Elmo Peeler Note-for-Note Piano Transcriptions | | | |
Dear Elmo,
Today is the first day of April 2025 - Happy April Fool's Day! - and time again for my monthly newsletter, to keep you informed of recent transcriptions and other news of the last month.
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Eddie Harsch - The Black Crowes
"Descending"
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I have four new transcriptions this month, including Jackson Browne's "For a Dancer" - one of rock's most beautiful songs about losing someone you love.
Also new this month is "Descending" by The Black Crowes - a wonderful piano-only Out section played by Eddie Harsch.
And if you like Santana, perhaps you're familiar with their positive-vibe "Everything's Coming Our Way". Gregg Rolie (Journey & Ringo Starr's All-Star Band) takes a terrific Hammond B-3 solo in it.
My fourth brand-new transcription this month is of a short piano 'miniature' of "Tender Years" from the 1983 movie Eddie & the Cruisers. Played by Bobby Cotoia of John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown band, it wasn't released on the original sound track album and is a rarely-heard beautiful little gem.
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ALL of the Sheet Music listed on my website has been personally transcribed by me, and guaranteed to be note-for-note perfect.
Whether you:
- have a cover band and want to get your keyboard parts exactly correct,
- are a professional who wants to study the styles of rock's greatest keyboard players, or
- are a hobbyist that wants to learn how to play pop/rock and great piano music,
...these note-for-note transcriptions will prove extremely helpful.
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In the News! - Jackson Browne, Eddie Harsch, Gregg Rolie & Bobby Cotoia
Four of rock's most talented players
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Jackson Browne, one of rock's best singer-songwriters, plays both guitar and piano.
Born in Germany in 1948, Jackson's family moved to Los Angeles when he was three years old.
In his teens he began singing folk songs in local L.A. venues including Ash Grove and The Troubador Club.
After graduating from high school he joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band but left after a few months and moved to New York's Greenwich Village. Before turning 18 he became a staff writer for Elektra's publishing company.
In 1968 he returned to L.A. and formed a folk band with Ned Doheny (of Greystone Mansion fame).
In 1971 after early professional frustrations, Browne sent an audition tape to David Geffen, then left town to check out communes in Colorado and New Mexico.
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When he returned to L.A. three months later, Geffen signed him and released his first album, "Jackson Browne", which contained the classics, "Jamaica Say You Will", "Doctor My Eyes", "Rock Me on the Water" and "Looking into You".
In 1973 a close friend, Scott Runyon, a talented dancer, skater, tailor, painter, and sculptor, died in a West Hollywood house fire. It was for him that Jackson wrote "For a Dancer". This extraordinarily poignant song was played at the funerals of John Belushi and Phil Hartman and at Nicolette Larson's tribute concert.
When touring in 1975 in a converted Greyhound bus, Browne was accompanied by his wife Phyllis and one-year-old son Ethan. Tragically, the following year Phyllis took her own life.
From that life-changing tragedy Jackson wrote "Here Come Those Tears Again", which he co-wrote with Phyllis' mother.
At the age of 76 Jackson Browne continues to write, record and tour - a remarkable man with a strong social conscience.
Here are my Jackson Brown transcriptions:
Jackson Browne - For a Dancer - Jackson Browne, piano - NEW!
Jackson Browne - I Thought I was a Child - Jackson Browne, piano
Jackson Browne - Looking into You - Jackson Browne, piano
Jackson Browne - Rock Me on the Water - Craig Doerge, piano
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In the mid-1960's Gregg Rolie started playing rock piano in his
California high school after the Beatles exploded onto the scene. When the best band in his high school asked him to join, he began playing a Vox Continental organ and trying to sound like Paul Revere & The Raiders.
A friend of Rolie's saw Carlos Santana play and said, "I'm gonna go find this guy!" So he drove 30 miles up to San Francisco and asked someone at the Fillmore how he could find Carlos. Told that he worked at a hamburger stand called Tick Tock's on Columbus Street, Rolie's friend found him there and said, "I want you to come jam with Gregg Rolie down
in Palo Alto."
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So he brought Carlos down and they played together in a little farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. This was of course, back in the days of heavy marijuana usage, and someone evidently called the cops because of the noise. As Gregg says, "I turned to Carlos and said, 'We've gotta get out of here!' But coming from the streets of Tijuana, he was way ahead of me. We all ran out of the farmhouse and hid in a tomato patch until the cops left! And that's how it all started."
