How To Play "Wish You Were Here" [Piano Tutorial/Chords for Singing]

Wish You Were Here Piano Tutorial (by Pink Floyd) - 🔹Buy Nate's 5-level Piano Course: www.pianochordbreakthroughs.com/ - In this piano lesson, you'll learn a great-sounding piano arrangement using chords that's perfect if you want to accompany yourself on the piano while you sing.
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⏰ WISH YOU WERE HERE (Pink Floyd) Piano Lesson Timestamps ⏰
00:00 - Preview
00:16 - Hello!
00:47 - Instrumental
09:55 - Verse
16:44 - Instrumental Add Ons
19:55 - Conclusion
20:20 - Wish You Were Here Full Piano Cover With Singing
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[@EricBergue]

hello Nate, sorry for my english, I'm french. After "logical song" ,I learn "wish you were here" you explain very well. I am 62 years old, and after my professional life, I give a lot of my time on the piano . ,I .think they are no age to learn piano and I enjoy that; If you want to put School of Supertramp, I will be realy too happy. With you, learning piano is easier. thank you.

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers! Glad you're enjoying my videos. 62 is a great age to learn piano!!

[@ripleyhrgiger4669]

Okay, I need to take a moment of my time to give you praise. Your tutorials are easy to follow along with, you're very gentle and your approach is that of someone who seems to really enjoy teaching. And it's nice to see the instructor on screen, and hear YOU playing versus some midi track that wasn't even programmed with dynamics or velocity changes. It's a very personal (as much as one can be on the internet) approach to teaching music and one we don't see much of anymore. And you have a lovely voice too, Sir. I've played piano nearly my entire life and as someone who is always wanting to learn more and keep studying I've seen thousands of tutorial videos, books, and so on. Very few reach the level you have with your lessons; it really is a piano lesson as if we were sitting in a room with you and learning. (Seriously, if anyone hasn' t taken piano lessons before and are wondering what it can be like - this is a great example. This is what a great piano teacher can be like.) Now you can't hear your students play, and give them advice on maybe how to approach something in real-time; however, you do provide a good amount of advice for most, so I think you cover a lot where many simply disregard or don't think about. This is a song I've played millions of times - but even I learned something that I never thought about - how to count the time at the beginning. When you first said it I was thinking "huh, what?" And sure enough... oh yeah... that makes a lot of sense! And then when the groove comes in... that natural half-time feel kicks in and you just flow with it once you've got the feel for the song down. Please, keep it up and don't stop doing what you love if this is it. Because, you're very good at it and I truly believe that you're setting a great example for many others on how to approach teaching music. Not just online - but in person too. Great job! Thank you so much! I can't wait to see more of your content and to learn more from you.

[@PianowithNate]

Oh wow, thank you so much for your kind words and thoughtful feedback. I'm so glad to hear I've helped you :)

[@goffjmorgan]

Ditto!! Same for me. You give me inspiration and confidence to play and enjoy every minute of it. The way you ‘coach’ is the best I have ever seen. And let me tell you… I’ve seen a lot of good pianists that just made me feel clumsy and inept. You don’t do that to me. You make me want to sit down and play with you and let it come together in a natural progression of understanding the music and how the original artists wanted it to sound. When I was 4yo… that’s how I fell in love with the piano. Piano lessons were not like that at all. So…. I’m back and loving the piano. Thank you for helping me to make music and not to just read music and play it note by note. Don’t ever stop.. you have a gift.

[@johnedwardpiano]

You are amazing, Nate. Where are you finding time to make all these amazing tutorials? You are cranking them out so fast that I'm playing catch up. You couldn't have picked a better song. So great. Queen the other day and now Pink Floyd. Simply wonderful

[@PianowithNate]

I'm hitting my stride! Glad you're enjoying them

[@womensintuition]

Thank you thank you. All the components of teaching are here in your videos. You can learn and not struggle. Thank you so much for your understanding.❤

[@PianowithNate]

So glad you're enjoying my videos! Cheers!

[@bjornkinding6998]

Nate! Nate! Nate! Thank you, Nate! I love the increasing level of difficulty. Makes me want to master the advanced version. Motivates me to practice. It will take time, but any time invested in making progress is time we'll spent!

[@PianowithNate]

You can get there!!!

[@nosoussaillle]

In French-speaking we tell "Magnifique" I spend a lot of great time with yours videos thanks a lot

[@PianowithNate]

🙏

[@billandbethorlowski9061]

You are a fantastic teacher- genius level!

[@PianowithNate]

Wow, thank you!

