TC218: Emotive Repertoire for Teens and Adults from Movies & New Age

by Tim Topham in Podcast on November 27, 2020. 1 Comment

In this episode, find 20+ emotive teen piano repertoire picks that appeal to older or adult students, complete with play-through demos.

Teen and adult students require extra repertoire planning, because you’re not often teaching from a method book, but finding specific pieces that appeal to their unique tastes. They often gravitate toward darker, moodier, rich, chordal-based music with repetitive lines.

We’ll look at themes from movies and popular new-age style composers, from Yiruma to Einaudi, in this episode, (and save you some time playing through them all yourself!)

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TC218: Emotive Repertoire for Teens and Adults from Movies & New Age

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In this episode, you’ll hear our 20+ emotive teen repertoire picks

All of Me – Piano Guys
Comptine d’un autre ete – Amelie theme
Cristofori’s Dream – David Lanz
Forrest Gump theme (in Piano for Leisure series book)
Glasgow theme from Love, Actually
Kiss the Rain, and A River Flows in You – Yiruma
Primavera – Einaudi
Gymnopedie no. 1 – Satie
Le Onde “The Waves” – Ludovico Einaudi
Nuvole Bianche “The Clouds” – from Insidious – Einaudi
Schindler’s List theme
Song for Guy – Elton John
The Heart Asks Pleasure First and Big My Secret – Michael Nyman from The Piano
American Beauty theme – John Williams
St. Elmo’s Fire theme
Summer of ’42 theme
Tubular Bells from The Exorcist
Metamorphosis works – Philip Glass
Chariots of Fire theme
In My Place; Atlas; Fix You – Coldplay

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Lisa says:

02/17/2022 at 12:45 pm

Hi, in your podcast you mentioned “Piano Anthology Book”, but when I did a search for it, there are a million books by that or a similar title! I tried to find the links on the RAP page, but it only loaded things from 2017. Can you give me the publisher or more information or a link to find it? Thank you!

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