Put on a Happy Face

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PIano / vocal demonstration for Hey Jude

Tenderly-- piano/vocal by Rick in 1923 via time travel.

Listen to the piano background in the silent Buster Keaton movie.

 

Typesetting Dorothy's course using my new used equipment.

by Rick Potvin

Some of you readers of this blog are going  through Dorothy's course. As you know, its all hand written... all 20 volumes that I've helped her create. Well... now I'll be converting her course to digital form for easier updating and delivery. 

Chopin - Piano Concerto in Em

I Write the Songs--Rick does Manilow-- piano/vocal

Vivaldi, Four Seasons

Ein Klein Nachtmusik, Mozart.

Swtiched On Bach was one of the first electronic classical albums.

Korean female piano player does Stones Can't Get no satisfaction?? Wow.

Traditional Chinese music missing 2 notes.

Maybe I'm Amazed an octave lower than McCartney sang it, then in slo-mo.

This is in rough shape right now but I thought I'd post it anyway to keep things moving. You'll notice, if you watch any other piano players on the net, that I combine vocal and piano in a nice mix. Most people playing this on Youtube will either do all piano or sing all kareoke. The guys at the duelling piano bars don't really do this song.



Now here's a version in slow motion. It's interesting and weird and probably useless but it's a toy on the computer program on the Mac I use, iMovie. Once I started watching and listening, I found it fairly absorbing of my attention for whatever reason.

At the end of the above videos, Youtube makes other related suggestions for you. I don't know if we're all getting the same ones-- probably not. But try to listen to a few other versions by others. I'll expand on this lesson in the forum or in in-person lessons at my studio in Phoenix. However, it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the internet must be integral to my lessons-- so I would actually require you to watch me above and follow my discussion before engaging in an actual lesson over this tune-- at whatever level you're at.

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Off to Dublin in the Green

The Happy Farmer... with full orchestra must be heard to play piano version.

BLOW THE MAN DOWN

5 yr old plays Fur elise

Kid plays George Lucas theme

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Batman

VICTOR BORGE Piano comedy videos

Skater's Waltz

My Foolish Heart-- Split screen

"The Planets", another Tomita album-

Claire de Lune

Here's Tomita's version with synth video...


Here's the full piano version-- Even though you're not ready to play this, you're ready to HEAR it and WATCH it being played so that you have a higher understanding of where your own BEGINNER VERSION is going. You can hear and appreciate much more complex music than you can play right now but that's how forward progress is made.

More Tomita... Bermuda Triangle.

Learn your treble clef space notes by sight-on-staff and sound... print out and play.

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1966 tv show opening...




Short piano version not played by me...



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Memory from Cats 

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All the Things You Are (Cole Porter)

Our Love is Here To Stay (Gershwin)

Autumn Leaves

Strangers in the Night (Sinatra)

Wind Beneath My Wings

Nadia's Theme

Imagine (Beatles)

Our Day Will Com

Pianoman (Billy Joel)

Meditation (Latin)

The Summer Wind (Sinatra)

Fly Me to the Moon 

Satin Doll

Malaguena

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Moondance 

Route 66

Fire and Rain

Days of Wine and Roses

New York, NY

Kansas City

Lawrence Welk Theme

It Don't Mean a Thing (Ellington)

Five Foot Two

The Lady is a Tramp

Chinese Songs

Mozar in G minor

The Wonders of You (Elvis)

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