[@1ramadevi]

This is awesome, thank you! I appreciate the clear instruction. Such a brilliant piece of music.

[@PianowithNate]

You're very welcome!

[@TimDuryea]

Thanks for another great tutorial! Consider Brain Damage by Pink Floyd some time in the future.

[@fotoalive]

Making a search for this song I found your channel Nate! What a blessing! 🙏this is one of my favorite and this version sounds👍🏽Perfect to my ears. Im a newbie and if I can finaly play this song with this tutorials and many others great songs i just saw on your channel I will definately take your course in the near future. I would love also comfortably numb... and I feel the earth move under my feet Carole King! You see I'm a retired old hippies love the 70 ..... Thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent and giving us the sheets! helps so much! Convinced that Your generosity will pay off. Blessings from Québec 🇨🇦 Merci Beaucoup!

[@PianowithNate]

Welcome to the channel!!! Thanks for all the kind words. And comfortably numb is an excellent suggestion, I'll put it on my list. Cheers!

[@fotoalive]

@@PianowithNate Hé Teacher D'ont leave those kids alone !!!! Dark side of the moon and wish you were here were my first love ! over 50 years ago and still remain,would also love to learn Breathe and TIME and then one day you find 10 years has gone behind you no one told you when to run you missed the .......... Such a powerful ,profound words for thoses days . Thank you so much!👍🏽 🎹🤗

[@muzikhed]

Another really good tutorial. Cheers to ya Nate.

[@PianowithNate]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@positivegradient]

Do some Carole King songs at some point. I am grateful for these amazing tutorials.

[@PianowithNate]

Good idea!

[@philippabertacco7919]

BRILLIANT!! ❤❤❤ This song is so incredibly moving. I can't wait to try your version. Just don't know how I'm going to remember all your content, as I'm better at reading sheet music than playing along to a chord sheet. But I'm going to keep trying. Maybe I'm going to have to pause different sections of the video, screenshot and print them out, cut them into strips and then stick together. 😊 This will obviously take forever, but will keep me playing until not only the knowledge of chords becomes ingrained, but the speed at which I remember them.

[@ingridkneer8246]

extremely catchy and enjoyable..t o p❤thank y o u

[@robbyhovis8521]

Huge thanks for this lesson!

[@PianowithNate]

My pleasure!

[@damianpaull8470]

Hi Nate this is fantastic. Love your tutorials and the way you break down the songs ...it makes it much easier to pick up and have a go.

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers!

[@MrAnthonyjustice]

Great job! KZbin has a severe lack of Don McClain "Castles in the Air" tutorials, I'd love to see you take it on.

[@Marcylene72]

I love Pink Floyd, but I don't speak English very well. I" am Brazilian. I'm learning to play the keyboard. Thanks!

[@PianowithNate]

Rock on!

[@robertszello1935]

Very well explained and instructed and the visual setup very clear in following the tempo 1&2 etc. Great tutorial cheers.

[@PianowithNate]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@billhasty5197]

Thank You Nate. I Love this Song, and about everything else from Pink Floyd.

[@PianowithNate]

They're one of the greatest! I'm sure I'll do more of theirs eventually

[@sharonwall3265]

Thank you for this tutorial I absolutely love this song

[@PianowithNate]

me too :)

[@luxxn]

Absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for your effort and love you put into your videos. I can't wait to try this out

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers!

[@user-mn5ul9vo9m]

This is awesome!!!!

[@johnmulvihill6121]

Great tutorial… thank you for posting!!!

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks for watching!

[@morrisseyDAD]

Great work Nate. Sounds really good even without a guitar solo :)

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks a ton!

[@castulo]

Great tutorial, thanks

[@PianowithNate]

Glad you liked it!

[@chrisneedham6654]

Fabulous!

[@Isnapldit]

This is so awesome. I dont know if you did this because of my suggestion but thanks for doing this. In the future, The Gunners Dream sounds amazing on piano. Theres actually a video of roger playing it on the piano.

[@FauxHexy]

Loving all of the tutorials. Just learning how to play piano and your approach to playing really makes it easier as a beginner. I’m currently taking your course as well and I highly recommend it. Would love to see a tutorial on Nightswimming by REM!

[@PianowithNate]

Hi Christian! I'm so glad to hear this, thanks for the kind words. I'll play around with Nightswimming and mull it over...

