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sometimes i get these stuck in my head, and it's just about impossible to get rid of them. they're not "real songs" in that they tend to have no existence outside of piano lesson books like john thompson's guide to the piano. i think that's what it was called. the very first song in the first first john thompson book used your right hand only, and the words were "here we go, up a row / to a birthday par - ty" and the second song was the same song except in a minor key, and played downwards, with the left hand: "dolly dear / sandman's near / you will soon be sleep - ing"

i also learned some real songs, like "rocky top"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

songs you learned on the piano

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it was Chariots of Fire, c'mon admit it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned a Sinead O'Connor song. But I can't remember the name.
I learned 'Don't Let Sun Go Down on Me' by Elton John. That song should have been renamed 'Please Let Your Son Go Down on Me.' That would have been appropriate.

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i know "The Bridge is Over"

― roger adultery, Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

tracer thanks. i now have "here we go / up a row / to a birthday party" stuck in my head.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha I am evil.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 June 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I can play -- in a truly shrill one-finger stylee -- both "She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult and "Eighties" by Killing Joke.

I can also do a wicked rendition of the theme to John Carpenter's "Halloween".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Chopsticks, Heart and Soul and (wtf) The Saber Dance. In that order. I have forgotten the latter two, though.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"HOT CROSS BUNS"

(then Beethoven's Fifth [and I actually went beyond the opening riffs])

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember coming across tapes that I'd recorded when I was six of songs that I had "written." They were basically my hitting a bunch of random keys (with a few occasional ventures into "Hot Cross Buns.")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Some song in the key of A that I don't know the name of.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 26 June 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've made earnest (but hopeless) four-fingered approximations of the fast parts of that perennial piano classic, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" - a tune you've surely heard many times if you spent major portions of your childhood or even adulthood (I admit it!) watching cartoons from the 1940s-50s. Actually I can play it better (which is not to say "well") on guitar.

And that's about all. Unless you want to count the Cecil Taylor imitation I performed at a friend's house some 10+ years ago. Sounded great after a coupla bong hits!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My repetoire is limited to the B52s Planet Claire and OMDs Enola Gay and Electricity.....

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 26 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I've learned Coldplay - "Trouble" and R.E.M. - "Nightswimming". I really want to learn Talk Talk - "After the Flood" and Digital Underground - "Doowutchyalike!"

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned 'Don't Let Sun Go Down on Me' by Elton John. That song should have been renamed 'Please Let Your Son Go Down on Me.' That would have been appropriate.

Because he's gay, right? Briliant.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 26 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

agggggh - nostalgia attack, tracer hand! i had that john thompson piano book, too. i remember all those lyrics.

cmon boys/join the fun/baseball days/have begun

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"i just called to say i love you", "orinoco flow" and "release my heart" by blackheart procession

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

learned lately--

Care of Cell 44, Zombies
Look At What I Almost Missed, The Parliaments
Honkin' Down the Highway, Beach Boys
Back of a Car, Big Star

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The four note beginning of The Fall 'English Scheme', and the first half of 'Chopsticks'. Although when I was younger I received honours in playing, now I can't even find middle C.

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Birthday party and dolly dear, damn them, I did about 4 years of piano and they are all I can remember, but the sandman one was strangely haunting.
The lyrics to the whole book are still in my head though. The worst being:

When Uncle Benny
Gives me a penny
I go tripping gaily
to the little candy store.

even then I knew Uncle Benny was dodgy.

My little sister stuck with the lessons, did about 10 grades, can now play 3 instruments and has two degrees and is a doctor. I am unemployed and near unemployable, have a drink problem (I can't afford any) and have no idea what I am doing with my life other than screwing it up.
Not sure what that says about Thompson fucking piano books.

― Proger, Saturday, 23 July 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

Phew... that came from a dark place...
Sorry

― Proger, Saturday, 23 July 2011 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

I've only really just banged around on pianos, but I did teach myself eno's "by this river" which is pretty easy

― am I diversified? (blank), Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

I really want to learn the theme song to Taxi

― am I diversified? (blank), Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:52 (fourteen years ago)

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