Balcony Birds \\ Original By Jacob's Piano !!EXCLUSIVE!!

This is a note-for-note transcription of Chuck Leavell's entire (1:27) "Jessica" piano solo - both hands - exactly as he plays it on current tours - very similar to, but not exactly the same as the original 1973 recording. Study this classic solo in detail, and learn to play it yourself, precisely as Chuck Leavell does.

Balcony Birds \\ Original by Jacob's Piano

"Jessica", one of the Allman Brothers' classics, has been a favorite since the 1970's, when my rock-and-roll band played it at almost every gig. "Jessica" is on the 1973 album "Brothers and Sisters," by The Allman Brothers Band, Capricorn Records CP 0111. Produced by Johnny Sandlin & The Allman Brothers Band, the album is "dedicated to a brother - Berry Oakley," their original bass player who died in a motorcycle accident near the location of Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident.For the piano, the Allman Brothers brought in Georgian Chuck Leavell, who since then has played with The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton ("UnPlugged"). This note-perfect piano transcription shows Leavell's solo in "Jessica" to be beautifully structured, containing a great section of over-the-bar-line type of phrasing, which leads into ascending and descending octave phrases, then into a section of "hammer-on" fourths, ending with an ascending broken-octave passage in unison with the rest of the band. There's lots of fun stuff in this piano solo to learn, and to learn from.

This transcription only contains the Intro and the Out Section, for that is where the pianistic interplay is uninterrupted by any vocals, showing off each man's skills to best advantage. And this is arranged for solo piano, based note-for-note on the original two-piano duet. Sometimes, especially in the Out Section, both men were playing some complex ad libs at the same time, impossible to reproduce with only two hands, so the most important - and fun to play - riffs were used in this arrangement. If you want to play the two most fun sections of "Baby Grand" as a piano solo, this is exactly what you need.

In 1975 Billy Joel performed "Piano Man" live on "Old Grey Whistle Test", a British TV show, and played a solo that was different from his recorded version - a little bit 'jazzier', with some nice rippling 8th-note-triplet runs and octave flourishes. This is a note-for-note transcription of two important sections of "Piano Man": the brief, unaccompanied 3-bar piano Introduction from his original 1973 recording, and the 16-bar piano solo that he performed two years later live on "Old Grey Whistle Test".

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1957) - Complete Piano Part (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).pdfBy late 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis had already released two singles, "Crazy Arms", and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On". When his third single, "Great Balls of Fire" was released in November 1957 it went through the roof, selling a million copies in ten days, and eventually almost six million records - his biggest hit ever. The piano part was a high-energy pumping, rocking piano style that had never been heard before. And when Jerry Lee played it live, his hands were a blur, setting a new standard for piano technique in rock music. He had shown pianistic talent at age five, and had practiced diligently when his parents bought him his own piano. This is a note-for-note transcription of the entire piano part in the original 1957 recording of "Great Balls of Fire", including the 16-bar piano solo, complete with rolling riffs in thirds, tremolos in 6ths, boogie-woogie-type chord voicings, and lots of glissandi and repeated,pounding high 6th's. If you've ever marveled at the energy and pure drive that Jerry Lee Lewis achieved on "Great Balls of Fire", this is your opportunity to learn and play the entire song exactly as he recorded it at the age of 22.Difficulty: Moderate

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1989) - Both Piano Solos (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).pdf"Great Balls of Fire" was a huge rock-and-roll hit for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957, But by 1989 when Dennis Quaid was starring in a movie about The Killer's life story, Jerry Lee had pretty much abandoned rock-and-roll for Country & Western twenty years previously. However, the movie's producers convinced Jerry Lee to re-record a number of his biggest hits to be used in the soundtrack of the movie, which was titled Great Balls of Fire!.This is a note-for-note transcription of both piano solos in the 1989 re-recording of "Great Balls of Fire", which was performed at a faster tempo than the 1957 original recording, perhaps as Jerry Lee's way of saying that despite being 32 years older, he was gonna ramp it up a notch - 14 BPM faster, to be precise. This later performance is more driving, and less 'rolling' than the earlier version.

However, in 2003 "The Lennon Legend" DVD was released. For the audio part of the remastering of this DVD-project, instead of using the 2-track (mixed) tapes as normally used in these cases, the producers went back to the original multi-track session tapes and remixed the songs from scratch. This resulted in a much clearer piano part that can be transcribed note-perfectly. If you'd like to perform this wonderful, minimalist piano part precisely as John Lennon conceived and Nicky Hopkins performed it, here is your opportunity. 041b061a72