John...they don't make piano players more amateur than me and after mastering "imagine" I am working on this. I know it's not the correct way to learn, but I want you to know what an amazing teacher you are. Thank you for patiently taking the time to teach people like myself. Please keep up the great work!!
I remember about a year ago looking at your videos with much confusion and a little desperation at all the thing I would need to tackle in order to learn these songs correctly, and nowadays I find much ease, almost as if you should speed up a bit in the explanations. Thanks for helping me reach this level of proficiency, there must be many more people you are helping along on their musical adventures.
thank you so much! You are a wonderful teacher. This was our wedding song 36 years ago and now I will play it at our son's wedding. Practice-practice -practice!
John, I'm playing this for a funeral tomorrow. (It must be a very special song for the deceased's family.). Although I'm playing it on guitar, your separation of the RH melody from the contrapuntal part is very helpful for making an arrangement I can put in my hands in one day. FYI: I just watched a video of GM explaining the process of recording it. He did it on a piano at half tempo and doubled the speed of the tape to make it sound like a harpsichord.
WOW, seriously?! I was just thinking about how much I wanted to be able to play this and I realized you didn't have a tutorial, and then the next day it shows up in my subscription box. I love you.
Thank you soooo much. This was my friends favorite song and because of you and your tutorial I was able to play it at his funeral. You are a great teacher.
Thank you ! my brother asked me long time ago to learn this song but i couldnt find the sheets anywhere. He is going to be so happy. I love this song , great job!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I have recently joined a band and was given this piece to learn, in a week, I'm almost there thanks to you, cheers!! x
If you're talking for solo accompaniment, sure drop the left hand. I think there's a certain amount of pride that comes from just being able to play the full counterpoint part, even if it is sped up for the record and not the "true" original form of it.
Thank you for showing us how to do this beautiful solo that George Martin wrote. I love that Bach's influence in the composition and the harpsichord arrangement in the orig.
Thank you for reply! I dont speak english, but can read and write a little, so I dont understand what youre saying in the video beginning, but when you starts playing the solo it comes very moving! =) Heared the song many times, but when you play the piano alone it sounds so beautiful that touched me a lot! Congratulations, you are very talented!
I'm sure you know George Martin recorded this solo, slowed way down in a different key then speeded up to simulate a harpsichord sound (which they didn't really achieve) but it worked anyway. Kudos, for playing it fast and for another excellent tutorial.
This was a great tutorial! I played with some family and it sounded great. I was just wondering though, where would you find the left hand notes with were in the original recording?
This solo is so hard because George Martin played it slowly in a lower key then sped it up to match the key of the song. So you are better than George Martin. Read Revolution in The Head, tells you everything about every Beatles song. All your tutorials are top notch, very grateful
Ty for the very nice tutorial. It's great to find a re-interpreted version. In classical music we learn to play the left hand more softly than the right hand. I think that would make your rendition sound a bit nicer! Perhaps consider this. Ty again.
@pianojohn113 thanks. I was thinking the solo was in 4/4 like the rest of the song but I guess I just second guessed myself because george martin is a classical genius and has been known to throw some tricky time signatures into beatles songs. thanks again.
It is well done. The fact to modify the part of the left hand maybe it is interesting to simplify the difficulty. But I have noticed sometimes that the difficulty is not so well reduced and as a result you loose a litlle bit of the original song but the difficulty is practically the same. So maybe the best thing is to overcome the original difficulty in a frontal way.
I didn't actually write this arrangement to make it easier to play, but rather to make the solo flow within the confines of the solo-piano arrangement. To stop down and simply play the solo as it was on the original recording makes the song sound stilted and unnatural. If one has other instruments (guitar, drums, etc.) it would make more sense and sound better, but not simply as a single-player piece.
Hey there! Could you do a tutorial for the original recording by George Martin? I understand your point regarding the flow of the song. But I would rather be able to play how the original was played. Thanks!
