TOP 80 GREATEST PIANO INTROS
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I feel like you underestimated some of Billy Joel’s and some of David Brubeck’s intros…..
@@thesovietunion9542 it’s a personal taste for some, like David he really likes the Beatles and appreciates their musicianship more than other artists. I think he found some great tunes and whilst other artists might have better intros sometimes it’s up to the listener to decide.
Kudos for playing all in one take, extra kudos for good taste and an extra award for not only playing it right, but also getting the feel and the essence of each song across!
@@brain-thomas thank you!
Can you make one 10 ten piano tunes/parts in video games?
With To Zanarkand, FFX on 1st place 🥇
👏Wonderfully done! Might need to pickup some piano lessons now.
Cheers Paul! Mad respect to you too!
Funny I came straight from Paul's one-take video into this only to find Paul's comment here. You two gents have been killing it!
Music analysis youtube channel synergy!
I love all you folks out there doing these music channels.
And mad props to the chops on both of you. You both set a yourselves massive difficult task and executed it wonderfully.
Masters both!!
radiohead-ben folds it’s amazing too
The fact you did that all in one take is even more insane
Thank you 😊
@@DavidBennettPiano One take, WITH a mid-roll ad read! Was the ad read disruptive to your performance flow, or was it a welcome break?
That’s how you include an ad. Brief, relevant, and not forced on the audience before they even know if this video holds the content they were looking for.
Keane - Somewhere only we know , definitely deserves to be in a volume 2
pretty much any Keane song from the first two albums tbh
And more so Everybody's Changing!
The Entertainer 0:13
Take the A Train 0:20
Mess Around 0:27
Hallelujah I Love Her So 0:32
Just a Gigolo 0:40
My Baby Just Cares For Me 0:45
Blue Rondo a la Turk 0:55
Money (That's What I Want) 1:02
Cantaloupe Island 1:09
Linus and Lucy 1:19
She's a Rainbow 1:25
Lady Madonna 1:39
Martha My Dear 1:48
Sexy Sadie 2:07
Hey Bulldog 2:20
Bridge Over Troubled Water 2:29
Let It Be 2:44
Close To You 2:58
Your Song 3:07
Maybe I'm Amazed 3:17
Imagine 3:30
Oh! You Pretty Things 3:42
Without You 4:00
Morning Has Broken 4:09
Lean On Me 4:20
The Great Gig in the Sky 4:32
Piano Man 4:49
Desperado 4:57
Firth of Fifth 5:15
Tubular Bells 5:24
Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me 5:34
Seven Seas of Rhye 5:49
December, 1963 5:58
Mamma Mia 6:10
Year of the Cat 6:18
Money, Money, Money 6:28
Cold As Ice 6:37
Nobody Does It Better 6:46 ***
Easy - Commodores 6:55
Vienna - Billy Joel 7:09
Hold the Line - Toto 7:24
Wuthering Heights 7:35
Because the Night 7:43
I Don't Like Mondays 7:53
It Must Be Love 8:26
Don't Stop Believin' 8:35
Head over Heals - Tears For Fear 8:44
The Way It Is 8:54 ***
Walking in Memphis 9:03
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You 9:12
Children - Robert Miles 9:27 ***
You Do Something To Me 9:45
Don't Look Back In Anger 9:56
Sunburn - Muse 10:09
Still D.R.E. 10:20
In The End - Linkin Park 10:27 ***
Pyramid Song 10:37
The Luckiest - Ben Folds 10:57
Hallelujah 11:18
Clocks 11:26
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton 11:35
Feel - Robbie Williams 11:47
Mad World 11:57
If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys 12:07
Everytime - Britney Spears 12:22
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence 12:34
This Love - Maroon 5 12:45
Breathe Me - Sia 12:57
Bad Day - Daniel Powter 13:06
Welcome To the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance 13:14
How To Save a Life - The Fray 13:29
Unfaithful - Rihanna 13:39
Starlight - Muse 13:53
Love Song - Sara Bareilles 14:03
To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra 14:13
Halo - Beyonce 14:33
Someone Like You 14:47
Another Love - Tom Odell 15:04
All Of Me - John Legend 15:23
7 Years - Lucas Graham 15:32
Links please lol!!!
Thanks for the effort. I was using the video as a basis for a playlist and found I had 79 not 80 songs. Would have had to go back and zip through the whole thing if it weren't for this list!
