i want you, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, give it to me baby!

[stevie]

which piece of music if played well, will get this response from a female?

[sharon_f]

Chopsticks......

                        If you look like Brad Pitt.

[JCarey]

Compose your own piece and tell them you wrote it for them. It works every time. 

[BoliverAllmon]

Compose your own piece and tell them you wrote it for them. It works every time. 

unless the piece really sucks

[Etude]

Compose your own piece and tell them you wrote it for them. It works every time.

unless the piece really sucks

No, because then they'll do anything to make you stop.   

[BoliverAllmon]

unless the piece really sucks


No, because then they'll do anything to make you stop.   

good point.

[stevie]

im thinking fantasie impromptu is the ultimate PIMP piece.

show her your finger skills with the dazzling fast section, then show her your sensetive side and make her eyes lips lips moist, and then ram it home with the return of the fast section, but show her you are a sensetive lover with the calm ending, mildly.

[hodi]

the Fantasie Impromptu

listen to my story (not show offing or something but it's real)
i'm playing fantasie impromptu.
and some girl heard me played it
she got so much excited from that, i got some french kisses from her later.... she just got so excited.

same about mendelssohn fantasy in f# minor first movement.
some girl became my girlfriend after hearing me playing it. (well it wasn't the main reason but it CERTINLY helped a lot)

jeez what show off pieces can do.

[ted]

I think all this musical seduction business is nonsense perpetrated by Hollywood films and outdated nineteeth century ideas of romantic love. Music's music and a bit of how's your father is a bit of how's your father. Mind you, I've never desired to seduce anybody with music, which is little wonder when I think of who I have played for. Actually, now that I think seriously about it, the thought that some women I have played for were sitting there getting quietly excited now gives me grievous pause for concern.

[steve jones]

If I were trying to charm a young lady via means of music, then I probably would use the piano at all. I may be way off, but I never thought of piano being the most masculine of instruments. Id probably opt for a guitar!

But if thats not an option, then I always find tunes that they recognise. None muso's dont tend to appreciate the finer details of musical performances, so why bother? Play something she knows, and that'll be a good start.

Unless ofcourse she is a lover of classical music. Then you have you're work cut out. Play something romantic yet impressive!

[lisztisforkids]

Chopin Etude op. 25 no 12 works very well...

[thierry13]

If I were trying to charm a young lady via means of music, then I probably would use the piano at all. I may be way off, but I never thought of piano being the most masculine of instruments. Id probably opt for a guitar!

But if thats not an option, then I always find tunes that they recognise. None muso's dont tend to appreciate the finer details of musical performances, so why bother? Play something she knows, and that'll be a good start.

Unless ofcourse she is a lover of classical music. Then you have you're work cut out. Play something romantic yet impressive!

Any girl, same non-classic lovers, fall in love with any pianist they hear. Believe me 

[apion]

liszt liebestraum 

[lisztisforkids]

Play for a non-musician, if you play for a female pianist she will just shrug you off unless you are really good. Play for dancers, ballerinas in particular. If you play well enough you might be able to play live for their class. And that my friends, is when it gets fun. 

[steve jones]

Any girl, same non-classic lovers, fall in love with any pianist they hear. Believe me 

Noted 

(runs off to brush up on piano skills)

[lisztisforkids]

Stevie, might i ask why you asked this question.   

[Tash]

we've had this conversation like twice before...
and i'm now adding prokofiev's 3rd sonata to it, as my personal preference

[chopiabin]

I think possibly the 1st or 4th ballades

[arensky]

                                               Alborada del Gracioso

                                                             
                                                             

[zheer]

I almost always get approached by women when playing the piano. A few months ago i was on holiday and i saw a piano in the hotel, i asked permission to play on it they said yes. I managed to get i small audiance ,free drinks a fan club of resepcionists waiters and cooks , plus a preety female admierer, what more can i ask for.

[perfect_pitch]

Bugger that.... Here are some real tear-jerkers...

Raindrop Prelude
Nocturne No 2 Op 9 in E flat Major
Liszt Un Sospiro
Faure (I think it is faure) Song without words in A flat Major. You know (soh fah me, me rah doh, rah me fah.)

[sergei r]

Yes, I second Fauré's "Romance Without Words".

