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You picked great songs. Billy is not so easy because he uses so many chords, slash chords, seventh chords and different time signatures. I like how you simplified them.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Yes he uses such great chords!

I'm killing myself laughing! I love the comment at 6:32 "that'll keep you busy.....". You crack me up, Tom!!

Loved this lesson. I didn’t want it to end. Oh man, I didn’t realize Tom could sing so effortlessly 😂

Have been wanting to learn a Billy song for ages. Tom comes along and makes it so simple👏🏻👏🏻👍

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

Brilliant lesson! I was playing Piano Man within 10 minutes! You have a dual gift . Playing AND teaching. I really have to dedicate time to learning 6th and 7th chords.

Just the way you are is one of my favorite songs from 1978! Thank you!❤

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

It's one of those all time greats.

Honestly, The best tutorial on the planet! 👍

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

Thankyou for your kind words! Hopefully, I haven't peaked too early...

Wow! Thank you, Tom I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I never imagined that this would be possible for me. I am really encouraged with the sound. Thank you. Richard B.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

Fantastic, keep up the good work!

OMG I didn’t think anything could get close to your iconic 3 Elton John songs but this looks just as magical and your methods are just inspiring me everyday Tom, so thank you so much for this. I have been learning nine months and after your EJ tutorial I just adore the flat chord scales especially E flat and all its possibilities with slash chords and suspended notes. Thank you again, you’re a true inspiration

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't really do an Elton one without doing a Billy one!

I just absolutely love this site. It’s like Toms in my room. Class lessons.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Excellent Tutorial. Gee when I play your style I feel like a professional. Many thanks.😊😊😊😊😊

Glorius changes with a big G yes - really loved this and would love to know more about the chord changes - excellent session as usual Tom and inspiring to us all. Not a bad vocal either!

And thank you for passionate teaching.

I loved loved loved this tutorial! Can you please do more like it? I also like how it’s produced with the camera on the hands and the chords transposed on the bottom of the screen. Please strongly consider doing this more going forward. With the Elton video - I kept trying to zoom in on the corner video of your hands and it wouldn’t work. I’m self taught and this type of instruction goes a long way in helping me play better. Thanks so much to you and your team for putting these videos together. I’m sure a lot of thought and hard work goes into them and it’s truly appreciated!

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

fantastic

Donald, absolutely love the way you explain things, makes so much sense.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

Ай бұрын

That's great to hear!

Watched your 3 Elton John songs video a while back and was impressed by how well you presented it for beginners like me. I've been at it a little over 3 years but enjoyed those EJ tips and tricks. Now you've got me again with Billy Joel songs! Going for the Resources Pack now.

Yet another wonderful tutorial Tom.

Thanks Tom! Great tunes to get teeth into. Nicely broken down

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

Thanks Tom, you have a great personality for teaching. I liked the presentation with you in the top left corner, it makes following the lesson much easier. Keep up the good work 👍

Your analysis is valuable even when thinking about guitar backing.

More brilliant tuition, Tom. Many thanks.

Thank you for beautiful Billy Joel songs and beautiful singing!

Thank you so much!

Priceless...thanks. been playing just over year, this is just enough to stretch me a bit. My next 3 songs...

Best teacher!

Excellent lecture, thank you!

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

29 күн бұрын

You're very welcome!

Fantastic. Thanks a lot.

Good lesson . Lovely voice

Love it!! Thank you

Nice job Tom!!👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏻

you have the right idea for the everyman piano player….

That was a wonderful choice, explanation and execution in such a short concise 20 min piece. Three more please in part 2 would be even greater...lullaby, ny state of mind, honesty or. The only improvement from a tutorial perspective is to have software visualisation on screen, like so many other great yt channel creators have, why? because you cant see fingering or notes clearly enough when hands get in way. That's not a criticism btw Tom, you are in the top quartile of enjoyable expert tutors on the platform, such 'embellishments' may take you to the top decile or infiniti & beyond...but that's another story if there's no curvature😊