Because The Night is 7:43 not 7:34
@@dylanjones3497 thanks
oooh how like
Billy Joel could fill an entire top 20 with his piano intros, Prelude, Miami 2017, Summer Highland Falls, Goodnight Saigon, Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, etc.
But also missing are Karma Police, Coldplay’s The Scientist and Everglow, Damian Rice’s 9 Crimes and Dire Straits’ Love Over Gold.
Yes, Piano Man is iconic, but I'd put those and quite a few others on this type of list. In addition to those: Captain Jack, Only the Good Die Young, Ain't No Crime, NY State of Mind, Baby Grand.
Yeah but Elton will always be better mate.
@@justind5726 Better how?
@@justind5726 Have to disagree, Billy is tops;-)
As a piano player I can say that it might not be so hard to play these tunes however it is extremely rare and impressive that you nail each one perfectly.
Ok this video took me three hours to watch because of all the side streets off memory lane that had me adding songs to a new playlist. Thank you SO MUCH for doing this. You're an inspiration and a kind soul.
Delighted that you included "Martha My Dear" along with McCartney's better known gems. What a wonderful tune, and I particularly like the orchestral bridge built off that opening theme too (courtesy of George Martin).
Every time I hear this song, it gets better and better. One of those I can't get enough of
"Martha" is surely less well-known than "Hey Jude" or "Let it Be" but I would imagine that any Beatles fan would know it. There are some great Beatles songs that are a lot less well-known than "Martha" - "the Inner Light" comes to mind...
I've always loved "Martha" too, now I'm inspired to sit down and learn it!
Yes indeed. It's very complex in quite subtle ways.
Totally agree. I was surprised that it was included. This is an often-overlooked Beatles gem and the piano intro astounded me when I was a child and still astounds me to this day. Pure genius.
This is great. Weirdly enough, I think there isn't enough piano love in the community
from my perspective, 6h later, there is, and this is the perfect place to show it. Hi five! NO! high 10!
I think this video just confirmed that piano is the most beautiful instrument
...which community?
Thank you for including BOTH Martha My Dear & Hey Bulldog - both songs are criminally underrated hidden gems 🤩
But where "You Never Give Me Your Money"???
didn't even think of that, great shout@@CanumVenaticorum
I think he might be a Beatles fan
@@SnoopyReads he definitely a beatles fan mate xDD he made a lots beatles vids.
@@plue159 I Knew IT! I am very observant
"Let it Be" always gets me. That was my uncle's favorite Beatles song for sure, maybe his favorite song overall. Just a great, great song.
I love that you have credited the piano player of each song.
You have essentially done a piano replay of my life in music. How you chose exactly the tunes that I used to play was amazing to me since some of these are not so mainstream.
Just what I was thinking. Although my "life" only picks up post 6-minute mark, all of the music has been part of my experience. Well done indeed.
Anyone knows a song that goes like
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Please help me find it 🙏
Those were great selections. The only ones I would have added were "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John, "100 Years" by Five For Fighting, and "The Scientist" by Coldplay.
reading this before i finished the video and i am now very disappointed that 100 Years isn't on the list. especially considering that Oasis song sounded exactly like Imagine
The reason by Hobbastank should've been there
And Head Over Heels by the Go-Gos
Come Sail Away should have been on there too
bohemian rhapsody shouldve been there too
Woah this is insane! I’m a violinist so I know how difficult it can be to memorize music, but to memorize so many different pieces, and then to play them all in order??! That’s crazy, this must have taken a lot of work. Amazing job, you’re very talented!!
its way easier to memorize songs on any instrument compared to violin since its the hardest instrument
Sad that piano intros seem to be less and less popular these days. You played multiple intros for each year from the 70s, but the past few years they seem to be hard to find.
PS You're a genius!
Steal my girl by one direction has a great riff in terms of modern pop
Great Collection!
