Great video. Even though there's lots of talented pianists these days, most don't know how to write and there's an unfortunate oversaturation of non-idiomatic, transcriptive, unoriginal piano covers on this site. Incredibly rare to find a truly good arrangement, and hopefully people like you can change that. So many people could learn so much from this!!
Really, hard to find? Ttry some of this. They are very different so if you don't like one, just move on: :-) Radnich, Pirates Forever: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I4GXUrYtEzY.html Jacob Koller, Lupin the 3rd, four hand jazz arrangement: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a9QofW0mf4w.html This is not an arrangement, but an original piece, in kind of a contemporary classical style, if you will (this is awesome, MHO, and so is this all around pianist, Hayato Sumino including touring classical and major label recordings, there is a LOT of good stuff on his channel): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ED0G_Vm9vMA.html Here is some Hiromi, first, and then a collab between Chick Corea and her, dueling pianos, so to speak. For the first one fasten your safety belt, and I don't know how anybody could watch her play without smiling: She is moving so fast in parts of this one that you can't even really see what she is doing, the 30hz refresh rate isn't keeping up, fingers are just a blur. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Nlb06QYLvA.html This is Corea's Spain, improved with Hiromi. The entire concert is very much worth seeing, but this will give you a taste. When the world lost Chick, it lost something. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BRU1o-sCnqY.html You need to look harder, there is TONS of it.
I incorporate composition into my teaching as young as 4 years old. It's a great way to secretly teach them theory at a young age. I currently have 22 little composers running around the southbay :)
Lovely arrangement! 5:40 I agree so much. Pop songs melody lines are generally not super interesting to be played as they are on an instrument. Definitely need to make them "organic" to the instrument they are played on. ^^ I rarely comment, but just wanted to say I love watching (lurking) your videos a lot. Take care!
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For everyone that wants to check out "advanced" piano arrangers of pop songs have a look at: - Costantino Carrara (almost solely does pop) - Akmigone - Peter Buka
This gave me a lot to think about, and I've been making my own piano arrangements of pop songs for 25 years. I expect to return to this video a lot. Thank you!
what a rich approach - without being too cheesy, it gives a Burt Bacharach after-hours feel, especially the first full chord melody you introduced. I'm not a pop fan, but this sort of translation proves there can be good compositional gems hidden behind the pop.
Ah yes, my favorite type of video: a bunch of tips for a thing I don't do for an instrument I don't play, but with a beautiful piece of music at the end. I love it.
I'm just so fascinated with your skills as a pianist-composer. Thank you for sharing them. Hope to see you perform some day (although it's a bit hard as I live in Colombia but, you know, you can always dream...)
This is single-handedly the most important video I've watched to provide guidance on how to make a song my own! I appreciate the different steps you present here, demonstrating how to evolve from the basic block chords + melody style.
i am so deeply inspired by this video nahre! It's amazing how you can make the pop song work and SHINE in a piano, making what would be an otehrwise unremarkable "cover" into a beautiful arrangement! Stunning!
Love the idea of adding your own original material! I used to be afraid of adding my own melodies to covers because I thought people wouldn't like it, but so far, I've seen a positive response.
Beautiful, Nahre!! I'd really love to do this kind of arranging for wind quintet. I've gotten quite good at making faithful versions of existing song arrangements, but I rely on songs with similar instrumentation to pull that off, and it just doesn't feel all that creative. I think the world would benefit from something like a "Kate Bush Fantasy for Wind Quintet" 🤔
@@NahreSol It would also be interesting to see a video on how to write a piano accompaniment if you have thoughts on that too :-) What would be the differences between arranging for piano + other instrument vs. piano + voice? Love your videos, Nahre!
You inspire me in ways beyond music, Nahre! You’re an artist; you keep music alive 💛 ❤️🔥 When I periodically struggle to find what about music moves me overall, I’m just happy that I get to rediscover it all through your channel and witness your processes and content. (Also… cool chair 😎) Btw… Any possible upcoming additions to the “How To Sound Like” series? 👀
Oh Nahre, you managed to turn a cheesy pop song into something I truly aspire to play in the future. And not only that, there are several parts in which I can hear your own voice that's prevalent in some of your original pieces. No wonder I always come to you for inspiration when I feel like writing. Thank you for the lessons!
I don’t have access to a piano unfortunately. But I have made music completely virtual for years, but my piano has never sounded quite right. Looked this up in the hopes that I might find a video meant for actual pianists where the tips could just as easily apply to within a daw. And this video is almost perfect
Holy hell I'm out of the loop! I've never heard about Harry Styles, but that music is pretty good, so I just casually googled him while listening to your video and HE'S A FREAKING SUPERSTAR!
Ganz tolles Video mit super vielen Tipps. Ich freue mich auch total, dass Du mein Gewissen erleichtert hast, denn ich spiele oft einfach drauf los, was ich im Ohr habe und dabei kommen garantiert nicht die originalen Harmonien oder Rhythmen bei heraus. Dann fühle ich mich immer wie ein Kulturbanause 😅. Mit vollen Händen zu spielen wird wohl noch dauern, aber ich bin auf dem Weg, mal sehen, wohin er noch führt.
