Favorite NON-GUITAR Music?

[Orbert]

I've only glanced at the sheet music for New Age piano stuff, but I'm sure Brickman and Lanz are easier to play than Liz or Suzanne.  Not that "more interesting to hear" always equals "harder to play" but there's at least a little correlation here.

Every once in a while, I think about picking up a book, study the transcriptions to see what they've done and how they did it, but I never do, because I just don't have the time to study written stuff like I used to.  I find it more fun and fulfulling to spend my available piano time just noodling, letting my fingers figure out what they want to do, and try out new voicings and fingerings that way.  Half the time someone asks me to play the piano, I'm just improvising and noodling around anyway, but people seem to like it.  Someone even asked me once if what I'd played was George Winston, because it sounded like it.  I took it as a compliment (which it definitely was) but no, I was just messing around.

After a while, you have to leave your influences behind and just let your fingers work it out.  At least that's how it works for me.  Mine seem to know what they're doing more than I can tell them, anyway.

[Ben_Jamin]

Any Reggae, Its all Bass based. The Guitar is only prominent in the rhythm. listen to Welcome to Jamrock - Damien Marley, and Mind Control - Stephen Marley

[wolfking]

ATHEIST!!.....oh wiat.....sorry, I'm very druynk!

I don;'t think i have any music without guitar,  I am a guitar polayer so natually I love guitar music.  I really enjoy classical music like Bach, Beethoven, Debussy etc. I guess that counts.

(sorry again.)

[contest_sanity]

80's era Rush

[wolfking]

80's era Rush

oooohhh, im prettuy sure there is guitar in  there if you listen....not much bnuit there is 

Wait , maybe Alex was away on the power windownss sessions 

[Ben_Jamin]

Theirs guitar,

[kartmaze2]

Röyksopp, Tangerine Dream and Hans Zimmer and Vince DiCola OSTs.

[King Postwhore]

80's era Rush

Thems are fightin' words! 

[Keyboardframe]

Tori Amos, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Tori Amos

[SoundscapeMN]

Weather Report would be another. Although many could claim what Jaco Pastorius was doing, playing bass-guitar like a guitar, would be considered music with guitar.

[JediKnight1969]

Portishead

[Phoenix87x]

Electronic genres such as chillwave and synthwave

1. Trevor something
2. FM 84
3. Eagle eyed tiger
4. Com Truise
5. Gunship

Also triphop like Massive Attack

[HOF]

Niacin.

[Orbert]

Niacin.

You beat me to it. 

[The Letter M]

How has no one mentioned Béla Fleck & The Flecktones?

-Marc.

[Kotowboy]

Erasure

LeftField

Prodigy

[Sebastián Pratesi]

Enya.

There's some guitar in one song on her very first album, from 1987. Since then, she only had guitar in one other song, on her 2008 album.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Lots of jazz, driven by saxophone (John Coltrane), piano (Aziza Mustafa Zadeh), organ (Jimmy Smith), trumpet (Miles Davis), vibraphone (Cal Tjader), drums (Tony Williams), bass (Ron Carter), vocals (Julie London).

Plenty of electronic music, Megadrive, Assemblage 23, And One, Skinny Puppy, Raison d'Etre, Bjork, etc. 

Lots of other assorted stuff, classical like Arvo Part or Krzysztof Penderecki, Indian classical driven by sitar like Ravi Shankar, sarod-driven like Ali Akbar Khan, sarangi-driven like Sultan Khan, percussion-driven like Zakir Hussain, violin-driven like Hilary Hahn, cello-driven like Yo-Yo Ma, hip-hop like Wu Tang Clan, soul like Stevie Wonder, piano pop/rock like Ben Folds, mandolin-driven bluegrass like Sierra Hull, banjo-driven like Bela Fleck, bandoneon-driven like Astor Piazzolla, clarinet-driven like Ivo Papasov, oud-driven like Anouar Brahem, vocal drone music like Sheila Chandra, vocal choral music like David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir, etc.

[DoctorAction]

Jazzy piano trios. Neil Cowley Trio, fox capture plan, etc.