I would add:
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Love of my Life - Queen
Lavender - Marillion
Summer ‘68 - Pink Floyd
Fool’s Overture - Supertramp
Come Sail Away - Styx
Ammonia Avenue - Alan Parson’s Project
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Right Now - Van Halen
November Rain - Guns N’ Roses
I'd second Lavender
Supertramp and Styx lets go!! 💪
yea right now has one of the best tones
also the "Bohemian Rhapsody" of Queen
Thought of some more good piano intros:
Love Reign O'er Me - The Who
Heaven Can Wait - Meat Loaf
Bloody Well Right - Supertramp
The Turn of a Friendly Card - Alan Parsons Project
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty
Faithfully - Journey
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Lovers in the Wind - Roger Hodgson
The Search is Over - Survivor
The Promise - When in Rome
And finally a deep cut:
Variaciones Sobre Música del Alma (Live) - Charly García
Good to see Pink Floyd's "Great Gig........" made the list. I find it just as satisfying to play on the guitar
I think "light my fire"-1967
Should be on the list
My favourite intro ever
That is a keyboard intro, NOT piano. Maybe Electric Piano, but that is NOT the topic of this video.
This is one of the greatest combinations of piano intros I've ever heard. I'm so glad you included a wide variety of musical styles too. Fascinating!
I don’t know why but this (and Paul Davids’ which I subsequently watched) made me really emotional. LOVED IT! I hope to see other creators do this for drum intros, vocal intros, whatever else there is!
i know why. They touched all of our different nostalgia points.
Rick Beato ( even though I dont like his limited tastes ) has done quite a few videos of various intros
@@danteshydratshirt2360 Limited tastes? Just a few days ago he mentioned that he likes Baby Shark! 😂
@@WayneKitching Beato is largely 99% classic rock fan which rarely strays from tha and 90s grunge era stuff
@@danteshydratshirt2360 I suppose that's true for "What makes this song great." He also loves jazz, film scores, Animals as Leaders and Tool, among others.
Note perfect, beautifully done. Nice inclusion of Weller. Rd 2: "Werewolves of London", "Editions Of You", Lou Reed's "Berlin"
Also: Radiohead - "Daydreaming"; The Who - "Love, Reign O'er Me"; Jerry Lee Lewis - "Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On".
This guy is some amazing musician. He excels at keyboard and music theory, of course, but also at a music skill I've never thought of, i.e. music research. To find examples of his various topics is impressive. Bravo, young man.
I hope these songs be included in your next feature intros:
Oh my love - John Lennon
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Georgy Peorgy - Toto
Somebody - Depeche Mode
Beauty & Madness - Fra Lippo Lippi
I will do anything for love - Meatloaf
Everglow - Coldplay
Great performance & video!
bohemian rhapsody intro is acapella
Drops of Jupiter as well
November rain - Guns 'n' Roses.
"oh my love" give me chills
It's great to see such a wide variety of genres getting recognition, one next to the other, without elitist pretenses
Great work including Firth of Fifth on the list! For a future second part, you could also add the intro from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Another iconic Tony Banks piece, who deserves to be twice (or more) on the list
Though I would say that intro goes on just a little longer than the part that David played ;)
Was super happy to see it made the list! 😅
Other than the Beatles, I didn't hear any other artists repeated. Tony Banks could take up half this list with his piano intros alone!
Billy Joel *2, Elton John*2
The guy is a freaking genius of the keys. David could do a whole video about Tony Banks.
80 really amazing picks! Thank you.
The way you performed Bridge over Troubled Water and Let it Be hit right in the feels...
as a die hard muse fan im so glad you put sunburn but it does feel weird not to mention new born's intro when it comes to iconic/great piano intros. Amazing video
I'm surprised you didn't have "Bohemian Rhapsody" on here, but I will never argue with "Seven Seas of Rhye." Great job doing all of these in a long take.
Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t begin with the piano
@@bourbon2242 You're right, but it marks the beginning of the two sections after the real intro. Also, in several live performances, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is started with the piano riff.
@@Chigger so its not the intro
I missed it too, but in fact isn't the intro.
ça m'as telement surpris aussi!
My favorite of these is "Morning is Broken", as my mom used to sing that song to wake me up for school growing up, and I just think the piano work is incredible. This was wonderful, very impressed by the "Firth of Fifth" one too!
yes morning has broken is one of my favorites as well :)
Oddly enough I use to sing that as a goodnight song to my kids. But we're not English speaking so it works kinda well anyway. 🙂
He credits Rick Wakeman with performing it, but he actually composed and arranged the piano throughout. And didn't get credited, or even paid. At least not at the time.