[@tamaraemmerik8824]

I love Pink Floyd!!🖤 My dad loves it and I grew up with it and we watched a lot of dvd concerts together. And I went to see The Australian Pink Floyd show, now called Britt Floyd I believe, sadly I was born to late to see Pink Floyd themselves live haha. My dad was lucky enough to see them live in 1994..! Two months ago I started to learn playing piano.. from scratch😄 I never had any classes to learn to read sheetmusic or anything, but I learn to play with Synthesia and as a complete beginner I can now play Einaudi’s Birdsong after perfecting it and playing a lot to make it a ‘muscle memory’ so to speak.., and I am shocked haha I could already play a song like that! I love Einaudi and Yiruma but I also would like to learn to play some Pink Floyd..! I can dream the music and rhythm and lyrics so that helps I think;) But maybe a little hard to play it technically right on the piano (I have to learn some chords and how to count for the measures maybe haha😁), but I am going to give it a try!🎹 (One thing I struggle with, I have short fingers and some things are harder for me because I have to reach and stretch way more for a lot of notes, but I managed to play Birdsong from Einaudi so with practice I can do it😉 I also follow a lot of piano lessons I can find.. I found my new hobby haha😁🎹👍🏻😃 Wish you were here is one of my favourite songs of Pink Floyd! My dad loves a great gig in the sky..

[@PianowithNate]

This is great, thanks so much for sharing! Congrats on starting to learn piano, I'm sure it will be an awesome journey for you. Keep it up and keep in touch!

[@katharinaheidrich-doughert6429]

This is an awesome tutorial, Nate, thank you so very much for that! Love the piano/guitar combo at the end as well. Might you be able to create a separate tutorial for classical or acoustic guitar for this song to be played TOGETHER with the piano (easy version, if possible)? My son and his friend (classical guitar & piano) are going to attempt playing this together, but while they have the separate chords, it would be nice to have some guidance on how to play it together in an interesting/great-sounding way... Again, fabulous work - THANK YOU!!

[@PianowithNate]

Hi! That is so awesome that your son and his friend are going to play it together. I don't do guitar videos on my channel, but there are a ton of guitar tutorials for this song already on youtube. I do it in the original key, and there is nothing special about my piano version here...they can select a guitar tutorial that feels to be at the correct difficulty level for their ability, and it should sound great!

[@nikhilfrancis]

5 Stars Video 👏

[@nikhilfrancis]

Nate, would love to get a tutorial on Mysteries of Love by Sufjan Stevens. Thank you

[@ricsonix1]

All your songs are so good! How about chasing cars? Snow Patrol?

[@PianowithNate]

Cool suggestion! I'll put it on my list

[@glenndickerson5828]

Brilliant 👍

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks!!

[@rictstan]

Fantastic. Subscribe as soon as I click into your site and watch your tutorial first time! TQ

[@PianowithNate]

Awesome, thank you!

[@robertarthur2482]

Thanks!

[@PianowithNate]

Thank YOU!

[@mikeh6018]

Hey Nate, just found your channel. Best I have found for piano Tutorials. Keep up the good work for us newbies. Wondering if you could do Fried Chicken by Zac Brown, not much out there on that one. Thanks again Mike.

[@markr8326]

You're lessons are SUPER Nate & super clear & easy to follow,could you PLEASE consider teaching 'I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES' ,or do you make sponsored lessons ever & take payment on PayPal(?) There are other lessons on this tune ,but ,in other languages, or very old, ,or taster lesson on youtube needing membership for whole lesson & I prefer have you're full lesson in one place ,in you're style of teaching. Thank you again,Nate.

[@PianowithNate]

Hey this is a cool suggestion! I'll put it on my list, can't promise it super soon, but this seems like a great one to do. I do have a paypal link, donations are always appreciated: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YWK4H7C57P2VE I typically dont do guaranteed lessons for direct hire, because if someone requests a song that otherwise isnt popular (likely to do well on my channel) or that I dont like, I would probably value my time in making it at a few hundred dollars, and it doesnt feel right to ask that. But thanks again for the request, I really like this suggestion!

[@NerdSnipingBatman]

Why is it i find piano tutorials like this far easier to follow than i do guitar or ukulele?

[@sallychapman1342]

Hi Nat, Please could you go through Lovesong, the Adele version?

[@positivegradient]

Fantastic! Never realised the opening riff is completely pentatonic. I suspect the vocal melody is also mostly pentatonic. That is one reason it sounds so accessible. Am I right about this? I am a musical novice.

