! I have never heard this song before but I really like it. Great playing on the piano and I always like how you are adding that Newman/Lennon touch to the vocals.

Yes, this month has been a slow month here in the bar. I think the huge Grieg recital sucked the energy out of many of our PW users.

For those of you new here, the piano bar is a place where you can share what you have been working on lately. You are among friends here so don't be shy.