Absolutely fantastic job! I think some early to mid 90s female piano players were left out. Tori Amos (Silent All These Years, Winter), Natalie Merchant (Verdi Cries, My Skin), and Sarah McLachlan (Angel, Adia, though maybe not technically a piano only intro). I was surprised Bohemian Rhapsody didn't make it. Others for another list may be: My Immortal, Listen To Your Heart, Tiny Dancer.
I guess he left out Bohemian Rhapsody because it has an acapella intro before the piano part.
@@mori1bund Very good point.
To play 80 amazing piano intros so faultlessly is an incredible achievement in its own right….but to nail the “feel and mood” of each piece is simply outstanding. True musicianship at its very best.
Agreed, this had to have been REALLY hard to do! Big kudos to you, David!
Great list!! I would definitely add "Nobody Home" by Pink Floyd, and maybe "Somebody to Love" by Queen and John Lennon's "Love", though I have no clue which of the 80 I would take out to make room for those
He already did Lennon, so Oasis could be skipped.
Oh snap
I 100% agree on Nobody Home, and was wondering if anyone else in here felt the way I do.
the great gig in the sky is awesome too
Didn’t “Somebody to Love” had a vocal intro?
Well, take out the boring "jazz" intros at the beginning, slip on those three songs!
I must say you are rather talented old boy! I always loved "Martha My Dear". It was my favourite song on the White album when I first heard it when I was four in 1976
Just amazing😮 And all in one take. Flowing from one style to another like that is just jaw-dropping
I just love the fact that you put so much feeling in every little piece you play.
Nice inclusion of a couple of ABBA tunes! Benny doesn't get enough love for his piano skills. Though I'm a bit surprised "SOS" didn't make the cut... what a great piano part that is. "Vienna" was a great choice for Billy Joel -- "Root Beer Rag" and the prelude to "Angry Young Man" are also both awesome. Some Styx also would not go amiss -- "Come Sail Away" and "Lady" both have great intros.
I was hoping Prelude would be there too 😥😥
Styx was my first thought as well! And Kansas as well!
Very true. I was definitely thinking of "Come Sail Away" but yes, agree with "Lady" as well!
Yep SOS is excellent, partly due to the wonderful Flanger effect used on the piano.
Genuinely shocked you didn’t include Karma Police, given how much Radiohead feature in your videos. One of the most iconic piano intros of all time.
I think Sexy Sadie might have disqualified it
Some great choices - here's a few more: "She's always a woman" (Billy Joel), "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (Elton John), "Real Men" (Joe Jackson), "Brilliant Corners" (Thelonious Monk), "I Feel the Earth Move" (Carole King)", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce), "Saturday in the Park" (Chicago), "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Warren Zevon), "Think" (Aretha Franklin)...
Good choices. "I Feel the Earth Move" was the first "shoulda been included" that I thought of. And Joe Jackson "Steppin' Out." Dan Fogelberg "Heartbreak Hotels." Imogen Heap "You Know Where to Find Me." Keith Green "Rushing Wind." Chicago "Hard to Say I'm Sorry." Journey "Who's Crying Now." Survivor "The Search Is Over." In general, more early 20th century songs would be good as well.
I had the piano part from "December 1963" (5:58) in my head. Knew no other lyrics, just the piano. Took a shot in the dark with this video, found by searching "famous piano intros" and you saved me! Thank you for posting!
Very happy to see so many of my favorites on here (especially Queen and Billy Joel)! There were a TON of piano intros in the 70s, apparently!
It made me realise that "Don't Look Back in Anger" is just about the same as "Imagine", only louder!
Oasis lifting from The Beatles...I'm shocked :)
Somebody to love by Queen came to my mind instantly 💕
My favourite piano intro is from Giulietta (Жулиета, Juliet), a song by the Bulgarian progressive rock/ new wave band Tangra. It's performed by Yordan "Danny" Ganchev, whom I have the honour to know personally as well. On concerts he usually preceeds the song with an impression that also serves as a lengthy keyboard/piano solo as an instrumental break during the show. This song has some of the greatest keyboards in rock ever.
I don't know how you managed to do all that in one take so kudos for that and I'm so glad you did Firth of Fifth. There seemed to be a massive gap in the 80s and 90s. A few off the top of my head:
Marillion - Lavender
REM - Nightswimming
Tori Amos - Winter / Precious Things / Silent All These Years
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
Nightswimming is magic. Walking on broken glass is also fantastic.
All good choices, and also add November Rain to that list
Good choices, but don't forget Home Sweet Home.