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Great suggested tunes for a follow-up tutorial. New York and Lullabye are two absolute favourites of mine. You made a very good point about software Midi visualisation. Thanks for your comment here, its a topic I've been wanting to talk about on this channel. As a music education specialist, I'm concerned from the evidence I've seen that students of Piano have become over reliant on these widgets in a way where it doesn't improve their playing. Playing piano is a touch base activity/motion, and I'm worried these hyper visualized demonstrations obstruct a deeper understanding of exploring and finding chord shapes. At the moment our production is more focused on sitting on a real piano (some of our older videos use the midi visualisations) and we might return to making a few for those who just like watching our videos on KZread. To actual students of Piano, I don't think it's a great approach unless potentially a student is extremely visual in their learning (which in that case score reading would be a better approach). I hope that makes sense, we've put a lot of thought into these educational values as we are more so an international piano school rather than "KZreadrs." So, our methods are based on what we've done with real students over many decades rather than more recent online trends.

Cool specs!

So wonderful, but I rely more on scores with fingerings - as a total beginner.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

The problem with scores and fingerings for any pop music, is you never get the chance to learn the chords. And without the chords, you have no context to play these songs successfully, no method book for beginners will bring you to the chords you need to play this music. We have some tutorials on chords for beginners. I strongly suggest you check them out. I'd start with this one; kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2uq29KQf5CdnKQ.html

What online piano courses do you have. And is it with video. Jimmy. Do you have the sheet for this lesson.

I'd like to give 5 thumbs up...😅

Poderia me mandar alguns vídeos de dedilhados? Se atendido ou não , obrigado!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would love to find the chord kit/exercise you mentioned at the beginning, but I just don't see it. There's no contact form at the link, for example.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

Just contact us via the site and we will send it to you. If you prefer to email us directly,.it's admin@contemporaryschoolofpiano.com

Have emailed your school about the resource pack but never had a reply. Disappointed as you are a great teacher

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

I can see you on our system Paul, so it would have been sent out to you on January 30th when you initially contacted us. Can you check your email inbox and check to see if it didn't get moved to spam. The email address is tom@contemporaryschoolofpiano.com - I suggest searching for it in your inbox. It's on the very first email correspondence. I hope this helps.

@paulwhite5601

3 ай бұрын

Having raised issue Tom resent the resource pack . Excellent service thank you .

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

@@paulwhite5601 it's a pleasure! glad it's all received now, Paul. If anyone else doesn't have any luck receiving it, please let us know at admin@contemporaryschoolofpiano.com - email reliability is not always great with the numerous compliance filters between different accounts.

piano man is doable for me, forget the others i have tiny hands like Trump 🤣

I know you are trying to simplify it but….. those chords are just wrong for the most part sounds terrible….. and you’re throwing in the little flourish is beautifully, but you’re playing the wrong chords!

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

3 ай бұрын

I'm probably wasting my time right now (I could be using it to make more helpful tutorials for instance) but I write this comment for any serious piano student trying to play these songs as a beginner/intermediate. This advice I"m going to give you will save you loads of time and heartache. There will be instances where a die-hard purist will get upset by the slightest variation to the original recording in a pop song, for example when a major 7th might be removed from a chord for the sake of a less experienced pianist (or a pianist with different harmonic tastes). The name of this video is "3 Billy Joel Pieces for Beginners". Now to say the chords have been simplified is correct but the simplifications are very limited, and mostly when it does occur on only a few occasions the function of the chord is still exactly the same. For instance, an Abmaj7 chord is still built on the same triad as an Ab chord, so the song still functions as it was originally written. And also to add to that, despite the occasional simplification, Just the Way You Are is actually corrected in this video as opposed to what is on the official sheet music of this piece (which is not what Billy Joel plays). One final comment, playing pop music, is almost an impossible and endlessly frustrating endeavor for the "obsessed purist" - like this poor gentleman here. Even the pop stars they worship, always play their own music completely differently, I saw Billy Joel at Maddison Sq Gardens recently, he is now taking all of his songs down a few keys with reharmonizations everywhere. A pop song is a recording in time, the guitars or string backing will capture other notes not inside the piano chords, the reality is you will never play the exact recording on just a piano, because you are not a band. That's why this obsessive purism, always fails in this type of music. If this video is too easy, I suggest checking out our latest seminar on Beatles Yesterday where we go into harder arrangements of popular music for piano

Nice piano playing but you can’t sing