How to play Your Song by Elton John on Piano - Introduction (first 4 measures)

[PYE172]

have you got your permission from elton john yet . i like the 2 keyboards the way you do it

[imachristianiloveGod]

Love it! Thanks so much for making this video :D

[Ziggywompus]

Great Teaching!! You have an awesome tutorial - which I need! Thank you.

[paigeraw]

Can you send me the whole song please?

[AngelsCryxX]

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i think that you shoult play the hole song without a tutorial

[mn19865]

Thanks a lot !!

you're great teacher !

and fantastic song ever !

[dirtylare]

"And you can tell everybody" YOU'RE THE BEST PIANO TEACHER!

[ilovefleetwoodmac]

Best tutorial ever!! Wish I could learn the rest of the song!!

[EvilyIsMe]

@BigRedCotter but I like it dumbed down xD

[tobiasbass97]

It's very good!!:) i like it

[BigRedCotter]

if this is easy for you, keep looking cause there are much harder and better tutorials out there, this is very dumbed-down

[TheByronBeast]

''hold that, for a .. abit..'' haha, :)

[msscrazybuthappy]

Awesome, thank you :)

[Fabregazio4]

You're AWESOME!!! I hope you get copyrights ;P

[YesCaptin]

Please Finish the rest of this NOW!!!!! soo helpful! :) thank you

[SwivelChairProds]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I wish I had a piano teacher like you, this video really helped (especially if my computer didn't have to pause it every few seconds...)

[aidasalehi90]

you have one of the best tutorials i have ever taken!

[chrismarx85]

@aidasalehi90 - thanks! i just started working on making the full version for this song!

[Merisse1994]

Great video!!!

[joshuacook0023]

teach us the finale of empty garden.

[bubblez1098]

Like if Cameron Mitchell from Glee Project brought you here!

[Emil300willsmith]

Amazing video, Chris. I do miss the rest of the song though - where can I find this?

[psyclistic]

Hey Chris, thank you so much for putting videos like this up. Just a critique I'd like to make as a personal preference for your lessons (I'm not sure how other people like it): if the goal is to teach people just how to play the piece, it helps me much more if you play the song/riff a few times slowly before delving into the theory. Also, while the chord names, inversions, and theory are interesting, I find that too much of it confuses me when I'm just trying to learn how to play the piece.

[bugblood]

I can't figure out how the rest of the chords are through the whole song:/ Does anybody know where I can find the right chords to this intro??

[BlueEyedHippie517]

can I have the sheet music/tabs for this. please

[Radocto]

Where Do I Find The Rest?

[JonRichter96]

What key is this in?

[Cinderthedonkey]

This is the BEST tutorial I have ever seen- you are wonderful, and have given me the confidence to keep trying.. Thank you so much!!!

[HumorJoint]

probably the best tutorial on youtube.. great job extremely helpful.. too bad you couldnt finish the rest of the song :/

[kristianlarsen95]

send me the pw and link to ur blog so i can learn the rest. omg, ive done everything

[chrismarx85]

@kristianlarsen95 - hi kristian, sorry I wasn't able to finish the rest of this video. I got stuck trying to figure out how to get permission from elton john, still waiting for him to call me back.

[MChadRussell]

This lesson was very helpful to me. I appreciate it!

[kristianlarsen95]

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[kristianlarsen95]

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[AuroraBorealisAK]

Thank You!!

[lililala1810]

This is great ! thank you !!

[SoCaLPianoClub]

He has HEAPS of help on his website link. It's been a while, but I vividly remember being emailed BOOKS of instructions. I believe for a little, and I mean a very little amount of money, HE will HOOK YOU UP!

[chrismarx85]

@SoCaLPianoClub Thanks Socal! I'll be releasing more stuff soon! The chords 101 ebook is free for everyone who gives me their email address for email lessons.

[YouNoULoveIt]

by any chance could you do a video, displaying the rest of the song? it would be greatly appreciated!!

and your tutorials help heaps, thankyou.

[smoooter0161]

hi mark top site, can you finishe, your song so i canf finishe it my self,

thanks

[mepp30]

Thank you very much, this song means a lot to me and my boyfriend, great story behind it :) So I'm going to learn this and play it for him when he comes home in a month. Great tutorial, you go very slowly and really point out the chords. Subscribing!

[Mickeyc88]

please finish!! :(

[XblobyX]

This is the best tutorial on youtube.. But where's the rest of it??

[chrismarx85]

@XblobyX - I didn't finish it! I finished most of it and then got fed up with trying to figure out copyright and how to get permission to make sheet music and videos for it.

[funki22duck]

i apreciate the guy doing this tutorial, but he has a rather bad technique, playing with flat hands and his fingerings at times can be bad :/

[ProcolHarum1967]

@funki22duck I think that might just be so it's easier for us to see what is being played.

[chrismarx85]

@funki22duck - I don't normally play like that. You're right its bad. I'll play a little differently on camera than in real life.

I was playing straight fingers on some of the videos to make it really obvious which notes I'm holding down.

[PRINSSESMARTHA]

@funki22duck  i think he may be just playing with flat hands tomake it clear on what nots he is playing

[Radocto]

Where's The Rest?

[flinty2006]

It sounds brilliant and its a brilliant tut but if you play eltons song it sounds completely different

[snowflake0915]

Dude seriously where the heck can i learn the rest of this song. I have this intro down. I looked on your Blog and i cannot find anything other than how to read the sheet music. And everyone else who has a tutorial about this song,plays it different,doesnt explain what there doing and the video is like 7 years old. Please help me im trying to learn this song for a friend!

