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Silent All These Years, Precious Things, Pretty Good Year, A Sorta Fairytale, Cooling, iieee, Winter.

(I wasn’t planning on adding Winter at the end but it just sort of happened, so it’s a bonus: a bit rough, but there.)

The featured video for this month is Juarez from To Venus and Back melded with You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette:

I love Juarez because of what Tori does with it when she plays it live. The album version is a bit cold and passionless but she really brings it to life both with band (as either herself or Clyde) and solo. Her mesmerizing key change at the end of her solo piano Juarez was the main inspiration for me to play it that way. Check it out if you love Juarez as much as I do! Beware though, the video received some random hate and a 1-star rating. It’s not for the feint of heart or anyone who has trouble understanding Tori or Juarez itself.

Here are some links to covers of the full songs in the tutorial here. A few of them are a bit older and not as polished but I think they’ll help from an information standpoint. UPDATE: I freshened up most of the really old ones so they are more fun.

Silent All These Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbs26L9Vhs

Precious Things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbMFZDY5rAs

Pretty Good Year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6INFe60c0&fmt=18 (I play the vocals and piano part simultaneously and have some fun with it.)

Pretty Good Year (Instrumental): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mekx3M7js4 (This is performed by a friend named Justin who is a new pianist and he plays the instrumental version as written by Tori. He’s very graceful and accurate.)

A Sorta Fairytale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7ATphQlPo

Cooling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRCYv5_UbI

iieee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE56FgHTai4

Winter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7ytOtt99I

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Our five year old is very interested in music and we have been counseled to get him lessons, we are thinking to get him electronic keyboard lessons, is there any reason that studying the traditional piano would be better?

Whether taught on a piano or keyboard, the beginning lessons will be pretty identical. I really don’t think it will matter which one he does.

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I’m not interested in playing music at all, but my school forced me to learn it, so, I have to find a song I want to play with a keyboard. But are piano sheets playable with an electronic keyboard?

It’s the same thing. The only difference might be in the pedals, depending on what keyboard you play, or the range (usually keyboards are smaller.)

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Unless a person is a musical genius no instrument is easy to learn. But as SG had said, some instruments beckon stronger than others.

Because I understand music theory I can figure out the piano keyboard, but that doesn’t mean I can play it proficiently. Simple melodies and chords are more my style with the keyboard.

I learned to play the guitar and 5-string banjo, however, because I was more motivated to learn them.

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