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Music - The Piano Guys Top 6: Modern Classical Music



If you're still making up you mind about Classical Music, here's something to help you decide, The Piano Guys.

The Piano Guys is a musical group which consists of pianist John Schmidt, cellist Steven Sharp Nelson, videographer Paul Anderson, and music producer Al van der Beek. They do a mix of contemporary, classical, and rock music, and often combine these genres (for example, some of their videos have songs which are a classical song combined with a movie song). Because of this, they often write their own music!

The group originated at Anderson's piano store, The Piano Guys, in St. George, Utah. He often had local piano player John Schmidt come in to test his pianos.

In 2009, Anderson saw a video which Schmidt and Nelson had uploaded to YouTube, Love Story Meets Viva la Vida, which earned more than 1 million hits. He then invited the two to post videos on his store's Facebook page and YouTube channel, for advertisement. Nelson brought Beek, his neighbor who was also a music producer, with him. From there, it just took off (although, they did have their fair share of failures).

The Piano Guys have conducted many live tours, published multiple albums, and have a popular YouTube channel, where most of their videos are posted (they don’t post music from their tours). Here is a list of my 6 favorite (in order). I highly recommend that you listen to them:

1.) Beethoven's 5 Secrets


2.) The Cello Song
(I couldn't find the video using Blogger)

3.) Rockelbel's Cannon


4.) Lord of the Rings


5.) Charlie Brown Medley


6.) Code Name Vivaldi



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