Music with Electric Piano

I'm not sure if anyone here knows what an electric piano is, but, it's like a piano, but it's electric/electronic, and it makes this kind of sound. I've been pretty curious about it since there's a "voice" for it on my Yamaha Clavinova at home.

Are there any songs out there with this instrument? I don't hear a lot of music with it.

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The other wiki has a nice list of popular songs using different kinds of electric pianos. From the song you posted it sounds like you're mainly looking for things that use a Fender Rhodes.

Don't know if this has it exactly, but this sort of sounds like it:

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A lot of Country Music songs use the Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric pianos. Tim Mc Graw even says something about an "old Wurly humming", followed by a Wurlitzer riff, on "Back When".

If you really want to go all out, "Everyday America" by Sugarland has a clavinet, and "There's No Limit" by Deana Carter has a harpsichord. (The liner notes say there's also a harpsichord on Travis Tritt's "Anymore", but I can't hear it — the song has about a billion instruments on it.)

Now that I think of it, a lot of songs on The Beatles' last two albums have electric piano on them.

Personally, I most recommend "I've Got a Feeling":

It's not the most prominent instrument, but when you hear it, it's gold.

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However, "Get Back" is really what you need if you want awesome keyboards. (The beginning and end of this video is truncated a bit for some reason, but it's the best quality video I can find on You Tube.)

Damn. Billy Preston. Play that thing.

edited 13th Dec '12 2:21:55 PM by 0dd1

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Doug Burr's album On Promenade has Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes on nearly every song.

The psychedelic band Brightblack Morning Light has a Fender Rhodes as a major part of their sound.

Sounds like there are all these different kinds of Electric Pianos. I'm honestly not an expert on that instrument, but what are all those different types?

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Really, the different types are mostly just different brands. And then you get into the different sounds you get from those and the different models each brand makes that also make different sounds. Most of the time they sound somewhat similar yet quite distinct from one another, though at times they can have sounds that are nothing like one another. It's pretty much like any instrument; using guitars as an analogy, a Gibson Les Paul is going to sound very different from a Fender Telecaster.

Wurlitzer is the most popular, though.

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• Fender Rhodes: Used metal tines (like tuning forks) struck with plastic hammers to produce sounds. In general, sounded more like an amplified vibraphone or electric celeste than a piano. Very popular in jazz music and pop ballads for a time in the 70s and early 80s.
• Wurlitzer: Used metal reeds (like those found in accordions, harmoniums or harmonicas) struck by hammers. A little more “spiky” than the Rhodes. Supertramp were big time users of this instrument, it appeared on most of their most popular albums, the song “Dreamer” is a good example of its sound.
• Hohner Pianet: Used metal reeds like the Wurlitzer, but depending on the model either used hammers or leather suction pads that pulled off the reeds. Obviously, you would get less dynamic variance out of models using the latter.
• Yamaha CP 60/70/80: These are actual pianos, with strings, but amplified with guitar-like pickups. The CP 70 and 80 were grand pianos, the difference being the size of the keyboard (the 80 had the full 88 keys, while the 70 had a reduced keyboard of 73 keys). The CP 60 was the rare upright model. Obviously it offered a more “pianistic” sound than other electric pianos. Genesis used one on some of their mid-period albums. More recently, Keane adopted it as a defining instrument for their sound.

Incidentally, don’t confuse electronic pianos (which use analog oscillators to fake the sound of a piano, usually poorly) or digital pianos with electric pianos. There were off-brand electric pianos as well as occasional “amplified electric” pianos like the ones made by Yamaha (Baldwin made some as did Helpinstill) but these are the major ones you’re likely to come across.

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(I think that's their only song that uses it though.)

edited 15th Dec '12 12:25:39 AM by Nyktos

I guess it is.