Rolie became a co-founder of Santana, and played keyboards and sang lead on "Black Magic Woman", "Oye Como Va", and "Evil Ways".
He recalls, "I bought my first Hammond B-3 organ from a little old lady in Menlo Park, California. It was absolutely beautiful and only cost me $1,100 with a 122 Leslie, which was a total steal at the time. This was around 1966 or '67, when I joined Santana. In the beginning, that organ sounded really clean. But as the years went on, and from it being constantly loaded in and out of vans, the sound got dirtier."
His other keyboard with Santana was a Stage model Fender Rhodes 73 with a wah-wah pedal.
After leaving Santana in 1972 because of musical differences, he co-founded Journey. Since 2012 Rolie has toured as a member of Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band.
My Gregg Rolie and Santana transcriptions:
Santana - Everything's Coming Our Way - Organ Solo - Gregg Rolie, organ - NEW!
Santana - "Black Magic Woman" - Elec. Piano Solo - Gregg Rolie, electric piano
Santana - "Evil Ways" - B-3 Organ Solo - Gregg Rolie, organ
Santana - "Oye Como Va" - B-3 Organ Solo - Gregg Rolie, organ
Santana - "Smooth" - Entire Song - Chester Thompson, piano
Journey - Feeling That Way - Intro & Verse 1 - Gregg Rolie, piano
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Eddie Harsch was born Edward Hawrysch on May 27, 1957, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He played keyboards and bass guitar.
In the 1980s he moved to Detroit in the 1980s - drawn to the city's "bohemian subculture" and was often spotted hopping onstage to jam with local bands while more formally lending his services to groups such as the Detroit Cobras and Bulldog, the band he launched in 2003 with guitarist Kenny Tudrick.
In the 1980s, he was a member of blues great James Cotton’s band.
He was a member of The Black Crowes from 1991 - 2002 and from 2005 - 2006.
His recording work in Detroit included albums such as Kid Rock's "Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp" in 1996.
He passed away in his native Toronto in 2016 at the age of 59.
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In 1953 Bobby Cotoia, keyboardist for John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band, was born in North Providence, Rhode Island.
His career, as had so many other musicians of Italian-American descent, started as an accordionist.
As a teen, he caught the Rock ‘n’ Roll bug and began focusing his attention on the piano in his parents’ living room. (Legend has it that Bobby rolled that piano down the street to attend his first garage band rehearsal!)
Due to the condition of pianos (or in many cases, simply the of a piano) in the venues available to young bands, Bobby switched to organ – at first, a portable combo model and by the early ’70s, to the Cadillac of the instrument: the Hammond B-3 with a Leslie rotating speaker cabinet.
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The chops he’d acquired during his early Classical training coupled with his love of R&B organ styles had made him one of the most in-demand players on the scene. By 1971, Bobby was working as an arranger and session player at the Rhode Island branch of Boston’s AAA Recording Studios in Johnston.
John Cafferty, Bobby Cotoia, Pat Lupo, Gary Gramolini, and Kenny Jo Silva - a few years later joined by saxman Michael "Tunes" Antunes - formed The Beaver Brown Band in South County in the early ’70s as kids. They lived together in a few houses in Narragansett, the five original members eating, sleeping, and playing music under the same roof. They were tight-knit, a brotherhood that believed in nothing less than playing music for a living, which they did immediately, thanks to their local popularity.
At first, they worked the beach bars along the southern Rhode Island coast. But they soon expanded beyond those borders to clubs throughout New England, New York, and New Jersey. They gained confidence and developed a classic, early rock and roll-inspired sound.
The band’s big break came a full 10 years after forming, when a movie director, Martin Davidson, saw the band live and invited them to write songs for his upcoming film, Eddie and the Cruisers (1983). While the film died at the box office, HBO picked it up in 1984 and it caught fire. The film’s success, powered by Beaver Brown’s terrific soundtrack, catapulted the hometown rockers to the top of the charts with "On the Dark Side." All of a sudden the Narragansett kids had a double platinum recording on their hands.
Cotoia was forced to retire from the road during the 1990s due to illness, but remained an active member of the group in the studio.
