Piano is the most pure sounding, spine chilling, hair-stand-up-on-arm elements of music, outside that of our natural voice of course. However, the two are basically identical if you look closely. If you open up the top of a piano you'll see strings and these felt looking "hammer" things that are triggered whenever you hit a black or white key. That's really all it is. The strings are like our vocal chords and the felt triggers the note we're singing.
Put these two together and you can make any pop song sound like a true ballad. Tyler Hilton shows this perfectly with his mellow cover of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. Musicians out there take note...stop using so many effects on your instruments and just play the damn thing. There's a reason why the instrument was born before the effect pedal and the delay moduler. Chicken or egg?
Cheers.
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