rock piano ..?

[mgns]

i have been playing classical for some years and now i have to learn rock, blues, boogey woogey and jazz improvising music... And where do i start? Have been playing some boogey licks but i just stop... Lack of inspiration and idea of how to get going i guess... I don't feel any progress:-/ any help and advices would be great from someone who has experienced the recepy! sorry my english and if this is in a wrong board!
Came in to this rockschool starting in august and have to be prepeared! Thanx!

[cherub_rocker1979]

But there's so many different kinds of rock music though.  Can't your rock school tell you what you're supposed to practice?

Being a big Smashing Pumpkins fan, I used to be able to play a lot of their songs on piano.  But Smashing Pumpkins is not the first band that comes to mind when people talk about rock music, is it?

[aztechlg]

wow, i thought piano don't sound that well in rock? it doesn't fit as much as a keyboard cause keyboard can do much more things in rock 

[dan101]

You should probably wait until August and give the school a chance. I developed my improvising skills by listening to and sightreading as much rock and pop as I could get my hands on. In my opinion, the more you're exposed to it, the more it will absorb into your playing style. Good luck.

[lina rose]

i actually prefer to play jazz and rock than classical music. if you're just starting, you should probably listen to some duke ellington, he's like my favorite jazz pianist and in his orchestra, improvising was very common.
in rock music, there's jerry lewis! sorry, he was the first one that came to my mind...

[etcetra]

I think the best way to learn music like rock/funk/jazz is by listening, and playing by ear copying and transcribing.  Pick a rock cd you like that has piano parts and learn them by ear.. Learning to play "hey jude" or "let it be" by ear is not that hard, but you get a lot out learning them from the recording and playing along with them... you can't really learn things like groove and style by reading notes on the pages. 

Its kind of interesting to see how we are all 'trained' to learn music through books and not by ear.  Because most music outside the classical world are learned by ear or  through imitation.. in some ways using books seems counterintuitive.

[healdie]

Elton John? he uses alot of piano or Alone by Heart if you like big cheesey 80's ballads or bat out of hell by meat loaf these all feature pretty prominant piano parts and should be pretty easy to play

[bumblefingers]

Have you ever considered checking out www.Youtube.com? There is tons of rock, boogie on there to both listen to and learn from.
Many (I feel) are very amateur, others quite professional. Do a search on boogie, rock piano lessons etc.
Check out the following links, you will see where I am coming from:

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I suggest you click on the link of the person that posted the video, they usually post more than one.
I download them, convert the file and burn them to DVD and play them on a computer next to my piano hooked up to a good stereo systym. Its great fun.

Hope that helps.

A favourite of mine is Zilvan Zingg, check this out

[momopi]

But there's so many different kinds of rock music though.  Can't your rock school tell you what you're supposed to practice?

Being a big Smashing Pumpkins fan, I used to be able to play a lot of their songs on piano.  But Smashing Pumpkins is not the first band that comes to mind when people talk about rock music, is it?

do you have some smashing pumpkins song scores? i'm not good at improvising. maybe you could post some...

[alpacinator1]

Learn to play power metal!

*goes and listens to power metal*