I am still considered a beginner but I have to learn this.I don't care if it kills me.This is the one song that my dad ask me to learn a long time ago.If I learn just the intro that would impress him.Im gonna take my time and learn this.I will surprise him with this for his bday.To get the best response I want him to have consumed at least 2beers before I play.He might cry on this one..Lol!!.This is his fav Billy Joel song.Thank you soooo much Piano John for all you do.You are changing/inspiring so many lives.You'll never understand how much you've helped us on this piano journey.I am the star of my family because of you.You deserve all the credit buddy.
That's great! I hope you enjoy learning this one, and you'll get it - it's actually not nearly as difficult as it might look. All the best to you and your dad, and thanks as well for the kind words!
when i was kid, i used to take piano lessons. then i quit because of other hobbies. today im 18 and i really regret that i chose to quit playing paino. its amazing that i can learn again how to play just by watching youtube videos. thank you very much! and sorry for my bad english!
Saw an old clip of Billy Joel playing this last night and thought, "not even pj113 would be able to help me approach this one," but sure enough, you have taken it on and I have every confidence you'll get me there! Thanks as ever.
We just got a free piano from our neighbor and I always loved this song. This is the first thing I’ve ever played on the piano, but I kept at it for a few days and it finally started coming together. I might have to start actually learning how to play the piano, as much fun as I’ve had learning this. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and helping so many people. I bet you didn’t think you’d have so many views on this back when you first started.
Thank you so very much! You don't know how many times, I stand, bored, at work playing this on the counter, wishing I knew how on a piano. Thanks again.
i started playing piano 19 months ago,i taught myself fur eliz.I found this site 2 weeks ago and i wanted to thank you for your piano lessons.You are a great teacher and very talented.
Hi there, i just started playing songs like that a few weeks ago. But i got to say, i watched your video and now, 30 minutes later i can play PianoMan, one of the greatest songs ever. Just awesome!!! Thanks for these great tutorials!!!
I've been playing this since college, and never took the time to learn the intro. I just spent 15 minutes watching and practicing, and I have it down. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of teaching!
Been a Billy Joel fan for 40 years and never understood those first two chords until now. The very end of your video, where the final C chord is bouncing around between F/C and G/C and back to C is the same thing he does to end the intro of Allentown but there he is in G. Never realized that either till I saw you play this! Thank you!
Wanted to learn piano since 7. At 54 started 2 yrs of group beginner lessons not learning much. But your videos kept me going before I found the great private teacher I’ve had for past year & half. We use your videos many times in my lessons. REALLY appreciate your completing “Sunrise Sarenade”! Everyone I show loves it!
Thank you. I'm a professional piano player who has avoided this piece for forty years. (I'm a woman) You made it easy to learn quickly. And you didn't talk like I was a beginner.
yesterday i bought a harmonica just to learn how to play this song... now i can play it on my harmonica but i also wanted to learn it on the piano so you're very helpfull. i'm a big fan of this song. thank you!
Amazing John, I want to thank you for being a stickler on the importance of 'original composition.' Songbooks so often publish songs featuring the melody in the right hand that frustration is now a direct association for me. Your teaching style works. Your description & example focus on the right correlations between parts & your tempo, in many categories, is perfect. I just got my first piano in ten years, a dream for me and you're now a cog in the wheel so to speak and I really appreciate it.
First, I love the pace of your video tutorials. It's not too slow or too fast...just right for me. No unnecessary yapping, plus you'll put a graphic up showing the notes you're playing. Nice! I also like that you play the whole lesson through as a short demo. These are the BEST tutorials for any instrument that I've found on youtube. Thank you so much!!! Second, I love that you show us how it's played on the recording or at least note when you've deviated from the recording. Awesome job!
Piano John, if I could play like you I'd never get up from the piano. You are an outstanding teacher and your videos have allowed me to play some of Joel's most fantastic work. Thank you so much, sir.