Bobby Cotoia was a member of the Beaver Brown Band for 32 years, from 1972 until he passed away in 2004.
In Eddie & the Cruisers (1983), about 24 minutes into the movie, there is a scene where the lead character (played by Tom Berenger) is alone in a bar, playing a beautiful slow piano piece - a slow, instrumental version of "Tender Years". Bobby Cotoia, pianist for The Beaver Brown Band, actually played the piano.
That piece was not included on the original sound track album, and has never been available except in the movie. This month I've transcribed that solo piano version of "Tender Years".
Here are my John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band transcriptions:
Eddie & the Cruisers - "Tender Years" - Piano - Bobby Cotoia, piano - NEW!
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - "On the Dark Side" - Bobby Cotoia, piano
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April's New Transcriptions - Jackson Browne - "For a Dancer", The Black Crowes - "Descending", Santana - "Everything's Coming Our Way"
Plus "Tender Years" - a solo piano piece from Eddie & the Cruisers
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Jackson Browne - "For a Dancer"
Solo Acoustic, Vol.1
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One of my four new transcriptions this month is of Jackson Browne's "For a Dancer".
Written for a 29-year-old friend who died in 1973 in a West Hollywood, CA house fire, it's a lament about loss but with a powerful message of hope.
This is a note-for-note transcription of Jackson Browne's beautiful piano accompaniment that he performed on his Solo Acoustic, Vol.1 album (2005).
A study in the lower mid-register of the piano keyboard, within that warm range, Browne beautifully expresses deep caring and heartbreak.
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My second new transcription this month is of The Black Crowes' "Descending" - the extended Out section that is just Eddie Harsch's solo piano, from their Amorica album (1994).
After four-and-a-half minutes the vocals and all instruments stop except Harsch's piano. Then for the next little over a minute, the piano is the only instrument heard, with Harsch improvising a beautiful piano coda, winding down to a pianissimo last measure - a beautiful ending to a classic rock song.
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My third new transcription this month is of Gregg Rolie's Hammond B-3 organ solo in Santana's "Everything's Coming Our Way" from the Santana III album (1971).
Almost a minute long, the solo contains several excellent Hammond organ techniques: fat chords, a blazingly-fast descending single-note run (almost three octaves), and sustained notes while other notes move around. That last technique of holding a note while playing other notes around it is very effective at building tension on a B-3, and Rolie is a master.
The Performance Notes (on the last page) discuss this organ technique and point out exactly which measures use this technique.
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This exercise will help gain facility with the three basic Right Hand chord inversions: root position and first and second inversions.
It's in two sections. In the 'A' section a 4-bar phrase is played in first inversion, then up to second
inversion, and then up to root position. Then a second inversion chord descends more quickly through all the inversions. This completes the first 14-bar section.
The 'B' section repeats the first section but as a slightly enhanced variation, i.e., a couple of extra pick-up chords have been added leading into the original phrases.
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Not only will this help you become more comfortable with chord inversions, it will also give you some insight into the Allman Brothers style.
Two options are available, sheet music and a MIDI file.
BTW, if you need other good, effective technical exercises, please check out all of the 117 exercises
available.)
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Gospel Corner - Say 'Amen' Somebody
The Hangout Place for Gospel Classics
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You don't have to be from the Deep South to love Gospel piano, nor do you need to belong to any particular religion. All you have to have is a love for wonderful old-time, swinging, uplifting piano-playing.
Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Richard Tee and Ray Charles, some of the greatest keyboard players ever, loved the style and infused their own performances with Gospel licks and rhythms.
Inspired by the wonderful playing of the portly Associate Pastor/Musical Director of my childhood's Baptist Church deep in the piney woods of Mississippi, in recent years I've transcribed and/or arranged a few Gospel classics.
This little corner of my newsletter is where I'll keep you informed of my latest efforts to share that old-time Gospel sound.
