Beatles Blackbird (Piano Tutorial)

[@MorganLock]

This interpretation at the end is crazy amazing !

[@thedrummersclub3667]

Beautiful Piano work. Thank you

[@finder85]

Thank you Scott for this Episode! You rock! :)

[@ThisSentenceIsFalse]

Amazing play.

[@TheRamsberg]

That's not what happened. They would play Bach on their guitars at parties, to show that they weren't "just a bunch of rockers", and could actually play "sophisticated" music. And, those Bach pieces inspired the musical structure of Blackbird. This is from a relatively recent interview of Paul McCartney.

[@TheRamsberg]

Great instructional though.

[@jimmykit-kat3424]

1:57

[@codetech5598]

The connection between Bach's Bouree and Blackbird is due to the *guitar finger technique* of playing the bass note with the thumb and one high note with the finger.

[@popstoastymonkey]

Scott, could you PLEASE re-post the segment from episode 907 where Bradley Sowash walks through Heart and Soul!!!!

[@frederikthaysen6931]

You can hear Paul McCartney tell the correct story between the Bach piece and Blackbird at 37:30. He tells us that the similarities is mostly the fingerpicking technique. Picking a bass tone with a melody note on top of it... /watch?v=9elQeVfrLOo

[@maniela1000]

woow! wonderful

[@parkerdodson6590]

Scott is like a merging of Mike Rowe and Steve Jobs

[@JasonAKMitchell86]

AWESOME!!!!!

[@philnewton3096]

Were there blackbirds in India -? So whats the big difference between classical and popular music or rock- In terms of composition practices that is for a start?

[@julesstarr7014]

I found the Bach Piece Blackbird actually borrowed the melody from "Jesu joy of man's desiring" The two pieces share the same intro. G Am G/B with a slight change going to Em (bach) instead of C A7/C# D7 B7/D# then Em (Beatles) Anyways I love both pieces :)

[@leozingy]

"Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring" actually IS a Bach piece, it's the English title to a Johann Sebastian Bach cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben". Blackbird is a Beatles tune, not a Bach piece. I like both pieces too; "borrowing" or not, both pieces are great compositions :)

[@TheTigers62]

I'm a strong left handed player and I get very frustrated ,,,HELP and thank you for these videos !

[@mp9967]

great

[@cloclocupcake7]

If you listen to him play it live, he explains it. The intro, actually, is what they got from Bach, not the melody.

[@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out]

you probably all know this, but Brad Mehldau's version from "Art of the Trio" 1 does what is demonstrated here "perfectly".

[@tyleryesta1]

It was just Paul who was working on Classical guitar shapes in the late 60's. He stumbled on that chord progression first then melody. It was only inspired by Bach. Lennon's "Because" is a different story. Its Moonlight Sonata played backwards. The greatest songwriters of the world were also the greatest ripoff artists.. but we love them just the same.

[@PatrickQT]

13:00

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Ultimate Scozophrenia: To compete with yourself: "Who will win My right hand or my Left??"

[@craigopperman5999]

Elliott mates! This is Paul McCartney here! Yeah so uh what actually happened was that I was just trying to write a song about a newspaper article I read regarding the riots going on in the country. And then I came up with the idea of a blackbird flying and I was referring to the black people involved in the rioting and looting.

[@Lianpe98]

The song is actually in G major

[@Lianpe98]

5:51 That's not atonal, it just changes the key of the song one tone under the main key.

[@thedrummersclub3667]

Can you give Lessons? Facetime?

[@aurevoirich9502]

I read that the Beatles learned this type of guitar progression from Donovan whilst on a hippy retreat in India. McCartney apparently heard an actual blackbird whistling the melody in the morning. All Beatles folk lore.

[@fundorinlive]

Let the piano player speak! Just stop interrupting him every time, rephrasing his own words in your way.

[@bbcocallaghan]

this could have been a good tutorial but they don't teach you the whole tune. it would have been nice to run through the whole piece before rambling on about favourite licks and such

[@ptimlee]

I like the ponytail guy a lot. I don't like the bald guy.