I've only been playing for about a month, and after about 10 minutes of practice after watching this, I've got the intro part down. You're a damn good teacher. I also subscribed :)
This is one of my fathers favorites songs, and we were listening to it and I told him I'd learn it on piano for him. He didn't believe me. It took me about 2 minutes to learn the intro rif alone from this video, which would have taken me probably half an hour to learn by ear. Coming from an advanced piano player, you are an excellent teacher and it is much appreciated. THankyou :)
thx! i tried looking up sheet music online, but i was learning it too slow so i found this and now i've just about got the intro down! Great, well explained video!
1st class tutorial. Thank you so much for taking your time and effort to give a very accurate transcription of this timeless classic. I can't thank you enough, you have inspired me to finally learn this piece after many years of people requesting me to play it. The sheet music I have for this piece has gathered dust for years, probably due to it's inaccuracy. I stumbled across your video, and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning it . You're a great teacher and an inspiration!
You are the best tutorial guy on here. It's like you wrote the music every time I watch you teach something! Even if it does look like these were recorded in the 70's!
I went to see Billy and Elton in concert last month and was reinspired to try to learn to play piano man. I am a beginner and this has been a great learning tool for me. It's in my favorties file so I can play it over and over as I practice on my keyboard. Thanks!!!
THANKS A LOT FOR THE 5 PIANO MAN LESSONS!!!. I PLAYED "PIANO MAN" and "MY LIFE", FROM BILLY JOEL AT SCHOOL. ITS REALLY NICE TO PLAY THE SOLO, UPPER OCTAVE VERSE, ETC, AND PEOPLE LIKED IT!!! VERY GOOD LESSON!!!
I came from the 2023s year to tell you: Keep the good work and practice, 17 year old ArGxMAXI! You will be a great pianist at 33 Yo! Im proud of your efforts! Your "Piano Man" version at school was a shit, but you will improve your skills in the next 15 years, and compose your own music! Congratulations!!! Your path will grow you up 👌
Great to see your videos are still up. I remember taking weeks to get this down after I had just started playing piano back in '07. I never stopped playing and as of now am rehearsing this song with my current cover band. Hope you are well and still rocking, John!
Not everyone who plays can be an effective teacher…. John you are one of the few who can obviously not only play wonderfully, but you are able to articulate what you do and how to do it. Kudos!!!
PianoJohn, you've really enriched my own piano playing. I love playing these songs you teach people how to play via youtube. This is one of my favorite songs to play.
John I want to thank you for updating these videos, you are a great piano player, and its very kind of your part to be teaching people you don't even know, bet you can't imagine where are your videos being played over the world, keep on the good job sir :D
This people its an excellent piano tutorial, not a cover played slowly or a synthesia video, this is what is called a piano tutorial. Congratulations, keep up the good work.
this tutorial is exactly what i was looking for; the pacing is great. thank you for editing the note letters in too, it probably took a lot of time. thank you again!
No you're not dude. Keep at it. It's just a C run down on the left, and then that tricky little C/G, C/A, C/B, rundown to F. But you can make it sound fab. Don't give up, mate …..
@Henry Zuniga Hernandez for an absolute beginner its definitley not simple. It is in the moderate range. Please at least be considerate to those who are still learning. Being contemptous is really not helpful to anyone.
Dear Piano John, Thanks so much for making such a great free video! It's very well done and free from confusion and over complication. For people like me who don't have much time or money but love music, people like you are a fantastic resource! - keep up the good work
you have a nincredible teaching style, a lot of piano instructions i get frusterated, im learning this song at a pretty fast pace thanks to you, thanks so much!!!!
Thanks so much for the time you took to make and share this. Excellent, excellent instruction - I feel I've learned more about music and piano from your tutorial on this one song, than I learned in 6 years of classical piano training. Thanks!
Thank you so much Piano John for your work!! I´ve restarted to play piano after 20 years just a month ago. Fortunatly i came across a link to one of your turtorials, that was a dream come true!! You brought all the fun in playing piano back immediately.. Big Hug from a very happy Girl in Frankfurt/Germany!
This is such a great video! Each step is clearly defined. Thank you! When playing intro Piano Man, I usually just do fake pretend jazz that sounded like junk... this is a game changer!