Here are my Gospel transcriptions and/or arrangements, plus some exercises:
Full-blown Gospel:
The Doobie Brothers - "World Gone Crazy" (Piano Intro) (click here to hear it)
Billy Preston & The Beatles - "Without a Song" (click here to hear it)
"I'll Fly Away" - arranged by Elmo Peeler (click here to hear it)
"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" - arranged by Elmo Peeler (click here to hear it)
"Amazing Grace" - as played by Ethel Caffie-Austin (click here to hear it)
"Victory in Jesus" - as played by The Gaithers (click here to hear it)
Heavily Gospel Influenced:
Richard Tee - Contemporary Piano - First Piece
Floyd Cramer - "One Day at a Time (Sweet Jesus)"
Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water"
Mavis Staples - "Hard Times Come Again No More"
Van Morrison - "Benediction"
Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday" (version 1)
Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday" (version 2)
Jeff Beck Group (Nicky Hopkins) - "Girl from Mill Valley"
Plum Nellie - "A Love Like Yours"
Plum Nellie - "That Lucky Old Sun"
Bill Payne (of Little Feat) - "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Lari White (Bill Payne on piano) - "Lead Me Not"
Ray Charles - "Sweet Sixteen Bars"
Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles" - Gospel-style Intro by Billy Preston
The Rolling Stones (Billy Preston on piano) - "Shine a Light"
Delaney & Bonnie (Leon Russell) - "Faded Love"
Leon Russell - "She Belongs to Me"
Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water"
Moderately Gospel Influenced:
Bob Dylan & Clydie King - "Abraham, Martin and John"
Billy Vera & the Beaters - "At This Moment"
Bob Dylan - "Piano Mood" - Gospel-style piano improvisation
Delaney & Bonnie (Leon Russell) - "Don't Deceive Me"
Jackson Browne (Craig Doerge on piano) - "Rock Me on the Water"
Jerry Lee Lewis - "When the Saints Go Marching In"
James Taylor (Clarence McDonald on piano) - "Steamroller Blues" - Piano Solo
Leon Russell - "Old Masters"
Ray Charles - "Heartbreaker"
Ray Charles duo with Billy Joel - "Baby Grand"
Gospel-related Exercises:
Exercise in Blues Substitutions
Transform a Melody into Floyd Cramer's Style - Mary Had a Little Lamb
ii-chord Bump Exercise
Gospel Chord Exercise No.1
Gospel Chromatically-Descending Riff Exercise - Ethel Caffie-Austin's Signature Lick
Gospel Rhythm Exercise (in the style of Lari White's Good Good Love)
Descending R&B-Gospel Riff Exercise - Billy Preston-Richard Tee Style
R&B-Gospel Elements Exercise, incl. Substitutions - Billy Preston-Richard Tee Style
Exercise in Contrary Motion - Gospel-Rock
Exercise in Gospel - Walk-ups & Walk-downs, IV-chord Bumps & Strums
Exercise - How To Transform a Melody into Gospel
Gospel & Stride Exercise - Crossing the Left Hand over the Right
Exercise - Ray Charles Ending (Extended Walk-down)
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MIDI Corner - Transcriptions Turned into MIDI Files
Helpful for Those that Don't Read Sheet Music Well
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Most of my transcriptions have heretofore been available only as sheet music in PDF's. That is gradually changing - some are now also available as MIDI files, which can be especially helpful for those who would prefer to listen to them than to read the sheet-music notation.
This section of my newsletter is where I'll keep you informed of which transcriptions and exercises are available as MIDI files.
BTW, if you'd like my sheet music in a MIDI file, just let me know which one(s).
Here are the currently available MIDI files of my transcriptions, arrangements, and exercises:
MIDI Files of Rock, Pop & Classical Transcriptions:
Jackson Browne - For a Dancer - Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 - Piano.mid - NEW!
The Black Crowes - Descending - Out Section - Piano Solo.mid - NEW!
Eddie & the Cruisers - Tender Years - Piano.mid - NEW!
