 Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this song tutorial, we are going to learn how to play Money by Pink Floyd, an incredible song even though it doesn't have too much of the piano. It has maybe an electric Fender Rhodes kind of piano with a little bit of a wah and some drive going on. It's not a very piano friendly song you would argue because it's very bass driven and lot of effects, very lot of guitars, drums, it's like a rock band song. We are going to tackle this on the piano and get something going and by the end of it all, you're going to be like a one man band playing this song and I hope you can do like a cover of it and just do like piano and vocals because you're going to do the bass line in the left and you're going to do the chord pattern in the right hand and pretty much that's it. You don't need anything else. You can do a version on your own and that's the hope to be able to do a cover version of Money. So a few interesting things about the song before we get started. It's a seven by four song so it's not a very normal time signature piece of music. It's not one, two, three, four, one. However the time signature changes from seven four in the main riff two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, three. It changes to a four four groove during the solos, the saxophone solo and all the other improvised bits. The guitar solo at the end is all on a four four which goes. So that's pretty much the structure. There's a seven four bit which is sung and there's a four four bit which is all the improv parts, the sax solo, the guitar solo and there's a lot of the piano comping which I'm going to show you primarily in the right hand while the left hand is going to ditto or play exactly what the bass guitar player is playing in the song. And if you're a guitar player or a bass player, you can follow our bass instructional video of money where I break down both the parts, the intro or the verse bit where you hear the money sound and cash register noises from the bank I guess and you'll hear him singing money a lot of times. Money. There we go. Boom, boom. Good part I've taught on the bass, I've even taught the line on the bass for the solos. But I'm also going to teach it on the piano in this video. Before we get cracking, you may want to get your hands on the notation. It's a very intricately done song. So you need to know exactly where the hit points are. The notation is available for you on Patreon as a PDF download. If you'd like to see how it all aligns visually, you could get the MIDI files as well in the same link in the description. It's just 5 bucks a month and for the $5 you spend, you're also going to get every other lesson I do, all the supplementary material and there are other perks for members which you could also consider. So do consider being a member on Patreon. And before we get cracking, it would be awesome if you could hit that subscribe button, turn on the bell icon for notifications and give us a like and leave us a comment if you liked the lesson at the end of the video. So let's get cracking. First of all, the scale, the time signature I already told you is 7-4. The scale is B minor derived from the D major scale which has two sharps. A lot of rock and blues songs end up being played on the minor scale. So B minor is what this is. And the entire chord sequence or the structure follows a very bluesy vibe, you know, it's almost like a 12 bar blues played on minor in 7 by 4 in a way which only Pink Floyd can. So there is a blues vibe and a lot of the chords you play are 7th chord. So just to give you an example of how I'm voicing it, instead of playing B minor like this, I would anyways be playing B minor in the bass, right? So I'd rather play it like this. That'll be the minor 7th, the minor 3rd and the perfect 5th. And we do a lot of these Dorian comping patterns which I'll also share with you. So stick around. Before we do anything, let's first learn the bass line and at least the main bass line. You know, if you can just about do that, I would be very happy for you, you know, because that itself is quite a challenge. It's on 7th, 4th and swung. So that is going to be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So. 5 count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. There's one staccato in there which to our advantage as piano players allows you to kind of jump and find that low F sharp. So I'm going B, B, F sharp, B, that's root, octave, 5th, root, dum, ba-da-dum. And now staccato there. That's swung or you can say triplet, 1, da-da-da, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. That's how we get the 7, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3. That's the riff, 1, 2, 3, 4, let's keep doing that together. See my fingering, I start with my pinky, that's the basic riff. And then I cross back, get the pinky back in shape, and you would want to do this in your left hand. Okay. So now when the verse starts, we do this, do that twice and so you do that, you're pretty much just following the vocalist there. So 2 lines or 2 bars of 7, 4 playing, da-da-da-dum, pump pump pump verse, second time. Now, dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum, back to the. So bar 1, bar 2, bar 4, but bar 3, just to kind of break that monotony. So it's sort of like an A, A, B, A kind of poetic structure if you will. So the right hand can do what we are hearing in the original song. Let me just break that down for you, it's very easy. I'm playing a B minor 7th in this voicing and it starts at the B2, 1, 2, 3 and 1, 2, 3 and hit point at 2, 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, you will be hitting again the B minor 7th. So hit 2, 3 and, and the third round I like to like just copy the melody or copy the bass line what you are doing in the left hand. So the main bars will be, 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3 and 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3 and back, okay. The whole story again with the left hand as you know does for bar 1, 2, and 4 and bar 3 both the left and the right hand play the same tune. So let's do that together. slow it down we repeat that twice money okay and that's how many bars was this four into four four into two rather eight bars are over and done with so the right hand does that comping it's like a B minus seventh E major so it gives you that Dorian vibe but for piano players it's just the same shape see you can literally close your eyes and just do it it's just right there so copy both and back to both hands now so just those two chords what we could call is the turn around let's figure those out so that's F sharp minor