Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Masterclass

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[@Olpaj]

Amazing teaching and playing. It's likely I won't ever be able to play the piano just like you, but if I were to actually learn, this is how I'd like to play with that kind of level of freedom. This is what music should be about. I wish more artists wrote pop songs these days like they did back in the 70s for example - beautiful and complex yet catchy and not primitive.

[@davidnash8586]

Your solo is MAGNIFICENT !

[@mausib]

Outstanding tutorial. Thank you!

[@AndyMais]

Tom. It's lovely to see the freedom that playing from a lead sheet brings. Thankyou.

[@theresetobin-m6h]

Tom ! What can I say! I'm spellbound here listening to you! The world's no. 1 pianist and teacher.

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

Fantastic teaching my man....many thanks..

[@clydesimmons2588]

You are a pure joy to watch and listen to doing this number! Thank you!

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Thankyou!

[@stevem-h3562]

Best thing he ever wrote and man, is there some serious competition He and Taupin were absolutely on fire back then. A remarkable album and a fabulous song.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

It is a remarkable album, when I have some time, I will do a walkthrough of Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding - it will probably only get a small handful of views because not enough people know Elton's best work, but it has to be done!

[@billhasty5197]

Great Idea. I think more people know it than you think.@@contemporaryschoolofpiano

[@great-garden-watch]

I have the whole yellow brick road music book from years ago and this is helpful!

[@robertpearce8977]

I am looking forward to extending my repitoure with your help.

[@jhn1987]

I really appreciate all of the work that goes into making a tutorial like this. The thing that makes Elton John great is that he is able to combine elements of pop, rock, blues, and country music in his songs. From my perspective as an intermediate pianist, I would really have liked to see some discussion and demonstration of the techniques that Elton John uses in his playing such as the Floyd Cramer type licks, the use of 6ths, arpeggiation, and sub dominant chords. The demo of playing the melody was great but some explanation of the choices of notes in the right hand under the melody notes as well as the broken chords and stride in the left hand would have been very helpful.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Yes there's definitely another tutorial in that!

[@danielo174]

I second this request. Great video here as well though.

[@mellyju]

can’t bear to listen, it’s just so good!!!

[@jeffjohnson7381]

Love all of Elton John songs can you please do some more of his classics…like Bennie and the jets your song Daniel etc❤🎹thanks Grant 😊

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

I'm planning to do lots more Elton :)) Bennie and the Jets is a great one to learn, maybe this one should be next! Watch this space.

[@electravoulgari5177]

Very excited to learn how to play this on the piano. Tiny Dancer would also be amazing. Thank you for this great tutorial!

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Wonderful song! Will have to add that to the to-do list!

[@musiconair]

I learnt everything I know about music from learning Elton John songs, theory, chord progressions, inversions, arpeggios, arrangements etc and I can’t read a note, other genres and styles followed later and it was never a struggle.

[@james2578]

Can you teach me?

[@musiconair]

@@james2578 what do you want to know?

[@ervinanaya1393]

Wow!!!! love this video. thank you. I'm gonna have to practice the right hand melody really slowly though to get this down.....

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Yes, it takes a bit of work getting used to this technique, but once you can do it, you can apply it just about any song!

[@davidoneill913]

What a great discovery this channel is !

[@gurupadmasambawa5626]

You are fantastic Thank you

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Many thanks Guru!

[@andreyguess7069]

Tom, thanks for this brilliant tutorial. It demonstrates the LCSP's highest standard. I've been Elton's fan for 50+ years.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

An incredible legacy of songs and albums!

[@philipcardelfe9716]

Great

[@billhasty5197]

Wow Tom, you tore that piano up. Great lecture. Thanks

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Thankyou!

[@kirstenfruehling2868]

What a performance!! 😱 Incredible! Thank you!

[@meiwolfy]

Wow!!! That was so nice!!! Thanks!

[@gerdagregerson]

Phenomenal lesson! Thank you very much for keeping my dream of 🎹 freedom alive (even if it remains a dream)-I love it!!! 😊👍🏻

[@sweatcentralny7749]

Thank you so much for doing videos like this!!!

[@great-garden-watch]

Glad to hear about the inversions because sometimes my hand can’t reach

[@dannuttle9005]

I signed up for your course today. It was this video that put me over the top. Looking forward to it!

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Congrats and welcome to the Complete Musician Course Dan, it's a journey that goes well beyond the realms of KZbin. I look forward to seeing you on the course when it starts next month.

