Chords for 7 Super Famous Piano Riffs

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Today I'm going to show you some famous piano riffs.
My personal
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Hey guys, good to see you here today.
I'm very happy.
Why?
Because I'm
playing my favorite instrument, the Yamaha MODX.
This is what I actually use live and
it's got a great piano sound so I thought this would be perfect to illustrate to you
some famous piano riffs.
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And so, you know, let's get into it.
The number one that I like is Bruce
Hornsby and it goes something like this.
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[C] _ It's quite cool, isn't it?
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The next one is my personal favorite.
It's Rotary Connection
and the Black Gold of the Sun.
This song is like a cult song for some people of my generation
who really like rare groove [Eb] and, you know, funky disco boogie.
And it goes something
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If you haven't checked out this song yet, hey,
you should do it.
The Rotary Connection and the Black Gold of the Sun.
The original version
is of course, you know, very cool but there are two more versions.
One from _ 4Hero and
one from Louis Vega and you should check both.
_ The next song is from a fellow Italian
composer and producer by [C] the name, by the artistic name of Robert Miles.
And he wrote
this one, I think around the 90s and it's called Children and check how memorable this
is.
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And it goes like house tune.
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Italian tradition in melodies.
_ _ Now the next one is
one of my favorite bands of all time, The Chic and this is the piano riff of Good Times.
Now pay attention because this has defined piano disco.
Check it out.
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_ [Em] Let me break it
down [E] for you because this is very interesting.
So it's, _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ and then the next [E] one is like this.
[D] _ _ _ [Gb] And then it goes, [A] _ sorry, _ and then it goes [Gbm] like that.
But what's interesting is one,
two, three, four.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ This is [G] the equivalent of what happens with the guitar,
you know, the rhythm guitar on disco.
This kind of playing with this, you know, little
fills.
[Em] _ _ [N] Those little fills that give all that [Eb] _ swag to it, that movement, that tumbao, that's
been defined by The Chic.
Now this one coming up needs no introduction. _ _
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_ [Ab] _ _ So how did I do
this one?
Just by using this CFX pad.
I'm actually on category piano acoustic and this
one has a [C] pad.
See?
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bit and then you just play this in [Eb] unison.
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_ _ _ Couldn't be any simpler.
But
one thing that you want to check out is the _ _ _ salsa version of it, which is like super fun
because it begins exactly like this, but then it goes into _ _ _ _ the_
_ _ _ And it becomes sort of like a cha-cha salsa version of it.
It's extremely fun.
And now
Vanessa Carlton, A Thousand Miles.
I don't know this one [E] perfectly, but it goes something
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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ And finally, I'm going to go with the oldest trick in the book for piano riffs.
_ And this one is really old, but it's really famous.
I'm going to try and play it for you.
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