Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Piano Covers

Lately I have become very interested in playing piano covers for certain songs that I like.  For those of you who do not know what a piano cover is, it is pretty much playing a song that is not meant for the piano, on a piano.  The first song that interested me was Linkin Park - What I've Done. (original song, piano cover) I saw that and I wanted to do it also.  Sadly though the person that made this video has not released any sheet music yet, so I tried transcribing it myself.  That is a lot harder to do than I thought.  Luckily I did find another person that made sheet music, although it is a little bit simpler than that video I linked to.  I haven't actually played it in a while so I forgot most of the notes, but I did get almost a quarter of the way through the song with both hands.  Then later I found out that someone made a piano cover video of Dimrain 47 - Twilight Techno.  For those of you that know Dimrain, you know that this is almost impossible.  For those of you that don't, lets just stick with that fact.  (original song, piano cover)  She does make some mistakes in the really fast parts, but I don't hold that against her, I still believe that she is an amazing pianist.  Obviously I want to do this, but yet again, she hasn't released any sheet music yet, so I would have to transcribe.  I wonder if there are any free programs out there that can transcribe music by listening to it.......  Wish me luck, I'll need it if I ever plan on actually playing this.....

-- CK

3 comments:

  1. Wow CK, I look forward to hearing you play that.

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  2. This might be cheating...

    http://thepianocian.com/sheets/other/linkinparkwhativedone.zip

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  3. Haha, that is what I have been using, but thank you.

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