One of the most popular pages on the Internet for intermediate to very advanced piano solo, contains jazz transcriptions from current and past masters, and. The Free Christian Sheet Music you find below are for immediate download and print. Many of them are our own files, along with sheet music from different sources. As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' title='As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' />I Cant Make You Love MeI Cant Make You Love Me is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album Luck of the Draw 1. Released as the albums third single in 1. I Cant Make You Love Me became one of Raitts most successful singles, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 1. Adult Contemporary. In August 2. 00. 0, Mojo magazine voted I Cant Make You Love Me the eighth best track on its The 1. Greatest Songs of All Time list. The song is ranked at number 3. Rolling Stone magazines list of The 5. Greatest Songs of All Time. On 2. November 2. Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 2. Writing and recordingeditI Cant Make You Love Me was written by Nashville writers Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, who were well noted for their successes in the country music arena. The song was rewritten many times before being finalized, months later. We wrote, most every week, in Mikes basement, Shamblin told Peter Cooper in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean. And wed worked on this song for more than six months. One day, he said, Come up to the living room, where his piano was. He sat down and started playing this melody, and it was one of the most moving pieces of music Id heard. I mean, it hit me in a hard way. Instantly, I knew it was the best thing Id ever been a part of. Reid and Shamblin were both country music songwriters, who according to some accounts originally wrote the song as a fast, bluegrass number. Upon slowing down the tempo considerably, they realized the song gained considerable power and thought about giving the song to one of three artists Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler or Linda Ronstadt. Eventually, the song made its way to Bonnie Raitt, who recorded the track for her eleventh studio album, Luck of the Draw 1. Raitt co produced the song with Don Was, while Bruce Hornsby provided a piano accompaniment. Composition and inspirationeditI Cant Make You Love Me was composed in the key of Bb major, with a moderate slow tempo of 7. Raitts vocal range on the song spans from the low note of F3 to the high note of Bb. The idea for the song came to Reid while reading an article about a man arrested for getting drunk and shooting at his girlfriends car. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, I learned, Your Honor, that you cant make a woman love you if she dont. Raitt recorded the vocal in just one take in the studio, later saying that it was so sad a song that she could not recapture the emotion Wed try to do it again and I just said, You know, this aint going to happen. A pensive ballad, I Cant Make You Love Me was recorded against a quiet electric piano based arrangement, with prominent piano fills and interpolations supplied by Bruce Hornsby. The singer depicts a now one sided romantic relationship about to end in soft but brutally honest terms Turn down the lights, turn down the bedTurn down these voices inside my headLay down with me, tell me no liesJust hold me close, dont patronize. Cause I cant make you love me if you dontYou cant make your heart feel something that it wont, she sings. Critical reception and accoladeseditI Cant Make You Love Me received acclaim from music critics. Autocad Civil 3D Sample Drawings Of Body on this page. Look-Inside/large/19851447_02.jpg' alt='As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' title='As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' />Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All. Music praised the track, calling it a strong song and picking it as one of the albums best tracks. Steve Hochman of Los Angeles Times hailed the song as one of Raitts most elegant tracks. Elysa Gardner wrote for Rolling Stone that Raitts gorgeously understated rendering of I Cant Make You Love Me, in which sentiments such as I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the powerBut you wont are delivered with a quiet resignation thats worth a hundred glissandi in emotional weight. I Cant Make You Love Me entered many lists of the greatest songs of all time. In 2. 00. 0, Mojo magazine placed it at number 8 on its 1. Greatest Songs of All Time list. The song is also ranked 3. Rolling Stone magazines list of The 5. Greatest Songs of All Time. The website Ultimate Classic Rock placed the song at number 2. Saddest Songs Ever, praising Bonnie Raitt vocals, writing that she sings in one of her most impassioned vocals ever. Theres real ache in every word that drips from her pained lips. The songs popularity helped solidify her remarkable late in career commercial success that had begun two years before. In the time since, I Cant Make You Love Me has gone on to become a pop standard and a mainstay of adult contemporary radio formats. For Raitt, the song was notoriously difficult to sing, due to its required vocal range, difficult phrasing and breathing, and the emotional content involved. At the televised Grammy Awards of 1. Raitt performed it in an even more austere setting than on record, with just her and Hornsby highlighted. As she negotiated the final vocal line, she let out a big audible and visible sigh of relief that she had successfully gotten through it. MN0106175.gif' alt='As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' title='As Long As You Love Me Piano Sheet' />Her live performance of the song was released on the 1. Fm 2005 Completo In English there. Grammys Greatest Moments Volume III. Raitt has continued to sing the song in all her concert tours I mean, I Cant Make You Love Me is no picnic. I love that song, so does the audience. So its almost a sacred moment when you share that, that depth of pain with your audience. Because they get really quiet, and I have to summon. Chart performanceeditThe song was a big hit for Raitt, reaching number 1. Billboard Hot 1. 00 and number 6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song placed at number 1. Billboard Year End chart of 1. In New Zealand, the song was Raitts highest charting single, reaching number 2. Netherlands, the song charted moderately at number 4. Bruce Hornsby performance useeditAlthough Bruce Hornsby had no hand in writing the song, his piano part on it became associated with him. Phil Collins described it as instantly recognizable as Hornsbys work. Hornsbys own publicity material mentions his role on the classic. On his own subsequent tours, Hornsby included the song in a number of his set lists. He sometimes let a female backing singer in his band take on the vocal. Other times, he sang the song himself. George Michael versioneditEnglish singer George Michael covered I Cant Make You Love Me and released as a B side of his single, Older, which was released on 2. January 1. 99. 7 as the fourth single from the album of the same name. Michaels version was also included on his compilation, Ladies Gentlemen The Best of George Michael 1. Older and I Cant Make You Love Me both reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The Piano Bar Piano Sheet Music,Vocal Piano and more If its not listed, doesnt mean its not available. I take requests For a somewhat out of date and incomplete. Whats your favorite song in this playlist Let me know in the comments MORE long playlist piano videos httpswww. Background and releaseeditAfter the release of his second studio album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. George Michael started a legal battle with his label, Sony Music, declaring his contract was financially inequitable and creatively stifling. Michael sued Sony to end his contract, leading to a long and costly legal battle that ended in 1. Cdac Software. Michael signing to the newly launched Dreamworks Records label in the United States and Virgin in the rest of the world. In 1. 99. 5, the singer released the song Jesus to a Child, which became a huge hit worldwide, followed by Fastlove and Spinning the Wheel, which also became successful songs from his third studio album, Older 1.