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Topic: Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano  (Read 2681 times)

Offline mozarta

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Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano
on: December 20, 2009, 06:37:05 PM
Hi,

I just posted a piano version of Smells Like Teen Spirit:



Give me your impressions'

Offline gyzzzmo

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Re: Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano
Reply #1 on: December 21, 2009, 08:48:51 AM
Nice try, but its just one of those pieces that dont really work on the piano. You could do Tori Amos' version though, it would probably sound alot better.
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Offline nanabush

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Re: Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano
Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 08:56:43 AM
Not bad  ;)

One thing that I found sounded a bit weird though was that Db major chord.  It's originally written a power chord, and in that key there would be an F for the full chord.

I just tried that progression on the piano (I'm used to just the simple 4 power chord progression on guitar)... and found that with the Db major chord, it sounds like that is the chord that the music wants to tend to.  It sounds off for me because it's in F minor, but having a full Db+ at the end sounds like it's changing key.  Try it with just the Db power chord (Db-Ab-Db), it still sounds powerful.  Just my opinion; the other chords are great, but leave some tension with an ambiguous chord here and there  8)
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Re: Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano
Reply #3 on: December 21, 2009, 04:10:18 PM
Nice try, but its just one of those pieces that dont really work on the piano. You could do Tori Amos' version though, it would probably sound alot better.

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Re: Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana piano
Reply #4 on: December 29, 2009, 12:44:14 AM
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