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This topic has 17 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 15 years ago by jennifer-byrne.

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February 27, 2009 at 6:08 pm #109807

David Ice
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Ok, here’s a new thread.

February 27, 2009 at 7:11 pm #109808

jennifer-buehler
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I had been playing for barely a year, self taught, and played a few christmas tunes for the nursing home christmas party.

February 27, 2009 at 7:16 pm #109809

kay-lister
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Hey David,

Actually, this happened to me just last weekend.

February 27, 2009 at 7:47 pm #109810

sherry-lenox
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February 27, 2009 at 11:35 pm #109811

kreig-kitts
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Maybe you could play songs that are harder to sing, like “Take On Me” with that falsetto screech in the chorus.

Follow it up by “Blinded by the Light,” where you know they’ll botch the lyrics nobody can ever make out. “Wrapped up like a dude another rotor on the right…”

Then work in a song completely inappropriate for the singer, so that a burly 300-pound fellow has to belt out “I Feel Pretty,” assuming you’re not in a venue where that would be a normal thing, in which case you pull our your heavy metal fakebook.

Finally, you can play lots of songs that are duets, and hope they don’t have a buddy ready to join in.

February 28, 2009 at 1:36 am #109812

David Ice
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Kreig,

I LOVE IT!

February 28, 2009 at 7:17 am #109813

David Ice
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Also, a friend suggested that for women singers, play “Macho Man” by the Village People!

March 4, 2009 at 10:11 pm #109814

paul-wren
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This is interesting. I have had this happen many times in the past because I played songs that people knew. My instinct was to slow down and follow them, that is the accompanist in me I guess.

A weird one that happened was I was playing before a wedding. I have an arrangement that I did of Chi il bel sogno di Doretta from Pucinni’s La Rondine. Not many people know this beautiful aria, but from behind me, as I was playing, this woman began to sing, what a lovely voice she had! I continued to play and she sang never missing a beat!

March 5, 2009 at 12:25 am #109815

alexander-rider
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I love that aria, Paul! Whose arrangement is it?!

March 5, 2009 at 2:38 am #109816

barbara-brundage
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Just be glad you play the pedal harp, David. What I really, really hate is when I’m playing, say, “Moonlight in Vermont” or something and someone starts singing behind me and I know it’s Vic Damone or Rod Stewart or Tony Bennett or someone like that, because I know what’s coming–everything is just absolutely swell till the bridge and then I hear, ‘Hey! It should modulate to [key of their choice] there!”

March 5, 2009 at 5:00 pm #109817

David Ice
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Well, Barbara, for me it would be a train wreck either way!

March 5, 2009 at 5:21 pm #109818

paul-wren
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Hi Alexander, it is one that I did myself.

March 5, 2009 at 5:26 pm #109819

paul-wren
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If you can find the music, it is not a hard piece at all to play on the harp. Typical Puccini writing. I just beef it up with bigger chords and arpeggios in the B section.

April 14, 2009 at 7:06 pm #109820

Mel Sandberg
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Hi David – while

April 14, 2009 at 10:28 pm #109821

Geri McQuillen
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Thank you Kreig!
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