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The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of Jon Schmidt, , Paul Anderson, and Al van der Beek. They gained popularity through , where they posted piano and cello renditions of popular songs and classical music. Schmidt and Nelson's music is accompanied by professional-quality videos shot and edited by Paul Anderson and formerly by Tel Stewart. Their first four major-label albums , , , and
each reached number one on the
New Age Albums and Classical Albums charts.
Paul Anderson owned a piano shop in . He met musician Jon Schmidt as the latter walked in to ask if he could practice there for an upcoming concert. Months later, Paul Anderson and Tel Stewart (then just for fun) started making videos together with Jon Schmidt. Not too long after that, they did their first collaboration with Jon Schmidt, along with
and , studio and music technicians. After the five of them started collaborating, the group took off, producing a music video each week and posting it to YouTube.
Several of the group's YouTube videos have over 20 million views, while each of them has over 750,000. As of October 2015, The Piano Guys' YouTube channel had more than half a billion total video views and over four million subscribers. In June 2011, The Piano Guys won the "Most Up-and-Coming Channel" award in the YouTube "On the Rise" contest with "Michael Meets Mozart" with Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson. On August 6, 2016, at their concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, YouTube and Sony presented The Piano Guys with a plaque commemorating 1 Billion total video views.
In September 2012, it was announced that the Piano Guys had been signed by . This resulted in a worldwide release of the album , followed in 2013 by , and
Jon plays the
and Steven plays the
- acoustic, .
Most songs are composed of several audio tracks that are mixed together. Occasionally, they superimpose the videos of the previous audio tracks to give the impression that many identical instrumentalists are playing at once.
They also collaborate with other musical artists on occasion, as seen in a number of their videos.
The first video posted to their YouTube channel is titled "Game Day". "The Dumb Song" came almost a year later. This has stuck with Jon since he was a kid, all inspired by a commercial he had seen as a child. "To the Summit" was inspired from a dream Jon had. He is accompanied with Ray Smith on a tenor saxophone. Among the Top 10 of their most popular videos, "Michael Meets Mozart - 1 Piano, 2 Guys, 100 Cello Tracks" was produced in part by the fans encouraging them to create more mashups of various song styles/ artists. Created by Jon's son, Spencer Schmidt, The Piano Guys and Spencer collaborated in order to bring life into the song Bittersweet. With his cello, Steve played one of Bach's Cello Suite 1 with seven layers of cellos being played together on this piece.
Southern Utah, being where The Piano Guys are from, is showcased in "Desert Symphony", a video produced by Shaye Scott.
"Moonlight" was filmed predominantly in . This video shows Steven Sharp Nelson playing Moonlight, a piece he composed for electric cello inspired by 's
and the melody from Beethoven's , 2nd movement. It was posted to YouTube on July 14, 2011.
This video shows Jon Schmidt playing a modern version of 's . It was posted to YouTube on July 25, 2011. According to the description, Jon wrote this song when his son started his first band and researched music on YouTube. There are two versions of this song on YouT both feature Jon Schmidt and a band consisting of Chris Wormer, Joel Stevenett and Jake Bowen. In the original 'Rockmaninoff' version, the volume of all instruments is well-balanced. In the 'Rock meets Rachmaninoff' version, the piano sounds much louder than the other instruments. The video also shows the sheet music for this song. The sheet music lists the play volume as 'Pretty dang loud'.
Their cover of "Bring Him Home" from the musical version of
was dedicated to those in the military and their families.
Along with Steven Sharp Nelson, Jon played an arrangement of "Twinkle Lullaby", a version of .
Other tracks they've made are:
(feat Amanda Scott)
An original work of Jon Schmidt's:
(feat J. Rice)
Cello Wars This video is a spoof of the
soundtrack and films. The song was produced by Al van der Beek and
with special effects by Tel Stewart. The video was posted to YouTube on December 2, 2011. It has more than 26 million views to date. Steven plays both a
Master and a
Lord who come together to do a musical fight on cellos. The Jedi and the Sith fight using more than just their cellos – they also use
() appears in the movie and after creating a , he pulls out an
to play the tune from the cantina in .
(Paul Anderson) also makes an appearance. In the end of the clip, Darth Vader and Chewbacca can be seen dancing together. The following
Star Wars movie themes are used (in order of appearance):
"" (Empire Strikes Back theme)
"" (from Episode I)
"" (from Episode IV)
(vocals provided by Jon's daughter, Sarah Schmidt)
(played predominantly by Steve on his cellos)
Peponi After deciding to go for an African theme,
joined Steven and Jon for the recording of a cover of 's "". The associated video clip mostly stands out because it was recorded on top of the local Red Stone mountain near , Utah, requiring helicopters to transport both piano and crew to the remote location.
of "Just the Way You Are" by
Beethoven's 5 Secrets In 2012 the
(Youth Orchestra), and its director, Kayson Brown, approached with the idea of a piece based on Beethoven's 5th symphony. The orchestra performed "Beethoven's Secrets" with The Piano Guys on YouTube, which had received two million hits within two months of its release. It was 's "" with parts from , a cello and orchestral cover. The vocal version features YouTube star .
Over the Rainbow/ (Piano/Cello )
Cello Cover
(Bourne Soundtrack/Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto) [Based on the
of Rockelbel's
(Jon Schmidt)
Piano/Cello
of Titanium (David Guetta) / Pavane (Faure)
Piano/Cello
of Taylor Swift's
Cover (Violin played by )
of Home by
Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends This video shows Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson performing on the . This was always a dream of Paul Anderson along with the other
to place a piano (and now cellos) on the Great Wall of China.
(Inspired from the Lord of the Rings)
(Disney's "Frozen") 's Winter
of One Direction's
Cover/Mix of /
"Angels We Have Heard On High", performed
by The Piano Guys, , , and
"" (inspired by the 's song "I Want You Back")
& Evynne Hollens
of 's Theme
"When Stars and Salt collide" (Cover of 's
(performed with members of the Wasatch & District Pipe Band)
of "Silent Night" ft.
of Adele's
/ Lacrimosa (Mozart)
of Disney's
/ Sarabande (Mayan Style)
Response of the Year
"Titanium/Pavane"
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on December 17, .
. YouTube Official Blog 2014.
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