seventh going to E minor seventh very Pink Floyd S chords they do a lot of minor seventh chords sometimes ninths as you'll hear in breathe and hey you and all these other great classics of Pink Floyd so for now F sharp minor seventh let's just see how we are voicing it in both our hands the bass line does something really cool so it goes so let's just do only the left hand and then incorporate the right hand so the like we did earlier so that's F sharp so it's a very very elaborate seven four two bars of seven four which is F sharp minor and then back to that so let's just do that that hole only the bass line and then I'll teach you the chords F sharp now so for that F sharp you can either go low F sharp I kind of like that but in the original the bass player goes F sharp F sharp C F sharp kind of extends the bar to almost an eight count phrase and then the next one pump a rum teraruru one two three four five six so it's kind of interesting you could even notate it as an eight four followed by a six four I've just notated it as seven four plain and plain and simple but the phrase is seven eight one two three four five six back to seven six seven so it's seven four seven four seven four for a while then it that turnaround is really cool even vocally he sings on those eight eight grouping and then the six grouping so okay let me walk you through the chords now so for the F sharp part you the way I have designed it is don't hit it at every beat you can just go and when you collide the E minor seventh I'm voicing it like that so so before we go to E minor seventh let's just do only the F sharp minor part which is something like I'm voicing it as C sharp F sharp and a so the same bass line and then at that E I'm just dropping my F sharp minor to E minor seven there's a great voicing without the E of course but the left hand anyway is doing E so let me show you that E minor thing let's only talk for the E minor for a bit so F sharp gets over so from that you strike E minor for a minimum of two beats again one more time collide so there's this lick notated at the 1 2 3 at the fourth beat with the bass going to remember the context now okay again again again you could even hold the chords okay let's do the whole line again into two so you already did this unison with the vocals back repeat unison now going to the F sharp turn around let's do the turnaround again really slow and again remember the right hand tries to play only at the twos or every alternate hits of the bar one more time super slow just that turnaround so that's pretty much the main hook or the main head of the song however I'd like to conclude or do the second the other part of the song if you will which is another bluesy kind of a chord progression which is the solo the sax solo and the guitar solo so it's really easy you just go let me show you the left hand first pump pump pump this is like eight times and the right hand just play B minor seventh very chromatic there we go so eight bars of B that B minor and the rhythm pattern I have for you in the right or you can just keep it simple by doing just two B minors you could even do wherever really just hit one on and one off in the right hand and that should serve the purpose in the notation I have notated it as two three and two can comp it like this and then we go to that E minor part where he does four times of that so just chromatic down you could use this fingering thumb middle thumb middle so right hand will go E minor seventh voiced in our usual B D G way and I like this ghost note just an extra B at the end of the bar four of that and then back to the original bass line which started off the groove so just in a nutshell before we do the turn round we did eight rounds of now going to their e chromatic the ghost B in the right hand back to the B and now the turn let me show you the turn which is your right hand could just play F sharp minor 7th you know with all its notes and the bass goes again very chromatic F sharp octave F E D quite a quite tricky on the fingers because they're all close to each other so bring it down F sharp F F E D F sharp first bar it's just quarter notes at the end of the bar you play at the end there that's the extra note D second bar it's extra at the beginning so right hand with that I'm just holding the blocks of the chords again you don't have to hit it at the one always and hit it at the three just for flavor and now let's break that down it's just B A G F sharp E D C sharp C B flat B so the bass and the treble just play in unison there and I've just added a harmony which I think you like it's almost like a B minor scale going descending with that which they do very often don't go back to B go to the C param so instead of going we do kind of retaining the vibe of the riff at the solo section so ending so it pretty much goes on with that entire riff and then the turnaround and the end now instead of just playing unisons you can add octaves in the left hand and you can harmonize the right hand so B over D A with C sharp these are thirds by the way G with its B F sharp with its A E with its G D with its F sharp C sharp with its E but then the quick part just play that in unison so back to the seven four riff very interesting song right guys so we've looked at each section of the incredible song Money by Pink Floyd we are playing the bass line exactly what the bass player is doing in our left hand the right hand we are looking at comping patterns with some nice chord voicings to embellish those seventh chords we hear in the song then sometimes we carbon copy the left hand with the right hand especially when the vocal line kicks in so we want to support that or beef that up more and then at the end of the song in the verse and in the solo section there were some incredible turnarounds so do check out the chapter markers it may help you learn it in a lot more precise way and do consider the notes the notation on our patreon channel along with the midi files which might help you learn this a lot better right guys again this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel do consider subscribing to our channel if you haven't already hit the bell icon for regular notifications and do give the video a like and leave us a comment if you'd like to learn something in the future we also have a playlist available for you for all the song tutorials linked up in the description check that out and if you want to learn this song on the bass guitar there's another bass guitar lesson for Money by Pink Floyd you'll find that also in the description so happy learning and I will catch you in the next one. 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