The Beatles - Revolution - Complete Electric Piano Part - Nicky Hopkins.mid
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Honky Tonk Night Time Man - Piano Solo - Billy Powell.mid
Boz Scaggs - Last Tango on 16th Street - Accordion (Bandoneon) Solo.mid
Tim McGraw - Something Like That - Piano in Verse 2.mid
The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers.mid
Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogie - Piano Solo.mid
Fran Cisko - Hot Piano Blues Solo! - Piano & Bass.mid
Elton John - "Rock and Roll Madonna".mid
Bob Dylan & Clydie King - "Abraham, Martin and John".mid
Nicky Hopkins - "Jenni"- Complete Piano Part.mid
Nicky Hopkins - "Interlude a la El Hopo" - Intro & "Flying Trapeze".mid
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Two 8-bar Verse Patterns) - Nicky Hopkins.mid
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Live 1995) - Piano Solo - Chuck Leavell.mid
Elton John - Honky Tonk Women (11-17-70) - Piano Solo.mid
Chuck Leavell - Sympathy for the Devil (8 bars).mid
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Is Coming (Improvised Section).mid
Travis Tritt - "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" - Piano Solo.mid
Sam Cooke - "Bring It On Home to Me".mid
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Workin' for MCA" - Electric Piano Solo.mid
Linda Ronstadt - "Back in the U.S.A." - Piano Solo.mid
Chris Higbee - "Living the Dream" - Piano Solo.mid
The Black Crowes - "Hard to Handle".mid
Cattanooga Cats - "Stop Right There".mid
The Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue - Arranged for Solo Piano.mid
Joe Zawinul - Jazz/Blues Acoustic Piano 4-minute Improvisation (1963).mid
Bruce Hornsby - Boogie-woogie Improvisation from The Tree Man.mid
Elmo Peeler - "Ashokan Farewell" arranged for Solo Piano (with Tempo Map).mid
Leon Russell - "Old Masters" (with Tempo Map)
Elton John - "Still Uses This Tip Leon Russell Gave Him in 1970"
B.B. King - "The Thrill Is Gone"
Jacob Tolliver - "Boogie Woogie Country Man"
Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood - "Squeeze Me In"
Meat Loaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" (with Tempo Map)
Ray Charles - "Mess Around"
Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday Boogie-Woogie"
Donald Fagen - Standard 12-bar Blues (in A Major) transcr/arr. by Elmo Peeler).mid
Meat Loaf - "Bat Out of Hell" (with Tempo Map).mid
Bach - Violin Concerto, BWV 1042 - 2nd Mvmt - For Synth/Sampler or Piano.mid
Bach - Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043 - 2nd Mvmt - For Synth/Sampler or Piano.mid
Booker T. & the M.G.'s - "Chinese Checkers".mid
Dave 'Baby' Cortez - "Rinky Dink".mid
Richard Tee - Contemporary Piano - First Piece.mid
Booker T. & the M.G.'s - "Hip Hug-Her".mid
Billy Vera & the Beaters - "At This Moment".mid
The Beatles (with Billy Preston) - "I've Got a Feeling" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Floyd Cramer - "One Day at a Time (Sweet Jesus)" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Gerry & the Pacemakers - "How Do You Do It" - Piano Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Glenn Frey - "Route 66" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Billy Preston & The Beatles - "Without a Song" (gospel jam)(transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Ray Charles - "Makin' Whoopee" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
The Beatles (with Billy Preston) - "Get Back" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Mavis Staples - Hard Times Come Again No More (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (arranged by Elmo Peeler).mid
Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie - with Left Hand in Broken Octaves.mid
The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Van Morrison - Benediction - Piano Part (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
The Meters - Cabbage Alley - Piano Part - Intro & Verse (trans. by Elmo Peeler).mid
Elmo Peeler - A Whiter Shade of Pale - (arranged for Solo Piano).mid
Leon Russell - Shoot Out on the Plantation (studio version) (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid
Leon Russell - Shoot Out on the Plantation (Solo Piano version) (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid
The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year - Piano Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Liberace - Chopsticks (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Long John Baldry - Conditional Discharge (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1957) (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Jerry Lee Lewis - Trouble in Mind - 2 Pianos: Jerry Lee &Tony Ashton (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Allman Brothers Band - Southbound - Complete Piano Part with Solo (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid
Bill Payne - The Ballad of Davy Crockett (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
Saving Mr. Banks (8 Different Songs) - Richard Sherman demos from "Mary Poppins".mid
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The House Is Rockin' - Piano Intro & Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid
MIDI Files of Exercises:
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Blues Substitutions
Elmo Peeler - Pig's Boogie Left-Hand Exercise
