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Solo piano or keys songs

thecolourboxthecolourbox Frets: 9128
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Hi all, in tandem with my potential interest in singing lessons, I'm looking for potential songs that either have accompaniment for piano or are/could be arranged for piano, so that I might learn to sing along to myself.

I understand Google is full of the samey stuff, but I want something different! Hence my asking here that guitar minded people might have better taste. I don't want any jazz, I don't want any more of that. Also no musicals, no Elton/Joel, and certainly not much quaver-crotchet-quaver-tied-over-bar-line syncopation. I'd like stuff at the rockier indier end of things if poss.

Three possibles so far:
Glass - from Julian Casablancas' solo album, bit more synthy
I'm Lonely - White Stripes, straight country piano
I Stopped to Fill my Car up - stereophonics  whom I normally detest but have always bafflingly liked that song

Thanks all
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Beatles songs translate really well to piano arrangements. 20 years ago, when I could actually play piano it was great fun bashing out Lady Madonna and Let it be. Lovely quieter songs as well like Yesterday (I can still play most of that!). 
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  • thecolourboxthecolourbox Frets: 9128
    Thanks, did overkill on the Beatles when i was younger I'm afraid, was after something a little "cooler", to pretend at being "cool" :) keep em coming!
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  • IanSavageIanSavage Frets: 1319

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPtrqvHGEg

     

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    Jesse Malin did a pretty cool piano cover of 'I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You' (another Tom Waits number) which isn't overly taxing, nice easy(ish) three-chorder....

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  • thecolourboxthecolourbox Frets: 9128
    As the saying goes, "Tom Waits for no man"... I shall give them both a good listen. The difficulty of any piano playing doesn't matter too much, the difficulty of the tune might ;)

    In my mind, I imagine the aim to work towards (that will of course get skewed and diverted) to be kind of...Julian Casablancas singing Jeff Buckley Songs, on piano/keys rather than guitar, and without the Nina Simone jazz influence, maybe replace her with Jack White influence.

    Nb, nothing wrong with Nina Simone or jazz, i love them both but don't want to play them any more...
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