Also "New Born" and "Exogenesis: Part II" by Muse.
All of these are amazing choices, he also missed Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
I love the chronological order and the large variety. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
I don't think it is a large variety, it's quite the opposite actually, and it's precisely what I regret in this video. It's a 100% brit-american, pop-rock set (except fot a little bit of jazz at the beginning). There are lots of cool piano tunes coming from the rest of the world.
Seriously I can't even comprehend how much practice and how difficult it would have been to nail this. I wonder how many takes it would have taken to get it to a stage where you were happy with each track. Good job bud!
Awesome job!!!!! I think it felt a tiny bit weird not having these:
Donny Hathaway - A Song for You (1971)
Black Sabbath - Changes (1972)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
Guns n' Roses - November Rain (1991)
Either way, congratulations. Not an easy feat and it was great!
Probably a likely demonization take down for each of those bands. Same for Van Halen - "Right Now"
Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't starts with piano, it starts with "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
Great selection and great playing! Cool to hear those Bowie and Genesis songs included, as well as Billy Joel's beautiful Vienna. One I feel was missed was Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - not a super complicated intro but instantly recognizable.
I don’t get doing Vienna, but not doing the best rock song of all time, Only the Good Die Young.
@@jeffisrael3773idk who else says that’s the best rock song of all time, but I think Vienna is considerably more popular lol
1:48 I'm glad you played so much of Martha My Dear. Such a beautiful piece. And then that transition into Sexy Sadie! Bravo!
Wow! I can’t believe that you did that all in one take! Super impressive and a heck of a memory!
I knew you'd do several Beatles songs. I've loved them since I was 7 years old, so thanks! GREAT JOB!
Love this. Wish there were full length versions of many of these songs. Your brief clips of these Piano lines [intros] are all so spot on.
So many good intros but Firth of Fifth is ❤️
Genesis is a brilliant band
That album was brilliant
Facts
You can really feel the music evolving though the years
Needed some of those classic Van Halen intros and Stone Sour’s intro to Zzyzx Rd is pretty great. The entire song on piano rocks.
Really brilliant!! I was only slightly sad that you didn't do "You Never Give Me Your Money", but I guess the Beatles can easily get overrepresented.
ikr? it was shown 5 times in this video :0
I’ll make sure to have it in the next video 😊
@@DavidBennettPiano You're the King, David. (Sorry)
@@DavidBennettPiano oh yes, a second video 👏
@@brixenlang3207 I think they deserve it. With *Paul McCartney* on piano, who has a natural gift for melody, those songs better be on there!
The intro to Pyramid Song never fails to give me chills each and every time I hear it. So disappointed he didn't include the intro to Tiny Dancer (Elton John). Such a good song.
Rocket man really has no intro. Tiny dancer on the other hand..
@@mikanmuusikko3841 lol. Meant to say Tiny Dancer. I'm not that familiar with his music.
I was much surprised by the omission of "Bloody Well Right" by Supertramp.
Not even near to their greatest song IMO, but the intro (on Wurlitzer piano) is surely an all time great.
Seing you include "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds lit up my day. One of the greatest songs ever written, so overwhelmingly beautiful ❤️
Agreed! Thank you 😊
Great work! As an ABBA fan I missed "The winner takes it all", which I consider as one of the greatest piano intros of all time.
No SOS is more important
The intro of The winner is just à patern of the song
But he could take a fourth 9f the catalogue included chess
Head over heals
I know him so well
Heaven help my heart
I wonder
And so on
Amazing! I can only imagine the practice required to nail all those intros note perfectly! And it doesn't matter how many times I hear the opening chords from Great Gig in the Sky, I get goosebumps!
Really missing ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" (1980), it has one of the most beautiful piano intros imho. Joni Mitchell's "River" and Tori Amos's "Silent All These Years" deserve a place in this wonderful video too.
Make your own video
Wow. Just...wow. Fantastic selection, incredibly well performed! Seven Seas Of Rhye and The Luckiest are two of my all-time favorite songs, although with Ben Folds just about any song might fit in (Still comes to mind).
This was also educational: I never knew Gary "Dreamweaver" Wright played piano on Harry Nilsson's Without You, Rick Wakeman on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken, and Little Feat's Bill Payne on Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You!
