
Other audio tool: Voice RecorderBesides, piano players are 1) never. The Brits latched on to the American Rhythm and Blues sound and saw the potential in the younger market, giving the U.S performers a run for their money and starting a musical invasion in the process.As an alternative viewpoint, and as a recurring theme I seem to see here (may be just me) is that perhaps that style of music (the cocktail music scene style) is what is affecting (or at least semi-affecting) its ability to be fresh.99. The 60’s and 70’s saw a search for even more volume, with amplifiers taller than the players and effects pedals shaping the sound further.
Of music called rhythm and blues performed by black singers and musicians.A Musician Growing Up in the ’70’s & ’80’s. This is not a list of the most talented players in NHL history who played here briefly toward the end of their career, so you will not see Wayne Gretzky, Martin Brodeur, Doug Harvey or Guy Lapointe.By that I mean, the age of those that grew up with those songs as "standards" is in the upper range of life (though I suspect that may be cyclical - why I don't know).In the 1950s rock and roll was a very influential musical genre on the music. Learn to play piano.When the Post-Dispatch set out to pick the Top 50 players in Blues' history, there was one goal: to choose the ones who wore the Blue Note best.
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A piano bar was literally a bar set up around a full size grand piano. It was NOT a poor pianist setting by himself in a corner somewhere playing strictly background music.No, he was the center of attention either right in the middle of the room or it was a classic piano bar in a lounge. Sort of like how EDM and DJ music is nearly taking over Classic rock these days.I don't see cocktail piano ever fully going away, and I would most certainly hope that it enjoys a resurgence (in as far as those old wonderful standards go) but it seems to me to be losing its targeted audience in the extreme, which can be evidenced here in the mention of "new standards" (Elton John, et al) replacing the older standards.Anyway, just a theory as food for thought?What's missing is this discussion is a definition of what cocktail piano really was. Duke, who experimented with two bass players in the 50s and had given up the.Consider that most (or many) "standards" were written during a time gone by (20's, 30's, 40's 50's, even 60's) when those that grew up with it were in thee prime of youth. Ork is short for orchestra and that is what E.G.
Here in Redondo Beach I can name at least 10 former piano bars within 2-3 miles of me that are gone now.Those guys did NOT look bored because they were right in the middle of the action because they WERE the action.Sadly, not any more. That's where business was conducted, that was the focal point of a local neighborhood. Those guys had that gig nailed down for 20-30 years.If anybody likes watching old TV shows from the 50's and 60's like Perry Mason or 77 Sunset Strip, half of the show took place in a piano bar. He was the showman, he was the whole reason for that clubs existence.
Now, if you're the old guy doing classic standards to an audience of 35 year old's you're like grandpa showing the kids how things really were back in the day. They all grew old together. The classic piano bar guys were the same age as the patrons.

If you look like you're playing nothing but backing tracks that can backfire on you but I can put on a show with my arranger because I'm constantly pushing variation and drum fill buttons and pulling the mixer sliders with one hand, playing a solo with the other and in the middle of this I have to hit the chord changes at the right time. I just think it sounds and looks stupid to try to sound like a band on a gig like that.If you're doing a real club date with real people paying attention and you want to wow them with your one man band act then playing a good arranger keyboard can work but you've got to be good at it. A lot of them really don't work as a single unless you're using full band backing tracks and that opens another large, smelly can of whoop ass around here.I tried using my Korg arranger for one background music gig as a single and I used the arranger part for half of the first tune and hated it so much I shut it off mid song and just played AP the rest of the gig. Whatever it is it's a lot.Tee, do you sing? If you do then that will determine your song list, if not then you really have to find tunes that you can pull off by yourself. I think guitarists outnumber pianists like 100/1.
Not everybody knows how to work an arranger keyboard.