[rohansahai]

Scriabin: Poeme op. 32 no. ....1 i think. (in F#)
Chopin etude op. 10-3.

[perfect_pitch]

Romance without words... I was so close.... Oh well. Lovely piece. I remember a Uni friend of mine (female uni friend) played it and she really let it sing. It was the first time I heard it, and it really was a great performance. She would have the whole theatre in tears if she had played it in front of more people.

[BoliverAllmon]

satie's first gymnopedie brought tears to some ladies eyes when I played it.

boliver

[musicsdarkangel]

Liszt - HR no 2

Liszt - Valee De Obermann

Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit

Rachmaninoff - Prelude op 23 no 7

Mozart - K 466 concerto, it worked for me to an extent.

I think that if I win the concerto competition with Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody On A Theme by Pagannini, I might just get some action 

just some that I think would work

hmmm i might use this thread to my advantage 

[perfect_pitch]

I wouldn't really say HR 2... Possibly.... but I don't quite see it. Technically it is pretty impressive. but if we're talking about romantic melodies... I don't quite see it.

But you are right about Rachmaninoffs 18th Variation on Paganini theme. beautiful.
Mozart K 466 is brilliant as well.

God luck on getting some action. You sound like you need it 

[stevie]

we've had this conversation like twice before...
and i'm now adding prokofiev's 3rd sonata to it, as my personal preference

working on it 

Stevie, might i ask why you asked this question.

 

[stevie]

If I were trying to charm a young lady via means of music, then I probably would use the piano at all. I may be way off, but I never thought of piano being the most masculine of instruments. Id probably opt for a guitar!

i think the piano is a more masculine instrument than the guitar, depends on what music youre playing.

[Jacey1973]

Any girl, same non-classic lovers, fall in love with any pianist they hear. Believe me 

Not if i'm a better pianist than him!

                                               Alborada del Gracioso

                                                             
                                                             

Nah, that's not a romantic piece. It's has more of a jokey style, Ravel just having a bit of fun - well that's what i have in mind when i perform it. "Virtuosity for its own sake" and all that.

I would fall in love with a guy playing Beethoven's Hammerklavier (i already did), because it's masculine, sensitive and proves how dedicated a person has to be to the piano to be able to master it and shows great skill, strength and stamina! 

Appassionata would also be a good choice.

[nanabush]

Suggestion Diabolique will take her breath away, Chopin prelude in F minor will literally kill her.

[bunnicula]

Schumann Romance in F sharp. I seduce myself with that piece.

[steve jones]

i think the piano is a more masculine instrument than the guitar, depends on what music youre playing.

Hey, I love piano as much as the next man...

But a Les Paul through a Plexi is pure testosterone!  Maybe not the best way to impress the next ex, but manly in the extreme.

I respects to piano, I think Beethovens music is pretty male on the most part.

[stevie]

what is more manly, using electronic equipment to 'amplify' a wimpy little guitar...or using your RAW FISTS and smashing through some ornstein at a deafening volume?

thats right

[thierry13]

Not if i'm a better pianist than him!


Nah, that's not a romantic piece. It's has more of a jokey style, Ravel just having a bit of fun - well that's what i have in mind when i perform it. "Virtuosity for its own sake" and all that.

I would fall in love with a guy playing Beethoven's Hammerklavier (i already did), because it's masculine, sensitive and proves how dedicated a person has to be to the piano to be able to master it and shows great skill, strength and stamina! 

Appassionata would also be a good choice.

I don't think many girls would love those beethoven sonatas... anyway.

[steve jones]

what is more manly, using electronic equipment to 'amplify' a wimpy little guitar...or using your RAW FISTS and smashing through some ornstein at a deafening volume?

thats right

You have a point my good man. Come to think of it, ever notice how many axe men wear make up? 

[dmk]

I don't think many girls would love those beethoven sonatas... anyway.

you'd want to pick your audience wouldn't you....

if you play for someone who actually knows what there doing a good Beethoven Sonata might work wonders.

BTW....a well played Gluck arr Sgambatti 'Melodie' would do the trick for me!!

cheers

dmk

[arensky]

Nah, that's not a romantic piece. It's has more of a jokey style, Ravel just having a bit of fun - well that's what i have in mind when i perform it. "Virtuosity for its own sake" and all that.