[@PianowithNate]

Good point! As for the vocal melody, you're right it is mostly pentatonic, though it does step outside of that a bit (the C note, for example)

[@seanstott6168]

Another great tuitorial Nate I am working now so I will definately be sending some$$$ very soon I also have a request not dark yet Bob dylan

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers, Sean! I'll check it out

[@johnedwardpiano]

Nate, I know a fairly simple version of Imagine by John Lennon. It's fairly basic as I'm still a beginner and have only been playing for about a year. I am curious of what version you could come up with. Your tutorials are so thorough and done so well. I'm sure you could really do that song quite well. Let me know what you think.

[@PianowithNate]

It's on my list :)

[@fredtrent8992]

Just a rookie, but with your detailed instructions, I'm looking forward to tackling it. Do you think Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" could be reasonably easy and sound decent on a piano?

[@PianowithNate]

Hey, good luck and have fun! I think Nothing Else Matters could definitely sound good on piano...if you want to do the instrumental intro part that would be pretty hard (there are a few good piano tutorials on that already) but the singing part you could play the underlying chords and, as long as you kept the rhythm simple, it would be pretty easy

[@maronpangan1671]

Hi Nate can you do a tutorial for Wanderlust by Paul McCartney?

[@eddiet2]

Maybe you'll considering learning this on from Burton Cummings (from The Guess Who), "Stand Tall".

[@rodrigoquiero9381]

Hi Nate, great job your tutorial are amazing. By mistake I unsubscribed and now I when I try to recieve the chords I dont get the email. Do you know how I can fix it?

[@PianowithNate]

Hi! Sorry about that. Email me at [e-mail] so I have your email address and I can fix it on my end.

[@Truther00]

Mr Nate Do you know how to play if you were here By the Thompson twins 🙏

[@PianowithNate]

I'll check it out!

[@Truther00]

@@PianowithNate thank you sir 👍🏼

[@arieswaters]

I don't think singing in harmonizing with the piano ever sounded so good with any song

[@whitewolfmk]

Could you do comfortably numb please

[@PianowithNate]

You're in luck! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJDJq5ZpndmbkKMsi=v9SRy7rC7x77mBF8

[@jessecasulla9547]

Cool

[@arieswaters]

In the entro there are you sure sounds like John Lennon singing cool cool

[@PianowithNate]

I'll take it!

[@pkthegoat3273]

You should do If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley

[@swarnaradhakrishnan5361]

Hey Nate could you please make tutorial on daylight by Taylor Swift live from Paris

[@jefflavalley2990]

Why do chords on the link look nothing like what you are playing

[@hawkbodelschwingh]

Great Song super translate. Is ist possible to translate another great classical Guitar Song ? The Song that i mein is „Cortez the Killer“ From Neil Young. ❤❤ Thanks for you great workings.

[@PianowithNate]

I love that song! I'll think about it, definitely planning to do more Neil Young in the coming months

[@hawkbodelschwingh]

It will be the first „good“ Tutorial on KZbin, I think. Thanks a lot for you perfekt Working, Nate 😊

[@johnedwardpiano]

I may have already asked you about this one. IMAGINE by John Lennon. Forgive me if I already have. I'm old, Nate

[@PianowithNate]

Coming soon :)

[@johnedwardpiano]

What about Home sweet home by Motley Crue

[@SAT2405]

Why I can't download the chord sheet ?

[@PianowithNate]

Hi! Send me an email at [e-mail] I can look into it but also just sent the sheet to you as an attachment

[@johnedwardpiano]

I don't know how it would translate to piano. What about Sexy Sadie by the Beatles

[@PianowithNate]

Sexy Sadie is a great idea!

[@stclare58]

Harvest moon…Imagine…wish you were here…I’ve died and gone to heaven

[@PianowithNate]

I'm so glad!!

[@goffjmorgan]

Metallica- and Nothing Else Matters Green Day-Boulevard of Broken Dreams These are not difficult songs and I’m sure you could make them sound really amazing…. How bout it??

[@PianowithNate]

Check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoOYk5ptZrtlbsksi=v5FlLP6y25qlzkmo

[@clarencewong18]

Beautiful arrangement, thank you! Yours and this cover by Choir! Choir! Choir! are my favorites kzbin.info/www/bejne/rInJiaWIpZWrqM0

[@PianowithNate]

Wow thats awesome! Thanks for sharing

[@clarencewong18]

@@PianowithNate glad you liked it! You should check out their channel. Some more great stuff on there. Here is another video of To Love Somebody, making the great Barry Gibb proud kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4nSqmqFiNGnjdE P.S. Would love to see you do songs from the Bee Gees catalogue, so much great stuff to choose from 😁

[@kareemcurwen891]

✋ p̶r̶o̶m̶o̶s̶m̶

[@joselevicanasenjo2171]

Lovely!!