One-man band wannabe! July 19, 2011 7:56 PM   Subscribe  Help
learning pop music arrangement for piano?  I have a decent,
though dated classical piano background (~8 years as a child).
I'd like to have some fun playing pop. Now, pretty much most of
the pop sheet music I see looks like this: 3 staves (from top to
bottom: 2 treble, 1 bass), with lyrics between the 2 treble
staves and guitar chord tabs on top. How can I make this sound
good, assuming I'm just playing solo piano and not singing
along?  I'm guessing the intent is for the guitar to be playing
the chords, the first treble staff is for the vocalist, and the
piano plays the second treble + bass? If I just play the
putative piano part, it sounds pretty empty. So I figure I need
to do some kind of re-arrangement to make this sound good with
just a piano and two hands -- somehow incorporate the vocal
melody line and flesh it out with chords and fills. How can I
learn to do this? Composition and arrangement is totally new to
me, all my training was learni