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  • December 21, 2010 at 9:18 pm #148564
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    I’m looking for music to play at birthday parties.

    December 21, 2010 at 10:51 pm #148565
    patricia-jaeger
    Member

    So good that you mentioned the age of the honored birthday person, since the music would need to be tailored to that. If the party is for someone in the U.S.A. that would also make a difference. Find out if they have an ancestry from a foreign country and if so they would probably appreciate some music from there. Otherwise, I would say waltzes are very useful, and operetta music by Gilbert and Sullivan, Lehar, etc. All uplifting.

    December 24, 2010 at 1:04 am #148566
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    Thanks for those suggestions.

    December 24, 2010 at 8:04 pm #148567
    patricia-jaeger
    Member

    Sidney, here and there are a few

    January 23, 2011 at 3:50 am #148568
    erin-wood
    Participant

    I don’t know if your party is over, but one of my favorite collections for this age group is Hits from the Early Years by Eleanor Fell. Everyone loves Five Foot 2 and Let me call you Sweetheart. Very sight readable. She also has a collection of Viennese waltzes if you are still looking for waltzes. You can find it at vanderbiltmusic

    February 5, 2011 at 11:03 pm #148569
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    The gig is over, but I’m happy to collect ideas for future events.

    February 6, 2011 at 1:57 am #148570
    patricia-jaeger
    Member

    Sidney, I’ve never used boogie-woogie but if you wanted to create a left hand bass line in that style, my teacher showed me: form, for example, CEGA on some low strings with fingers 4321. Holding down finger 3,without plucking, pluck only CGAG CGAG with a “swing beat”. This can be moved around to FCDC FCDC and so on. That anchored 3rd finger helps with speed. Use an appropriate melody in the right hand.

    February 6, 2011 at 5:53 pm #148571
    Sidney Dharmavaram
    Participant

    By coincidence (I was look at a Prokofiev video!) I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtkSzow0FY

    Ha!

    February 6, 2011 at 7:14 pm #148572
    jennifer-buehler
    Member

    She looks like she’s having so much fun!

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