Something funny this time! I thought this particular piece that turns up in "Always Sunny" very regularly really lent itself to jaunty vaudeville-style piano. I recorded this during a heatwave which affected my concentration considerably, so it took the best part of an hour and a half to get a good take, and the bloody thing is over is less than two minutes! Really hope it makes you chuckle though, particularly if you're a Sunny fan.
Something funny this time! I thought this particular piece that turns up in "Always Sunny" very regularly really lent itself to jaunty vaudeville-style piano. I recorded this during a heatwave which affected my concentration considerably, so it took the best part of an hour and a half to get a good take, and the bloody thing is over is less than two minutes! Really hope it makes you chuckle though, particularly if you're a Sunny fan.
#danielhines #radiohead #kida #idioteque #radioheadpiano #radioheadcovers #electronicapiano #pianocovers #pianoPorcelain - Moby (arr. Daniel Hines) [Synthesia]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | A little extra tool for those of you who wanted to learn my arrangement of Porcelain, here is a Synthesia video direct from my score. This contains all the basic notes of the arrangement, but omits any twiddly improvisations I might include when actually playing it. Again, really charmed that this has gone down so well, and I hope this helps those of you trying to learn it, along with the other tutorials and audio.
My only advice would be not to take this as set in stone. You can play around with this and bend it and improvise over it to your heart's content, and I thoroughly encourage that!
#danielhines #moby #porcelain #techno #pianocovers #pianoSarias Song - Koji Kondo (Piano Arrangement)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Apr 6th 2022.
Thought it might be nice to do a few video game pieces in my style so I chose to do the Lost Woods music or Saria's Song from Zelda. Hope you enjoy the harmonic movements I came up with for the middle section.
#danielhines #piano #pianocovers #zelda #zeldacovers #sariassong #saria #lostwoods #ocarinaoftime #loz #ootYou Gotta Be - DesRee (arr. Daniel Hines) [Synthesia]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | SCORE NOW AVAILABLE: musescore.com/user/27986929/scores/10505551
A little extra tool for those of you who wanted to learn my arrangement of You Gotta Be, here is a Synthesia video direct from my score. This contains all the basic notes of the arrangement, but omits any twiddly improvisations I might include when actually playing it. Again, really charmed that this has gone down so well, and I hope this helps those of you trying to learn it, along with the other tutorials and audio.
My only advice would be not to take this as set in stone. You can play around with this and bend it and improvise over it to your heart's content, and I thoroughly encourage that!
#desree #yougottabelieve #90s #rnb #soul #pianocovers #piano #danielhinesSomething About Us - Daft Punk (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Nov 4th 2022.
Another request from Daft Punk's "Discovery". Again it's the same chords in a really nice loop, so I went down a sort of film-noir jazz route with it here.
#danielhines #steviewonder #stevie #innervisions #visions #higherground #piano #steviecovers #pianocovers #soulpiano #soulMoonchild (The Dream) - King Crimson (Piano Arrangement)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded May 11th 2022. Score available: musescore.com/user/27986929/scores/9338839
I've been fascinated with King Crimson since my teen years and it took me a long while to form an understanding of their stuff. There are some moments of theirs that I think suit my style quite nicely, including Moonchild (the main song, not so much the free jazz interlude!). Hope you enjoy this.
#danielhines #piano #pianocovers #kingcrimson #crimsonking #inthecourtofthecrimsonking #frippHuman Nature - Michael Jackson (Piano Tutorial)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Jun 28th 2021.
A request fulfilment here for an overhead tutorial of my arrangement of Human Nature. I haven't done a score of this one yet, mostly because of how difficult it is to transcribe as it's so improvisatory. If I can make a good score with mostly notation and not so many chord symbols, I'll share it. In the meantime, I really hope you enjoy this one!
#danielhines #coldplaycovers #coldplaypiano #coldplaypianocover #piano #pianocoverEmotional Landscapes (Live Version) (2016) - Daniel Hines [FULL ALBUM]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Aug 21st 2016.
My full-length album of Björk piano covers.
