Relaxing Pop, Vol. 2: You're Beautiful

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Description

Relaxing Pop, Vol. 2: You're Beautiful brings together fourteen songs from the early 2000s indie and soft rock era, drawing from artists including Train, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, and Adele, all in solo piano renditions.

Acoustic-led originals like Hey There Delilah, Yellow, and Somewhere Only We Know sit comfortably in this format, their chord progressions and melodies requiring very little adaptation to work on a single instrument. Viva La Vida and How to Save a Life were bigger, more layered productions in their original form, but both are built on strong enough melodic hooks that they carry well stripped back to piano.

Make You Feel My Love and River Flows in You are the most piano-native tracks in the album — the former already a sparse piano ballad, the latter a solo piano piece to begin with — and both anchor the quieter end of the collection. Hey, Soul Sister and Wherever You Will Go keep the tempo moving in the middle of the album, while The Funeral and Home bring a more open, spacious feel toward the close.

Across all fourteen tracks the arrangements stay clean with the melody kept clearly on top and the accompaniment even throughout. For anyone with a connection to this era of music, Relaxing Pop, Vol. 2: You're Beautiful covers some of its best and most enduring songs.

Track List:

1. Hey, Soul Sister (Train) - 3:01
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2. Chasing Cards (Snow Patrol) - 2:25
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3. Hey There Delilah (PlainWhite T's) - 3:35
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4. Viva La Vida (Coldplay) - 3:37
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5. You're Beautiful (James Blunt) - 3:29
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6. Bad Day (Daniel Powter) - 4:03
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7. How to Save a Life (The Fray) - 3:05
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8. Yellow (Coldplay) - 3:20
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9. Somewhere Only We Know (Keane) - 3:27
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10. Make You Feel My Love (Adele) - 3:22
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11. Wherever You Will Go (The Calling) - 3:03
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12. Home (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros) - 3:44
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13. River Flows in You (Yiruma) - 3:16
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14. The Funeral (Band of Horses) - 3:14
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15. Total Runtime - 46:41