Great Tutorial and rendition! I heard a story that George Martin actually recorded the solo piece at a slower tempo and looped it a higher speed for the studio recording. Clever George
0.o Wow me AND my Piano teacher thought that was AMAZING. LOL I think your great at making videos like this and your really talented. Great work. I'm very proud of you! =D
@pianojohn113 Wow...That's really amazing John. 1. I've always wondered about that solo. 2. Never would have guessed that that's how it was performed. That's a really cool fact though.Read that in a book? or just catch it on the internet somewhere.
U r legendary. You've helped me learn this and my older sister will be jealous! George Martin is also legendary, he composed the solo. Despite only being the producer, he had talent in music
great tutorial like always, but you really could make a tutorial with the original left hand. I know it's difficult but you already have made a tutorial of the right hand, so you wouldn't need to teach it, you could just play the right hand to give when the left hand notes are played or play all the solo very slowly to viewners be able to see each note
Actually, the solo sounds like a harpsichord because george martin first recorded it slowly, than sped it up by 2x to fit the rhythm of the song. He did write it making it sound like a classical piece though.
okay piano john my man, I've learned many a beatles songs from you, been meaning to thank you for that. Second, I'm not 100% sure if you cover this song or have a tutorial, But it would be bad ass if you did Mr. Sand Man...I looked at other peoples tutorials...Just can't learn from them.
I can see your point in the solo but I would add that George Martin was playing the solo in the purest Baroque style. Most average piano players won't even attempt this.
pianojohn113 I think G.M had to improvise the piano solo because the song was written on a guitar which is sometimes difficult to transition to piano. It was shear genius on th part of G.M to make the solo fit.
Even the original piano player could not play his own solo : it was recorded with the tape ru ning at lower speed and then played back at normal speed.
Q: How is what you think better than what The Beatles, and George Martin thought? the solo is one of the greatest pieces of music ever committed to tape. you're teaching an easy version, not the proper solo.
I think that by "context of the song" he meant just playing piano and singing with no other accompaniment. Lol I just came here for the left hand part tho.
The original way sounds WAY BETTER. Changing is in fact re-writing it and it is written perfectly imo. It's a dynamic change to go up to the notes with the left hand ....and that's a good thing.
Yeah i know how he did it. Even though it's still hard to make a piano solo sound like it was genuinely written during the baroque era of music. Classical is a different era btw.
Just reading my own question, I hope you didn't think I meant the whole song, I just meant this solo. I can pretty much play up to the bit where you played to during the beginning, but don't know the last few notes. I am just referring to the left hand melody you understand! Thanks for your time!
In case anybody does want to see exactly how the original went, check out the vid I just put up. You can't see my hands and I don't call out the notes, because I did it in the MIDI piano roll in GarageBand to make sure the timing was perfect, but I break everything down so any pianist can here exactly what notes are being played (fair warning, like pianojohn said, it's not an easy solo, even at half tempo). Check it out :)
John Are you still around. I’ve taken some time off to learn guitar . Anything I’ve learned on piano is you. Everything ! Thank you for all you do!
John...they don't make piano players more amateur than me and after mastering "imagine" I am working on this. I know it's not the correct way to learn, but I want you to know what an amazing teacher you are. Thank you for patiently taking the time to teach people like myself. Please keep up the great work!!
Can you play it now?
I remember about a year ago looking at your videos with much confusion and a little desperation at all the thing I would need to tackle in order to learn these songs correctly, and nowadays I find much ease, almost as if you should speed up a bit in the explanations. Thanks for helping me reach this level of proficiency, there must be many more people you are helping along on their musical adventures.
thank you so much! You are a wonderful teacher. This was our wedding song 36 years ago and now I will play it at our son's wedding. Practice-practice -practice!
the most epic piano solo in the story of the music!!!!
Very good especially considering that George Martin played it slow then sped up the tape for the record.
