I made a jazzy happy birthday tutorial for one of our German students a couple of years ago. He wanted to play it to his wife for her birthday
I never added it to the PianoGroove library, I just sent him a private link on YouTube, but here is the short arrangement - I also added “Happy Birthday” in German for him
It was a quick arrangement I put together, and I can certainly make something more in depth with notation and add it to the PianoGroove website for all to enjoy. Cheers!
I have one more request to edit and upload from the table at the top of this thread: “You Must Believe In Spring” by Michel Legrand, and then I will compile all of the song requests that have been posted.
I will do it by genre and/or style, and then work out which of our teaching team is best to cover the song requests.
Our Brazilian maestro @Jovino is best suited to cover any tunes of Brazilian origin - particularly Jobim’s work where Jovino has such deep insight into Jobim’s music.
Here’s the last tune request from the original voting table above - Michel Legrand’s beautifully haunting ballad “You Must Believe In Spring” taught by Tuomo.
It’s a tricky tune to play… so be warned!
I’ll now consolidate all requests for us to cover over 2019 and allocate them to our teaching team. I can’t wait to pick the ones I do
I think the fairest way is voting tables, so that the most in demand tunes are delivered first.
I haven’t counted the exact number of requests here, but I imagine we will need 2 or 3 voting tables from skimming up the thread. The voting tables can only accommodate a maximum of 20 options.
I’ll figure out the best way to structure it shortly.
Agnes, Thanks for linking this video on Jobim singing the Waters of March. I have now played it 7 times and can’t stop! ha ha ha… Can’t wait until Hayden adds it. Thanks for requesting. – Lonnie
Okay I’ve compiled every request in this thread, we have 52 tune requests to complete in 2019.
I’d say I’m familiar with around 1/2 of them so I have some listening to do myself!
As previously mentioned, the voting tables are limited to 20 options maximum, and so we need multiple voting tables. I’ll categorise and publish them shortly.
The tutorials will be created starting with the highest voted. I think that’s the fairest way. Each of us will be able to place multiple votes (maybe 5 votes each per table), and we also change our vote once the tune has been covered which makes it a dynamic voting system
Just joined website! Hi to all ’THAT’S LIFE’ (Sinatra) different approaches ’DON’T EXPLAIN’ (Dexter Gordon/Chet Baker/G. Shearing/ Kenny Baron) ’MINOR SWING’ (Django on piano…?) ’SWEET GEORGIA BROWN’
‘BEYOND THE SEA’ ’EXODUS’ (Is that in the ‘standards’ songbook? if not, any similar ‘minor’ tune that swing’s with bassline) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBB6VKQuxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67SqWICnt4
I couldn’t pick one ,but happy if any one tune is picked from the list. Thanks Hayden.