God this kid is amazing…what is going inside his head…so so many notes, all in the right place. Remarkable
Amazing work. A couple great Elton John intros I might suggest:
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues"
From Billy Joel, I'd suggest "New York State of Mind", and "Night Is Still Young" if you wanted to get a little more obscure.
"Kissing A Fool" by George Michael has a great, short piano intro too.
In Elton John intros i would suggest Honky Cat. I think is awesome
fantastic list! my additions would be:
• Queen - Love Of My Life
• Billy Joel - Prelude (Angry Young Man) [though I understand why you wouldn't want to try to play this in a one-take video haha]
• Train - Drops of Jupiter
• Five For Fighting - 100 Years
• Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet
• Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
foreplay longtime -Boston if organs count..
I love how subtly and sensitively each song is played despite the brevity of the excerpts. The art of the performance is compelling even for the songs I don't like, and I love many of them. (The piano is also my favorite part of your reconstructed A Day in the Life, but that's a separate conversation.) My favorite Nina Simone piano intro is Sinnerman, but that one might not be as compelling cut off from the rest of the song.
Suggestions for the next time:
Skyline pigeon - Elton John
Bohemian rhapsody - Queen
November Rain - Guns N Roses
Light my fire - The Doors
Love walks in - Van Halen
Not enough - Van Halen
Changes - Black Sabbath
Making love out of nothing at all - Air Supply
Lover why - Century
This was beautiful!! I think REMs "Night Swimming" is a beautiful piano intro. Billy Joel's "Miami 2017" and Queens "You and I" are also gorgeous!!
Billy Joel's Summer Highland Falls is also a phenomenal piano intro.
Night Swimming is brilliant and indeed has a great and iconic piano intro. An absolute highlight of my late teens.
Fantastic job! It's absolutely amazing that you were able to play all these 80 songs (let alone remembering them all) in one take and without flinching. Not to mention a commercial break for flowkey right in the middle. Only obvious omission I can think of was Tiny Dancer by Elton John. I'd personally put it above his other two.
Actually, a lot of Elton John songs could have been added. Like "Song for guy"
Yes I thought that one as well as Bohemian Rhapsody
I love that you included Dave Brubeck in the intros! Also, if the song list hadn't been there, I would have probably gotten "Hallelujah I Love Her So" wrong: I almost thought it sounded like "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.
That was just excellent. Amazing how all those intros/songs are imbedded into the world and the public's psyche.
"Music is the Best" - Frank Zappa
Ok... how many takes? :D Incredible work David - loved this! 👏👏👏
Thanks Tim!!
This was live streamed lol so one take
@@UCZx48kBoTg9O Well, it was premiered to a live chat, but it wasn't performed live since he was responding to chat. Sadly I came in late and only caught the last few minutes of the premier.
Also, it's The Tim Traveler! I love your videos too!
@@SeventhSwell Oh I see. Thanks
Outstanding work! I would have added:
-a few from The Doors, definitely Light My Fire intro. Unless keys is not to be considered in the piano category?
-Pinball Wizard by The Who
-Bohemia rhapsody, Queen
Light My Fire's played on a Vox Continental combo organ, Pinball Wizard starts with acoustic guitar, and BoRhap starts with a capella vocals.
The raindrop piano from the intro to _Riders on the storm_ is outstanding.
@@BenjWarrant Yes!
I wasn't really expecting any Keith Emerson, but Take a Pebble is a wonderful piano trio piece with a great introduction. What I was expecting was No-one is to Blame; Howard Jones
Awesome performance and selection. For a 2nf edition I suggest to add "Hall of fame" from The Script and "Dulce locura" from La oreja de Van Gogh, that is not very famous outside Spanish environment but the piano intro is a brilliant work
David, truly a herculean performance - simply amazing. It must be gratifying to know many, many people are just as appreciative. Kudos to you my man.
Great choices and killer playing! Made it look effortless. Also great pick with oh you pretty things
Thanks!
Roses by outkast not being included is criminal! Amazing job though. I loved watching this.
Exactly! Legendary intro!
watching this video probably took me about 4 times longer than the length of this video. Every time one of the intros you played gave me goosebumps I had to go listen to the song.
Thanks
Great job! I would definitely put Tom Waits' Invitation to the Blues and Paul McCartney's (& Wings) Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five. I would probably put every McCartney piano intro but this one is one of my favourites...
Good shout on "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-five", I'll get that one in next time!
