How to Play "Sailing" // Christopher Cross Piano Tutorial

[@acoustic61]

I love Christopher Cross. He had other good songs which are relatively unknown. Hard to believe he once filled in for Ritchie Blackmore during Deep Purple's first US tour.

[@morrisseyDAD]

Great tutorial ! If I look at the sheet music I would think it’s way beyond my skill level, but your breakdown into chords and arpeggios makes it so much easier. I also like that you don’t get bogged down with complex explanations using 16th notes to get the timing right; it’s just “do it like me” :)

[@tonyhodge6801]

Pierre, thank you so much for preparing this first class tutorial for one of my very favourite songs. Coincidentally, I was trying to learn this prior to Christmas but the tutorials were so lacking compared with yours I did not manage to complete it at the time! Keep up the good work! Much appreciated!

[@rb8058]

Love the hollow body behind you! Such a great color.

[@UDPride]

These are great tutorials and Ive been bookmarking all of them and learning. I cant read music but Im fantastic at memorization. I love repetitive melodies on the piano. They sound big but are pretty straightforward once you lock into their groove.

[@noelbuenafe]

Awesome. Thank you

[@MJ1]

That documentary really got to you.

[@jeanjacquessevestre8248]

👍 Merci Pierre!

[@PaulWalker-cq8vd]

Hey Pierre, thanks for another great tutorial. Can you talk sometime in one of your videos about the technique required for playing 'high' on the white keys with long fat fingers while my shortarse thumb is trying to play a black key, especially when reaching across my body (as per the second chord in the Sting song). The tip of my index finger hardly fits between two black keys so it tends to catch them .... GRRRR!!

[@craigk5505]

You're blocking the salt lamp. 👍🏼

[@PaulWalker-cq8vd]

You're right about the importance of the timing of the arpeggiated chords to get the 'groove' right, but it wasn't 100% clear from your explanation. Am I right in saying that, for each set of alternating chords (which take up 16 half beats) one plays 12 notes, but the fourth, seventh, tenth and twelfth notes (falling on the fourth, eighth, twelfth and fifteenth half beats) are each held for 2 half beats?