Everybody knows this by now, there's no need for everypone to keep mentioning this over and over lol
George Martin won't be please to hear this
I think Martin played in C . Piano John I really love your vídeos, thanks for ALL the lessons!
I thought John Lennon played this...
@@EriAirlangga he was quite explicit and open about it, there's no secret here
John, I'm playing this for a funeral tomorrow. (It must be a very special song for the deceased's family.). Although I'm playing it on guitar, your separation of the RH melody from the contrapuntal part is very helpful for making an arrangement I can put in my hands in one day. FYI: I just watched a video of GM explaining the process of recording it. He did it on a piano at half tempo and doubled the speed of the tape to make it sound like a harpsichord.
pianojohn113 I guess I should have signed with my name. It's Chris.
pianojohn113 G.M has a sixth sense when it cam to articulating John's music. The solo was just an example of that soulful prowess of John's.
Credit MacDaddy Of course he knows
Wow, thanks John I never thought he would have. So he was really a 5th beatle contributing a lot.
Yours are the best tutorials on youtube!! You've delivered once again - thank you!
May God keep on blessing you so that you still will be blessing us with genius music and freaking-amazing super tutorials. Hugs from Brazil.
WOW, seriously?! I was just thinking about how much I wanted to be able to play this and I realized you didn't have a tutorial, and then the next day it shows up in my subscription box. I love you.
Well done!
I totally understand your point in teaching the left hand in that different mood. It fits much better when you play the whole song.
Thank you soooo much. This was my friends favorite song and because of you and your tutorial I was able to play it at his funeral. You are a great teacher.
Thank you ! my brother asked me long time ago to learn this song but i couldnt find the sheets anywhere. He is going to be so happy. I love this song , great job!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I have recently joined a band and was given this piece to learn, in a week, I'm almost there thanks to you, cheers!! x
Excellent...trying to play the different rhythms with both hands at the same time I find tricky!
If you're talking for solo accompaniment, sure drop the left hand. I think there's a certain amount of pride that comes from just being able to play the full counterpoint part, even if it is sped up for the record and not the "true" original form of it.
I have been searching this solo for ever! Thank you for making it very easy also!
woah!
ive been trying to learn the left hand and i thought it sounded awkward
the chords sounds incredible!
thanks a bunch
Thank you for showing us how to do this beautiful solo that George Martin wrote. I love that Bach's influence in the composition and the harpsichord arrangement in the orig.
Very glad you liked the video, Sunny, thanks.
This was so helpful! Oh, how I struggled to play this as a kid, not knowing it was originally played slower and sped up for the recorded version.
Wow. You are just.... beyond words. Absolutely brilliant. Amazong job, as always.
Thank you for reply! I dont speak english, but can read and write a little, so I dont understand what youre saying in the video beginning, but when you starts playing the solo it comes very moving!
=)
Heared the song many times, but when you play the piano alone it sounds so beautiful that touched me a lot!
Congratulations, you are very talented!
this is just AMAZING!!!!! Im 13 and i learned it!!!! ur awesome man!!!!!!!
You 21 now dude
I'm sure you know George Martin recorded this solo, slowed way down in a different key then speeded up to simulate a harpsichord sound (which they didn't really achieve) but it worked anyway.
Kudos, for playing it fast and for another excellent tutorial.
This was a great tutorial! I played with some family and it sounded great. I was just wondering though, where would you find the left hand notes with were in the original recording?
Original recording was done half speed and dubbed at full speed for recording of album
Superb - One of your best to date
beautiful, beautiful. It has a bit of a scott joplinish rag timesy kind of feel.
This solo is so hard because George Martin played it slowly in a lower key then sped it up to match the key of the song. So you are better than George Martin. Read Revolution in The Head, tells you everything about every Beatles song.
All your tutorials are top notch, very grateful
My God! It really saves ages! Bless you!
Glad it was helpful to you! Enjoy.
