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Summary: Octave Lifestyle
Review: Piano recital crowds can be an unruly bunch.Look at it from their perspective: forced to sit on folding metal chairs, usually in a church's rec-room on a Saturday, listening to semi-skilled seventh-graders bungle their way through countless renditions of "Greensleeves" and AM radio-style feel-good tunes. When it's your turn on the bench, blow them through the back wall with startling adaptations of popular Hollywood film songs! You might not think that an instrumental version of Huey Lewis' song from "Back to the Future" would be something people would enjoy, but you would be WRONG! "That's the Power of Love!" And you can't even imagine the applause you'll receive if you double-up for a medley of Aerosmith's obscure, underplayed song from "Armageddon" and "Somewhere Out There" from the Fievel movie. Lull them into a stupor with the repetitive "Harry Potter" jingle, then make them shaken, not stirred, when you crank into some 007 action! Now then, how to close out the show? Sting always likes to leave his audience on a subdued note (hence his tendency to play "Fragile" for the encore), so you may want to follow this philosophy by playing the song from "Lord of the Rings" (even though it's not the boring one by Enya). Or, you can leave 'em on their feet clapping with some old-school '70s action: "Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive" ah ah ah ah "Stayin' Aliiiii-iiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiii-iiiive"! NOTE: "Axel F," the "Jaws" theme, and that keyboard-thing from "Top Gun" are not included, because everybody already knows how to play them. This book will also come in handy if one of the weird girls in your class makes a misguided effort to regale high-school students with her stirring performance of "Wind Beneath My Wings" and asks you to play the accompaniment.
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