Nevertheless, the piano adaptation is one that most every intermediate to advanced piano student plays during his or her career.Ĥ. That's because it was originally written for stringed instruments. Pachelbel's "Canon in D major." Simply referred to as "Pachelbel's Canon," it often gets left off of favorite piano songs lists. Today, few would exclude this ragtime song from a top 10 piano songs list.ģ. Classical musicians of the early 20th century would have balked at Joplin's name appearing alongside the likes of Beethoven and Mozart. Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer." Joplin managed to capture audiences during an era when "Negro music" was still controversial. Most every young piano student requests Beethoven's "Fur Elise" early in his or her career.Ģ. Beethoven's "Fur Elise." Take piano lessons a few years and you'll certainly encounter this classical piece.
This list contains many of the "staples" of piano instructors worldwide:ġ. Ask any piano student though, and he'll likely name at least five of these 10. The top 10 piano songs of all time may be more a matter of personal preference than anything. When I first re-started piano as a grown-up, I didn't know what to play either, so I looked up the most "popular piano 'songs' of all time" and found this: In another five years, if I keep up the hard work, I hope to have a very big smile as I play. Do the grunt work and the fun stuff will come easily. Just keep plugging away, hour after hour, week after week, year after year. Don't worry about what level you are at or will reach. Working on How Long Blues (Ray Charles), Summertime, Desparado (Eagles), etc. To name a few, I play Lady Madonna (Beatles), a very cool jazzy version of Mary Had a Little Lamb (from my teacher), Autumn Leaves, and Peter Gunn.
My taste in music is boogie, blues, jazz, and rock. The difference (improvement) in my playing in just over three months makes me smile. Chords and their inversions, which used to be the stuff of misery are now not a problem. All summer has been spent learning scales, inversions, arpeggios, broken arpeggios in twelve major keys, separating the hands, and blues scales.
Work hard on technique and the songs and speed will just come. I'm retired and been playing for five years.Īlthough it took me a long time to learn this, IMHO it is not about what songs I can play but improving my technique.
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