You miss the point. The Alborada is when your best friend dresses up as you, and serenades your sweetheart so that you may spend the evening with her under the nose of her father, who thinks you are safely outside, singing your heart out. That's the joke. The piece is actually tragic, the humour ironic;  the Jester is the young man's best friend, but he is in love with the girl too, but he is merely a fool; it's the Pagliacci story again. The joke gone bitter...

                                                                    

 I find that women love this sort of thing, and can feel what I'm feeling when I play it, they love it!
                                                                    

[arensky]

BTW....a well played Gluck arr Sgambatti 'Melodie' would do the trick for me!!


dmk

Has the same appeal as Alborada, the tragic guy (Orpheus) looking for his lost or unavailable lady (Eurydice); people might not know exactly what the program of a piece is (my Alborada program is my own), but they know what you're feeling, if you can communicate in sound without speaking. And THAT is what gets the ladies! 

[dmk]

Has the same appeal as Alborada, the tragic guy looking for his lost or unavailable lady; people might not know exactly what the program of a piece is (my Alborada program is my own), but they know what you're feeling, if you can communicate in sound without speaking. And THAT is what gets the ladies!

hahaha.....

trying to play a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody to woo a female would be about as successful as when guys try and beat up another bloke to show that there stronger???

dmk

[mwarner1]

which piece of music if played well, will get this response from a female?

"Solace" by Scott Joplin. Guaranteed.

[gruffalo]

  you cant play beethoven, mozart or Bach to a girl, they would just fall asleep. thats if they are non-musical.

when i finish learning Images - Reflet dans l'eau, i will give you some feed back on their reactions.
liebestraum could be good. some rachmaninov aswell, but not too harsh.

[prodigy1220]

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r=stevie link=topic=12910.msg138330#msg138330 date=1128377347]
which piece of music if played well, will get this response from a female?

play a modern song like ordinary people by john legend

[brahmsian]

The Andante Spianato that preceeds the Grand Polonaise Brilliante
Second movement from Chopin's PC 1
Brahms -Intermezzo Op.118 No.2
Liszt- Petrarch Sonatas

Then throw in some Schoenberg for good measure

[principe7613]

slightly different topic, but sort of in the same direction...:

has anyone tried to compose a piece about sex? Pop music makes songs about sex every other minute (just check MTV's r&b clips), but we classical guys seem to be stucked with 19th century expressions of 'courtesian' love :-)

so i'm trying to write some 'hot' piece, but that's turning to be really difficult -> not easy to express a woman's moaning on our beloved keyboard lol;

anyone tips?

ps: i'm not some kind of obsessed freak, i'm only trying to write 'contemporary' music )

[arensky]

slightly different topic, but sort of in the same direction...:

has anyone tried to compose a piece about sex? Pop music makes songs about sex every other minute (just check MTV's r&b clips), but we classical guys seem to be stucked with 19th century expressions of 'courtesian' love :-)

so i'm trying to write some 'hot' piece, but that's turning to be really difficult -> not easy to express a woman's moaning on our beloved keyboard lol;

anyone tips?

ps: i'm not some kind of obsessed freak, i'm only trying to write 'contemporary' music )

I refer you to Middle Period Scriabin, roughly op.30 to op.59#1, particularly Sonatas #4 op.30 and #5 op.53(?), and his Poem of Ecstasy for Orchestra...

[arensky]

"Solace" by Scott Joplin. Guaranteed.

Yes, I have no doubt...

[arensky]

hahaha.....

trying to play a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody to woo a female would be about as successful as when guys try and beat up another bloke to show that there stronger???

dmk

Depends on if you play it that way; if you play it like a soccer hooligan than you will come across that way; some women like that kind of guy...

This may have started as a joke thread, but I think it's a very interesting study in interpretive intent. I think there is very little music that could not be used for Stevie's purpose, it all depends on how you play it.

The only real turn-off music that I can think of is Milton Babbitt. Dreadful stuff...

[perfect_pitch]

Mmmm... Never heard of Milton Babbitt, Have you ever heard Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire Arensky???

THAT is some scary music.

[Dazzer]

if you're in singapore, any piano transcriptions of any song by Jay Chou will do the trick.

- grumbles -