Piano Guy

The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp
Nelson, Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek. All of their songs was produced and written by them.
Most of their song was a classical song which theyve re-write and played in a modern version or
remix. They are really creative and an professional performer and musician. They gained popularity
through YouTube, where they posted lots of popular song and classical music. Steve Steven Sharp
Nelson is an American cellist, best known for his part in The Piano Guys. an alternative performance
method that combines traditional, lyrical cello techniques with unconventional pizzicato and
percussive technique. He was born and still resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. He began studying cello at
age 8, percussion at age 12 and guitar at age 17. He has invented a new method of playing the cello
that combines elements learned from each of these instruments. Jon Schmidt (born 1966) is an
American pianist. He describes his style as "New Age Classical. His work is often described as New
Age music with pop elements of hook and melody.
Piano guy rewrite an original arrangement and adaptation of J.S. Bach's Unaccompanied
Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude, by Steven Sharp Nelson. While the original prelude is for solo cello, Steven
adapted it for 8 cellos, with the addition of original material. This piece had been featured in a lot of
movies and car commercials. Steven Sharp Nelson decided that this piece needed some
accompaniment. Steven Sharp Nelson rewrite this piece by adding some original material and 7
more cello parts stacked on top of each other, Steve has created a cool new sound that embellishes
all the features that have made Bach's work so popular. The 7 new parts include drawn-out melodies
which soar above fast arpeggios, strumming chords from a guitar-like part, shaker sounds
accomplished by rubbing the sides of the cello, tremolo and a cello-banging percussion part
complete with bass drum.
In this song Steven Sharp Nelson play melody line, fast arpeggios, strumming chords,
percussion part by himself. Piano guy group use the power of technology to combine all video
Steven Sharp playing with each cello part. Then the video plays seems like he play all the part at the
same time. Steven Sharp also created a different melody line that counterpoint with the main
melody. Chord in each bar played by different techniq for example, playing with full bow and
plucking and strumming each string to created chord sound. He also make some improvised pattern
and It created harmony sound and improve the texture and the colour of the songs.