What is the name of the classical music in this song please. You play along with.
awesome ! Thank you so much for breaking it down
Ty for the very nice tutorial. It's great to find a re-interpreted version. In classical music we learn to play the left hand more softly than the right hand. I think that would make your rendition sound a bit nicer! Perhaps consider this. Ty again.
@pianojohn113 thanks. I was thinking the solo was in 4/4 like the rest of the song but I guess I just second guessed myself because george martin is a classical genius and has been known to throw some tricky time signatures into beatles songs. thanks again.
It is well done. The fact to modify the part of the left hand maybe it is interesting to simplify the difficulty. But I have noticed sometimes that the difficulty is not so well reduced and as a result you loose a litlle bit of the original song but the difficulty is practically the same. So maybe the best thing is to overcome the original difficulty in a frontal way.
I didn't actually write this arrangement to make it easier to play, but rather to make the solo flow within the confines of the solo-piano arrangement. To stop down and simply play the solo as it was on the original recording makes the song sound stilted and unnatural. If one has other instruments (guitar, drums, etc.) it would make more sense and sound better, but not simply as a single-player piece.
you are unbelievably amazing
I like the original ALTHOUGH I really appreciate your version to help those who have a very hard time with the left
Glad you liked it, thanks.
Can you send link to the sheet music?
Where can I buy the sheet music for the way you teach the song? I LOVE it!
Thanks a lot. Your tutorial was very helpful.
Can you make a cover video? I keep watching this video just to see you play the real and difficult version. I just love the song.
I struggle to play a lot of black notes so do you have this tutorial please in c major?
+Bill Mckechnie At least it's not C# major!
Yes I know, I've played piano for 16 years. I love the solo in this song regardless.
,,Great ,video.., great teacher.
Thanks, my friend. :-)
Im impressive !
Very dificult and advanced piano
Thank you soooo much! Im so excited to learn it!
please make a tutorial for why dont we do it in the road
thnks fr this john! ive always wanted to learn the solo for this song!
~#9 fan
Hey there! Could you do a tutorial for the original recording by George Martin? I understand your point regarding the flow of the song. But I would rather be able to play how the original was played.
Thanks!
Very helpful, especially when all I have printed out is a lyrics/chords sheet - thanks!
+Judy Grover You're very welcome, Judy, glad it was helpful to you. :-)
Also, do you know if Paul wrote that piano solo for this song?
My piano hasn't even arrived yet but I'm already excited to play it
Congrats to you on getting a piano! Have fun with the songs. Let me know how it goes. :-)
My left ear enjoyed this :D
Great Tutorial and rendition! I heard a story that George Martin actually recorded the solo piece at a slower tempo and looped it a higher speed for the studio recording. Clever George
pianojohn113 Sheesh- made the same observation above. I gotta start reading the comments first.
it was to achieve an Elizabethan effect
Who composed this song, john or paul?
felicidades tus videos son lo mejor y los que mejor esplica gracias
0.o Wow me AND my Piano teacher thought that was AMAZING. LOL I think your great at making videos like this and your really talented. Great work. I'm very proud of you! =D
Thanks! Anyone have some tabs/transcription of this for guitar?
Pianojohn113, from 2:12 minutes on, you filled my eyes with tears....
This is fascinating. When you added the chords of the left hand, it became reminiscent of Pachelbel's Canon (albeit not in D...)
+agcereniv You are very right! I'm adding this to my list of pop song/classical mash-ups.
Who wrote this solo? I know the song is from Lennon.
@pianojohn113 Wow...That's really amazing John. 1. I've always wondered about that solo.
2. Never would have guessed that that's how it was performed. That's a
really cool fact though.Read that in a book? or just catch it on the
internet somewhere.
Great tutorial
All yours are
Thanks so much
U r legendary. You've helped me learn this and my older sister will be jealous! George Martin is also legendary, he composed the solo. Despite only being the producer, he had talent in music
does anyone know what time signature this is in?
