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  • What one single piano piece should I learn? I just inherited an old upright. Once upon a time I was a reasonably proficient player (RCM grade 8) but I haven't touched a piano since then. I'd like to learn some music and I figure that if I focus on just one piece maybe I can learn something cool and impress my firends. What one single piano piece should I learn? I hate Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven. I like Shostakovich and Prokofiev symphonies and movie music, so recommendations for playable piano transcriptions of orchestral music are welcome. Bonus points if the score is available online.

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    Perhaps http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Gymnop%C3%A9dies_%28Satie,_Erik%29? It has a couple of 4-note chords in the left hand that cover the interval of a 9th, which is bit of a stretch (sorry), but otherwise it's a very easy and nice-sounding piece.

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Everbody likes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaJKbtGKek (SLYT) by Vince Guaraldi.

falsedmitri

I dont know anything about piano music, but I like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGKIsv6quBc from The Piano soundtrack.

leigh1

Theme song from Cheers?

FrotzOzmoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGov3KG1JCE. Why? It will sound awesome on an old upright. It's creepy and compelling. It has enough dissonance to mask clams in performance.

plinth

Your favorite song. And I don't (necessarily) mean some recent hit you've heard a lot on the radio, but I mean that one song that simply makes your heart sing, that evokes strong (negative or positive) emotions, that takes you to another place. Because having that kind of emotion in you when you're playing a piece of music is powerful!

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emeiji

Scriabin's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAVVpwZS0s0 is strange and beautiful, almost psychedelic (no, really). http://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.4,_Op.30_(Scriabin,_Aleksandr). Seconding Bolcom, particularly his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQVoY3f-Ctc. Some play it with swing, some without, but it's definitely worth hearing both approaches.

Blazecock Pileon

I love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQH7ySOGMI - most people are familiar with it from the 1:55 point on in this video. An exquisitely understated piece of music that you can explore emotionally for a very long time, but is pretty easily acheivable, technique-wise. Sheet music http://www.free-scores.com/PDF_EN/joplin-scott-solace.pdf, apparently public domain.

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