popular/movie songs I wouldn’t mind letting my students learn…
Since I recently posted about pop music, I thought I’d put this out there –
Sometimes I hear a pop song or a song from a movie soundtrack and think, “hmmm, I like that – I wouldn’t mind if a student learned that song.”
I’m talking about piano pieces that you can actually maybe learn some good piano technique in, or that maybe sound a little classical-ish. The good thing about these is that they could be great motivation for students who may not be so into classical music…and possibly a way to start to “convert” them to classical music 🙂
- most of the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack (although once you play one song you’ve played about half of them) 🙂
- that one song (“Married Life”) from Disney’s/Pixar’s “Up” – the one that’s a waltz
- Coldplay’s Postcards from Far Away
- My Father’s Favorite from the movie Sense & Sensibility (great movie by the way :))
What else do you have to add to the list?
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I have the music from Sense and Sensibility and it is wonderful and is really pianistic.
I like to include a couple of the Pride and Prejudice songs when I do background music at receptions – "Dawn" and "Liz on Top of the World" are my favorites. I will have to check out the other stuff. Jenny, you are an endless fountain of information! You never cease to amaze me.
Oh yeah, the theme song from The Notebook, although too sappy for some tastes, is also a good one.