In this episode, find 20+ emotive teen piano repertoire picks that appeal to older or adult students, complete with play-through demos.

Teen and adult students require extra repertoire planning, because you’re not often teaching from a method book, but finding specific pieces that appeal to their unique tastes. They often gravitate toward darker, moodier, rich, chordal-based music with repetitive lines.

We’ll look at themes from movies and popular new-age style composers, from Yiruma to Einaudi, in this episode, (and save you some time playing through them all yourself!)

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In this episode, you’ll hear our 20+ emotive teen repertoire picks

• All of Me – Piano Guys
• Comptine d’un autre ete – Amelie theme
• Cristofori’s Dream – David Lanz
• Forrest Gump theme (in Piano for Leisure series book)
• Glasgow theme from Love, Actually
• Kiss the Rain, and A River Flows in You – Yiruma
• Primavera – Einaudi
• Gymnopedie no. 1 – Satie
• Le Onde “The Waves” – Ludovico Einaudi
• Nuvole Bianche “The Clouds” – from Insidious – Einaudi
• Schindler’s List theme
• Song for Guy – Elton John
• The Heart Asks Pleasure First and Big My Secret – Michael Nyman from The Piano
• American Beauty theme – John Williams
• St. Elmo’s Fire theme
• Summer of ’42 theme
• Tubular Bells from The Exorcist
• Metamorphosis works – Philip Glass
• Chariots of Fire theme
• In My Place; Atlas; Fix You – Coldplay

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