You are a realllly good teacher. I started playing piano last year and thanks to you people have recently been asking how long i have been taking lessons. I just smile and say that I never have :) Me and my brother love playing this song now! :) I also made a wire hanger into a harmonica holder so i could play both parts at once haha :)
Thank you so much I've just started taking piano lessons (I'm 15) and I've loved this song and this tutorial is very useful gonna hopefully learn this by the end of this month
Piano John, Thank you so much. I've been taught piano from age 6 to about 10. I'm 14 now, and I've forgotten how to read music efficiently. Thanks to you, I've learned some of my favorite beatles' tunes and this song. I appreciate it alot because you've allowed me to keep playing and learning without the need for sheet music. I owe about 80% of my piano skill today to you. Thanks again! you rock man.
V.good tutorial...I always struggled to figure out the right hand parts properly on the intro, but ur vid helped sort that out - thanks...from Dublin, Ireland.
this is my favorite song. Thank you so much for helping me learn it!!!!! It took me like a week to get down to perfect but it was SO worth it! Thanks SO much!!!!
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I hope you realize how much these videos mean to people. Thank you so, so much for doing them. You are a wondeful teacher.
so true. piano john is an icon
Piano John 4 life 🤙
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I used this video to learn this song when I was 15 (10 years ago), and I still remember it to this day. Thank you so much for an awesome tutorial!
Learning it now with the help of this video, also at 15 years old, and can't wait to play it for many more years
What an EPIC tutorial, well explained and well articulated. Well played sir.
I am still considered a beginner but I have to learn this.I don't care if it kills me.This is the one song that my dad ask me to learn a long time ago.If I learn just the intro that would impress him.Im gonna take my time and learn this.I will surprise him with this for his bday.To get the best response I want him to have consumed at least 2beers before I play.He might cry on this one..Lol!!.This is his fav Billy Joel song.Thank you soooo much Piano John for all you do.You are changing/inspiring so many lives.You'll never understand how much you've helped us on this piano journey.I am the star of my family because of you.You deserve all the credit buddy.
That's great! I hope you enjoy learning this one, and you'll get it - it's actually not nearly as difficult as it might look. All the best to you and your dad, and thanks as well for the kind words!
Hi NC
How did it go, it’s been a while?
I found this for my 11 year old son (who was not happy with the intro his teacher gave him. Took him about an hour to learn. THANK YOU!!!
when i was kid, i used to take piano lessons. then i quit because of other hobbies. today im 18 and i really regret that i chose to quit playing paino. its amazing that i can learn again how to play just by watching youtube videos. thank you very much! and sorry for my bad english!
Saw an old clip of Billy Joel playing this last night and thought, "not even pj113 would be able to help me approach this one," but sure enough, you have taken it on and I have every confidence you'll get me there! Thanks as ever.
I don't know how to play piano now, but I know some day, i'm gonna come back to this video, and be very happy i saved it. Thank you sir.
We just got a free piano from our neighbor and I always loved this song. This is the first thing I’ve ever played on the piano, but I kept at it for a few days and it finally started coming together. I might have to start actually learning how to play the piano, as much fun as I’ve had learning this. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and helping so many people. I bet you didn’t think you’d have so many views on this back when you first started.
Thank you so very much! You don't know how many times, I stand, bored, at work playing this on the counter, wishing I knew how on a piano. Thanks again.
thanks for making this 15 years ago, still one of the best out there.
i started playing piano 19 months ago,i taught myself fur eliz.I found this site 2 weeks ago and i wanted to thank you for your piano lessons.You are a great teacher and very talented.
Hi there, i just started playing songs like that a few weeks ago. But i got to say, i watched your video and now, 30 minutes later i can play PianoMan, one of the greatest songs ever. Just awesome!!! Thanks for these great tutorials!!!
Thank you so much, I never thought I could learn this song in such a short time! I love that you play it how he does.
I've been playing this since college, and never took the time to learn the intro. I just spent 15 minutes watching and practicing, and I have it down. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of teaching!
You're very welcome, Mike, enjoy!