Your music and this arrangement is a pleasure to the ears and watching you adds the pleasure to the eyes ; what more could we ask for ?! Thx Nahre, you deserve much more exposition.
I really like it that there finally are pianists who are able to do music on their own, not just playing the composers virtuosic but nothing else. Although I think that in order to reach such a great quality in which you do improvise/play your own things, it's necessary to have learned and understood the classic piano masters. Then you can use what you learned by them for yourself. I hear a lot of Debussy and Ravel in your arrangement. Great job!
Have to play the contrarian here. Is it true that "there finally are pianists who are able to do music on their own, not just playing the composers" etc. Or are you just finding out about them? I don't mean to seem dismissive but what have jazz pianists been doing for the last 100+ years?
@Ken Kinnally I must add the word "classical". In most universities and music-schools the training is narrowed down to performing the works of composers. Even Nahre Sol says so: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yDjI8iphbhU.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FOkgrfemsuU.html Jazz-Pianists usually don't improvise in other styles than in Jazz-Styles. Of course there are some who can do, but they rather are the exeption than the standard.
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Nahre, do you know how come some pianos can sound so nice, such as this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ng9aNlyhWUU.html she said she is using a Yamaha MOX8, which probably is along the line of MODX8. The same goes for Nord Piano 5... it just sounds nice. My theory is that they take the samples by somebody who has played the piano for 25, 30 years, and then even when a person who has played a piano for 3 months, the piano gives out those sound samples, so it sounds good no matter what
Repent and trust in Jesus. we deserve Hell for our sins. For example lying, lusing, saying God's name as a cuss word and stealing our just some examples of sin which we can all admit to doing at least one of those. For our sin we deserve death and Hell, but there is a way out. Repent anf trust in Jesus and you will be saved. Repentence is turning from sin. So repent and trust in Jesus. He will save you from Hell, and instead give you eternal life in Heaven. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤
Good to know that it isn't my Korg SP-250 digital keyboard that is the issue. It is really my own lack of practice, motivation, time-investment and talent. ;-) Korg should definitely give you a nice financial gift for this free publicity of their mass-produced keyboard (and a new button for your Tempo slider ;-)). Anyway, thank you for this very good lesson. Your videos are so nice and respectful. A real pleasure.
Big up Nahre Sol!... This was fun and great way to be creative with the Harry styles tune. Keep up the good work stay blessed and fantastic kind regards WF Robinson
Can you please make a video about how to do a piano version of song which sounds exactly like the song, just like the impression of the song? Like whenever the bass is played in the song, there should be same bass notes in the piano. I'm actually doing a song of A.R.Rahman called 'Tum Ho' on piano. I can be original in my way but I would still prefer the essence of the song to be heard on piano. How to really figure out what extended chords the song contains. I know there are so many instruments in a song which are then mixed to sound good. But is there anyway, or approach of rearranging it in a piano (that is also playable using hold pedal) as well as keeping the blueprint of the original song. I lack enough knowledge about arrangement but I can tell when a particular bar is not sounding like the original idea. I'm aware that playing the same chords is not enough. The piano should also have the same rhythmic flow, motifs and under-melodies but as soon as try that, there is something which feels missing.
You sum it all so well with excellent visual charts: I LOVE, love, love this video and your channel. You are an inspiration and you make me want to experiment creatively at the piano, something I was quite fearful of as a classical pianist stuck to music sheets.THANK YOU!
Awesome!! This video reminds me of your previous series "How to sound like...".I really appreciate it that you can share your perspective of arranging and analyzing music!!!😆😆
There's some indescribable (at least for this unmelodic oaf) "french" quality to these renditions; with the distinct Nahre Sol touch in the final iteration, that harks back to the punctuated compositions on synth.
This is way above my current level of playing the piano, but THANK you for this! It looks so.. effortless and playful (ha) when you show different ways of enriching the arrangement. Makes me want to sit back at the piano and play around :)
Really great for a semi beginner or someone who just wants to refresh their playing style after spending time away from the piano. Easy to follow with great ideas that make good musical sense and would be easy to build on in almost any setting. Haven't followed for too long, but perhaps something like this as an easy intro to jazz improv would be a useful follow on?
Thank you so much for yet another inspirational video, always learning loads from you. I really love what you did with this piece. I've tagged you on my arrangement of "i will Wait for You" . Hope you will find it. I am yet to use snippets of the melody instead of its entirety. Thanks again.
Thanks so much, Nahre!! I’m completely new to piano (started in the past year), and your videos have been super helpful for me as I expand my skill set as a musician! And I absolutely love the final arrangement
Thank you for this, I create “pianocasts” where I podcast & play piano at the same time, this will definitely help me come up with better improvised content 🫶🏼
Loved the arrangement; especially the extra hint of "sadness". You look like you're really enjoying yourself while performing it. Thank you for sharing!