0:00 Jóga 5:27 Play Dead 9:31 Charlene 15:59 Undo 21:36 Possibly Maybe 27:12 Isobel 35:06 Frosti 39:00 Family 45:51 Stonemilker 52:23 I've Seen It All 57:26 All Is Full Of Love
Unfortunately I don't have this album in the right format for distribution, so instead I've released a new version to streaming services here: open.spotify.com/album/1mqMsNDhLee7FC8b0LtHnd
This was a big challenge to do such a long song, but big prog-rock epics are right up my street and I definitely wanted to investigate it. There are a few bum notes going on so apologies for those - I've only known the song for a week and a half as of the day of upload, so there's a few tweaks to be made yet. But I hope you enjoy it as it is!
#danielhines #bjork #piano #bjorkpiano #pianocovers #worldpianodayChildren - Robert Miles (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Mar 22nd, 2017.
A re-working of the famous dream trance anthem, done in a far more sedate, classical-ish way.
#danielhines #bjork #piano #bjorkpiano #pianocovers #worldpianodaySparks - Coldplay (Piano Playthrough/Tutorial and Keyboard Cam)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Sep 9th 2020. Score available here: musescore.com/user/27986929/scores/8234957
A brief piano-cam demo/tutorial of my "Sparks" cover (with added scales at the start). I tried recording a voiceover for it but it just didn't feel natural, as it never really does personally for me, so I decided to go for the text cue approach. Really hope it's enjoyable, and thankyou to everyone watching for your support.
#danielhines #coldplay #sparks #pianocovers #pianotutorial #piano #tutorial #parachutes #worldpianodayDire Dire Docks - Koji Kondo (Keyboard Cover) [AUDIO ONLY]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Oct 14th 2016.
A piece of video game music which I really love. Instead of just playing it outright, I've added some extra sections of my own to expand on it a little, and I've played it with a sparkling electronic piano/pad patch instead of a regular piano sound. Hope you enjoy it!
Image courtesy of Tor Petter Christensen of freeimages.com
#danielhines #bjork #piano #bjorkpiano #pianocovers #worldpianodayFrosti - Björk (Piano Tutorial)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | Another tutorial video, this one for my piano arrangement of Frosti, the instrumental interlude from Björk's Vespertine album. A tricky one, so it took me a while to organise a decent playthrough/lesson of it! Really hope you enjoy it and get something out of it.
0:00 Eb minor scale 0:35 Improvisation in Eb minor 2:52 Frosti Tutorial
#danielhines #resonance #vaporwave #piano #retrowave #chillwave #pianocoversThe Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby (Piano Jam)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Oct 14th 2020.
A very off-the-cuff jam over the changes of The Way It Is, the chords of which I've always been quite fond of.
#danielhines #coldplaycovers #coldplaypiano #coldplaypianocover #piano #pianocoverGolden Brown - The Stranglers (arr. Daniel Hines) [Synthesia]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | A little extra tool for those of you who wanted to learn my arrangement of Golden Brown, here is a Synthesia video direct from my score. This contains all the basic notes of the arrangement, but omits any twiddly improvisations I might include when actually playing it. Again, really charmed that this has gone down so well, and I hope this helps those of you trying to learn it, along with the other tutorials and audio.
My only advice would be not to take this as set in stone. You can play around with this and bend it and improvise over it to your heart's content, and I thoroughly encourage that!
#danielhines #piano #pianocovers #porcelain #moby #worldpianodaySpider-Man (2002) Main Titles - Piano SoloDaniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded July 5th 2021.
This is my own by-ear transcription of the Danny Elfman Spider-Man title sequence music, one of my favourite orchestral film cues. I might later try to put this into score form but for now, I hope you enjoy this rendition!
#danielhines #piano #pianocovers #spiderman #dannyelfman #spidermanpiano #filmmusic #moviemusic #moviepiano #marvel #marvelpiano #superheroColoratura - Coldplay (arr. Daniel Hines) [Synthesia]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | For those of you wanting to learn more of my arrangement of Coloratura. Note that the moments of up-and-down arpeggios in the right are slowed down for simplicity. I like to play those much faster and not strictly in time. But I hope this video helps to give you the gist of the thing!
