I bought a piano back in October, and I am really liking it. I probably don’t play as much as I should be, but I try. Its actually easier for me to play guitar than piano - I can get through more songs without screwing up :)

Anyways, even when I was in piano lessons, I really wasn’t into playing classical and all that, I was more into rock n roll, The Beatles, John Lennon, things like that.

I know I have blogged before about you buy, that it is the lyrics in the treble clef, which I hate. Like you can listen to a song, and hear them play one thing, and they sing the lyrics, but in the sheet , the try to incorporate all that into the piano part - I hate that!!

Even so, I still buy some sheet , and now, I just do it online, and print it off. The site I primarily use is MusicNotes.com - it seems to have the best selection and price. I know Schmitt Music has an online store, I haven’t heard the best things though.

With MusicNotes, you can get , listen to it before you buy, print off the first sheet before you buy. You can even transpose it before you print, which is exactly what I did yesterday. I have a recording of John Lennon playing “Real Love” on the piano, just him. If you don’t know the song, The Beatles put it out on their Second Anthology in the 90’s - its really the last “new” Beatles song ever. Well, when the Beatles recorded it, the jumped the key up “The song has been sped up 12% from the demo” - so, the default key on the was too high (it matched the Beatles but not Lennon’s version), so I transposed it down to the right key. And I have been playing it the last day, but yet, I am not playing the . Looking at the chords, taking bits and pieces, and trying get rid of the damn lyrics in the treble clef notes!!


Where else does a piano playing geek look for ? of course! A while back I found a site with a ton of from . Super Mario Bros. is the ultimate piece, most everyone knows it. There is the Overworld, Underworld, and Underwater themes. I can play Underworld and Underwater themes fairly well, I might even try to record Underwater. The Overworld is a bit tougher.  One of my best memories of growing up was playing “The Goonies II” on NES. I remember playing with my cousins and sister. That game, in my opinion, was one of the best. was great, just fun game to play. I found the for that as well! Great stuff, tough though. Fast and crazy. I lost the original link to the site where I got the , so I will just post up some copies here, they are zip files, containing a midi of the song, and a PDF of the . I have more than these 4 and maybe I will post them all up on a sub site of my website.

 Super Mario Bros. Overworld Theme

Super Mario Bros. Underworld Theme

Super Mario Bros. Underwater Theme

Goonies Overworld Theme