Been a Billy Joel fan for 40 years and never understood those first two chords until now. The very end of your video, where the final C chord is bouncing around between F/C and G/C and back to C is the same thing he does to end the intro of Allentown but there he is in G. Never realized that either till I saw you play this!
Thank you!
Your Billy Joel and Beatles tutorials are truly the best! Now onto learning the next parts of this classic😊
Wanted to learn piano since 7. At 54 started 2 yrs of group beginner lessons not learning much. But your videos kept me going before I found the great private teacher I’ve had for past year & half.
We use your videos many times in my lessons. REALLY appreciate your completing “Sunrise Sarenade”! Everyone I show loves it!
Thank you. I'm a professional piano player who has avoided this piece for forty years. (I'm a woman) You made it easy to learn quickly. And you didn't talk like I was a beginner.
Very glad it was helpful to you, and congratulations on learning it!
yesterday i bought a harmonica just to learn how to play this song... now i can play it on my harmonica but i also wanted to learn it on the piano so you're very helpfull. i'm a big fan of this song. thank you!
Amazing John, I want to thank you for being a stickler on the importance of 'original composition.' Songbooks so often publish songs featuring the melody in the right hand that frustration is now a direct association for me. Your teaching style works. Your description & example focus on the right correlations between parts & your tempo, in many categories, is perfect. I just got my first piano in ten years, a dream for me and you're now a cog in the wheel so to speak and I really appreciate it.
Thank you, John. This isn't just one of my all time favorites but also one of the songs which make me want to learn to play the piano.
16 years later and this tutorial still helped me so much more than any other
First, I love the pace of your video tutorials. It's not too slow or too fast...just right for me. No unnecessary yapping, plus you'll put a graphic up showing the notes you're playing. Nice! I also like that you play the whole lesson through as a short demo. These are the BEST tutorials for any instrument that I've found on youtube. Thank you so much!!! Second, I love that you show us how it's played on the recording or at least note when you've deviated from the recording. Awesome job!
I find myself returning to your tutorials more than any other video instructor out there. Thanks for the great videos!!
Piano John, if I could play like you I'd never get up from the piano. You are an outstanding teacher and your videos have allowed me to play some of Joel's most fantastic work. Thank you so much, sir.
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. :-)
I've only been playing for about a month, and after about 10 minutes of practice after watching this, I've got the intro part down. You're a damn good teacher. I also subscribed :)
This is one of my fathers favorites songs, and we were listening to it and I told him I'd learn it on piano for him. He didn't believe me. It took me about 2 minutes to learn the intro rif alone from this video, which would have taken me probably half an hour to learn by ear. Coming from an advanced piano player, you are an excellent teacher and it is much appreciated. THankyou :)
thx! i tried looking up sheet music online, but i was learning it too slow so i found this and now i've just about got the intro down! Great, well explained video!
You're brilliant. I have been searching for a very long time for a tutorial that plays it this close to the original... thank you so much.
Really appreciate this tutorial. I come back to it all the time. Better than most of the tutorials we can find out there.
This is extremely clear! I am 12 years old and a huge Billy Joel fan. Thank you so much.
1st class tutorial. Thank you so much for taking your time and effort to give a very accurate transcription of this timeless classic. I can't thank you enough, you have inspired me to finally learn this piece after many years of people requesting me to play it. The sheet music I have for this piece has gathered dust for years, probably due to it's inaccuracy. I stumbled across your video, and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning it . You're a great teacher and an inspiration!
I really like how the notes are written out above.... it helps me see better what you're playing and to remember what to play.
i love that you show the note names as well as tell us. very helpful!
You are the best tutorial guy on here. It's like you wrote the music every time I watch you teach something! Even if it does look like these were recorded in the 70's!
wow i never thought i could play it the way billy joel did. this is amazing. you really teach it well
thanks john. it took me about a week but now i can play "piano man" all the way through fluidly.
I went to see Billy and Elton in concert last month and was reinspired to try to learn to play piano man. I am a beginner and this has been a great learning tool for me. It's in my favorties file so I can play it over and over as I practice on my keyboard. Thanks!!!