#danielhines #gamecube #piano #retrogamingFrosti - Björk (arr. Daniel Hines) [Synthesia]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | A little extra tool for those of you who wanted to learn my arrangement of Frosti, here is a Synthesia video direct from my score ( musescore.com/user/27986929/scores/8313458 ). This contains all the basic notes of the arrangement, but omits any twiddly improvisations I might include when actually playing it. Again, really charmed that this has gone down so well, and I hope this helps those of you trying to learn it, along with the other tutorials and audio.
My only advice would be not to take this as set in stone. You can play around with this and bend it and improvise over it to your heart's content, and I thoroughly encourage that!
#danielhines #bjork #piano #bjorkpiano #pianocovers #worldpianodayAlways In My Head - Coldplay (Piano Cover) [AUDIO ONLY]Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Oct 10th 2016.
One of a set of Coldplay covers I've decided to call "Numbers & Figures". Hope you enjoy them!
#danielhines #coldplaycovers #coldplaypiano #coldplaypianocover #piano #pianocoverPink Floyd - Improvised Piano MedleyDaniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Sep 21st 2015.
A semi-improvised arrangement of a few Pink Floyd tunes, using Syd’s theme as a leitmotif. If you're a Floyd fan, hopefully you'll recognise the songs!
0:00 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 5/7 3:33 The Great Gig In The Sky 4:58 Any Colour You Like 6:29 Is There Anybody Out There? 7:57 Cluster One 8:48 Brain Damage 9:38 Nobody Home 10:59 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 3 11:35 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 9 13:19 Brain Damage 14:47 Eclipse 15:10 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 9
Another bit of video game music that has affected me a lot was this one from Super Metroid, and later in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Definitely one of my favourite musical moments from the series.
By popular request, here is a more in-depth, close-up walkthrough of my arrangement of Sparks, with slower playing and hands separately. I hope this helps those of you who are interested in learning to play it and want to do so without sheet music.
#danielhines #coldplay #sparks #parachutes #coldplaypiano #piano #pianocoversBlack Hole Sun - Soundgarden (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Oct 14th 2022.
Fulfilling one of several backlogged requests here! Big fan of the strange chords going on in the original so I enjoyed leaning into them a lot with this one.
#danielhines #piano #pianocovers #soundgarden #blackholesun #chriscornell #rockcoverThe Field Music from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Piano Performance)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Mar 15th 2021.
This background music from Breath of the Wild really stuck with me after playing the game so I had to investigate it.
Composed and arranged by Manaka Kataoka (w/Koji Kondo)
#danielhines #billieeilish #oceaneyes #piano #covers #worldpianodayGet Lucky - Daft Punk (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Aug 30th 2021.
As requested by Roberto Sanabria! As with most of Daft Punk, the song's just the same chord progression going round and round, but they're nice chords to play with and very malleable and lend themselves very well to improv. Funkier playing like this is also very good fun, particularly if I like the chords! Hope you like this one.
#danielhines #thundercat #funkpiano #themchanges #pianocovers #piano #worldpianodayShort Circuit - Daft Punk (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Jun 7th 2021.
I might well end up with a series of Daft Punk covers at this rate - because they're often fairly simple and repetitive, Daft Punk songs really lend themselves to improv. Hope you enjoy this one!
#danielhines #humannature #toto #pianocovers #piano #thriller #porcaro #worldpianodayComputer Love - Kraftwerk (Piano Cover)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | An extra previously unreleased cover that I recorded c. 2023.
For those of you interested in learning my arrangement of Sparks. This is the basic version without any improvisations or added notes, so you can take this version and add your own solos and twist the rhythms/voicings ad lib. if you're so inclined. Hope you enjoy it!
#daftpunk #shortcircuit #discovery #piano #synthesia #pianocover #danielhinesNightvision - Daft Punk (Improvised Piano Cover with New Melody)Daniel Hines Covers2024-04-14 | First uploaded Mar 24th 2021.
One of my favourite moments from the Discovery album - really love the harmonies on this one, and just up my street piano-wise. As it was just a chord sequence on the album itself, I thought I might stick a new melody on top and build it up into a jazz improvisation.