It sounds a little like new song now and then

I thought Lennon said that about Imagine!

John and Paul have consistently said over the years that they can’t read music. In an early 60’s edition of Mersey Beat, it stated that they - the Beatles - were going to London to record songs written FOR them!

8:00 to 8:30 is VERY Elton John ... Very Blue Moves period. Kind of like 'Tonight' or 'Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word'.

Ok...Lennon was inspired, but "Because" is much different, and I don´t believe the story of Yoko 😄

Yoko played as beautifully as she sang. John was just trying to get her to stop.

08:13 sounds more like Tetris!

Play 'Because' backwards, then see if it sounds like Moonlight Sonata. It doesn't!

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The backwards arpeggio you started to play sounds like a Cold Play song. I think you are spot on about George Martin's contribution to the Beatles. He was classically trained and had the musical knowledge to really embellish many of the Beatles songs. I think the lads did come up with good song ideas but without George many of them would not be anywhere near the finished product. I went and saw a Berkelely music professor speak about that topic and for sure George Martin should have gotten song writing credits. In the end the record company gave him his own record label to compensate him. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple once said he got the idea of the riff for Smoke On The Water from Beethoven's fifth. He might have said that tongue in cheek but it might be worth looking at some of their music for classical influences. The organ solo on Highway Star for example.

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Eric Carmen took his classical background and wrote some beautiful love ballads using bits and pieces of different things. “All By Myself” was his best.

Just a mention for reference to Yoko playing piano. The One to One benefit concert film John Lennon Live in New York City. You can see Yoko on one of John’s songs on the electric piano. Not sure if she actually is or acting ? But her movements look awkward to me.

Great video…I always suspected there wasn’t too much to this legend simply “because” (har har) the meter is different for the two songs. It’s entirely possible that he was inspired to write Because after hearing The Moonlight Sonata played backwards. Songwriters can be inspired by just about anything. But Lennon clearly didn’t borrow much from the actual chord progressions. That said, Because is simply a Lennon/Beatles/Martin masterpiece regardless of what inspired it.

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As soon as the word Yoko was mentioned I lost interest.

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What a pointless video. Lennon said it was INSPIRED by; not copied from Beethoven. His Day in A Life was INSPIRED by a newspaper article. Does that mean he was being a plagiaristic journalist?

John Lennon would have really wanted you to say 'bullshit'

this video drags on and on. It takes to long to make a simple point.

I don’t think he literally meant playing the chord progression backwards he was talking about instead of ascending the arpeggios he start experimenting with descending them, then eventually ascending and descending with base notes added in between and then you have because.

John said a lot of things to make Yoko sound more important in music than she really was. I think this was one of them.

I believe Yoko probably played intermediate level piano. I think WW 2 interrupted her studies.

He did play it backward. Instead of looking at the Moon, he looked at the Earth. And, of course, from major to minor shift, he went minor to major. Ono played forward then backward. John wrote backward and onward. Beethoven to Beatles, not Beathoven.

4:50 sounds a lot like 'uncle remus'

The Beatles' final album was Let it Be. Abbey Road was the penultimate album.

While brilliant in his own way, Lennon didn't understand music theory at all and was remarkably good at throwing out complete bull**** as it suited him

The first part of Because's chord progression is note by note copy of Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu's left hand. Comparing them can be a good idea for a fallow up to this.

Love that D/F# surprise moment 🙂

I think you skipped over the question of which chord progression Yoko chose as the "backwards version" of the Moonlight Sonata. John's recollection of how the song idea came about may still hold. We'll never know. Also, you neglected to show the actual chord progression of Because, and that's what you need to compare. Yoko might have come up with a backwards adaptation, like you did with your reverse ballad.

I just bought my first piano and I was looking for tips and videos to help me out ease the beginning of my learning journey and came across your video thank you it was delightful

Lennon's 'Grow Old with Me' from his last album, Milk and Honey, is based on the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata.

What a lovely exercise.

all music is deravitive. But the beatles did steal some from the classics. Blackbird, for instance.

Because playez backwards sonds like some Adele song

Maybe play Because in reverse for comparison?

If you play the chords to Because backwards, it ought to sound like The Moonlight played forwards.

You speak like David Attenborough does.

Great tutorial!

Sir, this is such an incredible video...but please, please, I am kindly (begging) asking that you consider a better microphone, something a bit or slightly higher in quality that will not capture the sounds of your inner mouth or the sounds of the inside of your mouth....not really sure how to word it but it's sort of the sound the mouth makes when a person speaks with dentures or something to that effect. Again, I am not trying to be rude or disrespectful, but that sound is a distraction....a better quality microphone may do the trick.

3 Minutes „Blah Blah“ is too much!

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Inspired but not a litteral reversed set of chord progression. Very much related styles, and audience impression (serene, harmonious, using classical types of chord structures)

Interesting ...

Very good. Thank you.

This is pretty neat.

Just to clarify whether Yoko Ono did actually play the piano, I asked Google the question and this is the response : Yes, Yoko Ono is a Japanese pianist who has performed internationally. She studied classical piano as a child and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician.

All music is, ultimately, derivative. Matthew from Muse is influenced by Chopin's nocturnes and etudes.

It's the beatles end of....game over for everyone in music 1970

When you consider that John Lennon couldn't sight-read I think it's a bit far fetched that he could have formed complex chords like this and rearranged them in reverse. I reckon the idea is just a fantasy and any likeness is pure coincidence. Lots like that happens and sometimes it's deliberate and sometimes accidental - for example the song Groovy Kind of Love is a direct copy of a Clementi Finger-exercise from one of his practice books. Clementi born in 1752. Direct crib in that case and the source has been admitted. Shame we can't ask John to tell us how it really was.