THANKS A LOT FOR THE 5 PIANO MAN LESSONS!!!. I PLAYED "PIANO MAN" and "MY LIFE", FROM BILLY JOEL AT SCHOOL. ITS REALLY NICE TO PLAY THE SOLO, UPPER OCTAVE VERSE, ETC, AND PEOPLE LIKED IT!!! VERY GOOD LESSON!!!
I came from the 2023s year to tell you:
Keep the good work and practice, 17 year old ArGxMAXI!
You will be a great pianist at 33 Yo!
Im proud of your efforts! Your "Piano Man" version at school was a shit, but you will improve your skills in the next 15 years, and compose your own music! Congratulations!!! Your path will grow you up 👌
Awesome man. Learned from this tutorial a year ago, forgot, came back and learned it again. Thanks!
Never played piano before and I got the start nailed! Can't wait to finish the whole thing!
Great to see your videos are still up. I remember taking weeks to get this down after I had just started playing piano back in '07. I never stopped playing and as of now am rehearsing this song with my current cover band. Hope you are well and still rocking, John!
Thanks, Ulfin, I'm still here, just hoping to be able to access my channel again soon. :-)
Such a great clear and "patient" teacher. Thanks.. I will prob watch this a million times to get it, but I'm up for it ! :)
this is the first song i learned. my piano instructor was very amazed, since it was my first year of lessons. thanks!
Not everyone who plays can be an effective teacher….
John you are one of the few who can obviously not only play wonderfully, but you are able to articulate what you do and how to do it. Kudos!!!
Thanks so much, I appreciate the nice thoughts. Very glad the vids are helpful to you!
This was the most helpful video ever! Thanks for the clear and to the point walk through!
PianoJohn, you've really enriched my own piano playing. I love playing these songs you teach people how to play via youtube. This is one of my favorite songs to play.
Learning to play this actually made this my favorite song. Thanks for posting these videos.
John I want to thank you for updating these videos, you are a great piano player, and its very kind of your part to be teaching people you don't even know, bet you can't imagine where are your videos being played over the world, keep on the good job sir :D
This people its an excellent piano tutorial, not a cover played slowly or a synthesia video, this is what is called a piano tutorial. Congratulations, keep up the good work.
this tutorial is exactly what i was looking for; the pacing is great. thank you for editing the note letters in too, it probably took a lot of time. thank you again!
You're very welcome, Marisa. Yes, the notations did take a while with the recording software I had back then, but I think it was worth the effort. :-)
This is just the intro. I'm screwed
No you're not dude. Keep at it.
It's just a C run down on the left, and then that tricky little C/G, C/A, C/B, rundown to F.
But you can make it sound fab. Don't give up, mate …..
@@markcollinson9614 U probably wrote that too late lol. its 5 years ago. Ik u wrote 6 months ago
It's been 7 years, how is it now
Rest of the song is easy aF
@Henry Zuniga Hernandez for an absolute beginner its definitley not simple. It is in the moderate range. Please at least be considerate to those who are still learning. Being contemptous is really not helpful to anyone.
Dear Piano John,
Thanks so much for making such a great free video! It's very well done and free from confusion and over complication. For people like me who don't have much time or money but love music, people like you are a fantastic resource!
- keep up the good work
Dude... I think you present a very good service to many of us...
There's not a lot of folks who post thing slike this
Your tutorials are hands down the best on RUclips. I really wish you would upload again!! ❤🙏. You may say im a dreamer, but im not the only one :-)
you have a nincredible teaching style, a lot of piano instructions i get frusterated, im learning this song at a pretty fast pace thanks to you, thanks so much!!!!
This video is sooo helpful. i pick up instruments really easily and this is perfect for me. Thanks for giving your time to make this.
Wow ... excellent description and thorough instructions. Thanks! I hope one day I'll be good enough to pay it forward.
Great work on "piano man." I've enjoyed listening to and learning this song from you! Thanks!!
Thanks so much for the time you took to make and share this. Excellent, excellent instruction - I feel I've learned more about music and piano from your tutorial on this one song, than I learned in 6 years of classical piano training. Thanks!
This was awsome!!! a lot of the other tutorials are hard to fallow but you make it very easy!!! thankyou!!!
