Piano Tutorial: How to Play Christmas Lights by Coldplay

[ThePIANOLife1]

Nice audio sounds good

[mysticalrohan]

oh christmas lights!!!

[emmag7414]

This looks kindov difficult, but I'm going to try to learn it. You're a very good teacher!

[toniandtracy]

you got a hot voice lol but great tutorial!

[packrat118118]

PLease go through the nots course it's just chords and i find then really hard to do if i don't know the notes! would be great if you could do that:)

[sashagala]

My mom bought a piano for no reason cause no-one in my family plays an instrument. then I discovered coldplay and I got the idea to play this wonderful song and thanks to your easy way of teaching it, I've learned quickly how to play it. thank you so much!

[DarthLateralus]

great video, nailed it, thanks for the notes too

[kiera791]

I bet the ppl that disliked got fursterated lol

[insideoutproduction1]

3 idiots

[la323pimp]

Looks like the Christmas Lights didn't bring her back for three people

[yenrac17]

@la323pimp what??

[MusicAndFlesh]

@yenrac17 la323pimp is referring to the lyrics when he hopes the lights will bring his love back to him. And the 3 dislikes are because she didn't return :P

[Zaftastic]

@yenrac17 its a reference to a lyric in the song

[spageto33]

very good tuto .. i'm french and even if i haven't understand all what you said .. i still play it thanks to you !! thanks

[HapOntbijtkoek]

Fourth Time:

Left Hand: CEG, DF#A. Sounds better with more sound,

[HapOntbijtkoek]

It's great! Thanks Now I know how to play but... but one thing.... what's wrong with the 'waiting for the snow to fall' part?

[HapOntbijtkoek]

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[PhilTheViolinist]

Wow, this is awesome! Thank you for making this video! I just started playing piano 3 days ago and I can already play up to the fourth intro/verse part! One thing though. Do you think you could make a tutorial on playing the song with the vocal part in there too? Like play the piano intro then convert the vocals to piano. If not do you know of a video that does? Thanks.

[cloudnine1414]

I think you did a great job, thanks for putting this video on youtube. I hope to see more in the future! :)

[rayawesum]

i never touched the piano before, but thanks to you i can now play something :) merry christmas!!

[AREM16137]

Dude... Your my hero! Haha! Thank you so much. You have some extreme talent if you can learn a song by ear in like 1 day...

[AREM16137]

Dude... Your my hero! Haha! Thank you so much. You have some extreme talent if you can learn a song by ear in like 1 day...

[giunovecento]

I think there are a lot of mistakes... "Oh when you're still waiting for the snow to fall" is with C not with G... (maybe the G is only at the left hand)

and the other "I go singing out of tune..... " completely wrong!.... it repeats the same chords of the previous Oh they flicker and they float..."

[satellite09]

Hey that was great man. Do you mind if you post up a tutorial for the song wedding bells, the one Chris Martin played on apple keynote.

[13demayorobcumple]

Excellent dude tanks :D

[cmac510]

Your fingers are SO LONG

[mildaliko]

thaaaank you ^_^

[stuartwwillis]

thanks for investing your time in this tutorial.... magic. Absolute magic!

[Jamezguitar]

of course i want to make it a video respons to yours, such a talented piano player!!!

thnx for the comment =)

[LaurenHPNo1Fan]

Hi, Im very glad youve put this up here, Im able to follow it.

However Im getting stuck at "A group of candles on their flicker".

Ive only took piano lessons when I was younger - although I play tenor saxophone now - so I dont know much about what a "E minor" is, and what not.

Could you perhaps describe the exact notes you play on each hand for each part? Through message or on here, that'd be very helpful!

[waarlom]

could you send me the notes? it's an amazing song:)

[yenrac17]

@waarlom check the description 

[Teddythesecond]

Okay first off let's make this clear: That was awesome.

Secondly: Thank you for making this you=awesome

And thridly: I wish that I could too have an innovative way of avoiding physics homework :)

[weaselkid91]

hah thanks a lot, i appreciate where your priorities lie in regards to physics!

[TheMatyas44]

hi could you please put notes here? thx

[yenrac17]

@TheMatyas44 there you go!

[lawzz7]

Quick question um is this tutorial accurate or close to it because i dnt want to start learning this if its wrong , no affence

[yenrac17]

@lawzz7 yes, i believe it is accurate. but like i said to someone else, "i'm just playing what i picked up by ear and it sounds right. but there are definitely multiple ways to play this song and they all sound good. this is just one of those ways"

[axcertypo]

@yenrac17 @lawzz7 yeah this is very good for it having been out for such a short time, but it isn't 100%. So I'd say if you are looking for the most accurate tutorial possible, wait a while, because us ear-learners are constantly making improvements. I've been perfecting Viva La Vida for around two years, and I'm still at it!

Great video by the way!

[Tomahawk1505]

@axcertypo thats so true, the way I play trouble evolves constantly, especially after I hear a new way chris played it live or something

[mariocast]

@axcertypo I've got a video teaching measures 5-8 (the main part of the song) based off of the published sheet music of "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. If you want to check it out, it's on my YouTube channel.

[mariocast]

@lawzz7 yenrac17 did a nice job teaching it by ear last week, but I just put up a video of me teaching the main 4 measures based off of the sheet music if you want to see it on my channel. If you want, you can check it out.

[martindelaat90]

@lawzz7 Nope it isn't (check the clip f.e., you can see one of those automatic pianos and you'll see it isn't lining up). A.F.A.I.K littletranscriber is spot on (youtube/littletranscriber)

[steelersbaby1231]

this is the quite helpful mate jolly good work

[yiazmat35]

Great stuff, but could you please do one tutorial of the song with melody? Pwease? Thanks. Your tutorial is the best, but I really want the melody with it :P

[yenrac17]

@yiazmat35 yeah, i'll see if i can come up with it. and if i can, i'll post another video.

[yiazmat35]

@yenrac17 That would be awesome. Thanks a lot and keep up with the great work ;)

[Mariam616191]

thank you very much, you are the best man in this world!!!!

[86Timewarp]

At 5:30 its shouldn't be D,B D,B D,A & D,G?

[yenrac17]

@86Timewarp i'm just playing what i picked up by ear and it sounds right. but there are definitely multiple ways to play this song and they all sound good. this is just one of those ways. 

[86Timewarp]

@yenrac17 yah i know and thanks for putting this tutorial up. i just hope they release some music before christmas

[CheesyPeasEloise]

love this.. would love it if you could find some sheet music? i personally find it easier to learn it with sheet music so if you could say where you found out how to play this it would be great :D

ohh, and you have really nice hands aswell :P

[yenrac17]

@CheesyPeasEloise i learned this song by ear so i do not have any sheet music. sorry...

[CheesyPeasEloise]

@yenrac17 ahh okk

never mind then :D

good job learning it by ear,, i just can't even attempt learning things by ear :P

[Lucii1293]

Still learning, but you're the first one to put an understandable tutorial of this song on the internet, so congrats! Love it, both the song and your tutorial.

[Lmzitting13]

Good job!

[AngzMuzic]

Thanks <3

[J8Dust8]

love it man way to go. you learned it better than my weak attempt :P

[yenrac17]

@J8Dust8 haha thanks man!