Lovely musical tour! Thank you for this melodic treat, David!
really well put together. thought i might have seen riders on the storm, but every song here is so deserving. great video dude
I take it all back about the 70s', great to hear all those intro's well done
That was quite impressive!!! Those intros all hit just like the first time I heard each one of these songs!!! Well done!
Great list and performance. Loved seeing Ben Folds represented. 🙏🏼
And with one of his top two songs for me ("The Luckiest" and "Still Fighting It" swap places for me depending on my mood.)
Even among all these master jams, Tubular Bells HITS
I come back every now and then for my fix! Well worth watching more than once
Awesome!!! One of my favourites is Supertramp´s Bloody Well Right…love that piano intro…Many thanks David for all your videos!!
What, no Sister Christian?!? Great electric piano intro on Supertramp, same with London Town, I think all of these were acoustic. Could do a video like this with just a handful of artists, McCartney (would have liked Maybe I'm Amazed), Elton John, Billy Joel, Springsteen (Jungleland would have been nice here, song literally has 2 piano intros to start).
We could add "Take The Long Way Home" and the EPIC meatloaf
"I'd Do Anything For Love (But I won't do that)"
I second that! Bloody well right has a great intro!
@@chaplainmattsanders4884 Would probably need half the video just for that... lol
Lovely to hear 'David Bennett Piano' play some actual piano! You're playing the Nord Grand, right? It sounds great! How does it feel compared to a real piano?
Thanks! The Nord Grand feels amazing! My reaction when I played it for the first time was literally "this is the Elder Wand of digital pianos!!"
@@DavidBennettPiano do you prefer the Nord piano or the Nord grand?
@@olivercowan8719 Nord Piano is the 2nd best digital piano I’ve tried… Nord Grand is the best 😊
@@DavidBennettPiano However, no electric piano makes you part of the resonance / sound box like any acoustic piano. Actually an upright piano moreso than any grand piano.
@@envyyou1979Played a fully reconditioned upright grand a while back. Over 100 years old. The sound resonated like you suggested. Through every fiber of my being. The restorer referred to it as Sir.
Most iconic ones:
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Robert Miles - Children
Madness - It must be love
Mark Cohn - Walking in Memphis
Coldplay - Clocks
Vanessa Carlon - 1000 miles
really happy to her some of these - tubular bells, firth of the fifith, etc… well done
Wonderful! Wonderful! I got most (without looking) but not all. What struck me was how similar many were but also how many stood out after just a few notes - remarkable songwriting. You are a genii, Mr Bennett, and no mistake 😊
WOW! I know classical musicians learn long pieces like a whole piano concerto but how do you learn 80 different unconnected pieces? Only towards the end did I see you look up at all, to presumably check a track list. It was like watching someone walk a tightrope waiting for you, but hoping you don't, fall off. You played all the pieces so well too. It was such a treat to watch and listen to this video. Well done!
Thank you! Yeah, as you noticed, I was looking up to check with song was next! 🙂
@@DavidBennettPiano thanks for adding Mike Oldfield in there!
some pianist can play the well tempered clavier all by memory (24 pieces for book) wich has super complex counterpoint non stop, that's super human, just to give you an idea, probably 1 prelude and fugue would required more ability than this hole video (by the way the guy did great i don't want it to sound like am shitting on him)
Firth of Fifth by Genesis. One of my favorite songs from my favorite bands. Most times Genesis gets overlooked in videos like this, although they collectively and singularly are some of the most influential musicians alive.
That was mesmerizing, David. Thanks so much!
Wow David, this was freaking awesome! My favorite is Firth of Fifth, I’m learning it right now, sooo much fun with all those odd meters
You should do a Disney songs edition of this. A few stand-outs include:
Why Should I Worry (Oliver & Company)
Scales and Arpeggios (Aristocats)
Tale as Old as Time (Beauty and the Beast)
The Gospel Truth (Hercules)
And, somewhat begrudgingly... Let It Go (Frozen)
How is there not a single Queen song in here 😂
Piss on queen!
He plays Seven seas of Rhye at 5:49 , but I consider Queen have way better Intros, I guess it is a taste thing anyway... In the other hand, there is not much of Billy Joel, for example, and he seems to be much of a fan of The Beatles, specially John and Paul... I liked the list, but there is much more to put in the list, hopefully for a part 2 😊😊😊