Easy background music?

[ranniks]

To entertain old people during their drinks? Something I can just sightread of the sheet?

[hfmadopter]

You pick the music but the easiest way is to use something like this, it's a lead sheet ( I don't mean this particular song but the lead sheet concept is the easy way) : https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0108936&  assuming the link works correctly that is ! You play the melody and fill in with the bass and accent or embellish at will according to the notated chords. Totally, so unclassical !!!!!!!!!!!

Here is that song live as we lived it, though your crowd may go futher back :

You can get lead sheets to just about any era music. It's what keyboardists use in nightclubs, well assuming it's not a preloaded song in the keyboard that is.

Another example of a lead sheet, always a hit piece too ( I have not downloaded this so you are on your own if the download is bugged or not, the link s not though !!!) : https://www.wikifonia.org/node/4643

[kujiraya]

Satie and Richard Clayderman!

[hfmadopter]

Satie and Richard Clayderman!

Ya that works too but Ranniks not going to learn Satie overnight and he's probably using a Nursing home or rest home piano, so he won't be doing stringed background on a keyboard..

Incidentally, people knock Clayderman but his listeners love him, he has a following.

[kujiraya]

Oh, I thought it was a cocktail party occassion.

If it's a retirement/nursing home, I would suggest finding out what kind of age bracket most of the residents are in, and then playing the tunes which were pop songs when the residents were in their late teens and early adulthood.

[ranniks]

Thanks David! I'll look into those links and filling the bass should be do able.

Also, I have a C.Bechstein grand to work with 0.o apparently. She said something about moving the piano near the bar or something (lol?).

Looking at the Danny and the Juniors sheet, definitely not too hard, thanks so much!

Kujiraya, they are around 80-100 I think.

[ranniks]

Though: Could you explain the above chords David? I'm reading numbers, are those for the fingers? If so, where do my fingers go to respectively?

[hfmadopter]

Though: Could you explain the above chords David? I'm reading numbers, are those for the fingers? If so, where do my fingers go to respectively?

You're looking at the guitar symbols and indeed they are showing the fingers to use on the strings ( this actually is a guitar score). If you  look directly over each measure, you should see the chord for that measure, G- Em- C etc.. It's up to you as to how you want to play the chords ( block, arppegiated, run of 16th notes etc). Have fun but that is not the best piece for me to have given as an example.

Also there are fake books you can buy, say maybe Best of Beatles fake book or All Classics fake book and so on. These offer many pieces written into a book as I showed as an example in that one or two pieces.
 Here is another example:     https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Fake-Book-Books/dp/0881887579#_

I don't care for jazz but you do, here is a swing era fake book with 5 star rating,. I have no clue as to what is inside !! :   https://www.amazon.com/The-Swing-Era-1936-1947-Bible/dp/0793556589/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

This whole fake thing can be used by any instrument, often used by guitarists and keyboardist in live settings though. When thinking keyboard, most have a transpose function, so something like that beatles book written in all C major can be transposed with the touch of a button. Synths get even more dynamic and a guy can be a one man band ( or girl for that matter) just playing out of a fake book in one key.. The Bechstein won't offer you that feature though !