You are awesome John. You do the songs how they are PLAYED by the artists. No shortcuts. That's the way to go! Keep it up
I remember watching this waay back in 2007 or 2008. I've never stopped playing it ever since, thank you :D
your tutorials are THE BEST i love you soooo much for all of your tutorials
John you are a star......!!!!!!!. I've learned so much with your videos...
Thank you so much
Thank you so much Piano John for your work!! I´ve restarted to play piano after 20 years just a month ago. Fortunatly i came across a link to one of your turtorials, that was a dream come true!! You brought all the fun in playing piano back immediately.. Big Hug from a very happy Girl in Frankfurt/Germany!
This is such a great video! Each step is clearly defined. Thank you!
When playing intro Piano Man, I usually just do fake pretend jazz that sounded like junk... this is a game changer!
Thank you very much. It is very nice that you teach me to play this song. and your advice were very clear. Pianojohn rocks!
You are a realllly good teacher. I started playing piano last year and thanks to you people have recently been asking how long i have been taking lessons. I just smile and say that I never have :) Me and my brother love playing this song now! :) I also made a wire hanger into a harmonica holder so i could play both parts at once haha :)
Thank you so much I've just started taking piano lessons (I'm 15) and I've loved this song and this tutorial is very useful gonna hopefully learn this by the end of this month
Man, you are better than any piano teacher I've ever had. Thank you.
I know nothing about piano but im learning a lot from these videos!! Thanks a lot!
i've always needed to play the intro! THANKS SO MUCH! you are basically the BEST at the piano!
I played Piano Man as one of my 28 songs in a gig in JUne.. it was just so fun. I loved it. Go Chargers and Angels!!!!
Piano John, Thank you so much. I've been taught piano from age 6 to about 10. I'm 14 now, and I've forgotten how to read music efficiently. Thanks to you, I've learned some of my favorite beatles' tunes and this song. I appreciate it alot because you've allowed me to keep playing and learning without the need for sheet music. I owe about 80% of my piano skill today to you. Thanks again! you rock man.
Woah! How's it feel being 25? I'm 14 right now!
I'm just getting into playing and you're videos are very helpful. I'm very glad that you created these because they are a big help!!!
Still watching these videos in 2021. Very helpful
Thanks so much for this amazing visual and tutorial!!! I learn by watching and hearing so this was spot on, keep up the great tutorials!
Amazingly good tutorial. My hat goes off to you.
Okay, that's what i figured from how the song goes. Thanks for the tutorials, they're great!
Really great lessons - keep them coming !
Excellent! I'll start learning this shortly. This is a very good video. Thanks!
Great stuff man! Thank you very much for being a great teacher and giving us a awesome learning tool!
Love your videos! Thank you so much. With practice hopefully i'll get better to learn all of them.
V.good tutorial...I always struggled to figure out the right hand parts properly on the intro, but ur vid helped sort that out - thanks...from Dublin, Ireland.
awesome video man! you move at the perfect pace! slow enough to understand, and fast enough for me not to get bored!
This tutorial is the only one on youtube that actually got through to me. Thanks so much!
this is my favorite song. Thank you so much for helping me learn it!!!!! It took me like a week to get down to perfect but it was SO worth it! Thanks SO much!!!!
That was amazing, thank you. Can't wait to nail this!
Thank you so much. I've always wanted to play this song. Thanks to you i've learned it in less than an hour. Keep up the great work John !
Very glad it worked for you, Reda, and I appreciate the kinds words!
hey this is great! Got a request for this song recently and couldn't remember how it started, this is gold dust!!
Great tutorial dude, seriously helping me out a ton. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
You're a star! Fantastic!
Thank a lot, im starting to learn piano, and this is really hard to play, but its a good reason to try harder... god bless you man.
This is great! Just learned this part, on to the next one!
I'm amazed at how well you can play this.... :) great tutorial!
Hey, thanks for this! I've been trying to figure this out for ages. Excellent teacher!
Thanks for the class. I've been for some days trying to play it and just found your video. God bless you.
Great lesson as always! I'm having so much fun playing this song :)