[bretcarr]

The best most concise non bs lesson I've seen

[AutumnLove23]

the top keyboard helps SO much cause sometimes you can't see fingerings because the players fingers are in the way

[iLiveLaughLoveLife]

Thank you! I learned this in like 10 minutes or less (: Loved how you did the shaded keys up above

[manfredicomposer]

I like your playin.

[angellaws]

You just saved my day. Hopefully my boyfriend is gonna like it while I'm singing.

Greetings from Denmark

[08ciana]

Thank you sooo much for this.. Can you do We all fall in love sometimes???

[LakeMineaush]

I bought the rocket piano stuff, I have the lead sheet for "Your Song" but still would like to have the full sheet notation for this entire song, How / where do I get the full sheet notation?

[rOcKcHiCk1062]

Is this the same version as the one in moulin rouge? ((The movie)) Like, the same arrangment on the sheet music, or is it a little different to the one in the movie?

[chrismarx85]

@rOcKcHiCk1062 - they're similar. I think they're in different keys and the movie version has different instruments and a couple different sections.

[Gamer1159]

@chrismarx85 OH NO lol Moulin Rouge is the rock balled version of the song. Higher key, no intro, and a lot faster and more happy =)

reference- ive performed both versions for different shows

[LuVidzProductions]

What a fantastic tutorial - not only is it visually easy to follow but the way you verbally explain is brilliant!! Cheers :D

[CrBriggs87]

I have to agree with Mike! I have not been playing a long time, but this is one of the best videos I have found! You really do a great job. I learned this intro in about 20 minutes. Thanks a lot, look forward to more!!!

[chrismarx85]

there is a hand out for this specific video on the blog that has all the notes written in.

I stopped posting the rest of it thought because i couldn't figure out a bunch of copyright info to be able to sell the whole lesson!

[zestymike48]

Chris: You do such an incredible job of teaching in general, but I was especially impressed with how you explained inversions. I've played, mostly improvisationally for over 40 years and had students of my own, so just had to tell you what an incredible teacher you are!! Bravo that you would do this to create a musical and piano interest in others!!

[chrismarx85]

Thanks Zesty Mike!

[zestymike48]

I am trying so hard to get my nephew and niece interested in music and sent them several of your videos because I love how you teach and break down each and every single segment. When you take each tiny sector and master that it then becomes just a matter of putting them all together and I wanted them to see how easy it is to do when you take it one step at a time. I sent them several of your videos because you explain this and demonstrate so perfectly. You are a MASTER What a great teacher!

[SavannahSoenen]

can you do the whole song? now that ive got the intro down i'd like to learn the rest :) thanks

[KevinSean116]

That will be $19.95 plus tax.....

[chrismarx85]

Yeah! I wish. I haven't figured out copyright enough to sell anything. :(

[TattooBull]

@chrismarx85 .. your not selling the song ... you would be selling the "leason" .. thanks for teaching it !!!!!

[makitfunkee]

Maybe you're trying to simplify for an easier entry, but the notes that you have for the first 3 chords are close but incorrect acc. to the recorded version.

But THANKS for offering this!

[DeathMetaller1990]

What's the name of the program you're using?

[wabblyjello]

you didn't have to mention the chord names and how he changed them and whatnot, just get to the point I think.

[Moonddust]

thanks so much! i was trying desperately to figure this one out!!

[fwestermark]

Great work chrismarx85!

Could you pleas do Eltons "The one" also? please!!!

[viesparemixed]

really good! you're super!

[19Gabriel93]

Amazing!

Do you have a full version of this video?

[juicee17]

um, was a bit confusing to understand what you were actually doing so :S

yeah

but thank you !

[chrismarx85]

i've always ignored those numbers.

ask garage band?

[ordisi78]

You seem to have the Cs mislabeled. Isn't C4 "middle C"?

[kevinmat]

c1 is middle c.

[DjNightsendt]

No it's not. Middle C is C4 on a regular piano. What would you call the lower cords if the middle was C1? Think

[kevinmat]

no need to be rude, that's just how i've been taught... i could try to send you a link to show you if you'd like?

[DjNightsendt]

sorry, but when you seemt so certain of what u wrote i would belive it was correct. Anyway, it sort of depends of the piano. C1 is always the deepest cord of the piano.

[heytherelisa]

no....c1 is the first octave of c...

[TokioHotelFan4life89]

thank u that helped me out a lot:)

[MJDickson69]

stupid question, is, why does elton j. invert the chords?

[chrismarx85]

Hey MJ

In some situations, chords sound good in their inversions, better than in root position.

Inversions let you smoothly move from one chord to the next, only moving your fingers one or two half steps from their prior location.

[chrismarx85]

Without inversions you'd play each chord in root positions and to make a chord change, you're hand would have to jump everywhere, sometimes up to the interval of a 4th or 5th... This doesn't sound very good.

plus it requires you to watch what you're hands are doing.

When I use inversions, i can play without looking at my hands.

[MusicMan20217]

AWESOME

[keenly654321]

men u awesome

[kirknzg]

cooll

[AuroraBorealisAK]

GOD BLESS YOU! THANKS!

[dormanbenton]

I can not wait to learn this one. This is by far Elton John's greatest song in my opinion.

[idot159]

wow, this was great, did you post any tutorials on the rest of the song yet?

[mtbmax21]

wow the quality is amazing :D

[chrismarx85]

Please post a comment if you have any questions :)

This is just the introduction...

see the sidebar for the table of contents!