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Uploaded by on Jun 7, 2008

A cool song to play from the White Album. Very easy to learn, too.

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  • hello... who plays piano when it was recorded by the fabs? john, paul or george martin?

    great stuff as usual, pianojohn! i've heard a take of this song with just the piano accompaniment.

  • @pnoynoir Usually Paul or George Martin played piano, although John did add his keyboard skills to several songs too.

  • Thanks again John! I STILL play this after learning it here! Wish I had time to learn more! (I don't write music at all).

    Do you know how/why RIngo got the nod for the lead on this song? Thanks!

  • @aquaiz Glad you liked it! I'm not sure why Ringo was given this song, other than to guess that a) they needed another song for him to sing, and b) John didn't think his voice sounded quite right on this composition. It would be intersting to find out, though.

  • Great, I love your way of teaching and I've learned quite some songs with the help of your vids. Just one question about this one: you're playing it in 6/8 measure, right? While the original sounds to me like an 4/4 measure. Am I correct? If so, why is your version different?

  • Yes, you ARE correct.. and I didn't catch that until about six months after I'd done this video, too late to change it. I play these songs by ear, and thus rely on memory to call them up and play them. Well, sometime in the last 35 years, my mind shifted it to 6/8. And while I think it works in that tempo, it is not true to the original. I guess now that YouTube has an annotations editor, I should clarify/note that somewhere on the video. Thank you for the reminder on that!

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  • Music is the Universal language. Peace to you and Thank you for the gifts you give us all.

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  • I don't even have a piano but i enjoy your videos...

  • in the demo from the Anthology album there's a part when the piano gets a bit higher, can you show how to do that in a part 2 or something? it's at the 1:30 mark on Anthology 3. thanks

  • The chord in the right hand looks more like a C Major chord that has been half-diminished with a G octave in the bass.

  • nighters evrybody evrywhere nighters

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