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Quiet Em

(2,497 posts) Tue Oct 28, 2025, 06:08 PM Oct 28

I seem to enjoy converting piano songs to acoustic guitar

I was working on Benny and the Jets last week when it hit me that I do a lot of piano songs.

Today I felt influenced to do Rich Girl by Hall & Oates. I watched an old clip of Daryl Hall playing it on his acoustic guitar on the Howard Stern show years ago. I didn't know it was originally written as Rich Guy, about a pompous, wealthy guy who was visiting Daryl and Sara Allen, but Daryl didn't think Rich Guy sounded right. I found it all so fitting with what is going on today so I'm playing it out and I'm keeping Rich Guy in the lyrics when I sing. It fits just fine with me in regard to the current events.

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I seem to enjoy converting piano songs to acoustic guitar (Original Post) Quiet Em Oct 28 OP

I used to play full time back in the 20th century and our band did that sometimes too. iscooterliberally Oct 28 #1

Piano Man actually works quite well on an acoustic guitar Quiet Em Oct 28 #2

I Do That All The Time ProfessorGAC Nov 3 #3

iscooterliberally

(3,145 posts)

1. I used to play full time back in the 20th century and our band did that sometimes too.

Reply to Quiet Em (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 08:17 PM

Oct 28

We used to do Piano Man without a keyboard player. We also did Whiter Shade of Pale. I played bass though, so it would've been the same for me either way. It was pretty comical doing Piano Man without the piano. "Rich Guy" sounds like it would be fun too. Good luck out there!

Quiet Em

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2. Piano Man actually works quite well on an acoustic guitar

Reply to iscooterliberally (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 08:55 PM

Oct 28

but yeah, it's pretty damn funny to do it without an actual piano,

Love your DU screen name

ProfessorGAC

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3. I Do That All The Time

Reply to Quiet Em (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 05:35 PM

Nov 3

Same band as you, but I do Sara Smile on guitar.
Also, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Time After Time, Rundgren's I Saw The Light, Billie Holiday's Am I Blue, and so on.
I do most of them on 12 string.
Funny thing is, when I was still performing, I regularly created keyboard parts for 2 guitar songs, instead of playing guitar.
So, I've done it both directions.

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