The following are some great videos which feature some top music to play on the piano at weddings. The key is to choose repertoire which is both appropriate for the celebration whilst being appealing to a wide ranging audience. The first piece here is the perfect choice for any ceremony and the playlist below features around 20 great songs to choose from. Don’t forget to leave a comment and a rating or like one of the videos. Debussy...

We stumbled across this wonderful video earlier of 16 year old pianist Martin Bartlett. He is playing Sonata in F Major by the Italian composer, Scarlatti. We were struck by his lyrical, mature playing and were totally shocked to read that he is only 16 years old. This sort of composition is really difficult to play well without be obviously challenging. It is much more difficult to bring your own personality in this sort of work so when one...

We are heading back to the jazz standards this week at Piano Pieces. On the Sunny Side of the Street just happens to be one of our favourite songs over here and so the chance to showcase it could not be missed. Composed by Jimmy McHugh in 1930 the tune has been played and recorded but pretty much every notable jazz musician that we can think of. The reason for this, we suspect, is that the chords for this song are so much fun to solo over. Of...

Understanding rhythm is as important as knowing scales, harmony and everything else associated with becoming a competent musician. Rhythm is often overlooked for students of classical music and it is not uncommon to hear music college students clapping along to a metronome to improve an obvious weakness in their playing. There is a simple reason that drummers and percussionists have a better grasp of rhythm and timing than most...

Bill Withers wrote some of the best-loved songs of the past fifty years. He was a prolific writer who featured the piano a lot in his works. Some of his most famous songs include Lean on Me, Just the Two of Us, Lovely Day and the song that we are talking about today, Ain’t No Sunshine. Below you will find both the Sheet Music for piano and a Chords chart so everyone should be pretty much covered. However, before we get in to actually...

The song Lady Bird by Tadd Dameron was made a cornerstone piece of the bebop movement. It was made famous by the great Charlie Parker and was said to feature in most of his sets at the height of this period. Bebop was a genre of great technical virtuosity and imaginative soloing within the confines of a fairly rigid set of rules. Lady Bird was actually a 1940′s composition and as with so many songs of the era, was originally quite a sweet...

A great pianist and friend of ours commented recently that if you don’t understand Bach then you don’t understand music. I actually found this comment to be a bit incorrect, I’m not sure whether John Lennon understood the intricacies of Bach but he was still an amazingly talented musician who wrote some of the world’s best loved songs. However, it is most certainly true that Bach cemented the foundations of modern...