For sure! It really reminds me Bach.
can i request : don't pass me bye ??
great tutorial like always, but you really could make a tutorial with the original left hand. I know it's difficult but you already have made a tutorial of the right hand, so you wouldn't need to teach it, you could just play the right hand to give when the left hand notes are played or play all the solo very slowly to viewners be able to see each note
Great tutorial! Thank you 🙏
You're very welcome. :-)
I prefer to sing this solo!!!
hahahahahahahahahaha.......
Very hard even for John Lennon!!!
You're the man!!!
Thanks!!!
Actually, the solo sounds like a harpsichord because george martin first recorded it slowly, than sped it up by 2x to fit the rhythm of the song. He did write it making it sound like a classical piece though.
Thank you so much for the notes. I'm transposing to G and playing on a guitar.
That's great, have fun with it!
1st comment!!!! John=king of piano
you are THE man
Piano John rules!!
your right chords in the left hand and notes in the right
okay piano john my man, I've learned many a beatles songs from you, been meaning to thank you for that. Second, I'm not 100% sure if you cover this song or have a tutorial, But it would be bad ass if you did Mr. Sand Man...I looked at other peoples tutorials...Just can't learn from them.
Can you teach us for elis by beethoven please'
Didnt know it was this simple
I can see your point in the solo but I would add that George Martin was playing the solo in the purest Baroque style. Most average piano players won't even attempt this.
pianojohn113 I think G.M had to improvise the piano solo because the song was written on a guitar which is sometimes difficult to transition to piano. It was shear genius on th part of G.M to make the solo fit.
Even the original piano player could not play his own solo : it was recorded with the tape ru ning at lower speed and then played back at normal speed.
Q: How is what you think better than what The Beatles, and George Martin thought? the solo is one of the greatest pieces of music ever committed to tape. you're teaching an easy version, not the proper solo.
fair enough good sir.
I think that by "context of the song" he meant just playing piano and singing with no other accompaniment. Lol I just came here for the left hand part tho.
4:22 Dragon warrior from the NES sounds a lot like that
thank you very much my friend
The way you play the left hand sounds like a classic Ragtime beat.
Sheet music please?
im glad i subbed
Excelente felicitaciones tengo que decir que me costo bastante ajajajja pero lo encontré buenísimo
Saludos Chile :D
The original way sounds WAY BETTER. Changing is in fact re-writing it and it is written perfectly imo. It's a dynamic change to go up to the notes with the left hand ....and that's a good thing.
practice!
thanks for the tut, this is deffinately way too hard for me, i'll stick to simple yet beautiful pieces!
Didn't George Martin record the original solo at a slower speed and the recording of the solo on Rubber Soul is sped up?
Where is Part 2?
Oh, thank you! I loved this tutorial!
It was recorded at half speed then recorded sped up for the album so it is not that hard at all
yes...george martin did it in C....at a much slower speed and then matched it up to the key of A...somewhere there is a bootleg of him doing it in C
Yeah i know how he did it. Even though it's still hard to make a piano solo sound like it was genuinely written during the baroque era of music. Classical is a different era btw.
And guess where they were from? LIVERPOOL! MY CITY🤗
some minor comment: Beatles/Lennon-McCartney classic... - distinctive recognition of the composers...
Just reading my own question, I hope you didn't think I meant the whole song, I just meant this solo. I can pretty much play up to the bit where you played to during the beginning, but don't know the last few notes. I am just referring to the left hand melody you understand!
Thanks for your time!
cool
In case anybody does want to see exactly how the original went, check out the vid I just put up. You can't see my hands and I don't call out the notes, because I did it in the MIDI piano roll in GarageBand to make sure the timing was perfect, but I break everything down so any pianist can here exactly what notes are being played (fair warning, like pianojohn said, it's not an easy solo, even at half tempo). Check it out :)
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