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Cross-bar Phrasing (based on "Jessica" rhythm)
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Ascending Chord Inversions
Elmo Peeler - Right Hand Lateral Motion Exercise
Elmo Peeler - Blues Exercise No. 12 - Alternating Hands Lick
Elmo Peeler - 6-note Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale Exercise
Elmo Peeler - Blues Exercise No.11 - 3rds, 6ths & Flips
Elmo Peeler - Exercise No.2 in Yodeling 6ths (Chromatically Ascending & Descending)
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in 4-note Chord Inversions
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Fast Rock/Pop/Gospel Right-hand Octaves
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Legato, Fingered Octaves
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Rhythmic 'Pushes' (Jackson Browne Style)
Elmo Peeler - Exercise on Bruce Hornsby's Boogie-woogie Left Hand Pattern
Elmo Peeler - Boogie-woogie Chromatic Double-thirds Exercise
Elmo Peeler - Repeated Note Exercise on the Most Common Cliche.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Chord Inversions (in the Allman Brothers style).mid - FEATURED
Elmo Peeler - Rippling Fingers Exercise.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Crossing Hands - No.3.mid
Elmo Peeler - Propulsion Exercise.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Flips & Tremolos in 3rds.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise - Transform a Melody into Floyd Cramer's Style - Mary Had a Little Lamb.mid
Elmo Peeler - Alberti Bass Exercise.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Harmonized Arpeggios for Two Hands.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise for Crossing Hands, No.2.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise for the Wrists - Banjo on the Piano.mid
Elmo Peeler - Articulation Exercise in 6ths, Inspired by Bach's Invention No.8.mid
Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Chromatic Double-thirds.mid
Elmo Peeler - Leon Russell Exercise.mid
Elmo Peeler - 4-5-2-1 Exercise for the 4th & 5th fingers.mid
Elmo Peeler - 4-5-4-1 Exercise for the 4th & 5th fingers.mid
Elmo Peeler - Rhythmic Exercise - Splitting the Left Hand.mid
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Have you always wanted the sheet music for a particular piano or organ solo? or perhaps an entire keyboard part?
Please send me your custom transcription requests, because I've found a new way to separate the piano from other instruments/vocals better than ever before. This was used for the first time on Elton's "Rock and Roll Madonna" (a complex piano track) four months ago. Before that I sometimes had to decline transcription requests because the piano part was obscured and could not be heard clearly enough to accurately transcribe. This is an important new tool that creates multi-track clear piano parts.
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Happy Springtime 2025!... and a Big Hello to warmth and to Rebirth.
So as Mother Nature re-awakens, keep immersing yourself in your passions. Embrace the activities - and those you love - and make the most of every day. Practicing piano should be high on that list. Dust off old repertoire, learn new pieces, and - very importantly - enjoy the process.
I've had the good fortune to have worked with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry; and if you're serious about learning, I'll be happy to help you enjoy the process, too.
By means of Skype lessons (or in-person if you're in L.A.), I can coach you and help you to improve your technique, your rhythm, your ability to improvise, your knowledge of music theory, your sight-reading, and to develop relative pitch.
I've had the good fortune to have toured the world playing keyboards and arranging/conducting for these Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Artists:
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- The Beach Boys
- Rod Stewart - All 'Unplugged' Concerts
- Ricky Nelson - Stone Canyon Band
And I've also won classical piano competitions performing Beethoven, Rubinstein and Saint-Saens' Piano Concerti. See me playing here. "Josie's Boogie" is quite the virtuoso dramatic minor-key showpiece; check out the ascending double-octave run at the ending... :)
Thanks to the internet, I can help you play piano better - rock or classical, by ear or by note.
Or if you live near the Hollywood Hills, I'll teach you in my home or yours.
If you'd like to improve, drop me a note at info@manymidi.com. Tell me three things:
1) Your musical background
2) Where you are currently, musically-speaking
3) Your musical goals
If you'd like to step back in time, watch me playing piano with Ricky Nelson on the Tonight Show - click here.
And here is a video of us playing three songs on The Midnight Special. And here we are on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show.
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My students include members of:
- Weezer (Rivers & Brian)
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Vampire Weekend (Ezra & newest addition, Greta)
- Incubus (Mike)
- The Strokes (Nick)
- Rooney (Robert)
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Jason Schwartzman (The Hunger Games - 2023, Asteroid City, Mozart in the Jungle)
- Courteney Cox
- Pablo Dylan
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