Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Brett Sayles
Steinway pianos Music is music.” He's unequivocal about his preference for Steinway pianos to tell his musical stories.
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Read More »For Joel, a love for the classical music he’s been rediscovering after his long career in rock and pop is strong. He jokes often, albeit a bit ruefully, about other loves won and lost, sometimes referring to his wives (a trio) as Ex-One, Ex-Two and Ex-Three. But clearly, judging by the crooning on She’s Got a Way, the man knows a thing or two about passion. The new album brings together some of Joel’s most evocative and moving love songs, with iconic hits playing alongside lesser-known selections, including “Just the Way You Are,” “Honesty,” “She’s Always a Woman,” “Travelin’ Prayer” (the b-side of the “Piano Man” single), the haunting instrumental “Nocturne” (from 1971’s Cold Spring Harbor) and Joel’s version of “Shameless” (a #1 country smash for Garth Brooks). Like the Steinway & Sons pianos he plays, Joel is a New York original. Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Hicksville, he started studying piano at age four, following in the footsteps of his father, a classically-trained pianist. But he realized as a young teen that his musical career would follow a different path. “I realized early on, I’m not going to be a concert pianist,” he told Alec Baldwin last year during a radio interview. “I don’t have the Rachmaninoff hands, the Horowitz hands. I have strong hands but short fingers,” he said. So Joel put the classical lessons behind him, and he soon found his footing playing popular piano music to receptive crowds. In fact, he dropped out of high school to help his mother pay the bills by playing piano in local bars, and the trajectory of his musical career has since led him through 33 top ten hits, six Grammy awards and sales of more than 150 million records. In 2012, the Piano Man was honored by Steinway & Sons with a painted portrait installed in Steinway Hall in Manhattan. Joel is the first non-classical pianist to be immortalized in the Steinway Hall collection. His portrait hangs alongside those of legendary musicians including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Liszt, Arthur Rubinstein, Ignacy Paderewski and more. “There’s Horowitz over there. I don’t know how crazy he is to have me hanging next to him,” he joked at the installation ceremony, before turning serious: “I’m honored to be hung in Steinway Hall, among these great artists,” he said.
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Read More »Analysis: The primary riff used in “Black Sabbath” is based on (and begins with) the tritone interval, which is significant for several reasons. First of all, Black Sabbath guitarist Tommy Iommi here uses the tritone interval, which occurs in the blues scale, showing Iommi's connections in playing blues music.
Witchcraft & Satan are not subjects often broached in classrooms, unless you are teaching The Crucible in a 10th grade English classroom. However, this song, about pagan rituals, can also be a useful tool in the music classroom. There is a definite connection between rock'n'roll & the occult that should be discussed before any in depth study of the genre. That and you're likely to find at least one kid in any class who knows something about Black Sabbath -- it's an excellent hook as you're studying intervals. This song can also be used as an accompaniment example when teaching species counterpoint or music history, demonstrating how the concept of the devil is represented in music. It's also great to talk to students about the tritone as a representation of the devil in music and then play the example of a tritone that students are likely most familiar with: the opening theme to The Simpsons.
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