Songs all keyboardists should know how to play?

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If you had to suggest the rock / pop songs that every keyboardist who plays in a band should know, what would they be?
Could be because they are popular songs, or because they have famous keyboard parts or whatever... Just curious what the basics are.

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- Gunther
 
Bach's Toccata in D minor

Nothing sounds as impressive as this played live on a fat analogue string patch :D

Not exactly rock , but try sauntering up to a synth in a music shop and drop this on the onlookers, nothing stops shopping activity faster :p
 
Anything Rick Wakeman :D
 

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Touch and Go-Emerson, Lake, and Powell
Fire On High-Electric Light Orchestra
Lazy-Deep Purple
Green Eyed Lady-Sugarloaf

The first 2 are great for the synth-heads, the second 2 for the Tonewheel-Freaks.
 
Yo Gunther: [isn't that a beer?]

I don't know if FAKE BOOKS are still around. I have a few of them and they contain standards and songs not so standard. The real old ones give the name of the Musical play the song comes from and they contain WORDS.

I'm sure there must also be a rock fake book or books out there too.

I remember I got one for a musician friend of mine once and brought it to him while he was doing a gig. And, wouldn't you know, a real wise guy walked by the piano and said, "Hey, kid, can you play "All the Things You are"? He was an excellent reader and asked me if that song was in the fake book--it was. Last words from the wise guy were, "Oh, he can read." The song is a bit tough to play for most musicians, even today.

One fake book would give you a couple of hundred songs to mull over. Just the lead note and basic chord changes for most of the books.

Saves a bunch of $$ buying sheet music.

Green Hornet :D

And, if you are a member of ASCAP, you may still be getting song-cards by the bunch.
 
Yo Hix of Mix:

Both of those tunes are in fake books, for sure.

Deep Purple too! :D

Green Hornet
 
:D

And, don't forget the all time, all famous, all perfect and all encompassing:

"I've got tears in my ears, from lying on my back, in my bed while I cry over you."

Green Hornet :rolleyes:
 
OK here are some oldies from the pop side:

Bloody Well Right - SuperTramp
Suite Clouds and Rain - David Gates
Your Song or Rocket Man - Elton John (pretty much anything Elton)
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel



Soo much!
 
Lot's of Doors.

Roadhouse blues
light my fire
The Crystal ship

Pink Floyd

Deep Purple- "highway to hell" or at least I think that's the name of the song.


Chopin's "polonaise" :eek: hahaha JK.
 
'The Heat is On' from the movie 'Beverly Hills Cop', it has wicked brass riffs and solo in it.......................Barb
 
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