The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles - Piano Cover by Guy Faux

My piano cover of “The Long and Winding Road” by the Beatles uses fairly basic chords throughout the song.

There is an occasional 4-note 7th chord, but most of the song is made up of basic 3-note major and minor chords. These are the easiest chords to learn if you’re just starting to learn how to play the piano.

The first chord progression consists of Cm, Gm, Ab, Eb and then back to an Ab chord.

Of course, if you were just starting out, I wouldn’t throw this many chords at you all at once, and I certainly wouldn’t start you with any chords that contained black keys; which all of these do.

Not that chords with black keys are all that difficult to play. To be honest, most chords are fairly easy to play on the piano — but when it comes to switching from one chord to another; this can be tricky at first.

Like anything else, there’s a correct way to do it, and a wrong way to do it.

In Lesson 11 of One Minute Piano, you will begin to learn the correct way of switching from one chord to another.

https://rumble.com/vbvkdh-one-minute-piano-lesson-11.html

It’s a lot easier to learn chords using the white keys first. However, in Lesson 5 of One Minute Piano, you will begin to learn chords with black keys — but I limit it to just one chord at a time, and with only one black key at a time.

https://rumble.com/vbm27p-one-minute-piano-beginner-lesson-5.html

And when you get to Lesson 11 where you start playing two different chords — both chords contain only white keys.

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Enjoy!

Guy Faux
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