[@alexhoyle]

Just sounds naff, brilliant. What a great lesson, many thanks.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Hahha many thanks!

[@PoboyMusic]

Great vid. Elton is a genius.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Amen to that!

[@JeanDarbalete]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@MikeM91320]

This is such a great video and tutorial but as a beginner, I really struggle with sevenths and that Gm7 is tough! Decided to just work on getting better/faster and play through the chords you posted for Your Song. Thank you.

[@mandybaker3689]

❤️🥰🌹 beautiful! ❤️ thank you !

[@13Moondancer]

“It just sounds naff,” about sums up my playing 🤪. Great tutorial, informative, inspiring with no chitchat. Many thanks 🙏

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

You've got this!!

[@cherylnathanodette]

Such fantastic content, wish I'd have learnt sooner but guess it's never too late, thank you.

[@deckchair41]

Thank you, Tom. What a great lesson for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Also a fan of Elton's. I am trying to learn 'The One', one of his little minor hits but has a great piano solo in the middle that sounds awesome without any backing.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

The One is a beautiful song, a stunning chord progression. The piano solo is over the verse chords, Such beautiful chords. The piano coda at the end is also beautiful. There is another track from that album called "Sweat it Out" which has a jazzy piano solo at the end of the track, very rare Elton!

[@dannuttle9005]

That solo performance at the end was about *checking notes* 75 masterclasses, if you watch it all carefully and absorb it.

[@MikeM91320]

Really love your video tutorials and the Chord sheets. Thank you

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Many thanks Michael

[@tomedwards-gu1ep]

Amazing tutorial just need to polish the chorus up! Can you do a video tutorial on tiny dancer please?

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Coming soon!

[@alanhay1562]

Great video once again Tom.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Many thanks Alan!

[@tomedwards-gu1ep]

I sat down today and was able to play most of this thanks to the amazing video! Thank you. Is there an online resource to get music in this format for other pop songs?

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Irealpro is a good app for this

[@bhaktithorat3916]

Dear Tom Can I know how to play that rhythmic pattern with the chords rather than block chords

[@GuiltySouls]

This is awesome thank you! 🙏🏽

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Many thanks!

[@keithanderson413]

Great lesson! Is there a place we can get the chord chart you use in this video?

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Drop us as email at [e-mail] and I'll send you the chord chart

[@Piano-Love]

Love this awesome Yellow Brick Road solo. Is it on sheet music? I also love the vocal accompaniment. I will buy it.

[@TheHarryu]

Hi could you tell me what app are you using. Thanks

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Classroom Maestro!

[@chrcc6966]

💯💯❤💝💘

[@simontaylor2525]

OTT

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

@@simontaylor2525And Elton John is not OTT?? 😀

[@james2578]

The song you teach is never the song u play.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

What do you mean? In what way is this not Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?

[@james2578]

The chords are not the full piece. Same for your tutorial on let it be. For example here in the first line in bar 3 there is a chord/note missing, even empirically. We have b flat - b flat over c - c, but the way you play this part has an extra note

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

@james2578 that's the thing though James this is not a Mozart concerto where we play the exact score. Even Elton John never plays it the exact way twice. Find two concert versions of him playing this song and list all of the things that are different it will be a long list. I have a video where I explain this in more detail, but this is why I put such an emphasis on learning the main formulas and landmarks of pop music. I can guarantee you that if you the play it only way with no flexibility approach - you will never really be able to grasp pop music on the piano- unless you are looking to take classical approach and play from a sheet music arrangement of the bands song for solo piano (which actually has far more problems) but is still an effective way for those wanting to take the purist classical approach to pop music, but I don't teach pop music that way - I would prefer my students know what these artists are actually really doing with their songs.

[@911paulp]

I’m sorry to say as good as you are no learns by tutors talking. You talk far too much after all we come to you to learn what you can pass on. Please play more and talk less.

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

"Dear Tom We're all assembled here, anticipating the golden nuggets of wisdom you might drop, so do us a solid and zip the lip, will ya"... Best. Comment. Ever. :D And hey, on the topic of golden silence, my Spotify channel is a veritable mecca of mute brilliance! It's piano solos for days...I mean, literally DAYS! Think your ears can handle the non-verbal serenade? I dare you, nay, DOUBLE dare you to give it a whirl. open.spotify.com/artist/3IQaJTfEyvDouw8o7LMqoN?si=jw-cc2scToe_1udGRF1S4A