Do you agree if piano is your first instrument to play, you would be hard to band up with rock bands?

Elton John and Billy Joel might disagree with you

Although piano may seem to be a soloist instrument it has played in some orchestras. If you think of joining a band while playing piano. I only think that should be super awesome! Try it, why not? It'll be sensational! Piano goes well with practicly everything (look at the jazz clubs). GO FOR IT! Heck, why don't you play electric guitar and bass too. ROCK ON! Not always everything has to be jazzy. Fill the piano up with chords to play the backround. Maybe that'll help.

Like stephen k said (the guy who answered your ?) look at Billy Joel (We didn't start the Fire...) and Elton John (Rocket Man)

Ask Bob Seger about playing piano and being in a rock band; he's the most popular rock piano player I can think of, as I consider Elton John and Billy Joel songwriters and not rockers...I do understand the predicament about adjusting your style, as I first started playing classical violin, yet I cannot play "the fiddle", even though I play many different styles on guitar and bass. As far as making a band, rock is so vast and ever-evolving that anything you do as an ensemble will be considered rock, and that's a beautiful thing...

It depends on the music. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is a classically trained pianist, but also has mastered the digital aspects of programming and recording keyboards. It's all a matter of how you deliver your performance. Jazzy is not a bad thing at all, IMHO. I love jazz (long time bassist, and bass is pretty weak in everything but jazz). I would think about buying an electronic keyboard of some sort and you should find it extremely easy to join a band as a keyboardist. Good keyboardists are rare, and especially one who can actually play classical or jazz.

well i htink you should always learn to play piano before any other instument because then the notes are easier to learn. you sound really talented and todays musicians arent all that great i mean if you look back at heart and led zepplin and people like those guys we are nothing compared to them. so i would sayif you were to band up with a rock band it would be a tight twist and the music would be great. or just stick with your style.

Don't blame piano lessons. Not every person has the feel for every genre. That's why you rarely see a musician who is good at classical and jazz and rock and blues.

I disagree--I started out on piano but now play bass for a metal band.

~Scottie

NO! you are talented!!! You can do anything you wish to do as long as your put your mind to it and that most certainly includes playing in a rock band! GO FOR IT!!!!!

every talented musician can also play the piano a bit, so no, you can woek off the piano to other instruments such as the guitar or bass.

two things come to mind, and i'm not saying any one is correct, but:

1. coldplay has a song where basically all of it is piano (i want to say "clocks"?)

2. linkin park has a couple songs with piano too.